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I figured since cartin got me kinda popular all of a sudden and I got a lot of new followers I might post some old art that I like

ALWAYS CREDIT ME IF YOU WANNA REPOST! or just don't repost, that'd be perfect actually

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happy arcane s2 eve to all who celebrate!! wahoo

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Ooooh! New idea for why lyfrassir was so dramatic in the report: the black box, which was a part of the train, which was powered by kvasir's blood, the source of the mead of poetry, could have affected lyf speech patterns/how they acted, especially with bifrost-contamination stuff.

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Ambessa: Becomes a more significant force of nature in Piltover as she plans to take down the undercity with the Noxian Army, hopes to get her hands on hextech, and takes advantage of Caitlyn's vulnerability as she employs her to be the new Commander-in-chief

Caitlyn: Guided by her rage and grief of her mother's death caused by the person who is connected by blood to her loved one Vi, leaving her in a state of complete confusion; Becomes desensitized by morality as she is willing to do anything in hopes of hunting down Jinx, such as poisoning the streets of the undercity with the Gray and murder an innocent child.

Vi: Failed at her attempt to make things right (which would never happen) and was left entirely alone by all of her loved ones, including her sister Jinx, who technically turned into a war criminal, causing disastrous events and her romantic partner Caitlyn who spirals into a turmoil

Viktor: Becomes a hypothetical Jesus Christ as he heals shimmer-wrecked Zaunites after he was completely submerged in the hexcube, something that he was promised that his close partner Jayce would destroy whom he had to leave behind.

Heimerdinger:

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sevika becoming a mom to 2 kids that ain’t even hers is so 40 year old stud coded LMFAOOOO she is the father that stepped up

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honestly knowing what i do about viktor's character in league of legends i was kinda expecting him to continue experimenting on himself with the hexcore but the twist that it was jayce who used it on him to change his body and save his life was so good. and like obviously jayce was never going to let viktor die. there was no better solution in that situation. but doing so also robbed viktor of his autonomy, autonomy that he's struggled with both as a disabled person and as a citizen of the undercity who had to work his way up to be in piltover

jayce couldn't have known what he was doing because viktor kept his experiments a secret from him. he didn't know that the experiments had already killed sky and permanently scarred viktor. and he also can't understand why viktor was so upset by this decision because he isn't from the undercity and he's always been the golden boy of piltover. that isn't to say that he hasn't had to work for his success, but he hasn't seen the hardship that viktor has so he doesn't get it

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so fucked up that we're only 3 episodes in and literally nobody is doing okay right now. vi has to deal with her sister becoming a terrorist and her girlfriend turning full cop in a military dictatorship and saying that she wants nothing to do with her. caitlyn's being manipulated by ambessa, who's taking advantage of her grief and need for revenge to ensure a war between piltover and the undercity. jinx literally begged vi to kill her because she can't take the guilt of accidentally killing silco and literally every other person she's ever loved.

viktor woke up from a coma to find out that his mind and body's been permanently changed by the hexcore, the technology he never wanted to use ever again, and he's hallucinating the dead assistant he accidentally killed with his experiments. jayce was just abandoned by viktor, found out that the hextech he created to help the city has had disastrous consequences on the fabric of reality itself, and he's about to find out that his girlfriend's been kidnapped. oh yeah and mel was desperately trying to keep the peace but terrorists attacked the memorial and her mom wouldnt stop meddling in political affairs and now she's been taken by a witch. everything went wrong SO quickly

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The fact that Caitlyn finds out about the ventilation system her mom made to help the zaunites have clean air because she thought that they deserved to breathe, and Caitlyn immediately weaponized that against them?Simultaneously demonstrating the dark path she is heading down while also implying that Cassandra would not approve of the path her daughter is going down.

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the first three episodes of arcane s2 have done a fucking PHENOMENAL job at reminding us exactly who caitlyn is and where she stands.

in season 1 she’s presented as this plucky rookie cop who just wants to do good. she gets vi out of jail after she sees that she was arrested for nothing, she sneaks around behind the councils back, she’s fighting with her parents. can’t you see, she’s just trying to help!

then season 2 absolutely wallops you over the head with her actual position. she’s not some random rookie cop with a heart of gold. she’s caitlyn. fucking. KIRRAMAN. her family basically run the city. she *is* privilege. she’s rich and she’s powerful and she bloody well knows it. at every turn in the first three episodes someone reminds us who she is and the power the kirraman name holds (if it’s not caitlyn herself). why is she here? she’s a kirraman. why are we letting her do this? she’s a kirraman. why won’t you stop her? she’s a kirraman. why is she calling the shots? SHES A KIRRAMAN. they don’t let you forget who she is. not like in season 1. vi is the only person allowed to forget who she is. vi calls her “cait” and everyone else bends a knee. ITS SO FUCKING GOOD

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Going into the tag and seeing people talk about how nice and compassionate Mel is this season, as opposed to last season when she was manipulative and hated Viktor like. You guys can just admit you were wrong about her. You guys can just recognize that she explicitly said she wanted to prevent war and help people and you all were already on another, more tired narrative so you ignored her. You guys can acknowledge how race and gender played into the fandom’s consensus about Mel and Viktor, even after Mel’s VA directly said Mel liked and respected him. You can do it. I believe in you.

