'Character A forgets Character B through circumstance and B tries desperately to either live with this and move on with life or make A remember'

Me frothing at the mouth every time

So then Jayce could see some thing materially improving during his time there, perhaps....

Boy howdy, this is an interesting AU if you look down the rabbit hole.

Which actually has some implications worldbuilding side for how Stillwater is run. Seeing how Zaun is overpoliced and most of the prisoners come from there, then if Zaun actually gets a representative foot in Piltover politics, there's a possibility of a measure of prison reform being put in place.

Exactly! Why have him be the same Viktor from canon when you could have Cooler Viktor??? Who could probably throw jayce around like a sack of potatoes?????

Give him that lightweight, lanky ass mma body type and the excuse that he's using the arcane and metalworking to unethically to fix himself. Like why does know one wanna change what Viktor looks like and instead beef up and tattoo jayce (I know why) (we all know why)

No one's watching Viktor and he's been left unattended with magic, a slowly dying body, and a can do attitude. He's doing weirdo shit to himself while Jayce is rotting in a prison cell listless and going through the motions. In my mind, one of these two is more likely for a cool dude makeover.

Which then adds the irony of Jayce's yearnings, not for Viktor necessarily, at least at the start, but for human contact. The touch of another, and yet the only touch he will know and come to need is from a man who is doing everything to not be human anymore.

A slow degradation of the flesh and metamorphization into something else he's willingly allowing to happen for the sake of the research and his own life. It's painful, but he's always been in pain and this kind is of a body building itself instead of tearing apart.

And he's taller, because fuck it.

That power dynamic though. Viktor breaks Jayce out of prison, Jayce is going to have nothing. Can't go back to piltover as he's a wanted man, can't do much of anything to show his face on top of no direction to go other than whatever Viktor has made of hextech. He would need Viktor at that point.

He'd be gagging for it. Scared how much he wants it. A Jayce after being broken out, perhaps working with Viktor, unsure of this person who he is now indebted to and in the care of since he's in hiding…

Viktor would touch his shoulder in some companionable manner and Jayce would melt.

And then a bajillion scenes of them bickering, arguing, vibing, slowly getting along, not getting along at all, feeding off the energy they match solely in each other, slotting together way too perfectly, angry fucking about it-

Toxicity in the way they came together wrong but ended up right.

He becomes obsessed with this inventor, needing to know about who took his ideas, his work, his dreams, and warped it into whatever it's become now. It plagues him more and more, his craft being out there in someone else's hands in ways he may have never intended.

And then Viktor comes for him.

Some people say its helped them, their community. Some people come in hurt by it, grievously. It sounds like a perversion, a taunt, like everything Jayce could have been working towards but was ripped away from. Months, years of these whispers and rumors being overheard and no way to see it himself-

Me as a fic writer knowing the only way I'm gunna find what I want is by doing the thing

Don't worry. She's self trussing.

Ive told her for three years now I'm returning her to the shelter I got her at but I don't think she believes me at this point >:(

Nothing about that man says Dom. Everything about him says 'please push me around, put me in my place, and tell me what to do'.