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i love how arcane has really shown where some people stand when it comes to politics, absolutely no shame in being anti black and openly saying that the oppressed is just as bad as the oppressor for showing resistance and fighting back with violence after years of living in nothing but torture. y’all are blindly(or even aware) falling in a oppressive and conservative ideology all for the sake of defending a white passing woman.

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i'm getting tired of people claiming caitlyn became a dictator as a result of her "break up" with vi.

i know. it's a joke. because everything has to be a joke these days. god forbid you look at a piece of media with critical eyes. thinking skills? endangered spieces.

caitlyn is a cop. of course she has it in her to be a fascist. she went and became an enforcer willingly.(against her mother's will, might i add. the same mother she went against to the point she used the same invention that cassandra designed to clear zaun's air... to gas them.) caitlyn doesn't care about anyone else but herself. that includes vi btw. vi is only her priority when she's useful to her – ffs, that's how they met!! how insensitive is it to go and offer your girlfriend to join the ranks of the same people that killed her parents?? why vi accepted is still beyond me btw. a lot of vi's actions this season made little to no sense.

anyway. i can't express what i really want to say properly i guess. but with or without vi, caitlyn was always going to become a dictator, because she is an entitled brat with little to no sympathy for anyone but herself.

jinx was right to blow the council up. jinx was right about everything. and the fact she had so many followers among the young people of zaun only shows that. i saw a theory isha is supposed to be janna but i think it was jinx. she was zaun's breath of fresh air. the bluebird.

(and also i think jayce should have been held accountable for his actions in zaun. he is one of my favourite characters in arcane, the boy that corrupted his own dream, but that doesn't mean i will close my eyes to the shit he's done. he did try to redeem himself at the end of season one but then season two happened and we got hexcore zombies..... like we couldn't have had the machine herald without them).

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Talking with friends has made me realize something. I'm likely one of a small few that never liked Caitlyn way back in season 1. The moment she told Ekko "it's a misunderstanding," I hated her. Telling him he was wrong about how the Enforcers treat the people of the Undercity, how they're in Silco's control as well?

There is no defense for such naivety, not when she's ventured into the Undercity and seen what the place looks like, seen a glimpse of their suffering. "This city needs healing," but she had no issue POISONING the city because one person killed her mother. Caitlyn took her mother's work and used it for PURE EVIL. She proved exactly why Piltovans are irredeemable to me.

All of Piltover's progress is built on the lives of Zaunites, their castle is held aloft by corpses. Caitlyn's privileged lifestyle was only possible because of that and the moment she has an excuse, she adds to the pile of corpses with not a HINT of genuine remorse.

But oh, feel bad for her because she was betrayed (after SHE betrayed, abused, used, and discarded someone else)? Have her saved by the very people she saw no issuing brutalizing, poisoning, and oppressing when it suited her mood? Act as if this is a GOOD and TRIUMPHANT thing!?

The writers' idea that Piltover and Zaun are both wrong and set aside their differences against Noxia pisses me off the most. Please note that at this point, Zaun is not ZAUN - they are still Piltover's "undercity." They struggle to breath because of Piltover, they die enmass from lack of basic necessities because of Piltover, they are wrongly incarcerated because of Piltover.

Piltover has always been the wrong party, the bad and morally bankrupt side - even compared to SILCO of all people (in my opinion), Piltover is just the worst and nothing can redeem the. That badass entrance of Jinx and the Zaunites SHOULD have been them decimating BOTH Piltovan and Noxian forces without discrimination. It's literally what Piltover deserves for their actions!

As I told my friends, Zaun literally has NOTHING to lose and EVERYTHING to gain war. Freedom does not come without a war, a fight, a bomb killing the council and a terrorist killing the faces of their oppression (Enforcers). Jinx becomes a symbol of revolution BECAUSE of this. We as viewers love her BECAUSE of this (and her being a complex and sympathetic character in general).

Piltover had everything to LOSE if Zaun was independent, that's literally why they snuffed out any rebellions and have Enforcers to begin with! There is no misunderstanding, there is no moral ambiguity, there is one side in the right and one side in the wrong. And Caitlyn, to me, is the embodiment of that WRONG - she claims to want the best for Zaun until it doesn't go her way and now she will enforce her will and wants on them because she CAN.

She doesn't deserve to be portrayed sympathetically and Piltover did not deserve to be saved.

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I HATE how Jinx was turned into a mouthpiece for C_itvi this season. Why did her loathing of Caitlyn just disappear even though she acted exactly how she had feared in her hallucinations, nearly shooting Isha and leading the strike team gassing the Lanes? It almost feels like the writers took the homophobic Jinx memes from season 1 seriously and scrambled to contradict that notion in the most ham-fisted way possible.

I also find it interesting that Jinx (and Ekko, actually) never finds out about Caitlyn's physical and verbal abuse of Vi because no way in hell would she have said "you deserve to be with her" if she had known. And why was her final conversation with Caitlyn in the prison so out of character and forced? Why would Jinx apologise for the death of Cassandra, a councillor who contributed to the oppression of Zaun?

It's clear the writers were too cowardly to give Jinx any kind of strong political stance as a consequence of the Piltover-Zaun conflict being sidelined.

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I just saw a video pointing it out that Vi's face was already bruised and cut from her pit fighting. So Caitlyn hitting Vi in the face with a gun was completely unnecessary.

