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Look, you’re clearly not interested in further discussion seeing as you keep deleting my replies so I won’t bother after this. But I think it’s worth some introspection that you’re so unwilling to engage with this particular argument. This is not a call out or an accusation - I don’t know enough about you to make a judgement about you. Just food for thought. I’m sure you’ll block me after this but I hope you’ll still think about it regardless.

I'm gonna say it again

We don't see Undercity civilians get gassed. No one in the show says Undercity civilians were gassed. No one who worked on the show said civilians were gassed. Caitlyn did not gas anyone but the Chembarons and their goons. Deleted scenes aren't canon. Unused storyboards aren't canon. Scrapped scripts aren't canon. Caitlyn did not gas civilians.

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a messy eater...

anyway tumblr's for you page recommended @the-canine-king's vampire vi/werewolf cait art and of course it lives rent free in my head ever since...i would like to draw cait but i'm not sure i will beat the furry allegations bc i just uploaded art of my oc who also has animal ears lol

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i was watching some random art twitter drama youtube video about ai art and it made me realize that compared to ai “artists” i am a god. so actually ai is good bc it made me plug in my tablet for the first time in ages

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super quick sketchy sketch

ngl when kat showed up in that trailer my brain went "uh oh"

and i don't even like katarina

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Guess what arrived today. Merry Christmas to me

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still frames

"But whatever happens, it's on you."

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"But whatever happens, it's on you."

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more band au, cait as a pop star. she sneaks out to all of vi's gigs and calls herself matilda if anyone speaks to her. plus a caitvi doodle because i simply can't help myself

other doodles [the band] [vi] [silco + sevika]

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more band au doodling. silco as band manager - he doesn't care for the band but he loves jinx so he generally acts in their best interest. sevika is the long suffering head of security for the label

still deciding what the pilties are up to in this au. originally was thinking of music producer caitlyn but maybe will go the celeb route for her

other doodles [the band] [vi]

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i've discovered there is in fact a drummer vi fic on ao3 by @goldfyshie927 which is excellent and everyone should go read it.

some doodles of drummer vi with a few alt haircuts. my headcanon is that she refuses to wear a shirt and it pisses jinx off

wanna do a whole band au but idk how to draw guitars... will do my best 🫡 I’m thinking guitarist jinx and bassist Ekko

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more band au doodles....taking suggestions on what their band would be called...thinking about "my chemtech romance"

(idk anything about mcr please don't shoot me)

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some doodles of drummer vi with a few alt haircuts. my headcanon is that she refuses to wear a shirt and it pisses jinx off

wanna do a whole band au but idk how to draw guitars... will do my best 🫡 I’m thinking guitarist jinx and bassist Ekko

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family photo!

they are alive and well in my heart...anyway i wanna eventually do a better colored version of this but i am so tired rn...

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(wip that i probably wont finish...)

what if vi teased her sister about cutting her hair the same way...what if jinx got annoyed and they have sibling banter...what if vi fixed up her messy haircut...what then.......

anyway i continue to be unwell about this show

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My hot take about Caitlyn’s redemption arc is that I don’t care that much about the Ambessa/military dictator of it all. I think the much more concerning part is actually the act 1 arc and it feels so weird that people forget about it. Caitlyn and Vi used literal chemical weapons on the people of the undercity - unprompted by any warmongering generals, mind you. I mentioned it in a previous post, but I really feel that something like that would have had HUGE implications if it happened in s1. But it kind of never comes back?

Caitlyn directly leverages a part of her family's legacy to bring harm to the people of Zaun. The one prediction that I made for Caitlyn in act 3 was that i expected her to give up the Kiramman key. I thought that might have made a really nice conclusion to her arc, to show that she would rebuild her legacy and leave behind the one she tainted. I'm not one of those people who thinks she needed to repent or beg forgiveness, I just feel like her story needed that one little extra push. Maybe even just a short convo with her dad about what she did while she was on the warpath.

dont get me wrong i forgive her everything because she Looks Like That. but idk. what do people think?

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And then I noticed that jinx’s balloon she flies in on has bunny ears painted on it. And markings on the side to match her little goggles

Pain. Suffering even

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In order of your points: disagree, agree, no comment, agree (but conflicted)

The clues people have been pointing out in regards to jinx being alive might seem circumstantial. But I’m inclined to think that nothing the writers and animators on arcane do is on accident, so.

I don’t have much to say about jayvik other than I don’t really mind either interpretation. Their bond works either way and I don’t blame people for reading romantic tension in their interactions even if it’s never explicitly said. I personally don’t ship it but thats mainly bc I was a Jayce hater in s1 and I think viktor can do better lol.

My critique of Caitlyn and Vi has nothing to do with the ship, actually. I like caitvi and I think they do make a good couple. I just think that there should have been more repercussions for them like. Gassing the Lanes? I feel like that whole arc was something that would have had huge implications in s1. But it just never comes up again. Like at least they touch on Caitlyn falling into ambessas hands. But the Grey stuff was before that, and Vi was directly involved in it. But neither of them really seem to reckon with it at all.

The ending was good for what it was I think. I made a rambling post at like 4am about how I think season 2 overall didn’t live up to what season 1 had set up. But I think as a conclusion to the season it was fine. I think there could have been a bit more, maybe showing how each character is involved in the changes that are taking place in Piltover and Zaun. I especially wanted a bit more from Ekko, to see him reunite with the Firelights, maybe sit under his tree a bit? And show him taking on a role in Zaun’s leadership maybe.

As a big arcane fan, it sucks to see this show get so much criticism, even if I think there are places where it’s deserved. But some of it I think comes from people who had their own idea of how the season should go and were never going to be satisfied with any other way. The biggest critique I feel like I saw in the immediate aftermath was about Jinx’s ending, which, duh.

I think people who were really angry about Jinx dying (or “dying”, as it were) were coming from a place of being emotionally invested in Jinx getting a happy ending - but I don’t know if that was ever in the cards for her. I’ve seen people say that her death was pointless or for shock value but I don’t really see it that way. It feels like a natural culmination of her arc - she spent her whole life watching others protect her: Vi, Silco, Vander and even Isha. So it makes sense that her final act would be protecting someone else. It’s even a pretty direct parallel to Isha’s death. And it works for Vi’s story as well - Vi, who cannot let go of anyone, is quite literally forced to let go. Idk I think this debate is the most interesting part to me bc I can sympathize with people who are mad as hell. I just don’t think from a writing perspective it’s as flimsy as people are making it out to be.

Ok sorry I started rambling but I have So Many Thoughts about this show omg and I have not slept

ARCANE SPOILERS. ALL OF THEM. THE WHOLE THING.

I don't know how this app works really but I love/loved arcane and people have qualms with it so I'd love to have some discussions in the comments. gimme that healthy discourse!!

starting points that im so correct about:

jinx is dead

jayvik is a brotherhood not gay

caitvi scene should be 3 hours and i would watch every second

the ending was good. unironically.

I actually play league and have spent infinitely too much time reading things so I may have a different pov from you! I have hidden info <3