We all know about most of these by now, but I thought it'd be fun to make a comprehensive list of all the things of varying degrees of insanity both Jayce and Viktor have done in the series to, for and because of each other: 1. Viktor looking at Jayce in the most intense but also thoroughly enchanted way in the council room scene
2. Viktor stealing Jayces notebook from Heimerdinger after Jayces research was officially deemed "dangerous" by the council
3. Saving Jayce from suicide and instilling new hope, along with a sense of adventure in him manic-pixie-dream-girl-style.
4. Jayce asking for Viktors name in the most romantic way possible and Viktor answering him with 2 syllables and bedroom eyes
5. Jayce-I-egotistically-sign-all-my-notes-with-my-name-Talis going instant commie mode by calling his life long dream "our" dream after Viktor scribbled something on a blackboard and cracked a silly little joke once.
6. Casually snacking on pickles, bread, wine and coffee as if they weren't committing crimes and there wasn't a huge hole in the wall while nerding out about magic
7. Breaking into Heimerdingers lab together
8. Viktor using taking Jayce to his bedroom as an excuse when getting caught, and Jayce being too stressed out to notice
9. Viktor then having the audacity to look disappointed in the background when Mr. Oblivious reacts to Mel the way every single person with functioning eyes would react to that goddess of a woman
10. Both trusting each other enough to risk exile after knowing each other for like a day.
11. Jayce, although having just experienced the same crystals blowing up a building, going through with the dangerous experiment simply because Viktor says "trust me".
12. Viktor sacrificing his cane, which is basically an extension of his body, to keep the door shut 13. Jaye carrying him bridal style because of that afterwards.
13. Experiencing what they'd both probably rank among their top 3 moments in life when floating in the magic they just created together
14. Viktor smiling the only full on smile we see him do in the show because of that.
15. Jayce drawing a portrait of Viktor in his notebook, next to a little doodle of two brains with lightning between them and a reminder to ask him for his last name.
16. Working alongside each other as best friends for 7 years and creating world altering technology
17. Viktor yearning for Jayce each day, for each of those 7 years ("Viktor wanted things Jayce couldn't give him at the time")
18. Whatever the fuck happened at the distinguished innovators competition that was probably also among their top 3 moments because of the way Viktor looked when Jayce brought it up and the fact Jayce used it to remind Viktor of things that make life worth living
19. Jayce constantly touching Viktor. In almost every scene. Whenever he can.
20. Them giving each other the same dumb heart eyes but always when the other is not looking 21. Viktor looking at Jayces lips in the scene before he gives his speech
22. The way they say each others name. It gets progressively more breathy as the show goes on.
23. The way their pupils dilate in several scenes when looking at each other
24. The butterfly symbolism connecting them throughout both Seasons
25. (Debatable, but I will include it) Jayce having a bi-crisis when Ambessas twink reminds him of a certain someone
26. Jayce asking "You had a vision?" as if it is the most normal thing ever. (Thank you Jayce. We love a husband, who unabashedly supports his witchy partner, plagued by visions and omens.)
27. Jayce having his sex scene with Mel be intercut with scenes of Viktor (not something they actively did, but still has to be mentioned)
28. Jayce leaving Mel to be by Viktors bedside when he wakes up in the hospital 29. Jayces hands visibly shaking in the top-shot of him beside Viktors hospital bed. (someone posted a close up of it on insta - I linked it in the convo with the person suggesting this bullet point in the comments)
30. Viktor being the only one shown to notice how stressed Jayce is about getting pushed into being a councilor via the deep exhale he does in that scene
31. Jayce not letting Heimerdinger interfere with the experiments that might save Viktors life, no matter how dangerous
32. Jayce removing Heimerdinger from the council because of it
33. Viktor immediately thinking of Jayce when Singed mentions the word "love"
34. Viktor instinctively knowing Jayce will reach out his hand to help him up without having to look during the bridge scene
35. Viktor slapping his hand away, but then accepting when Jayce puts it on his lower back a second later
36. Jayce stopping Viktor from taking his own life
37. Jayce granting Zaun independence because he doesn't know how to save Viktors life but he has to do something to honor their shared dream
38. Jayce seeing the council room completely destroyed, with several people hurt and dead, but only tearing up when he sees Viktor
39. Jayce running several blocks while carrying Viktor to their lab
40. Breaking his promise to Viktor (and probably several laws) by performing necromancy on him
41. Jayce saying "fuck the council" and everything he has worked for, when he realizes none of that matters without Viktor
42. Jayce staying holed up in the lab for god knows how long to watch over Viktor 43. Jayce adding unnecessary details to his sketch of Viktors body, like the exact swoop of his hair.
44. Jayce immediately waking up after Viktor quietly says his name, whereas we saw him sleeping through an air alarm before that.
45. Viktor looking...very different, but all Jayce cares about is that he is alive. 46. Jayce, glancing between Viktor’s legs in his changed form an ungodly number of times.
47. Them embracing very closely while Viktor is nude, ending with Jayce looking slightly embarrassed when the emotions are threatening to overwhelm him
48. Jayce covering Viktor in the blanket from his childhood bedroom which Viktor will keep even after reaching godhood.
49. "My place was always here with you."
50. "It was affection that held us together"
51. Jayce getting glassy eyed when Viktor tells him he is leaving and holding out his hand as if he is expecting him to come back and grab it.
