#I said Zaun- being poor + queer + POC + having experienced police brutality and racism-classism first hand
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mylove-themoon · 20 days ago
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The whole ending for the main timeline kinda sucks for Zaun, even the one good thing they get is backhanded as fuck.
Like sure, Sevika is on the council- but the council relies on majority vote, and every other member of the council only work in the interests of themselves or of piltover. Nobody else cares about Zaun, so nothing will change.
And Piltover shows they will alway protect and prioritize their own over everything else
Cait gets no consequences for her actions from the last two acts, despite doing many, many crimes. She released the Gray on the Undercity- which is going to cause disease, death, etc to many innocent people (the same disease Viktor was dying of, it was a direct result of Piltover’s oppression and the gray- I could go on and on about his ending but I shan’t.), arresting random Zaunites- including children- and just leaving them in prison, and even tho we hate Singed, threatening to throw him under the fucking prison was a little far. She gave him the opportunity to either join her or die. So the people of Zaun are animals and criminals until they’re useful?
And the scene of the Noxian guy (can’t remember his name) literally torturing that Jinxer??? Ambassa’s dead and so is he, so I guess thats their consequence, but nothing for Cait? No, Cait gets to have a nice life, she might feel guilty and maybe she’ll have a couple nightmares but really she’s not facing a single consequences You guys remember when Jayce almost got exiled for Hextech in season one? A crime in which nobody died or was grievously harmed? Yet there are no consequences Caitlyn hmmm
After everything the people of Zaun have gone through, they get nothing- they see their oppressor hailed as a hero, they see their children die of a disease that should never have touched the new generation (or just straight up suffocate while it was actively being deployed- if they get caught in that they are dead- little lungs and little legs yk- if they can’t escape it then they die) they see their only hope (Sevika) repeatedly shot down by the council, they see the abuse will continue. Even after everything they lost- all those who fought in Piltovers war- they get nothing. They helped, they worked with them when working against them didn’t work, and they still get nothing.
I think Ekko’s ending really drives it home- the ONE character who deserves the world above everybody else is sitting alone in the end. He did everything right but was still alone. If he -and Jinx- hadn’t rallied their forces and convinced the people of Zaun to fight then Piltover would have lost to Noxius. He convinced his people to fight and die for Piltover- but Cait’s the hero, and he’s still fighting for his own people.
#I have a friend#and we were talking about if we were in arcane where would we be#I said Zaun- being poor + queer + POC + having experienced police brutality and racism-classism first hand#they said piltover#and I remembered we came from two entirely different words#when I said ‘damn siding with the oppressors’ they said ‘no just the money and nice clothes and hextech seem cool lol’#they don’t see that the reason they have those things is because they are the ruling class#they have what they have because they are the oppressors#they are privileged- my friend- so they can’t relate to Zaun#they have never had to go hungry- to worry about having a place to live- to worry about anything#they can not relate to struggling- to fighting for your life and fighting those who hate you but just existing#to being twelve years old pinned to the wall by cops#they’ve never lived on the street#everything was handed to them- so they side with piltover- because that’s who they see themselves in#just wanted to add that- in case anyone was wondering why some people defend piltover and Cait so much ^#I love arcane#but fucking Christ that ending was so bleak#(also Cait fans being extremely racist to Ekko’s voice actor…yeah I see why y’all like her)#arcane season 2 spoilers#arcane#arcane ekko#arcane caitlyn#arcane zaun#arcane piltover#Ik this is my freaky blog but I had to speak my truth somewhere#number one jinx defender btw#so what if she blew up the people that were oppressing her and her city and tried to get HER FATHER to turn her in#I don’t give a fuck about nobody in Piltover AT ALL#I think that little factoid is forgotten#that piltover- Jayce- tried to get Silco to trade lives- his daughter for the people of Zaun
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