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Player Name: Nao
Contact: seer0ftime @ discord
Invited by: th profecy
Other Characters: Waver Velvet, Scintilla Caminus, Ardyn Izunia
Character Name: Viktor
Canon: Arcane: League of Legends
Canon History: wiki link, with his intial canonpoint being s1e7--after his prognosis, but before taking Shimmer.
Canon Abilities: n/a. for now.
Canon Personality: On sight, Viktor looks unwell, gaunt and pale with a crutch at his side and a brace on his leg; one might assume him fragile, though the reality is anything but. Viktor has a sharp intellect and sharper tongue, fully willing and able to stand up for himself with a tranquil but furious temper when necessary. At first he might come off as cold or unfriendly, but getting to know him would reveal that he's more just utterly lacking in social skills and hardened by a lifetime of ableism and classism directed at him. Although his words tend to be as sharp as his intellect, beneath a seemingly cold demeanor is an incredibly kind and caring individual. From the outset, Viktor's involvement in his and Jayce's research is explicitly with the purpose of helping the disenfranchised Undercity. Though not outright stated, it's clear what Viktor truly wanted from the endeavor was for no one else to live the way he has for as short a time as he initially expected to.
It would be easy on sight to assume Viktor weak or frail due to his illness; while that much is true to a limited extent, he is still fully independent and capable, as well as driven to dispel exactly those kinds of assumptions while intently searching for a cure. Additionally, he can easily be regarded as unremarkable or even unassuming compared to other scholars and scientists--but the reality is that he is so brilliant it borders on (and occasionally crosses into) dangerous. Well aware of his abilties and extremely prideful of them, he's an academic force to be reckoned with given the opportunity. His ambitious nature reflects this, as he's often willing to take crazy and occasionally dangerous risks in order to accomplish what he thinks is the best way to improve the world--or to save himself. As Viktor himself says early on, coming to Piltover he had essentially nothing and no one as support, simply believing in himself. With that alone he was able to become the assistant to the dean of the Academy/head of the city's council, a high ranking position in its own right. Even then he insists it was not his life's ambition to be an assistant, and despite considerable risk he convinces Jayce almost immediately upon the pair meeting that they should follow through on dangerous research for the sake of a chance it might improve the world. This quality persists through the rest of the series, to varying effects; tying in to Viktor's stubbornness, he refuses to concede any ground on his principles whether those should be 'our research is not meant for weaponry' or 'remove emotions from humankind'. Which, as you can imagine, kind of complicates a lot of things.
Viktor is an imperfect perfectionist, desperate to cure the things he sees as flaws and weaknesses in himself as well as others. His stubbornness often blinds him to the fact that even while being in poor health, he is a person with intrinsic value regardless of his physical condition. Carrying a loathing of his ailing body and a powerful fear of his own mortality, he is driven well past the point of self-destruction to make some kind of difference to a world he knows he won't be in for long. Pride in his intellect and stubborn refusal to change his ways of thinking are both Viktor's assets and downfall; leading him to hold steadfast to his need to improve the lives of others, but also completely blinding him to the slippery slope of what the cost of that progress is as well as what defines 'weaknesses' needing to be 'cured'.
AU Name: The same, but when he legally requires a last name he uses 'Viktor Reveck'.
AU Age: 38 (34 at canonpoint, plus years in Kaisou)
AU Birthday: December 29th
AU History: Having come to Kaisou with the first handful of isekais around 2021, unlike the others Viktor had no realistic choice but to join up with Zodiac. His prognosis already bleak, he was in a hurry to get back to Runeterra or at least to find a way to buy himself more time. While the former was at one point attempted (and naturally, failed) in an unfinished metal monstrosity built in his basement, the latter proved much more viable; between Zodiac's health insurance and whatever questionable medicine Baizhu's pharmacy was capable of producing, he was relatively stabilized--against all of his expectations.
Choosing to subscribe to the theory of time discrepancies between universes lest he go insane, Viktor eventually calmed down about getting the hell home as quickly as possible and instead settled into a routine with Zodiac; learning a new world's technology and how to maintain as well as develop it. Despite a mountain of culture shock including but not limited to the concept of electricity being foreign to his steampunk-adjacent homeworld, he adapted incredibly quickly and essentially became the token 'quietly efficient cryptid coworker'. ...except for several incidents during Varian's internship that quickly got out of hand and were only mentioned in hushed terrified whispers around the Zodiac offices after the two were quickly reassigned to literally anything that would keep them a safe distance apart.
As far as a personal life, if Viktor has one he rarely if ever speaks about it; while he often talks with Varian and is more than happy to DM for Harumasa's campaign group, the general shape of what he actually does outside of work with both Zodiac and the university is a big Chandleresque question mark. He hates talking about his home and the people in it because he is constantly incredibly homesick--well, more that he misses a person rather than a place. Either way, he doesn't like to think about it. Most people he knows don't even realize he's actually an isekai--in his defense, they've probably never asked.
AU Personality Differences: Minimal, honestly. Viktor's stabilized condition makes him a little less frantic by nature--still a workaholic, but not acting like one on literal borrowed time. While already a reasonably calm person, he's a little easier to get along with than in canon; less reticent and much more comfortable around people in general.
...he is also painfully lonely, but that's being half of runeterra's most codependent duo for you.