52. "When divorced Jayce is talking to Ekko and Heimer in the lab in S2E3, we can see the blackboard in the background. It's wiped clean. It's the only time in the show when it's ever clean. Previously there were Hextech equations, Viktor's plant experiments and then Viktor's vitals on that blackboard. Jayce wiped it clean after Viktor left because there was no point in the research anymore." (ty @noideawherethatcamefrom for bringing this to me) 53. Jayce looking heartbroken at Heimerdingers reminder of him having broken into the lab before
54. Jayce generally giving off freshly divorced vibes in that whole scene
55. Jayce longingly looking at the remains of two male figures embracing in the AU while sitting in the rain
56. Jayce hallucinating Mel turning into Viktor in the fire at the bottom of the ravine.
57. Jayce basically walking a mile in Viktors shoes, fighting his way from the depths of the Undercity to the top of piltover with a broken leg. 58. Matching leg braces on opposite legs.
59. Viktor walking a mile in Jayces shoes by becoming a leader in S2 and his body finally being strong, while Jayces gets broken in the Au.
60. Viktor designing the sphere in the commune similar to the top of the Hexgates he built with Jayce
61. Viktor finally realizing through Singeds memories, that he wasn't kept alive by Jayce as an experiment, but out of love
62. Jayce tenderly stroking the hexcrystal on his bracelet
63. Viktor tenderly stroking the gear that reminds him of the night him and Jayce became partners. 64. Also:
65. Husk!Jayce being the only one of Viktors Soldiers, that resembles the build of their original human counterpart and face, showing how Jayce was always more special to Viktor, than any one else.
66. Jayce looking at mage!Viktor in the exact same awestruck way he did when he was a child - even after about 6 months of pain and suffering
67. Mage!Viktor looking at Jayce with this expression of pure yearning, even after being around for possibly hundreds of other time lines, and after all the other Jayces he might have met before .
68. Jayce being ready to sacrifice himself after mage!Viktor reveals the truth to him
69. AU Jayces corpse responding to Viktors touch 70. The fact that the only "beautiful" place left in Piltover was where Jayces corpse was
71. Jayce dramatically adding "...and with me" after saying to Viktor how he thought he was done with hextech, like the bitter divorced husband he is.
72. Viktor trying to replicate his earlier relationship with Jayce through Sky, as stated by one of the writers: "[...]Seeing Viktor happy again, connecting with the anomaly, and having it echo what he used to have with Jayce at the beginning- It felt like he was channeling that relationship onto Sky's character."
73. Viktor excitedly inviting Jayce to the commune, believing he finally knows how Jayce really feels about him
74. Viktor waiting for Jayce floating in the air like a venus fly trap, with his upper body bare, while holding the gear in his hands
75. Viktors eyes changing color when he sees Jayce, because as confirmed by the writers, when he looks at Jayce he’s reminded of his humanity and is tied to it once again </3
76. Jayce visually having to fight himself to be able to shoot Viktor and not being able to look while doing it
77. Viktor never taking his eyes off of Jayce after being shot by him
78. Jayce leaving without as much as a glance back while looking absolutely destroyed
79. Jayce now dressing in dark colors - both Zaunite and mourning coded
80. Jayces clothes being asymmetrical in the final scene - Zaun style
81. The most homoerotic fight in history.
82. Viktor giving bedroom eyes #2
83. Viktor choking Jayce (twice)
84. "Let's do this once again as partners." (Viktor didn't speak when he said this. He purred.) 85. Viktors robot "crying" after being rejected by Jayce once more (shortly followed by "the line" starting to play </3)
86. Jayce lovingly caressing the gold poured into the broken council room table as if it was the golden lines in Viktors new skin. 87. Jayce having a dead wife-flashback, remembering Viktor lying dead in the rubble as he does this. (it's fast in the show - blink and you'll miss it)
88. Jayce having another dead-wife-flashback when Cait says "Viktor is at the center of all this, isn't he?", remembering him smiling, with a strand of hair prettily falling in front of his face, when that isn't what Viktor really looked like in that moment.
89. "I've been confused about a lot lately."
90. Viktors Mask as the herald resembling the Talis Symbol
91. Another homoerotic fight
92. Jayce never looking at Viktor in any of his forms with disgust, not even as he becomes some sort of eldritch being, but like this instead:
93. Jayce kneeling down calmly infront of Viktor, accepting his fate
94. Jayces whole speech on the astral plane. Calling Viktors imperfections beautiful. Basically revealing how his plan was to deter Viktor from destroying the world by confessing his love to him.
95. IN ALL TIMELINES, IN ALL POSSIBILITES. SOULBONDED ACROSS INFINITY. INEXTRICABLY BOUND. ONLY YOU CAN SHOW ME THIS. NO MATTER THE CIRCUMSTANCES, IT'S ALWAYS GOING TO BE YOU.
96. Viktors eyes practically glowing in Jayces memory of him.
97. The "you have no idea how beautiful it is"-magic Jayce had been chasing since he was a child turning out to be Viktor all along.
98. Viktor bending the laws of the universe because he cannot let Jayce die
99. Jayce dooming the world over and over again because he cannot let Viktor die
100. "Because I promised you."
101. Jayce embracing Viktor again and Viktor, starting to glow gold where Jayces hands touch him.
102. Viktor telling Jayce to go, giving him the choice to live on without him
103. Jayce looking at him so tenderly yet sadly, because Viktor STILL doesn't realize he will never go. Ever.
104. Jayce passing the rune embedded in his wrist back to Viktor as if handing him his heart.
105. "We finish this. Together."
106. Them fighting to hold on to each other even though the force of the Arcane is pulling them apart
107. It finally giving up underneath the touch of both their hands
108. That one shot directly after where Viktor looks up from where their hands are touching and he has this expression on his face as if FINALLY realizing that he is no longer alone because of how Jayce truly feels about him. 109. Their pupils are still dilating as they look at each other, even though a bright light is shining between them.
110. Their final embrace: Touching foreheads. Jayces hand on Viktors neck. Viktor gently stroking his arm as if to soothe his partner.
Ps: If I have missed anything, let me know! I want to add it to the list :D
