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just realised yet another one parallel in arcane

what caught my attention is this moment where jinx plays a little makeover with isha and dyes her hair

jinx wishes she had moments like this with her sister and in the next episode we see her painting her face to look almost the same as vi’s tattoo (ofc the writing itself is more in jinx’s style but still)

she’s just a girl who wanted to be like her older sis when she was little – the same way isha now wants to be like jinx

DONT TALK TO ME MY HEART IS BROKEN

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Just thinking about how Jinx never told Isha to stay back and always let her tag along despite the danger because she never wanted to do the same thing Vi did to her and make Isha feel left out/useless. But now she probably understands in the worst way why Vi did what she did.

I’m totally fine.

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Average arcane act 2 experience </3

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wow i sure do love the ending of arcane season 2 i love that this is how arcane ended and nothing else happened! nothing bad! no one died everyones just a big happy family

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ONE FUCKING BREAK. CAN THEY NOT GET A GODDAMN SECOND TO FUCKING BREATHE?!?!?!

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vi when she realizes that the people she loves most are capable of doing horrible things

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oh the jayce caitlyn parallels need to be STUDIED.

jayce, who was initially as ignorant and unknowing as all topsiders being manipulated into creating the downfall of the undercity, only to learn and realise that zaunites deserve to live just as much as topsiders do.

caitlyn, who was initially as ignorant and unknowing as all topsiders being shown the beauty of the undercity and thinking zaunites deserve to live just as topsiders do only to be manipulated and used to create the downfall of the undercity.

ooooh how their arcs are so similar and cursed.

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A coworker pointed this out to me and I’m so mad I didn’t notice before but

Machiavelli has a chip in his ear on the same side of his body that Massimo’s missing an arm :((((

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even a worm will turn.

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Why do the people on this gay test kinda look like Luca and Alberto? 😭😭😭

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Sailor Song inspired this one

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don't want to write I want to think very hard about my fic until it emerges from my head fully formed like athena

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star people

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What if Alberto truly believed at these things because he does have a powerful imagination? What if that imagination was rooted from the fact that he was stuck in an island for almost a year, left by his dad and he gets himself lost at these optimistic ideas to keep his thoughts away from his dad? Or maybe having a limited space—a lonely tower—leads him to have limited activities, but Alberto is always filled with energy, he's quick to think and even quicker to act, but he can't do so much because he has to be cautious with humans, so he's left with thinking and of course—watching from afar. This is where his imaginations comes in. Alberto has little knowledge about the world so his explanations/imaginations would be based on what he only knows and what he's experienced. (In this case he's very familiar with aquatic animals) So what if he thought the moon was a fish guardian because a guardian is what he desires? It's what he experienced: the lack of presence of his guardian. Alberto is a lonely kid with nothing to do but wait and hold onto a silver of hope that he projects that hope into the stars. And perhaps that makes him feel better?

“Alberto has a really deep sense of imagination and perhaps it’s so powerful, it becomes the truth to him.” —Mike Jones, screenwriter

Originally, the post was just going to be that quote and nothing else because I couldn’t really figure out what stood out to me about it or why it kept coming back to my mind for so long, but I think I finally figured it out:

I do not think that this quote is being literal by its use of “imagination.”

We cannot truly say whether or not—nor how often or how vividly—Alberto daydreams because the events of the movie are shown from Luca’s limited and warped perspective. However, we have seen time and time again Alberto’s stalwart optimism at play, blinding him to logic and reality as it truly is. For instance, his inability to think that Luca may betray him on his own accord. Or, his inability to believe in Luca’s parents’ presence in Portorosso. Both of which are simply due to the fact that he doesn’t want that. That’s not in his plan, so it must not be true. He doesn’t think that it will happen, so it will not.

Although, is is extremely interesting to think about this quote as if it truly was literal. What if Alberto truly believed the negative voice was an entity separate from oneself? Or, what if Alberto truly believed the moon was a giant fish, guardian of all the anchovies (stars)? Both of those ideas can have logical reasoning upholding them, when you take into account what Alberto knows and what he is ignorant of. However, Alberto did not defend the identity of “Bruno” when Luca questioned the name, and I believe he is too intelligent (listen, man. you can’t live on an island for well over a year without being of above-average intelligence) to carry on the belief of piscine celestial bodies after someone with much more access to knowledge than you tells you that you’re wrong even if it hurts your ego. But what if?

What if Alberto did truly believe? What if Alberto’s imagination was so powerful that it did distorted his perception of reality, beyond just his optimism? What would the movie have been like, then, if it was from his perspective rather than Luca’s? Would his life have truly been great, as he said, or was that just another lie?

It’s all just very interesting to think about for me, Alberto being a dreamer.

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I JUST FINISHED WATCHING ARCANE I AM NOT WELL

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