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Arcane fans celebrate gay Jayce and Viktor ship becoming ‘canon’ in series finale

Jayce (left) and Viktor (right) aka Jayvik in Arcane season 2

Arcane season two brought Jayce (L) and Viktor’s (R) story to an emotional climax. (Netflix)

“Gay sex is less gay than whatever the hell these two did in this finale,” was the message after the finale of Netflix’s hit League of Legends adaption, Arcane, delivered an emotional end to Jayce and Viktor’s storyline.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for Arcane season two

The first season of Arcane premiered in 2021, thrilling fans of the game and bringing a legion of newcomers on board, with critics praising the show’s animation, writing, complex characters and in-depth relationships.

Across two seasons, Arcane weaved together numerous interconnected stories, set against the backdrop of unrest between progressive mecca Piltover and its deprived, polluted under-city Zaun.

The final three episodes of the animated series dropped on the streaming platform on Saturday (23 November), providing an explosive conclusion to the Piltover-Zaun war as well as tying up other plot points, including the relationship between Vi, voiced by Hailee Steinfeld, and Jinx (Ella Purnell), Vi and Caitlyn’s (Katie Leung) dramas, and the truth about Mel’s (Toks Olagundoye) link to the Black Rose.

Jayce and Viktor akak 'JayVik' in a scene from the finale of Arcane season two
Arcane concluded Jayce and Viktor’s storyline (Netflix)

And then there was the end of Viktor (Harry Lloyd) and Jayce’s (Kevin Alejandro) conflict over the use of magical Hextech. Fans were blow away by the conclusion of their two favourite characters’ storyline, describing it as beautiful, artistic, poetic and insane.

Throughout the second season, Viktor’s journey took him from near death to being saved by Hextech before going on to become a Christ-like figure after healing Zaun’s addiction to the dangerous Shimmer.

Viktor “glorious evolution” was to unite humanity under one hive mind, ridding the world of the painful human emotions of loss and trauma.

Jayce and Viktor’s story came to an end. (Netflix)

Meanwhile Jayce’s mission to bring Hextech to the people, after being saved as a child by a magical mage, was linked to the ending of the Piltover-Zaun war and Viktor all along.

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In one segment Jayce was thrust into an alternate universe where he met an older Viktor, who was lost and alone.

It turned out that Viktor was the mage, giving a young Jayce a crystal which would take him on a journey into the upper echelons of Piltover’s politics – and Viktor himself.

“You’ve always wanted to cure what you thought were weaknesses. Your leg, your disease. But you were never broken, Viktor. There is beauty in imperfections. They made you who you are,” Jayce said as the two men come together to sacrifice themselves to stop Hextech.

One fan wrote on social media “Kissing wasn’t enough, bro, I need to fuse with you.” Another said: “They started it together and ended it together,” sharing an image from the finale and the scene in season one where they make Hextech work.

Someone else proclaimed: “Gay sex is less gay than whatever the hell these two did in this finale. I’m going insane.”

Fans of the two characters, which they ship as JayVik, are, it seems, a passionate bunch.

The Jayce/Viktor tag on AO3 currently has more than 3,000 works on it and there has been an outpouring of fan art shared across social media platforms.

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