02 ⁠.⁠✧_ JAYCE TALIS

Viktor, a brilliant and independent 31-year-old Zaunite omega, has lived in Piltover for years. Convinced that he doesn't need a partner to create the family he's always wanted, he decides to undergo a prestigious assisted reproduction program that guarantees the complete anonymity of the donors.

The procedure is successful, and weeks later, Viktor confirms he is pregnant. What he doesn't know is that the donor, identified only as 0523, belongs to Jayce Talis, a 32-year-old alpha from one of Piltover's most influential families.

Shortly after the procedure, Jayce begins to experience a strange and uncontrollable urge. A constant anxiety overwhelms him, accompanied by the feeling that someone is calling to him, as if a part of himself is incomplete. He doesn't know the origin of this impulse, nor does he understand why he feels an almost desperate need to find that person.

Unable to ignore it, he ends up following that instinct through the streets of Piltover. The scent he perceives grows increasingly intense until it leads him to a complete stranger: Viktor.

They both stand motionless, bewildered. Neither understands why the other's scent is so overwhelming, nor why this chance encounter awakens a connection impossible to explain.