Champions and their Childhoods

Maple Crusader··33 votes·4,834 views

Lux was way happier before she got sent to the Demacian military. She's now a shell of her former self because her original soul was broken in by strict discipline. Sona had dealt with being alone (aside from her instrument) since no one wanted to adopt her. That's got to have a lasting impact on her early development. She eventually got adopted by Miss Buvelle. Illaoi was described as self-conscious due to her tall height in her youth.

These details to these champs' lores made me wonder how the other champs were like in their childhoods.

Caitlyn A straight by-the-book person. May have been a teacher's pet or the class nerd. Jhin Obsessed with people who were dying. Sort of like Karthus, except had a thirst for morbid Ionian art. Ahri After becoming half-human, she was extremely awkward in motion and speech. She had a habit of walking on all fours and didn't wear clothing. Took her a while to get used to her new form and get her seductive skills on point. Gangplank Before killing his father and becoming the Reaver King, GP was a "jolly" pirate. Ziggs Played with matches Jinx Loved the smell of gunpowder and breaking things at a young age. Draven Self esteem issues as an orphan. Darius Hated quitters from an early age, since he had to raise Draven by himself. Braum's mother is one of the scariest yet nicest parents on the Freljord. Garen did Demacian Ballet and learned to ambush at an early age. Katarina did Noxian Ballet. Wanted to take after her father's business as an uber blade master.

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The Red Warden21 votes

Viktor: Son wake up! Today you will learn about the glorious evolution and why you are better than everyone else.

Blitzcrank: But daddy, I want to be with all the other kids

Viktor: Son, do not associate yourself with those blasphemous meatbag peasants. You are the future, the final form of evolution

Blitzcrank But daddy, my friend told me to use my powers to help others.

Viktor Your friend is a living blob of limbed mucus. He's a literal bugger.

Zac You called my name?

The Red Warden20 votes

Blitzcrank Daddy may I please leave the house? Please daddy?

Viktor Son, do not degrade yourself with this mucus. Only by staying true to the evolution can you reach your full potential.

Zac Hey Blitz, Orianna will be there. C'mon.

CRASH!!!!!!!

Blitzcrank Daddy, I'll be back by 7:00.

Viktor Dammit, guess I'll go shoot lasers at Jayce in the meantime.

crippler387 votes

Blitzcrank h-hi ori

Orianna deadpan hello blitzcrank.

Blitzcrank want to hang out later?

Orianna deadpan o-oh, sure.

Blitzcrank Orianna robo blush

Zac to blitz dude if you drop this I'm gooing her up

Blitzcrank to zac goo her up and I'll knock you up then silence you

Orianna oh. I did not realize you two were like that.

Blitzcrank NO I'M NOT! ORI PLZ

Orianna besides it is more effective to knock-up and silence me, as I am squishy.

Zac Blitzcrank think dirty thoughts and pass out

Face The Sun6 votes

Blitzcrank [Rebooting Systems]

Orianna Are you alright?

Blitzcrank Yes, I just had a... corrupt process...

Orianna ok then, well anyways my father hates me being out so much because he is afraid of me getting wet...

Blitzcrank "CRASH"

Orianna Blitz? are you sure you're ok?

HighH13 votes

I'd love to see this become a comic with a few....rules in there as easter eggs

Malicious Metal20 votes

Mordekaiser 's childhood mist have been crucial to him becoming the murder emperor. Nobody with a decent childhood would become a tyrant hellbent on eternal conquest who resorted to necromancy to make his lust for domination surpass his mortal coil.

My personal head canon's him being the child of a warrior king and his sorceress mistress. Being taught in the art of war and forbidden magic from an early age, taking up his father's mantle after his death and just like Alexander the great striving to make a name for himself and add even more lands to his empire. Pride, greed and youthful lust for recognition having been the spark for him to be led unto the path of the Iron Revenant.

crippler384 votes

and then when he grew up he solved all of Sona 's loneliness issues by inviting her to his heavy metal band, which was super successful because morde CARES he UNDERSTANDS everything bad in the world and makes you all realize it through THE POWER OF METAL! (obviously that's true)

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

Dunno. Never underestimate the potential of mankind to be completly obsessed with power to the degree of depravity or absolute madness. And all that without a single reason. Then add the never fading wish for immortality and well...

