#Heimerdinger arcane

[viktorthemachineherald]

What actually happened to Jayce and Viktor in the end? And why didn’t Ekko’s Z-drive destroy everything within its blast radius?

TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktor and gets his partner back.

Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space. 

Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).

We know from his experiments that the limit for reversing time is only 4 seconds. Any further back and it causes catastrophic harm to his surroundings. It’s implied that the further he overextends his Z-drive, the more disastrous the damage and radius of effect.

In the final battle against Viktor, we see Ekko overextend his Z-drive far beyond 4 seconds. Then, he yeets it at Viktor, whose mask is shattered from the impact.

We know that turning back time beyond 4 seconds causes catastrophic destruction of the surrounding areas: Jayce and Viktor, and perhaps countless others should have been caught up in the blast. But instead, we see something different:

Time stands still for a moment, courtesy of the boy who shattered time. 

Now things happen all in a manner of seconds: In the astral plane, we see Viktor comment on the anomaly that Ekko has created.

It’s something that Viktor as smart as he is, couldn’t have conceived— leave it to Ekko (and lest I forget, Heimerdinger and alt-Jinx) to show them all up.

This is debatable, but I firmly believe that Viktor with his awareness of all time and space, could have escaped or even survived the explosion.

It’s only Jayce, the only person who could show him what he showed him, that gets through to him in the end and convinces him to give up his Glorious Evolution.

"In all timelines, only you can show me this". Ekko is the catalyst but Jayce was the key.

Jayce returns the Acceleration rune to Viktor which kicks off a chain of events. The souls under Viktor’s control are freed from his grasp. Back in the real world, and back to the explosion, we see the following happening almost simultaneously: 

The blast from the Z-drive extends from Viktor’s reach to Jayce’s

The Acceleration rune embedded in Jayce’s wrist starts to glow from being activated by Jayce and Viktor in the astral plane

Jayce and Viktor are absorbed into the gem and the gemstone blips out of existence 

Recall that the Z-drive was created through an inversion of the Acceleration rune. To multiply something by its inverse, is to divide it by itself. The Acceleration rune multiplied by the Inversed Acceleration rune, cancels out the effect of the other: nullifying both the anomaly from the Z-drive but also the rune.

This explains why there was no larger explosion. Viktor and Jayce (who chose to stay) sacrificed themselves and took themselves out of the equation. Jayce and Viktor were the anomalies— just like the Z-drive should not have existed, neither should have Hextech.

Through all the timelines and permutations of runes that Viktor tried, the only combination that could have worked was in the timeline with the Acceleration rune. It couldn’t have worked if it was any other rune, if Ekko had never invented the Z-drive, or if Jayce had never convinced Viktor to give up his path of destruction, and got his partner back.

In short: Boy Savior saves the day; Love Wins

[itsanotheridiot]

In honor of Arcane finale coming out today here is 270 pfps from the jayce war

+ bonus funny comments

[yan-springlove]

Fun fact! In League Lore, Yordles don't really die. They get teleported back to Bandle City (the realm/city of Yordles). I'm not 100% sure whether they're keeping this part of the lore what with all the new changes tho.

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but you don't actually see a shot of Smeech or Heimerdinger dead. The animators just use the power of implication to make us think so, unless u know this part of the lore!

So to everyone thinking Heimerdinger is dead? He most likely isn't!

wait a second. jinx escaping in the air ducts. jayce and viktor being sucked into the rune/teleported. did literally only heimerdinger and ambessa die in that finale?

[libertastandem]

I'm sorry but I cackled

I was NOT expecting that

[editfandom]

ARCANE, S02E09

[pfpanimes]

⌕ arcane season 2 • EP 7.

like or reblog if you save/use. ✨

[gobbogoo]

God, I keep seeing people getting so pissy that this sweet old man is allowed to recognize his own mistakes and work to fix them. People legit have an easier time forgiving actual murderers like Jinx than this elderly fuzzball who's greatest crime is ignorance.

Like, they NEEDED his friendship with Ekko to somehow be insidious or harmful, because he founded a nation within which inequality exists, which means he MUST be evil!

Or... hear me out... cooky old inventors simply don't make good civic leaders!

Heimerdinger's inability to navigate politics and general spaciness made him ineffectual and easily manipulated, but he always had good intentions. Like I get our real-life civic leaders and founders generally suck, but people really need to stop projecting that real-world crap onto what has always been just a silly little guy.

I'm obsessed with how season one of Arcane introduced Heimerdinger as this furry little man with a funny voice but also as a serious, no-nonsense wise elder character, and then he loses his job and immediately turns into the silliest old man alive. Like he's been near bursting with whimsy and repressing it so hard for so long that now that it's been unleashed he's permanently stuck in kooky old mentor mode. Everyone else is agonising over the horrors but that's not his job anymore and he's honestly just having the time of his life right now

[aidens-ocean-galaxy]

ARCANE SPOILERS UNDER THE CUT!!!

