"A walk down memory lane in a sea of positivity." Jayce is one of the most sentimental people out there, so any gesture he makes is rooted in that, but this has been an effort he's been working on for awhile. It requires a lot of focus and learning how to essentially make his own movie, which he's put together through eclectic means.
The screen changes to a first-person point of view and Viktor can see himself as Jayce did that first day. Curious about the blackboard, distant and remote but there is still a spark in him from the start, looking at Jayce's details instead of simply pushing it away. Jayce has to focus on what he's doing so he can't look at Viktor, his arm around him comfortable.
It would be almost like a movie made about the two of them. Sometimes in first-person, sometimes seemingly on the outside. It goes through their first night together and the glow of the blue room as they laugh, pushing a gear between the gate, but it doesn't end there. Instead it fills with images throughout their partnership. Working on the Hexgate, designing and presenting (at least you didn't throw up), hours and hours pushed into minutes of crisp visual memories, of them laughing together, sometimes arguing, drinking coffee and barely awake, the moments of discovery when something finally kicks in. Years of their friendship and partnership.
Through it all there are glimpses of how Jayce specifically sees Viktor. There is love in the psychic camera watching him, animated and passionate, sometimes sleeping in the lab, the rare smiles and laughs that brightened Jayce's life. It's as if he has remembered every detail of Viktor and their times together and it's obvious. It's a way to show how long Jayce has loved him and it's not all romantic tinged, it's friendship, it's understanding between two people who are so different and yet the same.
It does pause before it gets to the darker memories, before their struggles and fighting, because he said positivity. And they know what happened. They lived that. It tested their partnership but what Jayce wants them to remember, and for Viktor to see, is the brightness of a long-lasting love. Of someone who sees him so clearly.
"And then ...."
The movie shifts and this time it's in Abraxas. The moment he found Viktor in Cadens, the look on Viktor's face, as he'd said before how much it meant to know they wouldn't be apart forever. It's them building a life here, of their work in the mines, their friendships with others here, the lab, the first apartment they shared as a home of their own. And then their first kiss, the many kisses since; it's not carnally suggestive as they both know how sex may be hot but not necessarily beautiful, and he is much more focused on the aftermath. Waking up together, curled up in each other's arms, even the smallest details like a kiss on the cheek on the way out or handing Viktor a coffee without him needing to look because they are that in sync. Dancing.
Whether the 'camera' seems from the outside or from Jayce's own point of view, so much of it is focused on Viktor but also any time that it's them. It goes all the way up to seconds before this moment, swimming together, and Jayce looking over at him to see him doze, and come to this very second. The video itself could have been an hour or ten minutes, it's hard to tell with time in here, but it is a super cut of their lives together, and all it was in its brightest of modes.
Jayce is finally able to let it go, and he turns to Viktor. For once his eyes aren't wet because he wasn't able to cry while doing this, but his smile is warm. These were his memories, clear as day.
"I've led a beautiful life because of you, Viktor. From the moment we met, you've become as essential as the air I breathe. And I wanted you to understand how I felt before I ask you something important."
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The screen changes to a first-person point of view and Viktor can see himself as Jayce did that first day. Curious about the blackboard, distant and remote but there is still a spark in him from the start, looking at Jayce's details instead of simply pushing it away. Jayce has to focus on what he's doing so he can't look at Viktor, his arm around him comfortable.
It would be almost like a movie made about the two of them. Sometimes in first-person, sometimes seemingly on the outside. It goes through their first night together and the glow of the blue room as they laugh, pushing a gear between the gate, but it doesn't end there. Instead it fills with images throughout their partnership. Working on the Hexgate, designing and presenting (at least you didn't throw up), hours and hours pushed into minutes of crisp visual memories, of them laughing together, sometimes arguing, drinking coffee and barely awake, the moments of discovery when something finally kicks in. Years of their friendship and partnership.
Through it all there are glimpses of how Jayce specifically sees Viktor. There is love in the psychic camera watching him, animated and passionate, sometimes sleeping in the lab, the rare smiles and laughs that brightened Jayce's life. It's as if he has remembered every detail of Viktor and their times together and it's obvious. It's a way to show how long Jayce has loved him and it's not all romantic tinged, it's friendship, it's understanding between two people who are so different and yet the same.
It does pause before it gets to the darker memories, before their struggles and fighting, because he said positivity. And they know what happened. They lived that. It tested their partnership but what Jayce wants them to remember, and for Viktor to see, is the brightness of a long-lasting love. Of someone who sees him so clearly.
"And then ...."
The movie shifts and this time it's in Abraxas. The moment he found Viktor in Cadens, the look on Viktor's face, as he'd said before how much it meant to know they wouldn't be apart forever. It's them building a life here, of their work in the mines, their friendships with others here, the lab, the first apartment they shared as a home of their own. And then their first kiss, the many kisses since; it's not carnally suggestive as they both know how sex may be hot but not necessarily beautiful, and he is much more focused on the aftermath. Waking up together, curled up in each other's arms, even the smallest details like a kiss on the cheek on the way out or handing Viktor a coffee without him needing to look because they are that in sync. Dancing.
Whether the 'camera' seems from the outside or from Jayce's own point of view, so much of it is focused on Viktor but also any time that it's them. It goes all the way up to seconds before this moment, swimming together, and Jayce looking over at him to see him doze, and come to this very second. The video itself could have been an hour or ten minutes, it's hard to tell with time in here, but it is a super cut of their lives together, and all it was in its brightest of modes.
Jayce is finally able to let it go, and he turns to Viktor. For once his eyes aren't wet because he wasn't able to cry while doing this, but his smile is warm. These were his memories, clear as day.
"I've led a beautiful life because of you, Viktor. From the moment we met, you've become as essential as the air I breathe. And I wanted you to understand how I felt before I ask you something important."
[ooc: basically vibe inspiration from this scene in The Good Place tbh]