#Orianna LoL

[bestwitchsam]

AND FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYYY! ORIANNA IS HEREEEEEEEEE! I'M SO HAPPYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[hexhomos]

One of a kind 🪞💎

[ this is a print! ]

[totally-not-an-awkward-okapi]

Finally got my old Orianna VGU concept finished! With Arcane season 2 coming out now I had to get her finished before it finishes dropping just in case she makes a surprise appearance.

Reference sheet + reference photo! Also apologies to Ball. I had no ideas for Ball.

[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"

[league-of-skins]

Orianna, the Lady of Clockwork

[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 🙏

[bestwitchsam]

Viktor, Orianna and Singed Scene Photos High Quality

[parachuter]

wild rift star guardian team goes brrrainrot

[theladyofrosewater]

Higher quality images of Orianna and some scenes related to her in Arcane Season two, curtesy of user Clockwork_Windup on the Orianna Mains subreddit

[roninreverie]

How ya feeling, Singed is Corin Reveck truthers?

[animepopheart]

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