#Orianna LoL

[hexhomos]

One of a kind 🪞💎

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[alexcaninnit]

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[cenfitto]

one for the orivik club lets hold hands and hope arcane doesnt kill us dead

[junkyardescape]

Orianna + League's New Lore Direction

Canonizing Arcane and cutting short stories contributes to a feeling I've had for a little while about the storytelling in League, but that I couldn't really articulate until now.

It feels to me like Riot has a list of characters who are canon to the lore, and everyone else kinda just... exists. And this choice to focus more on the high-budget, long turnaround forms of storytelling (they pointed out Riot Forge titles and the season start cinematics) are not sustainable, or even practical, for telling smaller stories about League's "less important" champions.

That's kinda what I value most about the short stories; they can present little vignettes from the lives of characters, and in some cases, were genuinely the only way a champion would get anything more than their bio. Orianna has been out since 2011, and in terms of canon Runeterra appearances, has literally only a bio and a short story. I have other thoughts about Fieram, but that's for a different post lol. Orianna isn't very popular, but I genuinely love the incarnation of her we have right now; I know there's the semi-popular theory that she is Singed's daughter in Arcane, but I'm A) not totally convinced of it in the first place and B) not exactly excited about the prospect of that because it fundamentally alters her character. I think there's quite a few champions in this position, and I wish they wouldn't choose to unify the lore by completely cutting out the means by which "less important" champions get their storytelling.

Certainly some of these champions will get places in cinematics and Riot Forge titles and things, but like. I'm not holding out for a standalone Orianna game, nor for her to appear in any capacity more than cameos like Corin Reveck's brief references in Convergence. I really like the position her character can hold with regard to smaller stories, and I don't think she works on a bigger level like characters like Jinx + Vi, Viego, Ashe and so much of the Freljord, Lux, Sylas, and everyone else who feel more like "main characters". And there are so many characters who are suited to these smaller narratives.

Orianna's narrative is internal. Right now, its solitary. Fitting her into larger stories like this does her a disservice because it makes it harder to explore her, and she's already been done so much injustice in the writing that does exist about her. Every one of the characters in this universe has the ability to be a "main character" in some capacity, but not all of them will do it through such high stakes narratives.

I think Riot Forge is gonna be really cool for the champions who get to have their stories presented through it - Song of Nunu looks great, and if you told me Nunu would get a standalone game when I started playing when Yasuo was released, I'd think you were insane. But for some champions it feels like they're going to lose what makes them them to better suit them for the larger narratives of the story or be completely left out to dry.

[tinytailss]

Helloooo

[funnyscienceman]

funniest thing about the singed = corin reveck theory is that if turned out to be true then the wiki and tv tropes pages will have to be edited, the ao3 tag will have to change to singed | corin reveck, and if you go to orianna's league universe page there's a chance you'd see singed's goofy picture in "related champions"

[jugger-heads]

orianna gothic

[mimustical]

Space Groove Orianna fan design! I'm just happy she is played so much in Worlds

hopefully she will get a visual update as a result 🙏

[parachuter]

wild rift star guardian team goes brrrainrot

[animepopheart]

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[thestuffedalligator]

I have. A completely baseless crackpot theory about Arcane season 2.

I think Mel is going to turn into Orianna.

Or at least. I think Mel is going to be dead/heavily injured after the attack on the council, Viktor is going to try and save her while in full Glorious Robot Evolution mode, and he’s going to wind up turning her into a mechanical doll to her mother and Jayce’s fucking horror.

This doesn’t line up with Orianna’s canon lore and I have no evidence to support this but I kind of sort of desperately want this to be true.

[neuko]

[cenfitto]

dec 2020-jan 2021

[junkyardescape]

Singed as Orianna's Father

Since this shot in Arcane there's been a pretty sizeable group of people suggesting Orianna will be written into Arcane as the daughter of Singed. I'm not entirely sold on this being the case, given that the shot we get is so small, but given that there's a chance, I've been thinking a lot about the possibility and I'm. Not A Fan.

