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Nov. 19th, 2025 09:42 amOOC
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Character Name: Jayce Talis
Canon: Arcane
Canon Point: Season 1, episode 9, "The Monster You Created"
Character Age: 31
History: wiki
Division:
Science and Engineering
Ever curious with a desire to learn and an even greater desire to create and improve, Jayce is a talented scientist, an inventor, and a techmaturgist. Jayce is a quick learner and he takes what he knows and uses it to bend the rules and he isn't stopped by the word impossible, which can and often does get him into trouble but he's unapologetic about it and he'll keep working towards a goal even if everyone around him is giving up. One of his strengths is that Jayce tries to approach problems from different perspectives, and he's keen to seek outside sources and alternative paths to solve whatever it is getting in the way of making something work.
Edict:
The Last Pilgrim
Jayce is a man whose entire life has been a journey, despite the fact that he has only rarely left the city in which he grew up. As a child, he ventured out in the great wide world by his mother's side only to nearly perish in the snow, and yet, right at what he thought was the end, he was saved by a mage. And that mage set him on the path that ultimately alters not only the course of his own life but the lives of everyone around him and the world as a whole. Jayce, the Man of Progress in the City of Progress, has always kept pushing on ahead, at the risk of everything, never stopping even when he butts up against the natural laws of the world and the governance of the council, always looking forward to the future, to his next step, to everything he's always dreamed of. Taking that first leap into the unknown has always defined Jayce, and that he, despite his fears or uncertainty, he will keep traveling on, searching not for the end of the road but for all the things in between where he started and where he'll end up.
Powers:
blacksmith
Smithing is in his blood. There is something about the vibration of the hammer on the anvil, the shaping of the metal, the spark of creation with his own hands, the blood, the sweat, and the tears. It's soothing in a way, because it's easy to slip into the repetitive motions and lose himself, and Jayce is very skilled at the forge. He's able to make great things, and what's better is that that they last, even without the Hextech. That's all Talis artistry at work, years and years of family tradition and experience.
inventor + scientist
At his core, Jayce is a scientist and an inventor. He is a man covered in chalk dust and pen ink, fueled by coffee and daydreams and hope. He loves to tinker, his hands are covered in callouses and scrapes and bruises, his clothes are stained with grease. He's at his happiest when he can sit and solve equations and sketch designs and create, and he does his best worth with others. Well, specifically just one other.
As the Ascendants deemed your character worthy of being on this exploration voyage, what qualities did they observe in your character that they found appropriate for the mission?
A scientist and an inventor with a dreamer's heart, Jayce is skilled in all things technology with an aptitude that allows him to pick up on new things quickly, but more than that, he adapts quickly and he's not afraid to take risks to try something new. Back home, he co-created Hextech, combining magic and technology to do incredible things, but at the core of that dream is the desire to help people and improve the lives of everyone Hextech touches. Jayce would bring that same desire here: to use the technology, science, and maybe a little magic that they have access to here to explore, learn, and help any people that the expedition might come across in their travels.
Underneath his eagerness and his curiosity, Jayce is also seeking something like redemption, or maybe just a second chance to do the right thing. Losing some of the Hex gems and finding himself thrust into a position as a councilor, Jayce knows that he's lost sight of the things that matter, knows that he's let his strong opinions get swayed slightly, and he's breaking instead of yielding. Jayce wants more than anything to be a force of good, to offer strength and insight, to use his knowledge to make people's lives easier or safer, and not turn his work into weapons to hurt people. Here, he'd throw himself wholeheartedly into exploration and discovery, and then also using that to help instead of harm.
Underneath his eagerness and his curiosity, Jayce is also seeking something like redemption, or maybe just a second chance to do the right thing. Losing some of the Hex gems and finding himself thrust into a position as a councilor, Jayce knows that he's lost sight of the things that matter, knows that he's let his strong opinions get swayed slightly, and he's breaking instead of yielding. Jayce wants more than anything to be a force of good, to offer strength and insight, to use his knowledge to make people's lives easier or safer, and not turn his work into weapons to hurt people. Here, he'd throw himself wholeheartedly into exploration and discovery, and then also using that to help instead of harm.
What is your character's best quality, what is their worst, and how do these two qualities affect each other?
Most of Jayce is two sides of the same coin, his best traits and worst traits just the extremes of his personality.
Through adversity, Jayce developed a gentleness and a patience for the world around him, compassion for those less fortunate, and his natural warmth and desire to be affectionate lent him quite easily to being charming and charismatic when he needed to be. Jayce's intrinsic tenderness was manipulated and weaponized by those around him and then by himself as a way to navigate the world. Beneath that lies still this kind-hearted dreamer who wants to be genuinely friendly and warm, to be the sort of guiding hand he wished he'd had when he was younger. Flip that over, and Jayce is selfish and lonely, willing to do anything, including holding on too tightly and bending and breaking himself, to keep the people and things that he loves in his life. Jayce works so hard to help people partially because he wants to have some kind of effect on the world, and to fill the emptiness he has inside of himself.
