艾克 Ekko

时间刺客 the Boy Who Shattered Time

台词

“我的装置在运行失常的时候最好用…...也就是大部分时候都好用。”

“My devices work best when they don’t work as intended… which is most of the time.”

传记

艾克是一名来自祖安不良街区的天才少年。他能操纵时间，以使任何处境都变得对自己有利。通过使用自己的发明——Z型驱动——艾克可以在现实世界与其它平行分支之间探索。尽管他酷爱这种自由，但只要朋友们遇到了威胁，他就会不顾一切地去保护他们。在旁观者眼里，艾克总是能轻而易举地完成那些看似不可能办到的事情，且屡试不爽。

A prodigy from the rough streets of Zaun, Ekko manipulates time to twist any situation to his advantage. Using his own invention, the Z-Drive, he explores the branching possibilities of reality to craft the perfect moment. Though he revels in this freedom, when there’s a threat to his friends, he’ll do anything to defend them. To outsiders, Ekko seems to achieve the impossible the first time, every time.

艾克是个高智商的天才，他甚至在还没会爬之前就先学会了制作简单的机械。他的父母茵娜和维斯发誓要为他提供一个光明的未来。他们认为充斥着污染和犯罪的祖安只会耽误艾克的成长，只有皮尔特沃夫的财富和机遇才适合他。所以在艾克的童年时期，他就目睹了父母在血汗工厂的危险环境中加班加点，未老先衰。他们挣着微薄的薪水，而贪婪的工厂主和高高在上的皮佬买家却从他们的劳动中获得暴利。

Born with genius-level intellect, Ekko constructed simple machines before he could crawl. His parents, Inna and Wyeth, vowed to provide a good future for their son—Zaun, with all its pollution and crime, would only stifle Ekko, whom they felt deserved the wealth and opportunities of Piltover. Throughout his youth he watched his parents age beyond their years, toiling for too many hours under dangerous conditions in suffocating factories. They earned meager wages while greedy factory owners, and sneering Piltovan buyers, profited immensely from their labor.

It would all be worth it, they reasoned, if it meant their son could one day rise to the city above.

他们一心想着，如果他们的儿子有朝一日能升入头顶上的那座城，那么一切都是值得的。

Ekko saw things differently. Beyond Zaun’s flaws, he saw a dynamic place overflowing with energy and potential. Zaunites’ industry, resourcefulness, and resilience stirred a hotbed of pure innovation. They had built a thriving culture from catastrophe, and flourished where others would have perished. That spirit captivated Ekko, and spurred him to a youth of wild invention and innovation.

He wasn’t alone. He befriended scrappy orphans, inquisitive runaways, and eager upstarts. Zaunites tended to eschew formal education in favor of apprenticeships, but these “Lost Children of Zaun” looked to the labyrinthine streets to be their mentor. They wasted time in glorious, youthful fashion—foot races through the border markets, or daring climbs from the Sump to the Promenade. They ran wild and free, answering to no one.

艾克的看法却不一样。纵然祖安有种种缺点，但他却能看到一个洋溢着能量和潜能的活力之都。祖安人的勤奋、多才和顽强是创新的温床。他们从灾难中建起了繁荣的文明，在其他人必死无疑的绝境中兴旺发达。这种精神感召着艾克，激励着他成为了一个肆意挥洒发明与创新的少年。

One night, on a solo trek into the rubble of a recently demolished laboratory, Ekko made an astonishing find: a shard of blue-green crystal that glittered with magical energy. Every child of Zaun heard tales of hextech, said to power weapons and heroes alike. Such a thing had the potential to change the world, and now he held a broken one. He scrambled to find more pieces, but the crunching footfalls of teched-up enforcers told him he wasn’t the only one looking. Ekko barely escaped, and returned to his home.

He experimented madly with the crystal. During one less-than-scientific attempt, the gem exploded into a vortex of shimmering dust, triggering eddies of temporal distortion. Ekko opened his eyes to see several splintered realities—and several “echo” versions of himself—staring back in sheer panic amid the fractured continua.

艾克并不孤单。他结交了许多好斗的孤儿、好奇的流浪儿和自命不凡的孩子王。祖安佬不愿接受正统教育，而是喜欢以师徒传承的方式学习一门技艺，而这群“祖安迷童” 都拜同一个师父，那就是祖安迷宫一般的街道。他们用年轻人的方式豪情万丈地挥霍青春——在边境市场里赛跑、挑战徒手从地沟区攀爬上舞步走廊。他们自由不羁，不服从任何人。

He’d really done it this time.

After some tense coordination between Ekko and his paradoxes, they managed to contain and repair the hole he had torn in the fabric of reality. Eventually, he harnessed the shattered crystal’s temporal powers into a device that would allow him to manipulate small increments of time… at least in theory.

