#RIOT WHEN I CATCH YOU RIOT

[bostoncreamdonut]

Just a reminder that Maddie is not some innocent character who is only hated because she’s a victim of bad writing [a spice on the rack of CaitVi drama].

She’s still a classist enforcer and she was on the strike team that gassed The Lanes. Maddie is, in fact, a participant in the oppression of Zaun.

And I’m not saying you can’t like her [that would be silly], I’ve just noticed that people tend to dismiss her actions in favor of criticizing the other writing choices made with her character.

She is wasted potential galore. 😭

It’s easy to forget, isn’t it? Since the fucking gassing scene was a music sequence with flashy colors and a different animation style. Season 2 really couldn’t resist making important scenes montages and leaving them at that.

[clement-tales]

"My place was always here in the lab, with you. We'll make this right. Together."

"Our paths diverged long ago. It was affection that held us close."

What the fuck Riot.

[mazojo]

I am sick

[arriettyspin]

yes I'm a huge timebomb fan yes I squealed and laughed and cried during their scenes in act 3 yes the au episode was my favourite and i am constantly listening to ma meilleure ennemie on repeat, and yes, i was disappointed that ekko's character had barely any development outside of his relationship with powder/jinx, yes i was disappointed with how his tree subplot never got proper closure and how the firelights and his community and trauma and other relationships were just completely neglected and continue to be both by the writers and fandom, we exist.

[kronkys-f-art]

Anyway WHY IS NOBODY TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE SONG "THE LINE" BY TWENTY ONE PILOTS THAT WAS PLAYING WHILE VIKTOR WAS EVOLVING IS LITERALLY VIKTOR TALKING TO JAYCE

LOOK AT THE LYRICS. WHAT THE HELL.

"Yeah he was talking to Sky" NO HE WASN'T

[cocoabellefuntimes]

In memory of lil Sha, Isha. You were a very sweet baby to your mama.

[rainysofsunshineao3]

The only good thing abt

Riot cutting 60 fucking minutes off of Ekko and Jinx's screentime is now we get about 60 fill-in-the-blanks from ao3 to read instead. The possibilities are endless

[raiidsol]

let´s piss riot off to the point where they're so mad and so sick of us talking and singing in french and putting the song on #1 and asking for the ONE ship that had a sad ending that they'll release the timebomb scenes that got cut out of pure frustation just to shut us up

[human-space-heater]

Theory about Jinx in Act 3 of Arcane

Everyone is theorizing that Jinx is going to return back to her psychotic self and won’t want to lead the revolution. But I want to focus on something. We see that it's not Jinx that reignited the flame of the revolution, it's Isha. Isha was the reason everyone at Vander’s statues began to rally around, she literally lit the flame of the revolution on the shoulders of the statue of another rebel. Jinx is going to help the revolution not because she wants to but because this was Isha’s dream of her. This is Isha’s revolution in a way. Jinx couldn’t believe someone as pure and innocent as Isha could look at someone like Jinx and want to be like her. Even Jinx doesn’t want that as seen by the way Jinx tries to end her life (her fight with Vi and her fight with Ekko). 

Jinx is going to help the revolution because she doesn’t want to disappoint Isha. She feels that it's her fault that her little ‘sister’ sacrificed herself, it's part of her curse again. Then I remember what Vi told Jinx in their final fight. 

“You killed her! I won't let you taint her memory anymore.”

Maybe this will motivate Jinx? I don't know. I'm so upset about Isha’s death. We can see that Jinx will most likely cut her hair in the next act. This has been a part of Jinx’s identity for as long as we have known her, even when she was still Powder, she still had a braid. But she cuts it. Why? Is it because with the death of Isha, it's also the death of Jinx AND Powder? Is it because those braids no longer stand for Jinx/Powder but rather Isha? 

Another thing I realized is in the second episode of Act 1, Jinx was giving Silco a water burial. And she says something that stands out.

“Her and you, always bossing me around. And now it’s so quiet. What am I supposed to do with that?”

That’s the episode where we meet Isha, a character who doesn’t speak. A character who motivates Jinx, who gives Jinx a reason to keep going. Isha was influencing Jinx just as much as Jinx was influencing Isha. She stopped Jinx from killing Stink Maw, diverting her attention and presenting an idea that gave Jinx a new perspective. I’m nervous but also excited to see what happens next. 

[lavendersgirl]

vander played the same song for powder that her mom played

[dragonartist56]

GAY PEOPLE CANT JUST SAY I LOVE YOU THEY GOTTA SAY SHIT LIKE THEYRE COSMICALLY INTERTWINED IN EVERY POSSIBLE UNIVERSE AND BE STUCK IN A RUNE FOREVER WITH ONLY EACH OTHER AFTER SHARING THE MOST TENDER HEAD TOUCH I HAVE EVER SEEN ON SCREEN WHAT THE FUCK

[rockstar-burger]

ACT II SPOILERS BELOW (NOT A LEAK) ‼️

[the-idiot-fox]

sobbing and crying i choose to believe they are happy together in another universe

[frenchphobe]

the biggest crime here is arcane is making me cry over a french song

[totallynotsomeone]

The ending was not real in my head Jinx went first on that ship and Ekko soon followed while Isha was in the same ship as Jinx and they land in some other part of the runeterra and just had their family there.

Coping so bad I do this wtf man

[ohboi]

Amanda better sleep with one eye open tonight...