I’ve been writing an Arcane fic about Jinx befriending an OC who might be just as broken as she is
Hey everyone!
I've been working on this story for a little bit over a year now, and after ten chapters I finally mustered the courage to share it here. I've just reached Chapter 10, so I figured it was probably time to stop hiding it in the depths of AO3 and Royal Road. 😅
The story follows Jinx and an OC named Razen — a quiet, heavily built engineer who ends up in Zaun carrying quite a bit of baggage of his own. Their relationship starts in a very unremarkable way (well... as unremarkable as anything involving Jinx can be), and slowly develops into a friendship between two people who are both pretty broken in very different ways.
One of the things I really wanted to explore was Jinx finding someone who doesn't try to fix her or control her. Razen has his own demons, so rather than magically making hers disappear, they slowly learn how to be there for each other.
It's not purely a Jinx/Razen story, either. I'm trying to build a larger plot around Zaun and Piltover, with canon characters alongside OCs, politics, fights, conspiracies and plenty of questionable decisions. The emotional side of the characters is probably the heart of it, though.
The story alternates POVs between Razen, Jinx and another major character.
Content warnings: violence, some blood/gore, trauma, depression and other mental-health themes.
And yes — Razen is an OC protagonist. I know that's not everyone's cup of tea, but I wanted to take the harder route and try to make an original character feel like he genuinely belongs in this world rather than simply dropping him next to the canon cast.
If any of that sounds like your thing, I'd genuinely love for you to give it a shot.
And if you do read it, I'd especially love to hear what you think about the characters and their relationship — whether the emotional moments actually land, whether Jinx feels like Jinx, whether Razen works as an OC, theories, criticism... whatever comes to mind. That's honestly the part I'm most curious about.
AO3: https://archiveofourown.org/works/73589651/chapters/191845911
Royal Road: https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/137692/what-burns-what-heals
Thanks for reading this far! 💙