Several years after the council attack, Hextech stands heavily restricted while both Piltover and Zaun continue suffering the consequences of its creation. Viktor survives, though his health steadily worsens, and Jayce retreats from politics back into the isolation of the laboratory. Desperate for solutions neither Piltover nor the Academy can provide, Viktor requests the assistance of a Zaun-born medical scientist infamous for publicly criticizing Hextech and the people behind it. Unfortunately for all three of them, she accepts. —A slow-burn Arcane AU focused on scientific collaboration, emotional tension, grief, chronic illness, and the quiet intimacy of becoming someone’s home before realizing it.— (Read the premise for full context, lore, and character dynamics.) Francesca by Hozier is to blame for this