Not to mention Morde took over several MILLENIA ago. Just compare our "modern" culture with the standard around the world at, Idk, 500 BC maybe? Conquer or be conquered, eat or be eaten, show strenght or get crushed (Noxian ideals anyone?), - and with conquest being the only way to actually make yourself a name (as artists and poets usually are more famous in times of peace), it's not surprise he strived for the only thing his culture offered him.

He could have had a pretty normal childhood - in a really fucked up world (by our standarts, for him it was probably just normal).

Lord Boltrix1 votes

This makes me wonder, what was the super-ancient time of Runeterra like?

SaltyToplaneGoat2 votes

Well you probably had one or two empires and the rest was unciviliced barbarians. You've got Shurima, the Iceborn, the Celestials at mount Targon, Icathia and ofc Morde's Empire. Just think of "present runeterra" as 1700-1800~ of our world (1900 in Piltovers/Zauns case) and ancient runeterra at the time of the roman or the alexandiran empire.

Before that... well, feel free to ask Gnar ^^

Blood Magicks10 votes

I'm pretty religious about my Vladimir headcanon.

Vladimir was disinherited from his noble family (hence no surname). Probable reason is his recessive mutation (albinism - white hair red eyes) which shows he (probably) was a child of incest. This also explains why he was a murderous psychopath at an early age, since inbred kids are often prone to mental issues. Also his parents not wanting to name him as their own to avoid being persecuted might have played a part.

It also explains why, when he murdered his two playmates, there was no one to bail him out (a noble kid would have gotten away with murder), so he had to run away.

Knalxz2 votes

I put in my 30 character password to come into this thread and tell you that's a dam n good headcanon for Vlad. So good that it's what I'm saying his childhood was like from now own.

WadeWilson13371 votes

Your name reminds me of the fact there cant be any more true one trick ponies, or atleast not as many. Now people will be forced to be TWO TRICK PONIES in most cases as their champion isnt viable in other lanes. FeelsBadMan.

Blood Magicks3 votes

OTP in my name does not stand for One Trick Pony, it stands for One True Pairing.

I ship VladxVayne really hard desu. Can you blame me?

http://imgur.com/h3QVoBc.jpg

WadeWilson13372 votes

Not sure if im uncomfortable or aroused, but im okay with that.

Ralanr7 votes

Sion

Warning: Incoming headcannon

Sion I believe was born to a noble house in Noxus (What rank of nobility doesn't matter). He was a frightening youth, most likely spending his time bullying the weaklings around him. He did not fear his strength, he embraced it as the only thing that mattered. It was the Noxian way afterall.

Yet this did not give him satisfaction, nor did it give him respect. Even his very parents feared him at a distance. They thought they could hide these feelings from their brute of a son, but Sion was not as blunt as people believed him to be. This perception slowly began to fuel his rage as he went through the Noxian military. To everyone around him he was just a brute, a monster to be let loose onto the battlefields. They did not respect his tactical ideas, nor did anyone bother to stand up to him if he said something in the hopes of gaining retaliation.

What had given him joy as a child now frustrated him as an adult. Where were his peers? His friends? Were those around him just a feeble pack of dogs, cowering before the dire wolf that was Sion? He wanted respect from his fellow Noxian, not fear!

He was alone.

Until he met Boram Darkwill. The Grand General did not fear Sion's strength. His words of admiration held no lies like the countless weaklings before him. Sion felt not like a beast to Boram, but as another man.

Seeing what others did not, Boram promoted Sion to more favorable positions, each new one earned through cunning tactics and incredible victories. Before long Sion had become the right hand of Boram.

But everything change when Demacia attacked.

SpongebobIsLife1 votes

But everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked.

FTFY

Knalxz2 votes

I prefer is currently lore, this one makes him out as a troubled child. In his current lore he was The Noxian as Darius is today. He was the embodiment of everything the nation stood for and basically had a cult of Death Knights who followed him into battle.

He wasn't a brute he was a tactical giant. Remember he's the one who won the war for the Noxians by killing Jarvan the First great grandfather.

Only in his reincarnation is he only rage, he even talks about how that's all he feels and longs for something more like when he was alive. If anything it's sad to see him this way because he was an intelligent man like Darius. Swain didn't need him to think he just needed him to kill so that's what Vlad made him do.

Ralanr2 votes

I feel people were very much afraid of him when he was alive honestly. Just by his presence.

