My mind is getting fixated on the idea of a bunch of late night/early morning Jayce and Mel content.
Both hankering for food? Jayce takes her to some obscure part of the city with the most amazing street food.
Can’t sleep? Mel takes him to the highest point of the city just in time to watch the sun rise.
Both drunk? Cheesy pickup lines and moves, both of them getting into laughing fits as they tumble into bed.
Jayce being an absolute lightweight when it comes to alcohol, and delivering some of the worst sexual puns for pick-up lines that still manage to charm Mel, who is far less susceptible to the effects of wine (all Noxians, even exiled ones, are good at two things precisely: war and quaffing wine seductively). But there truly is a reason she had to make the first move because if he’d said some of this nonsense to her before they got together… they might not have gotten together. Like at all. No matter how good of a kisser he is.
Also, Jayce taking Mel to Jericho’s, because he’s been there a few times on some of his past expeditions in search of Brackern crystals. And him being surprised that a woman he assumed was super ~fancy~ can chow down with the best of them and has a special taste for the pickled blue worms slathered in mustard and some other unidentifiable relish. Bonus for a clichéd but ever effective instance of him brushing at a little smear of sauce at the corner of her mouth and licking it off his thumb. Needless to say, she tosses Jericho their payment (with a liberal tip) and the dash back to his apartment so he can put his tongue to better use is nothing short of undignified. And we see Mel was right, “people [do] talk” about maybe the two most recognisable faces of Piltover’s council besides old Heimer but neither of them quite care right then.
Mel, who has a particular affinity for Piltovan architecture, because it’s everything that Noxus Prime isn’t (there’s room for prettiness and delicacy, here, for statuaries and buildings that don’t loom heavily, that don’t need harsh metal grafting and other brutal features to ensure they’re primed for war like the homes she grew up in) so she’s got a few secret places she likes to go to watch the sunset, the sunrise, the people, or simple just the clouds. Sometimes she even takes her sketchbook with her. Lonely always but at least away from Elora’s silent judgment because of the two of them, Elora wants to go back to Noxus and Mel, even if she’s never said it out loud, does not. It’s a big deal when she starts taking Jayce to some of these places. Lonely, no longer.
