Been Talking To A Friend Abt Viktor's Evolved Designs And I Believe The Parallels To Mel Are 100% In

Been talking to a friend abt Viktor's Evolved Designs and I believe the parallels to Mel are 100% in universe Viktor going (either subconsiously or conciously): "Oh you like Mel so much huh Jayce, oh she catches your eye? How abt I do her but BETTER" and friend turned to me and said "nah I think Viktor without inhibitions would just dress Like That" and if that isn't the entire vibe of your blog idk what is 🙏

Your friend is so right and the fact that he had his whole cult, including him, wearing wrap dresses with aesthetic ass harness corsets??? Insane. He was insane for that.

Also my slightly more serious take is that I know Viktor purposely stealing and one-upping Mel's look is a popular take (and considering that goddamn flexing catwalk in right after he heard Jayce yelling at her? A valid one), but what struck me way more about the aesthetics of the evolved followers is that they're very ...Piltovan. Piltover is more into blues and greens, but the base for Piltover is white and gold (and/or other warm metals like brass and copper).

There's almost nothing Zaunite about them. And it fits when put alongside the internalized ableism and self hate that's at the core of his evolution. Viktor fought and clawed his way to where he is, and I think he has plenty of outward pride in where he comes from, considering how much of his focus is on improving lives in the undercity.

But Viktor also, as those slutty high heels suggest, has types of repression and internalized Fucking Problems that Runeterra Psychologists could write doctoral theses on. So it's just very...sad and interesting to me that his own evolution DOES look Zaunian with the darker purples and rougher tech look, but the followers that he has more control over all look like mannequins you'd find at a Piltovan boutique.