All right, can we talk about how fantastic the Viktor short story was?

midnight oil24··12 votes·1,847 views

I was never really a big fan of Viktor until today, when I read his color story. He sounds... human. Like, he sounds like a real scientist, one who's been rejected and takes it all in stride now. Yet he's also brilliant and accepting, not getting mad at the child when he keeps asking questions, instead pushing him in the right direction, encouraging him. He makes sweetmilk for the child, and gives him the augmentation free of charge.

Viktor is a good dude. A bit misguided, but generally good. His new bio is great, but his color story has made him one of my favorite champions now.

Unlike Jayce

Jayce.

12 Comments

The Anagram King5 votes

I thought it was rather well-written. I LIKE stuff that's well-written. I also like that most of Viktor's comments were about how lame and silly humans are. Influencing young minds and tampering with their fear responses!

Delicious.

The new lore was written weird. I think it was tampered with to sate the fanbase complaints. But even I must confess - the short story was totally awesome.

midnight oil242 votes

His new lore isn't the best (I still love it, don't worry Viktor fans. Please don't kill me) but I'm glad you agree with me on the fact that his story was awesome.

Arcyvilk1 votes

The new lore was written weird. I think it was tampered with to sate the fanbase complaints. But even I must confess - the short story was totally awesome.

Yeah, some things that the community was especially loud about, seemed to be specifically highlighted in his new lore. Even choice of some words hinted it. It is not a complainment thought! Just an observation ^^;

The Anagram King4 votes

I didn't appreciate it. I would've liked a well-fleshed out story, over blatant fanservice.

But everyone's so happy about it. I just don't know how to feel!

Arcyvilk1 votes

As much as I love anything lore-related, I think the real lore should live in the minds of its fans and works of amateur creators! Therefore the most important thing to me was for the new lore to keep, preserve and improve what people loved about the character. I was granted those particular things, therefore I am happy: I can continue spawning my Viktor related content sticking to my headcanons while also staying canon-true. And I don't have to repeat "But look, he is not an evil robot overlord you think he is, let me explain this for 435674th time" anymore, hell yeah!

Of course I would be very happy with an awesome, well-fleshed story, but in my opinion, League's official lore is - should be? - built more around characters and less around particular stories. I love color stories for that - they flesh out the characters while being basically unimportant storyline-wise. They might not push the story itself forwards, but give all the fans another base to work with, another potentially unimportant detail to think about, another little tale to read and relate to its participants. You are given an image of a champion with a blurry background, and all the potential lines the artists and creators lead from this clear image to their own backgrounds.

It's damn late in the night now where I live so I hope I was able to make myself clear enough andit didn't turn out too much of a nonsensical babbling. ^^;

The Anagram King3 votes

I disagree! I like solid, factual, lore. I mean, RPing and headcannon's not something I have any particular averison to; but too much vagueness and conjecture really screws up the continuity if you have a habit of, say, introducing new Camilles. :P

But I DO echo your opinions in the second paragraph - characters make the story. Viktor has been the Viktim to a narrative ever since Jayce hammered onto the scene. The short story was a gem. As was old Viktor lore. So if nothing else, we traded one gem for another.

I hope they push forward with additional stories in the future. I don't like where they've left the Herald; but I do like where they seem to sort've want to build him, maybe?

I'm also tired and babbling. I keep talking about my opinions I, me, I think. I want! And i'm sorry. :P

TyrekGoldenspear1 votes

Yeah.

Thanks to his color story, I learned that Viktor is actually wearing a mask.

midnight oil242 votes

Oh, so that's a mask. I was confused as to how he was drinking his sweetmilk with his face like that.

333lom2 votes

It turns out his face is also most likely normal - the kid didn't scream in horror when he saw him.

Arcyvilk1 votes

I've saw a handful of comments like yours today - and it makes me so happy. This is why Viktor has so devoted fanbase here on boards: we saw the human in him in his old lore, and we wanted others to see a human in him as well, not an evil robot overlord so many assumed him to be.

With the new lore, I hope more and more people will come to like the character for this exact reason as it got stated less ambigiously now.

midnight oil243 votes

Yeah. Last week I was like, "okay, viktor's fun but he's nothing special." This week I'm like "viktor I want to be your roommate. You just seem like a fun guy to to be around." He's just benevolent, a bit misguided, but he truly wants the best for humanity. As opposed to Jayce, who just strokes his own ego and throws Viktor under the bus.

How do I sign up for the Viktor fan club? cause it just got a new member.

333lom1 votes

There goes my trump card for the comic "ta-daaa! See, he's not a villain". Now it's obvious he's not the villain by default .________. the Intro seems pointless now?

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