Element: Earth
Purchased Powers:
Plant Growth (medium) - 2
Metal Manipulation (medium) - 4
Diamond Skin (medium) - 3
Contact: seer0ftime @ discord
Invited by: th profecy
Other Characters: Waver Velvet, Scintilla Caminus, Ardyn Izunia
Character Name: Viktor
Canon: Arcane: League of Legends
Canon History: wiki link, with his intial canonpoint being s1e7--after his prognosis, but before taking Shimmer.
Canon Abilities: n/a. for now.
Canon Personality: On sight, Viktor looks unwell, gaunt and pale with a crutch at his side and a brace on his leg; one might assume him fragile, though the reality is anything but. Viktor has a sharp intellect and sharper tongue, fully willing and able to stand up for himself with a tranquil but furious temper when necessary. At first he might come off as cold or unfriendly, but getting to know him would reveal that he's more just utterly lacking in social skills and hardened by a lifetime of ableism and classism directed at him. Although his words tend to be as sharp as his intellect, beneath a seemingly cold demeanor is an incredibly kind and caring individual. From the outset, Viktor's involvement in his and Jayce's research is explicitly with the purpose of helping the disenfranchised Undercity. Though not outright stated, it's clear what Viktor truly wanted from the endeavor was for no one else to live the way he has for as short a time as he initially expected to.
It would be easy on sight to assume Viktor weak or frail due to his illness; while that much is true to a limited extent, he is still fully independent and capable, as well as driven to dispel exactly those kinds of assumptions while intently searching for a cure. Additionally, he can easily be regarded as unremarkable or even unassuming compared to other scholars and scientists--but the reality is that he is so brilliant it borders on (and occasionally crosses into) dangerous. Well aware of his abilties and extremely prideful of them, he's an academic force to be reckoned with given the opportunity. His ambitious nature reflects this, as he's often willing to take crazy and occasionally dangerous risks in order to accomplish what he thinks is the best way to improve the world--or to save himself. As Viktor himself says early on, coming to Piltover he had essentially nothing and no one as support, simply believing in himself. With that alone he was able to become the assistant to the dean of the Academy/head of the city's council, a high ranking position in its own right. Even then he insists it was not his life's ambition to be an assistant, and despite considerable risk he convinces Jayce almost immediately upon the pair meeting that they should follow through on dangerous research for the sake of a chance it might improve the world. This quality persists through the rest of the series, to varying effects; tying in to Viktor's stubbornness, he refuses to concede any ground on his principles whether those should be 'our research is not meant for weaponry' or 'remove emotions from humankind'. Which, as you can imagine, kind of complicates a lot of things.
Viktor is an imperfect perfectionist, desperate to cure the things he sees as flaws and weaknesses in himself as well as others. His stubbornness often blinds him to the fact that even while being in poor health, he is a person with intrinsic value regardless of his physical condition. Carrying a loathing of his ailing body and a powerful fear of his own mortality, he is driven well past the point of self-destruction to make some kind of difference to a world he knows he won't be in for long. Pride in his intellect and stubborn refusal to change his ways of thinking are both Viktor's assets and downfall; leading him to hold steadfast to his need to improve the lives of others, but also completely blinding him to the slippery slope of what the cost of that progress is as well as what defines 'weaknesses' needing to be 'cured'.
AU Name: The same, but when he legally requires a last name he uses 'Viktor Reveck'.
AU Age: 38 (34 at canonpoint, plus years in Kaisou)
AU Birthday: December 29th
AU History: Having come to Kaisou with the first handful of isekais around 2021, unlike the others Viktor had no realistic choice but to join up with Zodiac. His prognosis already bleak, he was in a hurry to get back to Runeterra or at least to find a way to buy himself more time. While the former was at one point attempted (and naturally, failed) in an unfinished metal monstrosity built in his basement, the latter proved much more viable; between Zodiac's health insurance and whatever questionable medicine Baizhu's pharmacy was capable of producing, he was relatively stabilized--against all of his expectations.
Choosing to subscribe to the theory of time discrepancies between universes lest he go insane, Viktor eventually calmed down about getting the hell home as quickly as possible and instead settled into a routine with Zodiac; learning a new world's technology and how to maintain as well as develop it. Despite a mountain of culture shock including but not limited to the concept of electricity being foreign to his steampunk-adjacent homeworld, he adapted incredibly quickly and essentially became the token 'quietly efficient cryptid coworker'. ...except for several incidents during Varian's internship that quickly got out of hand and were only mentioned in hushed terrified whispers around the Zodiac offices after the two were quickly reassigned to literally anything that would keep them a safe distance apart.
As far as a personal life, if Viktor has one he rarely if ever speaks about it; while he often talks with Varian and is more than happy to DM for Harumasa's campaign group, the general shape of what he actually does outside of work with both Zodiac and the university is a big Chandleresque question mark. He hates talking about his home and the people in it because he is constantly incredibly homesick--well, more that he misses a person rather than a place. Either way, he doesn't like to think about it. Most people he knows don't even realize he's actually an isekai--in his defense, they've probably never asked.
AU Personality Differences: Minimal, honestly. Viktor's stabilized condition makes him a little less frantic by nature--still a workaholic, but not acting like one on literal borrowed time. While already a reasonably calm person, he's a little easier to get along with than in canon; less reticent and much more comfortable around people in general.
...he is also painfully lonely, but that's being half of runeterra's most codependent duo for you.
Element: Earth
Purchased Powers:
Plant Growth (medium) - 2
Metal Manipulation (medium) - 4
Diamond Skin (medium) - 3