#I could be stretching but am I?!?

[xeno828]

IS VI THE SHERIFF?!?

I would normally say I'm late to the party but I've been researching for far too long and realized barely ANYONE has noticed this!!

So looking at the season 2 trailer for Arcane, everyone seemed to focus on the fact Vi has become an enforcer. But look at this badge that the camera focuses on...

Call me mad, but that isn't just an enforcer badge, that's the SHERIFF'S BADGE!!!!

If you compare the regular enforcer uniform (which ngl is annoying to do cus there seem to be SO many different versions!) they do all have 1 thing in common, the lack of this badge. Some do have a symbol on their belts but it's different from this one, a lot simpler and seems to be a belt decoration/buckle more than an official badge.

But guess which uniforms we DO see with this badge, Grayson and Marcus, both only wearing it while holding the title of Sheriff!

Seriously, compare Grayson and Marcus's badge to the other enforcers!

I'll concede, you could argue that since this is the symbol for Piltover as a whole that it is just to represent the Enforcers in general. But then my question is, why are Grayson and Marcus the only ones wearing this symbol if that is the case?

The only other time we see an enforcer with this specific badge design is when Caitlyn is crossing the bridge back into Piltover and gets stopped by the barricade. But notice this badge is silver, whereas Grayson, Marcus, and Vi, all have gold badges. Looks an indication of status. Regular enforcers carry silver badges while the higher ups have gold ones on display 24/7.

Honestly, the way these badges are presented on each character can also line up with the individual person. If this is true it's a really cool snippet of storytelling through character design.

Looking at Grayson, her badge is big, front and center, she's showing it off. Grayson is proud of what she does and of her status, she earned her title through her own hard work and desire to protect the city.

Marcus's badge is slightly smaller and a bit more off to the side. He is the Sheriff and wants that to be known so, he will use that to his advantage so he doesn't hide his badge. But he is ashamed of how he got the title and is ashamed of himself. He's got what he wanted but has dug a hole for himself so deep that he can't crawl out of it, the only thing he has to show for his efforts is a badge won through blood shed and lies.

Vi's is WAY smaller than both and nearly unnoticeable on her belt to the left side. She has hated the Enforcers and topside her whole life, and now shes found herself becoming one. Oh the misery!! (Sorry!) She doesn't want to be here but feels she has too due to everything that is going on; Jinx, Zaun, Caitlyn, etc. She ended up with this position out of necessity rather than ambition or desire. Her hiding the badge away, the evidence of her 'betrayal' to the Under City, shows how reluctant she is to be doing this. She is only wearing that badge out of needing to comply with the rules that come with being Sheriff. And probably as soon as the job is done she'll toss the thing aside (which also works with the cannon cus that'll probs be how Caitlyn ends up being Sheriff like she is in game).

This entire concept is just SO fascinating to me, all the signs are there but the trailer made us so focused on Vi becoming an enforcer AT ALL that we all missed the other clues. It's a perfect example of misdirection and hiding the truth right under your nose. In the trailer we hear Caitlyn planning a strike team, sounding very in charge. When she is standing by Vi and their team she holds herself high, looking very much like a leader compared to Vi's resigned look and slightly deflated stance. Easily making us think she is the new Sheriff already - notice as well in this picture that neither Cair nor the rest of this team have any badges at all on display with their uniforms (would include a pic but I've reached the limit for this post!!!).

A good chunk of people already know that in game Vi is an enforcer and partner to Sheriff Caitlyn, the show makers know this is the assumption people will be making for season 2 and so went to imply this in the trailer without specifically stating it. Only leaving a few breadcrumbs suggesting we're all looking the wrong way.

I could be stretching here and be completely wrong, but if so PLEASE explain to me why only these 3 people are seen with this damn badge!!!!!

If this is true it's a pretty damn cool way to misdirect and subverse expectations to start off season 2.

[theplatypusblue]

trying to figure out how I wanna draw this weirdo. he stretchy stretchy.

[rcbertleckie]

HBO WWII REWATCH week one · heading out + friends

[stuckinapril]

i think i really need to learn how to cold quit things... one habit i have that really bothers me is checking my phone first thing in the morning bc it's "just for 5 minutes" "just to see if anyone sent me anything important" no bitch literally nothing on your phone requires you to check your phone first thing when you open your eyes!!! stop it

[lunarharp]

What led to this (orufrey comic, cw an uncomfortable/creepy scene)

[artbyblastweave]

I was thinking that maybe I should do a Worm podcast focusing in specifically on how the book is intersecting with the history of the cape genre specifically but then the sniper that my family and friends hired during that intervention a few years ago put a couple warning shots through my window

[art-is-kayos]

Phone games

[glitchedcosmos]

IF THIS IS LEVIATHAN IM GONNA DIE

[amanedachi]

iron / heart

Part of LoL Esports Elemental Series.

