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Silco and his terror of a daughter

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i had this dream where you were different…

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home routine because this is what i really need

they become a little family…

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i am actually a hater of people saying jinx is isha’s mama like man she’s an older sister 😭 why parentify jinx like that for no reason

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It's all fun and memes to joke about how Caitlyn immediately switched sides the moment she hears Vi call her cupcake again. And I do it too, but to me, the switch wasn't abrupt at all.

From the first scene in episode four, Caitlyn already says that the martial law has been going on much longer than she wanted. In the next scene, you see her standing up to Ambessa, using her words back at her, for which Ambessa calls her fearless. It shows that Caitlyn has not given up control and is not being puppeteered by Ambessa. She's in control still, but her singular focus is still on Jinx like it was in act one.

Vi was right that Caitlyn is behaving like Jinx, but it was probably the worst thing Vi could have said to her, no matter how true, cause Caitlyn was too deep in her quest for 'justice' in her grief. That's why she reacted so violently.

Jinx is the target of Caitlyn's obsession, in her mind for justice, even though what she really wants is vengeance, and being compared to Jinx cut deep. Vi had noticed the similarity before in season one, but that was before Jinx kidnapped Caitlyn and wanted her dead.

In the beginning of episode four, she feels that it's been going on too long, but even after all those months her obsession is still stronger. Her obsession with getting vengeance, finding Jinx, killing Jinx, is still stronger than her moral compass, which she has abandoned to avenge her mother and fill her mother's shoes.

But over the course of the second act before she sees Vi again, there are multiple things that happen that make Caitlyn understand she has to stop, that what she's doing isn't right or justifiable.

Some of these were not initially clear to me when I first watched it. but one thing I realized today while I was working out is that one crucial moment for Caitlyn's arc in act two is with Singed.

Taking her singular focus off Jinx for a moment, Caitlyn does what she does best and figures out who Singed is, and what he's responsible for. She uncovers that Singed is actually the formerly revered alchemist Dr. Corin Reveck, who used to work with Heimerdinger at the academy. Arcane implies he is from Piltover and became a Zaunite after being kicked out of Piltover. He helped build up Piltover to what it is, and now he is ravaging Zaun with shimmer, weapons and monsters.

When she calls him a monster and asks him "why do all this?", he tells her he did it 'for love'. Out of love for his deceased daughter.

And I think that that is one of the crucial moments where Caitlyn starts to realize that what she is doing is not very different from him.

She's doing things her old self would never have approved, of out of love and grief for her deceased mother.

When she sees Vi again, she doesn't suddenly switch sides, she's already been doubting her chosen course of action. She initially says "you can't be here", because Caitlyn is trying to believe she's doing the right thing still, and knows Vi is a threat to that belief/lie.

Vi calling her cupcake though, is one of the last drops in the bucket. She left Vi to do what she thought she needed to do, what her mother might have done. What she's doing out of guilt for not saving her mother when she had the chance. She even tried to be with a girl her mother would have approved of.

When Vi calls her cupcake, all the feelings she's been trying to stuff away come flooding back. She snaps out of this self-imposed love-deprived state she's been in, and she can no longer deny she loves Vi.

When Vi tells her that she's trying to save her dad, I think that is the moment she actually switches sides. That was the last drop. That is the moment where she realizes there are still people she loves, who love her, who are still alive and they need her help, and that is more important than her horrible campaign for vengeance out of grief, otherwise she's no different than Singed.

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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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SAVE A HORSE RIDE A...?

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arcane season two they could never make me hate you

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Missing scene comic

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“Epitaph” by Marina Tsvetaeva in Poems to A Son // "human garden bed" by me // Sula by Toni Morrison // "& you & you &" by me

part one of my expansion of @arcaneweaving's cait and vi web weave. i made it angsty... i swear the next part will be more tender.

i pulled half of the quotes from the web weave and the rest are from some of my old poems. i did all of the butchering to get the quotes on the page.

i wanted to explore who vi is in their relationship (in act one) so that when i do part two it hits harder (but mostly so i could fit more writing in ahaaaa blame arcaneweaving).

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the reflection of a lie will keep me waiting as reason clouds my eyes with splendour fading illusions of the sunlight with love gone, for so long

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referenced from @arcaneweaving’s amazing web weave abt caitlyn and jinx. all the words are pulled from the quotes they used.

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you know i've realised one thing about me is that i'm simply not a sequel hater. lots of people love to say that sequels are never better than the original but i just don't agree. i love sequels. i love getting more of stories that i'm already invested in

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i’m not aromantic but i believe in their beliefs

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'im a girl' 'im a boy' ok well i am wirt with the cassette i am joel post memory reset i am clementine with hazel eyes and botched green hair in disrepair i am

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i've been thinking a lot about Niko "i'm not the bravest" Sasaki.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who had to move all the way from Japan to America alone, and go to school in this unfamiliar place, while infected with paranormal parasites.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who was forced to grieve her father all by herself.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who allowed herself to be helped by ghosts she couldn't see yet.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who let three complete strangers into her life and heart after such a long period of self-isolation prior.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who keeps the creatures that tried to kill her in a jar in her own room, having asked her friends not to destroy them, even though they were more than willing to still do so to her.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who eventually tried to join her friends on a case involving murdered girls, despite having almost been torn apart the week before, and having a fear of death.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who prevented her friend from falling off of a cliff, having been the first one to notice.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who debated with a powerful, supernatural being in order to stop her from taking two of her friends away.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who helped fight a witch in order to save the ghost boys.

who is the very same Niko Sasaki who stepped in front of the girl she cares about to get fatally stabbed in her place.

"i'm not the bravest," she said.