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Arcane CD Charms 💿💿💿 Track 1/8 Blood Sweat and Tears ⚔️

Gonna be posting some CD Charms! Ambessa gets to be first :) sneaky Kindred on the back as well since these are focused more on the music sequences than specifically characters

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I'm curious, how did powder/jinx get sent to bilgewater?? (Or wherever she is--)

ok I might as well just explain the entire canon divergence in episode 3 lol (I'm not a writer so this might make like zero sense haha)

it starts off with Silco arriving too late to intercept Vander/Grayson/Marcus, so he's only really able to free Vi from the cellars before Ekko tells them where Vander got carted off to.

Vi insists on tagging along w/ Silco's group so Mylo, Claggor, and Powder are left behind (but those three sneak along anyways)

The enforcers were going to directly throw Vander into Stillwater but Silco's group is able to stop them w/ shimmered up Deckard like in canon but bc they were too close to where enforcers were patrolling anyways it becomes a whole mess, basically bridge riots 2.0

In the chaos Vander tells Vi to take Powder and run so she does, but later Vi just can't abandon Vander so she tucks Powder safely away on a ship and promises she'll be back if things don't go well

Then the ship leaves before Vi can go back to her LMFAO

I do wanna do a short interlude comic about Powder's immediate sort of reaction/experience while she's on that ship so I'll keep that part a secret for now

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I have a question

What is Silco to Vi ? Only a care taker or even a father figure like in canon with Jinx *gasp* will she call him someday dad too ? 😱

(I'm assuming this is about my AU otherwise it would make no sense LMFAO)

yeah I would say he's definitely a father figure to Vi, but obviously their relationship is vastly different from Silco and Powder/Jinx in canon… Silco still sees himself in Vi but in the "hotblooded revolutionary ready to throw hands at topside" way rather than "I got betrayed by someone who was supposed to protect me" for Powder,,

I think in canon Silco was definitely projecting all his trauma w/ Vander onto Powder's relationship with Vi (I don't blame Silco though bc parents just want to help their children in any way they can, Silco thought by forging a new identity he was able to "get past that" so that's what he taught Powder) but if Silco is dealing with Vi instead, I don't think he'd do that since it's not relevant. Since Vi's older, it's not gonna be as easy to influence her compared to Powder who was like 10 or something.

We never get to see exactly what Silco tells Jinx about Vander (beyond that short conversation in the river where it seems he's still pretty bitter and Jinx is totally over him reiterating the same thing over and over again lol). Vi has a lot more memories with Vander compared to Powder (she would probably be Vander defender #1), so I feel like during those talks rather than Silco focusing on how Vander betrayed him specifically, he would focus on the fact that Vander in a certain way betrayed all of Zaun by making that deal w/ the enforcers. Vi was already sort of feeling that in s1e2 when Vander refused to fight the enforcers, Silco would definitely play into that frustration bc I mean, he still felt the same way. I think after the first few arguments about Vander both Silco and Vi would be on the same page of basically Vander being a good man but a stagnant leader who was too comfortable w/ the status quo (which is basically my point of view as well HAHAHA)

As for specifically calling him dad idk though HAHA I guess that's just not rlly a word I think the characters would use in the sense that like. Vi, Jinx (also Mylo) calls Vander "their father" but doesn't use the term "Dad" for him directly, they just call him Vander. I think it would be the same here where if you ask Vi who Silco is to her she'd probably say something like "he's like my father" (I don't think she'd directly say "he's my dad" since it would be too painful and she probably has emotional baggage abt erasing Vander and Connol's memories or smth idk) but the sentiment is still there. Same thing w/ Silco tbh like he'd obviously see Vi as his daughter but he would never say it out loud (unless he was pushed to the brink like the canon situation where he calls Jinx his daughter LMFAO hopefully that never happens to him). I think they would both outwardly downplay how much they actually care for each other

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"always with you sis. even if we're worlds apart".

more of my Vi raised by Silco AU... some days are harder than others

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Are your Arcane prints just prints, or are they a tarot deck, as well? Where can I buy the deck if it is a thing?

I had them as a deck back in 2022 but I don't have them anymore, you can check here for more info

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I wanted to ask in this awsome au where Vi is Silcos Bodyguard and kid, what happend to Jinx ? Did she die cause the enforcers or explosion or did she ran away and became something like firefly?

Ps: Keep going this absolut masterpiece its so freaking good ☺🤩🤩💓

Thank you! I don't want to give too much away though so you'll have to wait and see (or check tags on my previous posts lol)

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Hello, shein has your arcane tarot cards for sale as acrylic standees... Was that approved by you is it you that is selling it?

Nope not approved by me. Right now the tarot cards should only exist as prints on my inprnt- any other merch you see is stolen by whoever is selling them and unauthorized.

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fucking LOVE YOUR ART AND THE SILCO AND VI AU OH MY GOD I GET SO HAPPY WHEN I SEE UR STUFF ON FEED

THANK YOU!!! I WILL HAVE MORE OF THEM SOON

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Your art style is so gorgeous and colorful and detailed and woah! I dunno how you keep putting out new masterpieces out so fast but I am eating it up!

thank you! haha its called drawing for like 4-6 hrs after work each day and not having a social life 💀 brainrot be hitting different

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heyyy have you ever considered selling prints of your art ?

respectfully, someone who’d love to hang prints of your work on their walls :3

I have an inprnt!

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Arcane Season ??? Episode 4- Some things change, some things stay the same

part of my Vi raised by Silco AU, I'm thinking of doing some short comics since I can't write fic lol

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GOD i just read through the Office Hours zine and I'm so in love with the characters you created for it and your art! It's so incredibly charming and warm-feeling!!!

