athletics are number one!
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june bug skipping like a stone by pretzelmintz
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
06 Mar 2026
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“...Could I have my ball back?”
“This is yours?” she pokes it with the toe of her fucked up shoe. Good material, nice and rigid. The bin at the rec centre has a few, but they’re these lumpy things the kids like to smack each other with rather than kick.
The girl looks around. It should read as mocking- it comes across completely genuine. “There’s no one else here.”
“What’s in it for me?”
“I’ll… leave you alone?”
Vi smothers the urge to grin.
She groans instead, gets to her feet, and- outside part, right?- kicks the ball with the broad side of her foot. It gets the job done. Vi blinks, and the girl has the ball snug under her cleat. Huh.
“That was a good kick,” she says with the tiniest quirk of her lip, like she couldn’t believe it.
Vi is sixteen, and furious about it. Her sister's a target for Zaun High's bottom of the barrel, her city is given less grace than a dying roadside animal, and beyond being angry about these two specific things- she has nothing going on.
But one day, a chance escape to Zaun park's dingy soccer field, somehow, changes everything- and it all starts with a girl who really shouldn't be here.
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- Part 1 of athletics are number one!
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like a sweaty summer loving by romeynticism (pretzelmintz)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
25 May 2025
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Vi has to know. Vi will find out regardless because Caitlyn can’t keep a secret to save her life. Everyone is going to find out and everything will change or stay exactly the same, and this is an inevitability.
Tell her. Tell her.
Somewhere along this train of thought, Caitlyn is standing up, marching across the hallway, and swinging the unlocked bathroom door open to make eye contact with Vi through the foggy shower pane.
“I made captain.”
Because tell her apparently means tell her right now.
Vi, loofah halfway to her armpit, lets it fall to the ground with an absolutely cracked open expression of shock Caitlyn is certain must now be mirrored on her own face.
“What?”Caitlyn is made captain of the Piltover Gears. Naturally, she has a very normal reaction to this. Vi helps her process- among other things.
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- Part 2 of athletics are number one!
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we're here, we're gear! by pretzelmintz
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
27 Mar 2025
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“You know, like,” Vi coughs, “On three- one, two, three, grind them down!”
When she does get a sound out of her, it’s not even a laugh. Just a small, almost horrified murmur. “That’s crass.”
“What-” the glare sharpens, and she groans, “Oh, come on, not like that!”
“It sounds like we’re about to dry hump our way to victory.”
“Oh my god, please let me make you saying dry hump my ringtone.”
“You’re not gonna make me look Greyson in the eye with a straight face and suggest we put the word grind into our cheer.”
“It’s a gear pun-”
“Yes, I’m aware.”Caitlyn, recently made captain of the Piltover Gears, is tasked with making up a new team cheer. Naturally, she enlists Vi's help.
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- Part 3 of athletics are number one!
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don't I look cute in this soccer shirt? by romeynticism (pretzelmintz)
Fandoms: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021)
20 Mar 2025
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The post-game party is a tradition if you count two years and counting as enough repetition to make it a thing. It always follows the Gears’ first game of the season, and they haven’t yet had a starting loss to bring the mood down, so it’s something of a superstition now, too. Jayce always hosts, not because his place is nicest but because it’s accessible, and it’s the second biggest- the Kiramman house is very adamantly off limits.
“I haven’t forgotten,” Caitlyn says, smoothing out the wrinkles in her jersey from all the jostling, “I’ll meet you there once I’m presentable.”
Fuck. She’s so hot in uniform.
“We’ll meet you there,” Vi says, already walking, “Later, suckers.”
There's a reason she made sure her siblings had a ride for the party before the game even started.Captain of the Piltover Gears, Caitlyn Kiramman, plays her first game of the season- with a very captive audience.
(Or: soccer jock Cait, and her supportive stand-filler girlfriend, Vi.)Series
- Part 4 of athletics are number one!