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@elodieunderglass horrible things with legs

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SOME LIKE IT HOT 1959 | Billy Wilder

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Some Like It Hot (1959) dir. Billy Wilder

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Heart attack

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Thinking about the parallels in Arcane of death, rebirth and acceptance.

Just as how Vi never fully accepts that Jinx is no longer Powder, Jayce struggles with accepting that Viktor is no longer the Viktor he once knew.

“My partner died in this room”. “There must be some part of you still in there”. Killing Viktor without even speaking a word to him because he is so vehemently convinced that his Viktor is gone.

Yes, knowing what he knows about the anomaly and the destruction it lays waste to, it’s reasonable that Jayce sets out to stop Viktor. What’s striking to me is how he never makes an attempt to even approach Viktor peacefully about it. He doesn’t bother to because he already firmly believes that his partner is no longer there.

The truth is, it's simpler for Jayce to believe that the real Viktor no longer exists, than to accept that his idealized version of his partner is gone. The “real” Viktor would have stayed. The “real” Viktor wouldn’t have walked away from him. Jayce would rather believe that his partner has been lost to the Hexcore than accept his part in Viktor becoming the “monster” he created— first when he failed to destroy the Hexcore, thereby saving Viktor’s life; and second when he took it from him.

Because the thing is: Jayce never fully saw Viktor. There is Viktor his partner, but there is also Viktor from the Undercity, as Viktor served to remind him. He was so used to Viktor as his partner, as a constant, that he was oblivious to how Viktor had already been shying away and distancing himself long before that. “Our paths diverged long ago”, as Viktor served to remind him.

For his part, I don't think Jayce was being intentionally oblivious. I believe you can love someone without fully seeing them. I think Jayce loved Viktor (platonically, romantically, call it what you will,) in the purest sense as an individual, that he was able to see past Viktor's status as a Zaunite, or his disability. But this in turn blinded him from being able to fully understand Viktor's struggles and his ideals.

It’s only at the end that Jayce finally puts everything together. He reconciles the Viktor before him, with the Viktor he thought he knew but never truly saw:

There is Viktor, his partner.

There is also Viktor, driven by desperation of his impending mortality.

Viktor, driven by his guilt of failing to do good in the pursuit of great.

Viktor, who always sought to cure his leg and disease, who sought to put an end to needless pain and suffering.

All of that is Viktor.

And finally, Jayce understands. He accepts Viktor after everything he’s done. He acknowledges the choices Viktor has made, and his faults:

All as an inseparable piece of everything that makes up Viktor.

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How Jayce thinks he looks vs how Viktor sees him

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Jinx's Shimmer Eyes

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Silco and his terror of a daughter

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Viktor WIP

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ARCANE - 1.03 The Base Violence Necessary for Change

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I love the little detail of Jinx scrunching up her nose when upset only on one side of her face and how she clearly got it from Silco.

Cos Silco's likely only emoting like that cos half of his face is paralyzed and so when he does it it looks natural, he just can't move that part of his face and it's likely that without the scar Silco would be emoting with his whole face.

However when Jinx does it it looks a little awkward. She has to keep half of her face relaxed meanwhile emote with the other half. So not only did she pick up this face expression from him but also the quirk of only doing it with one side of her face even tho for her it makes no sense. And not only does she mimic his face expression but she also acts a little like a literal mirror, with Silco emoting with the right side of his face and Jinx emoting with her left side.

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back from the dead to wish you a happy progress day and condolences for your terrible new job 🎉

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poor Sevika's been embarrassed ever since, yet still stuck around😔✊