(my favorite is arjun)

omg thank u!! haha i dont usually talk abt OCs but I'm glad u enjoyed them!! 🫶🫶🫶

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As a character, what do you love most about Silco? As a subject matter, what do you enjoy drawing about him most? (personally, I love his nose), but his fashion ... GOD. I would love to see your take on Happy AU Silco's wardrobe options!

Also, do you do concept art for video games or animation for a living? Your work is so professional, I especially admire your coloring!

I think for fictional characters in general, I love those who have really strong convictions and would do anything for those set of ideals, and then the narrative continuously tests them and pushes them to the edge. Whether or not the character follows through in their ideals or finally reaches their limit doesn't matter to me, I just like seeing them wrangle with their decisions lol

This is why I didn't like s1 Jayce (who to me was a candle in the wind) but I loved s2 Jayce- for s2 Jayce's arc basically revolved entirely around Viktor, from the beginning where he made the decision to bring him back w/ the hexcore (despite Viktor telling him to destroy it), to the end where Jayce basically decides to die with Viktor in the ether. Jayce was brought to his absolute limit and we got to see him grapple with the decisions that he had to make.

Silco was the same in s1, to me he goes through his own personal "corruption arc" in the sense that in s1e9 he betrays his own ideals for Jinx and finally understands Vander's position. He and Vander probably started out as the same idealists, and then the narrative kept punching him in the gut and forged him into who we saw in s1e1. A lot of this is off screen but just the idea of him (after his fight with Vander) sort of losing his moral compass bit by bit which all culminates to producing shimmer just to prove how much he's willing to fight for Zaun, and then later on realizing there is a final line he won't ever cross...

Honestly even if he did cross that line and went like "haha I don't actually care about Jinx" I would still love him as a character (just in a massively different way since he would be like. A completely different person. Idk I watched the Penguin recently and I still fucking love Oz and also my favorite asoiaf character is Stannis so. LMAO.)

Sorry this turned into a bit of a rant HAHAHA but as for your other questions, yes I love drawing his nose as well, honestly it's funny seeing young Silco art that doesn't have his nose where he just becomes an emo anime boy. I'm just like who are you that's not Silco thats Simon LOL

Idk about specifically designing other outfits for Silco though, I just draw him in what feels right for the moment (?) I guess my art process currently is more like "what am I trying to tell with this" rather than just playing dress up dolls (not that there's anything wrong with that! Just not my thing) Like, for that AU last drop thing I drew, Silco, Mylo, and Claggor are all wearing smth more casual since the vibe was like 10am on a Sunday morning but Powder is wearing her normal clothes since she just pulled an all nighter with Ekko (well ok they fell asleep at like 5am before Ekko rudely ran away lol), and Vander was already up anyways probably to do bar admin stuff idk.. so if you're asking me directly what I think is in Silco's wardrobe I'm kind of drawing a blank fjskdmmsmfd

And yes I do concept art/illustration for video games for a living :)

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can we see pirate powder from the AU? 👉🏻👈🏻

Yeah I'm planning on drawing her! Later though haha

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Hi there!!! Do you sell prints of your art by chance? I would love to buy a print of counselor silco 🥹🥹

Yeah I have an inprnt!

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AU where Vi gets raised by Silco after s1e3 loosely based on the initial drafts..

always wished they got to interact normally in canon (where they weren't at each other's throats lol)

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Do you have any domestic Best Timeline Zaundads headcanons? I 100% thought Best Timeline Silco became a councilman or some kind of high-level politician, too (of all the Zaunites, he strikes me as having the most skill in handling that kind of environment). Vander strikes me more as the grassroots guy in the relationship.

Yeah I have some scattered thoughts about them haha

Silco definitely went to find Vander after hearing of Vi's death, he probably went back into the mines for nostalgia's sake and found the letter… obviously the letter was. pretty shitty lol so I'd like to think he went back to the Last Drop to immediately confront him about that HAHA but that probably started the healing process for those two.

I agree that Silco is more politically driven than Vander, I personally think during Jayce's trial (which honestly. in canon. felt super rushed in terms of "oh we're just gonna do this in the next week or two) Silco probably was able to push for better rights for the undercity (something about the undercity not having enough resources to the point where children felt forced to steal, idk I'm not Silco so he can probably spin the situation to his advantage better than what I'm making up)

haha my hot take is that I actually don't think "the nation of Zaun" exists in the s2e7 AU verse, personally I think Vander was able to talk Silco out of having that drastic separation and instead work alongside topside to get the undercity to equal footing as them, so by the time our Ekko gets there, the undercity has been uplifted to be an equal part of Piltover rather than "Piltover and Zaun are neighboring countries" type of thing… the bridge just felt like a normal marketplace and not really a border.

As for more day to day things, I definitely think that despite spending all his time working in Piltover as a councilor, Silco still insists on staying at the Last Drop with Vander and the kids even if it takes him like what an hour to walk all the way to the council building every morning? He probably still has like. a backup apartment or office etc if he needs to pull all nighters but just in general he seems like the type of stubborn person to stay grounded despite having the means for better (Even in canon, it seems like he stays at the Last Drop rather than the upper levels w/ the other chem barons)

on twitter there were a couple of ppl talking about Silco drinking coffee (since I had that moka pot in the illustration i did..) I'd like to think that even though Silco seems like he'd be a super nitpicky coffee snob he still has a lot of nostalgia and fondness for the burnt stuff he and Vander used to drink when they had the morning shift at the mines