This isn't to say I think it'll be poorly done or anything - The writers of Arcane are incredible, so I wholeheartedly believe that, if this is made the case, it'll be well written and compelling. My issue is not that it's going to be bad, or even that it'll be worse than the current lore. My main issue is that I don't think it lines up well with the established aspects of Orianna's character and simplifies her relationship with her father in a way I don't love, while also harming the worldbuilding of Runeterra and of Piltover specifically.

Something that has always intrigued me about Orianna's lore is her relationship with her father Corin. Part of why is because that relationship is so poorly explored in her original lore. Her father doesn't let her go anywhere without him, and only lets her leave home to go to the theater, which becomes her only understanding of the outside world. When she escapes for Zaun to help people after a mining explosion and ends up getting terminally sick, her father DOES make her a set of prosthetic lungs - shout out to him for that one - but he makes it so they only work when wound up with a key that he keeps behind a locked door. And still, in spite of the obviously poor treatment she received, Orianna gives her heart to her father once his own health starts failing.

There's like. SO much interesting stuff here. I kinda like that Corin is mostly just a guy? He's a not great father in a way that feels really resonant and grounded in a fantasy setting, whereas Singed being her father means she has a dad who's shitty in a grounded way and also makes nukes to destroy Ionia with and manufactured the drug crisis of a millennia in Zaun, one of which he's already done in Arcane lol. This choice inexorably ties Orianna to the larger narrative, when honestly I'm not sold on the need for that? It might just be my love of smaller slice-of-life storytelling, but it's hard to imagine how Orianna's journey toward regaining her humanity and understanding her new self ties into the current plot of Arcane. There are ties to Viktor there that could have their plots sort of opposed to one another, with Viktor getting further from humanity while Orianna aspires to it, and there are a million other ideas they could go with which could be compelling and exciting, but again, the quality of the storytelling isn't my concern.

I feel that the relationship she has with Corin is an essential part of Orianna's character. It is something which contributes to her feelings of isolation and her love of the outside world, as well as speaking to her nature as a fundamentally caring person. It's also something that to this day has never been resolved; for all we know, Orianna is still just out there, not understanding herself or her relationships and thinking her isolation is permanent. And that's not a satisfying ending for a character who is completely capable of self-love and in a world where her isolation is genuinely fabricated. And I like these aspects of her character! She's complex, she's grounded, and there's already such a great base for her character that I think would be hurt with this relationship with Singed.

There's also a couple issues I have with how it impacts the worldbuilding, and what the implications of Arcane's story as it stands has on Orianna as a character. Orianna's dad, in base canon, runs a shop where he designs sells prosthetics. He's not a huge scholar, he's not insanely wealthy, he has no access to special tech. Orianna doesn't gain hextech until she manages to get some from a chembaron. I really like this choice! It tells us a little something more about Piltover to know that there is some weirdo in his shop in the city turning his daughter into a robot, showing off a little bit more about the culture of the city and attitudes toward augmentation at the time Orianna was needing new parts. This isn't necessarily lost if Singed is her father, but Zaun has a different attitude toward mods, and it's harder to consider Singed's opinion on anything to represent the common people considering his... everything.

I'm also very interested to see how they would manage to conflict of hextech that she presents; in order for her to exist as her current self in Arcane, she would've had to be built before or during season 1, which was before the discovery of hextech. I have some thoughts about how they could do this with respect to her Old Lore, but that's gonna have to be a separate post, as this one is long enough as it is already XD

Basically, I like the Orianna we have now. I think there's so much of her left unexplored, and the changes to her character this represents would leave her original story incomplete and also change her to a significant capacity. The new Orianna that could be made from that totally has the ability to be as interesting or more than the one of base lore, but I'm not sure it's the Orianna I know.

[artofgeppetto]

in honour of the wild rift guardians coming to pc, here are some fanart i did of them last year

[funnyscienceman]

so i've been playing hollow knight