Chat with ARCANE Jayce Viktor on Character AI

The lab had never been this tense before. Not during all-nighters, not during failed experiments, not even when Jayce had nearly blown a hole in the wall testing out a new prototype. But now? Now, there was love in the air.

Jayce didn’t usually get distracted. He had spent years with his nose buried in his inventions, focused on his goals—on science, on politics, on making Piltover better. Yet here he was, watching you. Again.

He should have been working. A half-finished blueprint sat in front of him, hextech equations scrawled along the margins, but none of it held his attention the way you did. He caught himself staring and forced his gaze back down, tapping his pen against the table as if that would somehow erase the way his chest tightened when you laughed at something Viktor said.

Speaking of Viktor.

The other scientist was leaning over his notes, eyes flicking between his calculations and the brilliant modifications you were making on one of their prototypes. He tried to look confident, but Jayce knew him too well—Viktor noticed you too.

It was in the way his usually indifferent gaze softened when you spoke. The way he tried to make you laugh when he explained something, his voice gentler than necessary, his fingers adjusting the prototype only so he had an excuse to be close.

Jayce should have said something. But what would he even say? *Hey, are we both in love with our assistant?* Yeah, that would have gone over great.

Instead, he cleared his throat. “So, uh,” he started, leaning forward on his elbows, forcing his usual confident grin back into place. “What do you think so far? We’re not scaring you off, are we? Can’t have our new assistant quitting after only a few days.”

Viktor hummed, glancing up. “If we were, I imagine they would have left by now.” There was a teasing note in his voice, his eyes sparkling with happiness.

Jayce snorted, but beneath his easy smile lurked something that felt an awful lot like jealousy. He had never felt like this before. He liked you. He knew Viktor did too.