She either didn’t even noticed that Vi was already hurt or she did saw it and still decided to hit her in the face and hurt her even more. In both cases it just goes to show how she doesn't care about Vi at all.

The writers really just wanted Caitlyn to beat up Vi some more, and she did it with no hesitation too, no remorse for her past abuse.

If you told me Colleen Hoover was actually a ghostwriter for Arcane, I would believe you.

No one can convince me that this shit is cute.

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this is exactly why i cannot fucking stand u caitlyn fans

Y'all really don't see poor people as people and learned nothing from the fucking show 😭

Cailtyn Kiramann pfp is the least shocking thing about these comments holy fuck

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If the writers and fans realized and leaned into how toxic caitvi’s dynamic became in season 2 I probably wouldn’t have hated it so much but everyone is trynna convince me it’s a great and healthy ship but it really ain’t. and that would be fine IF PEOPLE ACKNOWLEDGED IT!! but no they’re just ignoring it

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the C in ACAB stands for “caitlyn”, btw

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Someone break Vi free out of her Misery PLEASE IM BEGGING

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I miss them.

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No I don’t hate complex female characters nor do I hate Caitlyn I just hate how the writers handled her in season 2. I hate how they couldn’t keep her consistent. I hate how they didn’t give her enough time to fully explore her character and her development. I hate how because of this, when she changes sides or makes big decisions it doesn’t feel like she made those decisions because she was a fully fleshed out character but because the writers wanted her to do it. I hate that.

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My feelings on Caitlyn in season 1 and season 2 are completely different.

I love Caitlyn in season 1. Shes genuine. I never once doubted in season 1 that she had good intentions. She believed in justice and was ignorant to the system that pushes her family forward while pushing others down and when she’s confronted with this she’s defensive about it. Through the season her arc is learning about the oppression the system Piltover installed was bad and wanted change to help those in the undercity. Her arc wasn’t complete in season 1 and I assumed they were going to continue her progress of helping people and breaking apart her ignorant view of justice and, what I REALLY wanted to happen, for her and Vi to lean a new path for Piltover.

Then fucking season two happened.

Season 1 Caitlyn and Season 2 Caitlyn, two different fucking people. Caitlyn looses her mom and bam, facism and dictatorship! I was disappointed at the outcome, but I pushed my personal beliefs aside and told myself it was because it wasn’t what I wanted and that didn’t make it a bad decision. Her story could highlight how privileged Topside is and how despite us coming to care for Caitlyn, she is still from topside. If they stuck the landing at the end of the series, I would’ve appreciated her character more.

But no! We can’t let the privileged girl face consequences! Grief is not an excuse for what she did. She gassed and used nuclear warfare against the defenseless in Zaun. And no, what she and Jinx did were two different things. Their situations are different. Jinx did what she did because of the oppression of Topside. Everything happened because of the class problems of Piltover. But Caitlyn? Yes loosing a parent figure is bad, but Caitlyn proved that those who were anti topside: Jinx, Sevika, and Silco were right. The police brutality, the abuse of power, the gassing the city, everything.

And she gets no consequences. No, her loosing an eye wasn’t a consequence for her becoming a dictator. That happened because she betrayed Ambessa. And even if it was, loosing an eye is not equal to what she did. Caitlyn got to walk away Scot free. She got to go back to her mansion with Vi.

The thing that made season 1 so good was everything was a domino effect of conflict. Consequences chased the characters constantly. But season 2? Pfft.

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For ppl who liked Arcane season 2, is the honeymoon over yet?

Can we agree that S1 and S2 are completely different shows?

That none of the themes carried over between them?

That Piltover did nothing to earn Zaun coming to their rescue in the final battle?

That Viktor's "cure all weakness" shit came out of nowhere?

That understanding any of Jayce's actions post-talking to mageViktor requires a PhD in eyebrow twitches and nonsense?

That Viktor saving baby Jayce was an unambiguous retcon?

That Vi was just a cardboard cutout that Jinx and Caitlyn wrestled over?

That Vander lived and died at least 2 times too many?

That Isha was just a cute pet for Jinx to monologue at?

That Jinx turned from unhinged terrorist to a defanged, quirky jokester?

That Caitlyn's blink and you'll miss it dictator arc changed nothing and there were zero repercussions for it?

That Ambessa became a hypocritical moron whose anti-mage sentiment ate shit and died when she teamed up with robot mage Viktor, who didn't even PRETEND he wasnt going to hivemind her along with everyone else?

That Silco being close to Powder and Vi's mom, knowing them since they were born, only serves to weaken his relationship with Jinx?

That Mel went from a morally complex, savvy politician into a heroic battle mage, (in like 5 mins of screentime) while all other kinds of magic + Hextech were evil and corrupting and had to be destroyed?

That Ekko convinces Jinx that he went to an alternate reality and fell in love with her and she shouldnt kill herself and to become a revolutionary hero(?) OFF SCREEN?

IS THE HONEYMOON OVER YET?

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i was thinking this

"Isha is Jinx's daughter."

"Isha is Jinx's sister."

Guys. The whole point is that when you're the oldest sister (esp without a reliable parental figure) the lines between mom and sister blur until you blink and you're a pseudo-mother figure taking care of a kid. She's both guys. It's oldest daughter syndrome.

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okay but vi’s side boob here

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i’d do anything for multiple fanfic rewriters of S1 ep. 9 where jinx actually takes vi’s offer to run away together and abandon both caitlyn & silco for good (and by extension, piltover & zaun as well or smth idk).