一天夜里，艾克独自前往一座刚刚被炸毁的实验室废墟探险，惊讶地发现了一件宝贝：一块蓝绿色的放着魔法亮光的水晶碎片。每个祖安的孩子都听说过海克斯水晶的故事，据说这种水晶是神兵和英雄们的力量之源，有着改变世界的潜力。而现在他手里就握着一块破碎的海克斯水晶。他四处寻觅，想要找到更多碎片，但科技武装的执法者队伍踩在瓦砾上的脚步声告诉他，搜寻碎片的不止他一个。于是艾克在千钧一发之际逃回了家。

On his name day, his friends badgered him into climbing the ancient clocktower known as Old Hungry, so Ekko brought the untested device along with him.

The Lost Children climbed, stopping occasionally to paint an obscene caricature or two of prominent Pilties. They were near the top when a handhold gave way, sending one of Ekko’s friends tumbling to certain doom. Instinctively—as if he’d done it a thousand times before—Ekko activated his device. The world shattered around him, and he was wrenched backward through swirling particles of time.

他开始对这块水晶进行狂热的实验。在一次不那么科学的尝试中，水晶爆炸成了一团晶体尘埃形成的漩涡，触发了扭曲时间的气旋。艾克睁开眼，看到了许多个现实的分支，也看到了许多个自己在这一刻的镜像，镜像也在万分惊恐地看着自己，在碎裂的时空中不知所措。

Then Ekko was back, watching his friend reach again for the same rotting plank. The plank broke, the boy fell… but Ekko was ready this time, diving to the edge and grabbing him by the shirt. Ekko tried to swing him to safety, but his friend became caught in the tower’s clockwork gears, and—

Stop. Rewind.

这一次他真的做到了。

Several attempts later, Ekko finally saved his friend’s life. But to his crew, Ekko’s supernatural reflexes had saved their friend before anyone even realized the danger. He told them about the crystal and made them swear to secrecy. Instead, they dared each other to new heights of foolishness, knowing Ekko had the means to pluck them out of danger.

With each trial, and so much error, the time-warping device—which Ekko dubbed the Zero Drive—grew more and more stable. The only limit was how many do-overs his body could take before exhaustion set in.

艾克和自己的平行现实镜像进行了一番紧张的调谐，最后控制并修复了他在现实时空中撕开的裂口。最终，艾克通过一种装置驾驭了这枚破碎水晶的时空之力，可以让他操控一段短暂的时间……至少理论上是这样。

Ekko’s time-bending antics have made him a person of interest to some of Zaun and Piltover’s most inventive, most powerful, and most dangerous individuals. But his only interest is in his friends, his family, and his city. He dreams of the day when his hometown rises up to dwarf the so-called City of Progress, when Piltover’s golden veneer will be overshadowed by the towering ingenuity and relentless spunk of a Zaun born not from generations of privilege, but from sheer daring. He may not have a plan yet, but he’s got all the time in the world.

After all, if Ekko’s Z-Drive can change the past, how hard can it be to change the future?

在他的命名日那天，伙伴们叫嚷着拉他去攀登那座古老的钟塔，“老饿鬼”。于是艾克带上那个尚未经过测试的装置出发了。

祖安迷童开始了攀登，中间不时停下来涂上一两副讽刺皮佬名人的下流画。就在他们快要登上楼顶的时候，一名伙伴误抓了松动的把手，失手摔了下去。艾克本能地发动了水晶装置，动作娴熟犹如练习过成百上千次一般。周围的世界破碎了，他在时间的粒子洪流中被拉扯着向后倒退。

然后他回到了刹那之前，正好看到伙伴伸手够向那根松动的把手。把手断裂，男孩落下……但这一次艾克有所准备，他冲到边上，抓住了同伴的衣服。他想要顺势把同伴扔向安全的地方，但他的同伴却被卡在了钟塔的齿轮中间，然后——

停止。倒退。

多次尝试以后，艾克终于救下了自己的朋友。但在伙伴们眼里，艾克用的是超自然的反应速度，在其他人还没意识到危险的时候就拯救了朋友。他将水晶的事告诉他们并要他们发誓保密。但他们却得寸进尺，总是互相挑战鲁莽和愚蠢的新高度，因为他们知道艾克一定有办法让他们有惊无险。

每次试炼，以及背后无数次试错，都让他的时间装置（他给取名为Z型驱动）更加稳定。唯一的使用限制，就是他自己的身体所能承受的疲劳极限。

艾克扭转时间的传闻和轶事，很快就让祖安和皮城最懂发明、最有实力以及最危险的几个人产生了兴趣。不过艾克唯一关心的只有自己的伙伴、家庭和这座城市。他梦想着有一天自己的故乡能够崛起，让那座自诩进步的城市相形见绌。那个时候，皮尔特沃夫的光鲜外表将笼罩在祖安人的精妙创意和无悔勇气之下，二者之间的差距绝非来自世代传承的特权，而是源于单纯的冒险精神。或许他现在还没有具体的计划，但艾克有大把时间，把这个梦想变为现实。

毕竟，既然他的Z型驱动能够改变过去，那么改变未来又有何难？