HDKFHDKDHSKXBLSHCNEUCJ HOLY FUCKING SHIT

I’m taking a break from the first episode of part three rn because holy shit

I was anticipating the kiss, but when it happened, I fully leaped up out of bed and started hyperventilating because MY BABIES KISSED AND I’M SO HAPPY ABOUT IT!!!

AND VANDER AND SILCO?! I was like “is silco here? I wanna see some zaundads” AND THEN HE WAS AT THE PARTY! AND HE AND VANDER ARE SO MARRIED

anyways, let’s not ignore the psychological horrors that jayce was going through this episode. my poor bbg. I never hated him for anything he did because I knew something happened to him, and we got to see what happened. I’m so glad that they showed what happened during jayce, ekko, and heimerdinger’s time in the whatever it’s called (I forgot lol)

anyway, I’m gonna continue the rest in a sec. I just needed to brace myself after all that

TIMEBOMB KISS OMFG FIOSHFKSNCIEUFJOWJD

[human-space-heater]

Arcane Season 2 Act 3 Thoughts:

Spoilers

WHAT THE HELL JUST HAPPENED?!

TIMEBOMB CONFIRMED?!

CAITVI CONFIRMED?!

JAYVIK CONFIRMED?!

Also jinx is alive I dont care what anyone says about it.

"Oh Jayce is straight. He has to be." STFU that ending was one of the gayest things ive ever seen. I genuinely thought they were gonna kiss at the end but fuck me I guess.

Ngl wasn't a fan of Jinx's buzzed off hair but thats because Im biased. I still think she's a badass.

Vi is a badass

Cait is a badass

Mel is a badass

Ekko is perfect and a badass bitch

Jayce and Viktor are gay as hell (they are also alive I dont care what anyone else says.)

I got so hyped when I saw Jinx's hot air balloon of her lab and then all the firelights flying off

Ekko and Powder are adorable together. Also I love the way that Ekko talk to Jinx

Sevika on the counsel was amazing to see. I was so happy for her.

To quote a post I saw here : we won but at what cost?

Also fanfic writers, I only want to see fluff for everything being written OKAY?! The fandom has suffered enough!! Please Im begging you only fluff and happy endings!

[avelera]

Weird Arcane worldbuilding question/conundrum but… do they have doctorates in Piltover? And if so, do Jayce and Viktor have them?

I was going to say they don’t have them at all, but then I remembered that Cait calls Singed “Dr. Revek” so actually yeah, doctorates do exist.

But when Ambessa calls Jayce “Mr. Talis” he corrects her to Councilor Talis. Now, technically Council as a rank probably outstrips Dr. so in terms of etiquette it would be correct to defer to.

(Personally, I think it would have been very sexy to have Jayce say, “Actually it’s Councilor Talis. Or Dr. Talis.” But it could have also come off as insufferably arrogant which… also would have fit S1 Jayce very well.)

And of course, it’s a running theme that Zaunites don’t have surnames, that maybe you need a House for that, so Viktor would just be Dr. Viktor which sounds… odd. Clearly they’re just avoiding titles in that respect. The one exception so Zaunites not having surnames is Sky Young being referred to as Ms. Young, even though she’s from the Undercity, and even though it’s very possible she has a doctorate (or is working towards one in their lab).

So I think my conclusion is that Arcane decided to default to Doctor being a term only used for medical professionals, not engineers or other disciplines with an advanced degree. Heimerdinger is never referred to as Doctor, though as an immortal and the Dean of the Academy he certainly has the highest degrees available, one would assume.

So only Dr. Revek/Singed as a medically inclined professional gets the Doctor title. Jayce and Viktor as Hextech scientists continue to be “Mr.” despite almost certainly having advanced degrees themselves.

(RIP my desire to have Jayce correcting someone who thinks he’s an idiot by reminding them he has a doctorate, it lives on my heart.)

[monophobix]

arcane season 2 episode 7:

ekko, heimerdinger, jinx: 😄😄

jayce:

[llserenell]

Okay, random Arcane theory.

Please excuse the bad writing, it’s three in the morning.

(Tw: Suicide)

Seeing this dimension, I couldn’t help but wonder something.

From what we’ve learnt, everything there is much more healthier and okay, with Hextech not existing and not much going wrong. (Aside from Vi’s death.)

Both Heimerdinger and Ekko are transported there, seemingly swapping with their other selves. Jayce on the other hand, is transported to an apocalyptic type dimension, left to fight for his life.

In the dimension Ekko and Heimerdinger are taken to, Vi dies due to the crystal exploding, meaning her and the others still robbed Jayce’s apartment, and that he still was trying to create magic.