And he did have tactical genius, but no one took him seriously enough for him to rise above his rankings at first. /Headcannon.

kaltenashes1 votes

coming from you i'd expect either sion or someone from mt.targon

i still didnt read the new mt. targon lore i read in a thread the summary and i didnt like the changes to diana and leona plus pantheon is not a baker =/

Ralanr2 votes

Well I do have my favorites. I would take a crack at Poppy, but we don't know what Yordles are anymore!

Plus the Targon update gave us their childhoods. Sion's life before his death hasn't fully been explored.

Over Innsmouth6 votes

Azir Actually really reasonable to his slaves/servants, if still expectant of their service. Think Hohenheim.

Garen Jerked off to Demacian propaganda posters. Had much explaining to do to Mr and Mrs Crownguard.

Fiora A tremendous %%%%. Like, the type of person that the teacher would use to describe a %%%%.

TahmKench Really, really into Gordon Ramsay.

Vladimir See VaynexVlad OTP's post.

Veigar Super sweet as a child, if a bit hard to notice in a crowd, leading to a latent desire to be noticed which translated to megalomania in his villainy.

Yasuo The best musical arm-farter in all Ionia.

Draven The kid who tries to juggle rotten fruit standing on a soapbox to attract attention while Darius steals from vendors for them.

Riven Gymnast kid, wouldnt go anywhere without doing flips and cartwheels.

viybez6 votes

Urgot ate glue

Ralanr2 votes

Dark and mysterious glue?

SeductiveGrandpa5 votes

Gnar, gosh he must of had a fun time inside of that true ice for all those years, imagine all the games of I Spy he won.

Jungle Lux God4 votes

Annie Nunu Kicking grown-up's butts in the League of Legends.

XeroKimo3 votes

Lucian Thresh - were best friends, played a lot with each other, but thresh was secretly stealing all of lucian's wife toys

Bottom Laner2 votes

Those last 2 words can be taken 2 different ways friend

Ironclad Dragon3 votes

Amumu Still livin' it...

JVP153 votes

Talon : Pretty much was an orphan on the streets. Maybe he knew Darius. Maybe he didn't.

Leona : Was probably very nice and liked books and other non-violent things (at least according to her old lore)

Teemo : Probably committed rodent genocide and worshiped satan.

Rammus : Ok

Doctor Dyment3 votes

Yorick Probably wasn't dead.

Nautilus Probably wasn't stuck in a diving suit.

Annie Probably is still a kid.

Blue Moon Wolf3 votes

MonkeyKing was a rock .__.

Mecha MaIphite10 votes

Malphite still a rock

Solari Fortune3 votes

Shyvana Had a rough childhood Constantly hunted down by other dragons, watching her own father be killed, almost killed by demacian forces. Still pretty judged to this day

Ralanr2 votes

Many Demacian nobles probably see her as JarvanIV's pet.

Rundus16 votes

"I'll call you Valor!" Valor peeps adorably

(10 years later. Quinn is speaking with her friend, Lux:)

Lux: "Hey Quinn! Surprised to see you alone. Where's -" Quinn: "DON'T SAY HIS NAME! PLEASE!" Lux: "Why can't I say Valor?" From above: DEAFENING BIRD SCREECH

HayRoss1 votes

{quoted}

Lux was way happier before she got sent to the Demacian military. She's now a shell of her former self.

I don't actually even know how she could get any happier

Malicious Metal6 votes

It's all a facade.

Photos of Ghosts5 votes

Have a ç. Cherish it :3

VulcanIsHere1 votes

She's actually terribly depressed suffering from the eternal guilt of ending the lives of so many people fighting for their country... It's twisted her into the psycho she is today

Face The Sun1 votes

shame, she probably had a adorable laugh.

VulcanIsHere1 votes

Maybe, or did it never change o.O

IceKingChernobog2 votes

before league revampwd their lore and she had a judgment chapter on why she wanted to join the league, it proved that her "cheerful" personality was a facade

roar20011 votes
  1. ooh-ooh I will do my favorite champion! Aatrox ...?
Marbelara2 votes

Aatrox lived for eons in a thriving place of greatness, since his creation surrounded by countless beings such as he, all powerful and marvelous. It was a place of origin, a home.

Then it was just him and four others. The only who have survived the extinction.

roar20011 votes

Do you know what the extinction was?

Marbelara1 votes

I just cooked this up based on the fact he had a race but now there is 5 of them left. There must have been some ascension/extinction/genocide/migration involved for them to end up this way, was my primary thought writing that :P

Sorry, no Rito leaks or anything.

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