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ahh caitlyn my beloved.

let's talk about the trauma she has around jinx, in particular, in a way i think is more related to being targeted by jinx than just grief.

don't get me wrong- grief is a huge part of why caitlyn is all over the place this arc (season?). she probably came to the conclusion that her softer, pacifistic attitude from the first season is the reason she ended up hurt. clearly the rocky relationship she had with her mother adds a layer of bitterness and regret caitlyn is feeling regarding her death. alongside a million different reasons, which i might discuss in a different post.

but there's a clear difference between the anger and coldness we see from caitlyn when she discusses catching jinx and bringing her to justice, than when she faces jinx head on. in the latter, she suddenly loses her cool and acts all frantically, so unlike anything we've seen from caitlyn so far.

in her mind, in episode 1, she sees herself as collected and calm, aiming her rifle at jinx. btw, take note of how jinx is depicted here. her eyes are glowing.

but in reality, she's very much NOT cool and collected when she thinks that exact scenario is about to be replicated.

that's caitlyn's pov btw:

again jinx with the glowing eyes- caitlyn had seen what jinx looks like in other circumstances, but THIS is the version of her that she visualizes and then irrationally reacts to.

we see it again when she shoots jinx in the finger

no composure, no deep breathe, no thinking. she just shoots on instinct. it's nothing like she used to.

and then her frantically calling vi to move out of the way as she keeps firing, almost like shes blind to everything but jinx- the kid and vi, who are both in harm's way, don't stop her.

i know it's easy to just paint it as anger and grief here, but there's something about it that strikes me as almost like animalistic fear. she sees jinx and just goes feral mode, but its almost more of a prey instinct than a predator.

and i think it's because whenever she faces jinx, properly, it's not the grief and radicalized anger she's feeling, it just sends her back to this moment

with all the "jinx murdered her mom" talk its easy to forget that jinx also directly, and cruelly, targeted caitlyn, tried to kill her, kidnapped her and held her hostage for who knows how long. it's not just anger that caitlyn feels towards jinx. it's a trauma response. and like, welcome to the club, caitlyn! most of the arcane cast are acting out of trauma. but i better not see people think her trauma is somewhat lesser than some... other.. characters.

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heimerdinger breaking into the lab right after jayce spent the night and had his breakup with viktor was so funny. he's sitting there with eyebags surrounded by research notes and diagrams, hasn't had a good night's rest since the accident and his ex just decided to start a cult, i guess and he's like professor? what happened to you? and heimerdinger's like ???? what happened to YOU?

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lives were just single handedly changed

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summary of act 1

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"We want more complex female characters" you can't even handle an angry, grieving daughter who just had her mother killed by her future wife's sister, shut the fuck up

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you know the thing about The Menu (2022) is that so many people came out of it being like "haha eat the rich" and yeah, sure, but really the chef's issue wasn't with the rich people, I mean he hated them and wanted them dead yes, but his issue was that he had let the world of ambition take him so far from the joy of cooking that he once felt, from the art that he loved to make, because he let himself chase status and exclusivity, when really he could have been making his art for everyone, at a certain point he did not need to be cooking for rich people he could have found people who appreciated his food because they loved food, he could have leaned into the art he loved instead of the art he was expected to make with the set dressing he was expected to make it in, and that is a critique of capitalism, but it's not an "eat the rich" type critique, it's not just rich people who have had their relationship to art changed by capitalism, we all have in one way or another, think about the phrase "consuming content", we are consuming, not savoring, and what does it mean to be an artist when being an artist means being a content creator, being consumed, and what artistic principles can you really afford to have when you need to make money to live, but what principles will you forget to pick back up when you have the money, how far gone from yourself do you have to be to no longer be able to go back? What does it mean when you haven't cooked a burger for yourself, for your friends, for someone who loves a burger, because you're always, only cooking for those who can afford you? What do you cook for yourself? Do you savor it? What art do you make when no one's watching? Can you still make art when no one's watching?

but the other thing about The Menu (2022) is that they literally don't eat the rich people. Look at me. They do not eat the rich people they are all burned alive, guests and staff, and that's Different

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milfs…,, milves,