Originally, nobody dies in the explosion. But here, somebody does die, most likely leading to Jayce getting into more trouble.

In the original dimension, shortly after the trial, Jayce attempts to commit suicide, but is thankfully saved by Viktor. Assuming that this Jayce followed the same route as the original, he too would have stood by that ledge.

The Jayce we know, the original, had planned his suicide, writing a note and taking off his valuables, as we see here:

The only reason Viktor is there to stop him, is because he wanted to discuss this ‘Hextech theory.’ But in the other dimension, Hextech doesn’t exist.

I can’t help but think that, maybe, the reason Hextech doesn’t exist there is because Viktor didn’t take Jayce’s notes and go to speak with him, leaving Jayce left to do what he originally planned to. Perhaps this is why Jayce isn’t taken to that dimension, because he doesn’t have a version to swap with.

I could be reaching, but it seems to be a possibility.

Ufhhhh, I can’t express how much I love Jayce. I feel so bad for this poor man.

[akascow]

okay so

i think the viktor and mel hallucinations during jayce's whole Moment in 2x07, their eyes are just completely black. and its VERY faint but u can KIND OF see the outline of their irises if u look REALLY close (irl)

to show u what i mean:

first ones are just normal settings (tho my computer brightness is all the way up), i only messed with the exposure n highlights of the pictures and stuff in the middle ones, and outlined the eyes in the third ones

​which could make sense in terms of his mental state i think ? he maybe feels like he let them down, or betrayed them or couldnt help them in a way ??

they dont feel human to him anymore. or maybe hes created these images so theyre judging him as he can only reminisce on what happened and how he left things

mel’s vision looks maybe like either angry, stubborn, strong willed or annoyed lol... her chin is kinda turned down, with downturned eyebrows, and her lower lids are halfway closed implying that shes like glaring or narrowing her eyes at him, her lips almost look pursed together and i think ? her nostrils are flared but its so hard to tell lmao we only get like three frames of over exposure HAAH take these with a grain of salt lmfao

viktor (even tho i cannot for the life of me read his expression HAHA) to the best of my ability i think kinda looks hurt or confused, maybe innocent for lack of a better term or scared. ((which given how he left jayce it would kinda fit lmao)) BUT his brows are ever so slightly scrunched together, one is higher than the other which usually implies confusion or thinking or admiring. eyes are wide open, mouth is agape a teenie bit, these are usually seen with softer, positive or more admirable expressions, and his chin is tilted upward. im not trying to turn this into a jayvik thing i swear im just comparing to my facial recognition knowledge HAHA

and as he loses himself deeper in the hexcore, the more he starts losing and/or fearing the two ppl he loved most ? ... and worries how he’d get back to them (if at all) and how he would imagine they would react.

the two ppl who not only made and brought him to who he is today, but uplifted and supported and stood by him for ~10 years despite everything

anyway this theory would all pair nicely with the voices that start playing in the background during his lil Montage lmao it kind of culminates into a massive guilty conscious, that then outwardly presents itself in their hallucinations:

“i never asked for this” - jayce to viktor, after their conversation about him breaking their promise about destroying the hexcore, resulting in vik leaving him lmao. also jayce literally turned viktor into this metal husk so hes gotta have that sitting on his shoulders too lmfao

“[heimer] was my mentor, and i betrayed him” - jayce (to mel) abt voting heimer off the council despite heimer ending up being completely right about magic in the first place

“it corrupts” “you must destroy it” “ive seen nations destroyed” - heimer about the hexcore, jayce screams over this as those lines play, anguishing over the fact that he literally did this to himself and hes the reason Piltover is (or will be) no more bc he ignored the warnings

“its your time now jayce” “perhaps its time for the era of magic” - mel to jayce, context is in the quotes HAHA. jayce is screaming no! no! and please! during these lines, i think its just to hammer (pun intended) home on the fact that it all ties back to him for ‘creating’ magic. its on HIM (at least in his own mind) for the destruction of Piltover and all of its people

maybe im just thinking too hard about it idk (im not). or unless this was extremely obvious to the average viewer HAHA. in my defense i spent this whole montage pausing every .6 seconds to take a picture of seggsy and broken and whimpering jayce so i wasnt really paying that much attention to it all AHAHA

anyway do u think this was a hallucination or was it actually the mage standing here with him for a flash lmao

okay sorry for that long ass post i would add a page break sooner but it would interrupt my flow of thoughts that i need u all to experience like i do HA

[hereforthegeekysht]

I call this post "oof my heart"

Ekko's always been one of my favorite characters, but I wasn't ready for "can we pretend like it's the first time?" It's just so...vulnerable.

[editfandom]

ARCANE, S02E07

[thatguyisdrowning]

jinx and heimerdinger aren't dead and i'm 100% sure of that fact.