Once, Jayce had been fueled by his own motivation to learn, his desire to solve problems, and somewhere along the line, that desire to do good was corrupted by the golden city he'd fought so hard to feel worthy of, and it turned into something else. Jayce turned into someone else. He sacrificed his own ideals, cut pieces of himself off to fit the mold that he thought he needed to fit into, and looking at the scarred remnants of what remains, Jayce barely recognizes himself. In the pursuit of great, as his partner said once, they forgot to do good, and Jayce can't help but think about that, how his own ego and need for praise clouded his vision and allowed him to lose sight of the things that were the most important to him. Jayce never thought that reaching high would mean letting go of the things he had before, and now he desperately is grasping for the people and comforts he took for granted.
Through adversity, Jayce developed a gentleness and a patience for the world around him, compassion for those less fortunate, and his natural warmth and desire to be affectionate lent him quite easily to being charming and charismatic when he needed to be. Jayce's intrinsic tenderness was manipulated and weaponized by those around him and then by himself as a way to navigate the world. Beneath that lies still this kind-hearted dreamer who wants to be genuinely friendly and warm, to be the sort of guiding hand he wished he'd had when he was younger. Flip that over, and Jayce is selfish and lonely, willing to do anything, including holding on too tightly and bending and breaking himself, to keep the people and things that he loves in his life. Jayce works so hard to help people partially because he wants to have some kind of effect on the world, and to fill the emptiness he has inside of himself.
Once, Jayce had been fueled by his own motivation to learn, his desire to solve problems, and somewhere along the line, that desire to do good was corrupted by the golden city he'd fought so hard to feel worthy of, and it turned into something else. Jayce turned into someone else. He sacrificed his own ideals, cut pieces of himself off to fit the mold that he thought he needed to fit into, and looking at the scarred remnants of what remains, Jayce barely recognizes himself. In the pursuit of great, as his partner said once, they forgot to do good, and Jayce can't help but think about that, how his own ego and need for praise clouded his vision and allowed him to lose sight of the things that were the most important to him. Jayce never thought that reaching high would mean letting go of the things he had before, and now he desperately is grasping for the people and comforts he took for granted.
Your character's Edict appears in front of them, and agrees to grant them one wish: what does your character wish for?
After a moment of thinking, Jayce would look at them and ask if he did the right thing.
It's maybe a completely unconventional wish, not the usual extreme wealth or immortality or the ever popular more wishes, because Jayce, standing here in front of the Edict with all of his past tread and all of his future waiting, just wants to know if the choices he's made in his life were enough, if he made a difference, that he mattered. Recently, he'd felt like he started to lose his way, straying off the path he wanted to be on, and what he wants more than anything, is to know that it's still possible for him to find his way back, to hold onto his wonder and curiosity and that he didn't hurt more people than he helped with the choices he made.
Jayce knows, too, that it's an impossible wish to grant, but he would ask it anyway and he'd be content with any answer he'd get in response to it, holding it close as he embarks on the next step of his long, unending journey of discovery and learning, of progress and hope, wherever it leads him.
It's maybe a completely unconventional wish, not the usual extreme wealth or immortality or the ever popular more wishes, because Jayce, standing here in front of the Edict with all of his past tread and all of his future waiting, just wants to know if the choices he's made in his life were enough, if he made a difference, that he mattered. Recently, he'd felt like he started to lose his way, straying off the path he wanted to be on, and what he wants more than anything, is to know that it's still possible for him to find his way back, to hold onto his wonder and curiosity and that he didn't hurt more people than he helped with the choices he made.
Jayce knows, too, that it's an impossible wish to grant, but he would ask it anyway and he'd be content with any answer he'd get in response to it, holding it close as he embarks on the next step of his long, unending journey of discovery and learning, of progress and hope, wherever it leads him.
The Theorem has broken down, and is drifting toward a black hole. There is very little hope of outside rescue. What does your character do?
Jayce, persistent and stubborn, would roll up his sleeves and be elbows deep in the wiring and mechanics of the ship, doing everything he can to try to fix whatever is wrong with the ship. Troubleshooting comes with the territory of creating things, and Jayce has a history of working under pressure to get things working again. With the right people around him to keep him calm, and a team of people willing to get into the systems of the ship, he'd keep working until there's no hope left to fix it, and Jayce is a man who's slow to give up hope, optimistic to the point of being naive at times.
All his life, Jayce had been surrounded and touched by death. A few times, it nearly claimed him. More than a handful of times, he had begged for it. Death and Jayce have been old friends, always dancing around each other, and while he is oftentimes terrified of it, he only fights it, truly fights it, when death comes for the ones he loves.
If fixing the Theorem is impossible, and sinking into the black hole is unavoidable, Jayce would only fight harder, right to the very end. He'll die running from one end to the other, trying to save any and everyone he can and he'd never regret it, not even for a second.
All his life, Jayce had been surrounded and touched by death. A few times, it nearly claimed him. More than a handful of times, he had begged for it. Death and Jayce have been old friends, always dancing around each other, and while he is oftentimes terrified of it, he only fights it, truly fights it, when death comes for the ones he loves.
If fixing the Theorem is impossible, and sinking into the black hole is unavoidable, Jayce would only fight harder, right to the very end. He'll die running from one end to the other, trying to save any and everyone he can and he'd never regret it, not even for a second.
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