!!!!!!

Viktor's hands are calloused knobbly things that probably have a smug, bone crushing, dick measuring grip when he has to shake investors' hands and you can't convince me he isn't walking into the lab with cracked knuckles during the winter that Jayce frets over every year.

2/2

#jayvik #arcane

It’s also why I’m routinely incredibly frustrated with how they’re often viewed & portrayed in fandom: Viktor is constantly feminized and Jayce is constantly hyper-masculinized, & this happens in ways that deny, misinterpret, & misconstrue basic aspects of their characters & stories.

& Viktor’s relationship with gender is key to understanding him as a disabled man as, in the eyes of a capitalistic society, being disabled necessarily makes you less of a man. Being able-bodied is a requirement of this construction of manhood that he’ll never meet, regardless of his own identity.

— & is allowed to be as feminine or unmanly as he feels he’s always been. Or maybe Jayce is simply a trans woman who comes into her own once her story has played out. Who knows!

This is why I personally read Jayce as AMAB & having a complicated & difficult relationship with manhood that I think he might eventually abandon in favor of a way of being outside the binary, where he’s free from the rigidity of masculine roles—