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Best Viktor Angst Fanfics

The best angst fanfiction featuring Viktor (Arcane) on AO3, curated by popularity. Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration.

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Top Viktor Angst Fic Recs

4 angst fics featuring Viktor, followed by other top-rated stories.

1

Lie like you love me

Angst

by Wurmburger · Jayvik

At the Velvet Curtain, people pay for fantasy, control, comfort, pain, relief.The arrangement is supposed to be simple: professional, negotiated, contained. Instead it becomes a slow collision of obedience, trust, class resentment, and the kind of tension that builds long before either of them is wi

120 kudos 117,664 words 12/? chapters Explicit
2

Who Am I? Who Are You? Mirror Lies, Mimic Truth

Angst

by ticketytockety · Jayvik

Reincarnation AU As the Dean's Assistant, Viktor is to be present when Heimerdinger is busy. Normally, it's to sit through some type of meeting, not to supervise the retrieval of something found deep within the river of Zaun.

113 kudos 46,340 words 19/? chapters Explicit
3

fidelity

Angst

by toadbreath · Jayvik

Ten years ago, a journalist asked Viktor Herald whether a machine could ever truly be alive. He said no. Then he resigned from Vitalis Industries, the company he built with Jayce Talis, and disappeared. The world believes he is resting. He is not resting. Fourteen steps below an abandoned foundry, h

12 kudos 8,452 words 1/? chapters Mature
4

The Priests Daughter

Angst

by igatyurionmymind08 · Jayvik

The land of Piltover is one separated by day and night, by shadow and light, by vampires and humans. In its protected city, Caitlyn wants to finally fulfil her duty of service to the Order, becoming a Priestess and enrolling in the Academy of Saints. Being the daughter of the now-retired Father, s

5 kudos 4,704 words 3/35 chapters Not Rated
5

A Lover’s Guide to Ethical Euthanasia

by loresflora · Jayvik

“You made a commitment all those years ago whether you like it or not.” Jayce does not avert his eyes. His statement is not accompanied by a laugh or hum to indicate it’s meant as empty banter. “This time, though, you’re sending me off with your own hands.”--The birthday fic where Jayce gets attic-w

139 kudos 93,139 words 10/11 chapters Explicit
6

The Longest Distance

by anri · Jayvik

Ximena had taken to travelling, in the years since she lost Jayce.She is in the process of mending her grief, when she sees a familiar shape, in a market far from home.A man who should be dead.The man who killed her son.

106 kudos 7,315 words 3/4 chapters Teen And Up Audiences
7

Unexpected changes

by Astrayosa · Jayvik

-So how did it that Jayce Talisa's partner, lives in a half-abandoned house without proper means normal of sustenance?-That's none of your business, Ambessa Medardа.-Not my business? - Her eyebrow twitched upward, and she moved toward Viktor. -You saved my life. I lived in your house for two months.

81 kudos 72,451 words 16/? chapters Teen And Up Audiences
8

The Fear of Being Human Remains

by bruhthatsgay · Jayvik

“I can’t die.” Viktor quirks a brow, his eyebrows furrow a bit and then he sits up a bit straighter, “What?” He can’t help but laugh, disbelieving. He tilts his head a bit to look at the scar on Jayce’s neck again, right over the jugular. “And you’ve certainly tried, haven’t you?” Jayce swallows, no

72 kudos 23,022 words 8/27 chapters Explicit
9

What We Wish We'd Said

by TiedyedTrickster · Jayvik

A chance to try again, do it over, do it right, say what should have been said, understand what was meant to be known... And also fuck about it. A little. (It's not just a little.)

63 kudos 13,100 words 7/13 chapters Explicit
10

Dear Wormwood

by abrasivekitten · Jayvik

Viktor is the talented son of an infamous illusionist, Silco, who will stop at nothing to increase the power that he holds after tragedy befalls him. Cirque Des Merveilles mysteriously appears in Zaun one random time a year oozing with fantastical magic, and Viktor is sent to spy and discover the se

55 kudos 48,765 words 11/? chapters Mature
11

and i saw my reflection in the snow-covered hills

by golondrinas · Jayvik

Play the cards you're given. Good advice that Giopara was offered early in his career, from older Academy scientists whose projects didn't always work out. He scoffed and ignored it, so sure that he would bend the world to his will. For the most part, he did. But now, seeing Jayce forced to come to

42 kudos 23,742 words 2/3 chapters Explicit
12

Hyperdrive

by bakerbus · Jayvik

19 YEARS AFTER THE EMPIRE EXECUTED ORDER 66… PLANS BEGIN TO BUILD A WEAPON RUMORED AS A “STAR KILLER.” CAPTAIN KIRAMMAN, LEADER OF DEATH TROOPER SQUAD A-69 IS TASKED WITH A POTENTIAL REBELLION INFORMANT INVESTIGATION. ISB DIRECTOR OF ADVANCED WEAPONS RESEARCH CASSANDRA KIRAMMAN, MEETS WITH JAYCE AN

40 kudos 167,667 words 24/? chapters Mature

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Viktor in Angst Fanfiction

Viktor — Zaun-born scientist racing his own failing body toward the Hexcore's glorious evolution, no matter what it costs him. His and Jayce's doomed partnership gave Arcane fandom its most-written tragedy.

Angst — Stories focused on emotional pain, drama, and intense feelings.

Sometimes you want to feel deeply - angst delivers emotional catharsis and meaningful character exploration. Viktor's (also known as The Machine Herald) role in Arcane makes them a natural fit for angst storylines, which is why this combination is one of the most popular in Arcane fanfiction.

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