Jayce's controversial arc in Arcane season 2 has fans shaken, but one theory suggests it could all tie to the most dangerous place in League of Legends lore
"The void will drown you all"

At the end of episode 5, Jayce escapes from whatever it was that captured him, Ekko, and Heimerdinger at the end of episode 3. 🤪Dishevelled and clearly altered by his experience during the time between episodes 3 and 4, Jayce wa🌟stes no time in killing Salo (ostensibly cured by Viktor), before heading to Viktor's compound in episode 6.
Clearly, something is up with Piltover's heroic man of progress. He seems scarred by whatever he's seen, telling Salo he can't let him leave the Hexgate chamber he finds him in before smashing him with his hammer.🃏 When he arrives at the compound, he's clearly pained by multiple visions, and while he's able to fight those off, he immediately heads towards Viktor, appearing to kil☂l him with a massive blast from his augmented weapon.
It's an as🐬tonishing change of approach from Jayce, who was distraught when he accidentally killed someone in season 1. But he appears entirely lucid in his en▨counter with Viktor, driven by some kind of purpose that many viewers have struggled to understand - why would Jayce murder his partner in cold blood, after being so hurt by Viktor's departure at the start of the season?
One compelling theory is that Jayce has seen a future he cannot allow to come to pass. There are plenty of theories suggesting that there's some weird time stuff going on in Arcane season 2 (which would help explain Ekko's ongoing absence from the story), but they don't explain why Jayce would be so afraid of Viktor. What could explain that, however, is one the scariest, most destr꧑uctive places in the League of Legends universe: 🦩The Void.
The Void is partway between 🐻an alternate dimension and a place outside of time and space as the LoL universe (known as Runeterra) experiences them. It's home to The Watchers, an existential threat that is continually striving to destroy the world, who are the creators of the Voidborn - creatures made to live within Runeterra, tasked with consuming and analyzing the world in order to help the Watchers gain the knowledge they need to destroy it. They've already been partially successful - a conflict between the ancient nations of Icathia and Shurima unleashed the Voidborn, wiping out Icathia in the process. The Voidborn were only turned back due to the godlike powers of Shuriman's 'Ascended' heroes, including League of Legends champions Nasus, Renekton, Xerath, and Azir.
All that happened thousands of years before the events of Arcane, bu🎀t initial ties to The Void surfaced in season one, with the purple color of Shimmer tying closely to the purple hues that define The Void's color palette. The Hexcore that gives Viktor his powersꦗ evolved after absorbing Viktor's shimmer-infused blood, and one theory notes that the Hexcore's more 'natural' appearance after absorbing that blood offers significant parallels with official artistic depictions of The Void.
And think about it, the hexcore looks oddly, natural... chaotic... the kind of chaos that follows in the footsteps of the Void.Just look𝓡 at these images, and the connection i꧃s clear. Almost frighteningly clear. pic.twitter.com/Jl71gHeSR9
That theory was backed up by League of☂ Legends lore expert Necrit, who noted that Jayce's flashes showed the cit🌊izens of Viktor's commune as "abominations" that share both that purple color scheme and that "voidy" appearance. Necrit suggests that "I wouldn't be surprised if [Jayce] got a glimpse of the future" where the Arcane has led to a Void-driven apocalypse, and that's why he chose to act as he did against his former friend. If The Void is one of the biggest threats in the League of Legends universe, and the Arcane is set to act as The Watchers' gateway into Runeterra, perhaps Jayce is simply taking whatever steps he can to avoid that fate.
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In all the quick flashes he sees all the citizens of Viktor's Utopia as weird voidy abominations.I wouldn't be surp🔜rised if he got a glimpse of the future where the Arcane slowly turns everyone into void zombies.That's why he was so determined to kill Salo. 2/2 pic.twitter.com/vTgocLmj3S
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