Tf and graves both travel to the Piltover/Zaun region, they have been there before graves was even in prison there, the chance on them hearing stuff about the machine herald is High! They’d probably know he is, and they’d know he’s a criminal like them. Me and my friends thought it’d be funny if the way they met was through them trying to rob viktor after hearing a rumour hims some big mighty crime boss to only find out he’d basically a broke doctor 99% of the time.
I think the reason I like it so much is because it isn’t like Jayce x viktor where it’s a “I can fix you” “I can make you worse” situation, where they both don’t work as they aren’t made for each other in the way they absolutely have different morals, and kind of different wants. Meanwhile graves x Tf x viktor is “I love you the way you are, I’m not ever going to try and fix you”, they are all criminals, they have all killed people, and honestly having flawed criminal men date each other while loving each other for who they are without trying to change it is so…everything!
And we all know no matter how many times viktor says he doesn’t have emotions anymore he still 100% does, like the way he reacts to people in runeterra specially shows that, so he could love graves and Tf, and he’d probably love them because they’d be fine with doing nasty things for him, like killing off humans, stealing things, etc etc, and graves and Tf would love viktor as he gives them those things to do. And honestly egging each other on other evil things in the best way ):)
And I don’t think viktor would mind giving them shelter in Zaun, feeding them, etc etc, because he’s shown he would do that in his short story with naph ):)
And even if it takes a while for viktor to want to do that, graves and Tf are so patient let’s be honest here, their relationship (graves and tfs only) is literally based off of patients really 😭 these two old dudes have been through a lot together and had to have patients for each other at times, so they are most definitely fine it’s waiting for viktor to warm up properly.
This is just mine and my friends fav rare pair thing >_<
We absolutely love the ship, want to drag other people into it