[heliomanteia]

Organizing & contamination OCD Will Solace 🤝🏼 OCPD Annabeth Chase friendship forever in my head.

[tracle0]

Snippet Sunday VIII

I think it's the eighth Sunday...? Maybe maybe! Here's some prophet story I wrote freshly for you (yes, you!)

A hand raised to his chest, trying to find the mutilation that had forced his ribs to poke out like ageing farmhouse fencing. His skin was sealed, unblemished under his fingers; sticky from his blood, but otherwise untouched. An identical inspection around his throat found the same. No hole for pathetic, fleshy pleas to wheeze through. All fixed. All perfect.

“You saved me,” he finally whispered, eyes wide and awed. “You – you didn’t have to, but you…?���

The Blight – previously quiet, considerate, letting him get to terms with the gift of his life – curled in his head, content. You’ve done me well, it said simply. I don’t want to lose you yet.

He probed carefully at his skull, hair sliding between his fingers. He could see where shards of his skull had been ejected, pick them up and inspect them, but he found no hollows in his head, no blemishes. “Thank you,” he said softly. “I… thank you.”

Your brother is almost here.

Cain blinked, the brief memory of something – a squirrel? – flashing through his mind, before he shook it away, focused. “We should go, then,” he said, starting to stand. The ground glimmered. His surroundings groaned and sobbed, the forgotten guards whimpering and wheezing, the fury surrendering them to shock and agony. “To Body?”

It hesitated. As he started to walk past a pair of guards, one pinned down by the other, bloodied and bruised, it drew his attention down to the ground, to a discarded knife next to the freed, fighting pair. See if you can slow him down, it suggested idly.

[carlyraejepsans]

flowisk makes my brain buzz. It’s about how Flowey is “why do you still care about me? I am not that person you sought. They are dead in the ground, their corpse long gone, dust adrift in the wind. I am a mistake. A remnant accidentally brought to life. The only connection I have to that person are memories I can barely recognize as my own.” And Frisk is “b/c you’re a cutie patootie (When I was saving you I wasn’t aiming for one part. You counted as well for a remnant is still a part of him. And despite everything even if you aren’t you are still you)”

not that i disagree on the "frisk being dead set on saving/caring for flowey" aspect, but I think you're really lowballing the "self recognition through the other (derigatory)" aspect they've got going on.

i mean, you see flowey being revived and taking control of RESETs and going through this gnarly endless cycle of repetition where he wallows in his own trauma and regrets, growing isolated from his loved ones with every retry and idolizing his memory of chara as a comfort to the alienation he caused himself...

and then here comes frisk. who is perhaps the only person who could ever understand what he's gone through. what if MEANS to have that power, to use it, to abuse it, to retry a thousand times, who FEELS like chara.

and they absolutely fucking infuriate him. stupid, ridiculous, gullible, painfully unpredictable frisk. who calls for help and people come running. who kills him (or maybe they don't) and then reached for him all the same and calls his name. who is so determined it drowns him out. how can he not get a little bit obsessed.

i think flowey is the only character who can truly understand frisk, and frisk is the only character who can truly understand flowey. they should be lil freaks together about it methinks

[hydriadd]

IT WAS FUCKING FORESHADOWING ON HOW SNEEG AND CHARLIE WERE GOING TO TRY TO PROTECT RANBOO OHHH

OH MY GOD SHOWFALL COULD HAVE BEEN TRYING TO STOP THEM SO THEY COULDN’T SAY WHY

[spielzeugkaiser]

I'll not be able to do inktober this year (again) but I did pick up my traditional media to do some classic inspired paintings again! And I did (a little late) fall into a certain angel and demon shaped hole, so... 👀 if there is any classics you'd love to see reworked good omens style, let me know? 👉👈

[eerna]

shoutout to Nicasia for being the only one who figured out Jude was the mastermind behind the coup. Orlagh, Madoc, and Balekin, the Big Brained Centuries Old Antagonists, as well as the rest of Elfhame, all convinced her she was wrong so she gave up on trying to prove it after a while but the way she made Jude sweat was soooo girlbosses supporting girlbosses

[hella1975]

so there's a reason my new job got back to me so quickly about my application and that's bc it's an absolute fucking shambles like actually perfect timing for me to decide to rewatch the bear bc i have never more felt like ive been thrown into a broke on-its-knees establishment trying to crawl its way up the ladder where i am somehow a godsend to them. my old job was crazy and shambolic in the sense that the industry is just Like That but this one?????? insanity. every 5 mins i am questioning what im doing with my life. ive already had a walk-in fridge moment