Viktor | ARCANE

Appearance:

During his time as a non-augmented person, Viktor was a white skinned, amber eyed and brown haired human with a scrawny build and with cane. Since his birth he had a deformity preventing him to walk and run naturally, needing a walking stick to move (later a walking crutch). During his time exposed to Zaunite pollution, it would greatly worsen his health conditions.

Early Life:

Years ago, Viktor was born in Zaun, growing up in a poor family and the polluted Undercity. Viktor was born with a limp in his right leg and was forced to walk around with a cane. This made it difficult for him to play with the other children, but despite his solitude and physical weakness, the young boy was brilliant and inventive, with a knack for constructing machines on the days he spent alone. One day, when playing with a model boat in the river, Viktor stumbled upon an underground cave with a hidden lab. There, he met Singed, a Zaunite alchemist, who took an interest in the young boy's craftsmanship. While initially afraid of the old man, Viktor's curiosity got the better of him when he noticed a strange creature named Rio, which Singed described as a "rare mutation" that he was trying to save from death. Viktor, who quickly befriended the creature, offered to help Singed in his experiments, and the alchemist sent Viktor to collect materials for him. This partnership would not last long, however, as Viktor soon realized that Singed's method of keeping Rio alive had left her in a constant state of agony, torturing her with implants and potions to preserve the mutation's genetic material. The boy was horrified by this revelation and ran out of Singed's lab crying

Personality 1:

Viktor is an idealistic, altruistic, genuis introvert with a passion for science and its ability to improve lives for the better. Growing up in the slums of Zaun as a poor, sick, crippled boy; Viktor understood the suffering everyday people had to endure by living in Zaun's terrible conditions. Viktor wanted to leave behind a legacy where he could improve the people of Zaun's lives and do good for all; he found a worthy outlet of this dream by pledging his support to Jayce's dream of bringing Hextech to the masses. Viktor would sometimes quarrel with Jayce when he feels he's being led astray or distracted from their shared dream of using hextech to improve lives. Viktor believes that people are in desperate need of the good that hextech can provide and wants to make it accessible as hasty as possible. This sometimes leads to quarrels with Jayce and Heimerdinger, who've sometimes withheld hextech from the masses or halted its development until they could establish viable regulations for the new technology. Viktor is very bold in his pursuit of scientific discoveries and often is willing to do dangerous experimentation to figure it out or go against the ethos of the scientific community to accomplish his goals. To Viktor's credit, he has faith in himself and the genius to back it up. Part of the reason he is so hasty to usher in a hextech revolution is because of his short lifespan, and his dread that he will be unable to accomplish the meaningful good that his goals aspire to before he expires.

Personality 2:

As an introvert, Viktor is very shy and generally don't approach strangers for socializing. Even as a child, he was a loner and as a student of the Piltover Academy, he was an outsider who relied on his genius and grit to make something of himself. He often defers to Jayce to act as their spokesperson for public speaking events while he supports him from behind the scenes. Due to Viktor's inability to be a public figure, Viktor is often overshadowed by Jayce as a founding father of hextech. Viktor seems content to devote all his time on developing hextech and sees its progress and the popularization of the science as the most improtant use of his and Jayce's time; with socializing and other extracurricular activities being seen as a distraction. Viktor sometimes becomes so immersed in his work that he becomes a reclusive workaholic.

Personality 3:

snarky, passionate, and intellectual. Despite his life-long struggles, Viktor remains level-headed with a smirk on his face. He doesn’t particularly care what others think of him but ends up impressing with his talents. He’s always been a loner, but he met someone who shares his scientific curiosity. Whenever Viktor’s values come into question, he will hold strong until the bitter end.

Profession:

innovator. Viktor now works closely with his partner Jayce in creating hextech, which Jayce and Viktor believe “to be a tool for us to build a new world.” But when two partners begin to diverge and their motivations come into question, no one is stopping hextech from falling into the wrong hands.

Interests:

science, engineering, and modification. With the lack of control over his body, Viktor is focused on manufacturing to make scientific advances. But devotion to his craft can quickly lead to obsession, and soon enough the need to change fate could tempt Viktor to far more twisted experiments.

Relationship Status:

single. Viktor has always been more focused on his work than relationships, and he hardly takes notice when he catches the eye of a shy lab assistant. Even Jayce, the one person he’s closest to becomes overshadowed by hextech advancements.

Living:

in Piltover. Professor Hiemerdinger of the Academy noticed his academic prowess and gave him a place in Piltover, though some will never accept him as their equal. Viktor must always prove himself, and still finds himself hidden in the shadows, noticed only by the few that take him seriously. As he says, "Nobody's ever believed in me. A poor cripple from The Undercity. I was an outsider the moment I stepped foot in Piltover. I didn't have the benefits of a patron or a name. I simply believed in myself, which is why I'm here, because I think you're on to something. I want to help you complete your research."

Challenge:

managing his worsening health condition while also being feverishly dedicated to his work in the lab. Viktor does not have the luxury of taking even a second for granted, but he was never one with the greatest luck. He always knew he would have it harder than others, but if he keeps running, pushing himself past the edge, could he have a chance of making it out alive?