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My Analysis & Thoughts on Viktor in Jayce's Lore (It's not bad at all)

krOne·12/8/2016, 1:03:38 PM·4 votes·1,177 views

So I've read through Jayce's lore excerpt multiple times to make sure I got everything. Here's a a couple things to keep in mind about the current lore: (WALL OF TEXT!!)

College of Techmaturgy

Viktor was not in the College of Techmaturgy when he met Jayce. We do not know if this was before or after this timeline, or if it's even canon anymore. The events during his attendance at the college played a major role in his mental instability, so we will have to see if this remain a part of Viktor's lore.

Timeline

We do not know specifically when these events took place, but I can give you a relative idea:

  1. The events of Jayce's lore takes place during the initial discovery of hex crystals, which we know because they have no idea how the crystals worked.

  2. We also know that Clan Ferros played a big role in acquiring more crystals. Furthermore, Camille is currently 80-90 years old due to her hextech augmentations using the newly discovered crystals.

  3. This is further corroborated by Jayce's power hammer, initially left to collect dust due to not having a powerful enough battery. Clan Ferros mass produced synthetic crystals that definitely would have been a fitting substitute for this battery. The fact that he couldn't find one simply means they did not exist then.

Assuming the above is correct, this puts the initial altercation between Viktor and Jayce quite far back in the current lore timeline. It is very possible for both characters to change a lot over that time.

Perspective

The entire story, both Jayce's bio and "A Quick Fix", are from his perspective. It's also made painfully evident that Jayce doesn't have the patience to read people or interact with them normally. Chances are, his views on Viktor are not as they really are, and probably gloss over extremely important details. We can only find out more once Viktor's lore is released.

Viktor's State of Mind

When Viktor talks about taking away free-will, it definitely goes against his character. Very much so, in fact. Fortunately I have some details you may take solace in:

  1. These events likely happened many decades ago. His ideologies may have changed over that time.

  2. When Viktor steals the crystal, he is not augmented at all, otherwise Jayce definitely would have a documented reaction. Viktor also visibly shows sadness when giving the kill order on Jayce. Furthermore, Viktor's personality drastically changes when he infuses hextech into his brain as evident in his current lore. He becomes an entirely different person following the events of the shattered crystal.

  3. This is the most important part. In "The Weakest Heart" the Glorious Evolved are shown worshiping the Gray Lady and forming a cult. Both of these, religion and cultist practices, are the farthest thing possible from what a scientist removing free-will would want from his subjects. Something happens about the free-will argument over the decades, and we have no choice but to wait to find out.

What do you all think?

2 Comments

Sharjo12/8/2016, 1:58:58 PM1 votes

A problem with Jayce'so lore being set during the initial discovery of hextech crystals is that the original crystals (brackern) were first discovered by Camille's great great aunt, which sets the event back a couple of centuries.

Mogarl12/8/2016, 4:39:17 PM1 votes

I was still trying to be optomistic but, it's nearly impossible to see Viktor as anything but a 100% pure Evil Villain.

Jayce's lore only has the tiniest bit of room to be ambiguous

"Viktor’s design for the next version of the suit included a chemtech implant that would increase the wearer’s strength output by tenfold, while also preventing them from getting tired, panicking, or disobeying instructions from their superiors. While Viktor considered this feature a brilliant means of reducing the frequency of construction accidents, Jayce found its indifference toward free will immoral.

disobeying instructions from their superiors is the breaking point here, because superiors aren't always correct. Everything else was enough to show Viktor's ambiguity, but that leaves him no room to be anything besides evil villain using drugs to enslave workers. He isn't even doing it straight up with hextech augmentations.

Looking at Viktor's thugs from Jayce's lore takes any ambiguity out. Here we have Viktor sending mindless thugs after Jayce cementing the fact that there is no unfortunate misunderstanding. Viktor is out for revenge,** a concept that is essentially stated that Viktor isn't really after in his damn lore**.

Oh and as an extra slap in the face even after Viktor has rebuilt himself after Jayce dropped a building on him he's now drugging people, because fuck the Hexcore no need to tie that to Viktor. Nope just DRUGS.

At this point unless Jayce is completely insane and delusional (which would NOT be fair to the Jayce fans), or Viktor isn't just a villain he is an irrevocably **evil **villain. You don't have to be Evil to be an antagonist, but clearly Narrative is unaware of that.