#Isha lives

[aelincreativ]

All For Her

He knew time was passing. How could he not? But during the in-between moments, the moments of pause between moments of forward and back, it felt like time was racing past him all at once and at the same time like each second took a year. Everything happened all at once and never at the same time.

--or--

Ekko's trapped in the Wildrune observing the world around him. Unable to interfere until it's almost too late. But then he gets his chance.

[molinaesque]

But I got something going now. A friend. And I don't wanna mess it up. Maybe that's what I was like for you.

[krussyarts]

Family

[beif0ngs]

ALRIGHT, LET’S ALL JUST PRETEND ACT II ENDED WITH THIS FAMILY REUNION HUG AND NOTHING BAD HAPPENS AFTER OKAY 😭😭😭

[popomegranate]

Isha and Jinx’s relationship is the one I’m most interested in seeing develop this season. Isha is a clear parallel to Powder, meaning we will see Jinx a big sister role. Which is a role we’ve never seen Jinx in. She could be like Vi, trying to protect a child they love from the violent world they live in.

But there’s also another relationship paralleled here. Silco and Jinx. A child who all but forced their way into someone’s life. Powder to Silco. Isha to Jinx.

Will Jinx be like Vi? Try to raise Isha up and chase away her monsters? Will she be like Silco? Pushing Isha to let go of her demons and become what they fear?

Or will Jinx finally do her own thing, and let Isha choose? Refuse to pull her in any direction and simply let her be herself? Validate her for who she is not who she was or could be (Don’t cry, you’re perfect)

[blood-starved-beast]

I am. So worried about Jinx ngl.

rewatching Act 2 and just :/ the death flags

[ideologyofone]

Insane that Arcane introduces an adorable little 7 year old child who everyone loves before even seeing them in the show and everyone’s first reaction is oh my god they’re going to kill that child 😭

[mollysunder]

I recognize a character like Isha could die, but I ask the Arcane writers to please kill Heimerdinger instead. Let him die for Isha to live. Heimerdinger is over 300 years old, he's lived long enough, but Isha's just a baby.

Heimerdinger, a man responsible for untold suffering in Zaun wants to do right by Zaunites right? He doesn't need to make toys for children, let Heimerdinger sacrifice himself for this child to live.

[oneoflokischildren]

*singing* I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm so fucking scared

[nuttypookie]

please

[poyameows]

Oh they are so evil and I am going to commit after this.

HER SONG THE TEARS I HATE THIS SHOW. THE FLASHBACK SCENE OF THEM OMG ITS SO OVER

[jaundicity]

ISHA WAS SO FUCKING YOUNG, MAN. TOO YOUNG. SHE HAD HER WHOLE LIFE AHEAD OF HER BUT SHE CHOSE TO CUT IT SHORT TO LET HER SISTERS ESCAPE. THAT LITTLE GIRL DIED KNOWING THAT SHE MADE WHAT MUST'VE THE HARDEST CHOICE IN HER LIFE. SHE'LL NEVER GROW UP WITH JINX AND VI PROTECTING HER AND LOVING HER LIKE THEY DID ONCE TO EACH OTHER. I'M STILL NOT OKAY.

[pacificwaternymph]

Ya know we all knew it was going to happen. Isha was designed to die. We all knew that right from the start.

And it still ruined me.

[stardvstbby]

i’m going to read a frankly concerning amout of fix it fics once Arcane finishes

i NEED my Vander, Vi, Jinx, and Isha happy family

[kiyrian]

I just realized: Jinx in S1 talks about how her & Vi situation is so much different than Silco & Vander. Now though we know they are very very similar and it's just that Silco never told her what really happened.

And we do see that he omits parts of the story - he shares new insight with her during the baptism scene after she mentions that they already went over it several times. Maybe he does it because some things aren't for children to learn, maybe because he struggles with sharing his real weak points.

Still, in the case of Jinx and Vi's parents I wonder if it's guilt - the same guilt Jinx feels over the death of her brothers. Or maybe fear - fear that Jinx would leave him if she found out her parents died after (and here I'm guessing based on Vander's flashbacks) Silco threw a Molotov cocktail at the guards. Hard to tell if he was the first to attack or it was a retaliation but the ending is the same: the parents died and Vander blamed Silco. Just like Vi blamed Jinx. Until Vander didn't but Silco never got to learn that. Until Vi didn't but she came with an enforcer and there was no time to talk.

How much easier would it be for Jinx if Silco shared the whole story? If he showed her that the similarities run deeper and that even after all this she (I assume) still saw his as a father figure -> she too deserved love despite her mistakes. Hell, if Vander ever talked to Silco or Silco tried to find him before S1 the whole problem would probably be solved before it even started.

And then what about Jinx sharing the whole story with Vi? How Silco was her father (was he good at it? that's a different topic. Still she grieves him as his daughter, she misses his lessons and guidance). How she didn't mean for the things to happen. How she needs help with her hallucinations (Silco tried to help with those and do they even have any kind of mental health professionals to offer real help? probably not. Still, not treating it as an excuse for her behavior but a real problem she's struggling with would do wonders.) We get some of it in S2 Act 2 but they are always in action and there are so many "almosts". Vi almost touching Jinx's shoulder. Jinx almost reaching out. The talk about future. They get family hugs with Vander. But this doesn't solve the grief, the hurt.

Here's to hoping the girls can break this circle of "All we needed was one honest conversation and then work on our relationship but we could have made it. Instead all we have is grief and useless legacy."

(Yet how often we don't get to have those kind of conversations in real life? How often we lose people because we never really explained? I love and hate how well Arcane portraits it)

[vasira96]

i rewatch s2 episode 6 of arcane and y'all, the dr literally has a conversation with viktor where he drops that warwick's blood has regenerative properties (uh oh sorry isha), and also that viktor using warwick's blood would make viktor into his ultimate form, a notion that viktor rejects because it would kill vander but uhhhhhh viktor is now dying and there is likely suddenly a lot of warwick's blood available all of a sudden and i'm not saying that they're going to use it on viktor but also wouldn't it be so fucked up if they did??