#Rictus

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Arcane x Annihilation Part 2

Made in collaboration with my dear friend @astroboibaepsae who wrote a spectacular companion fic

CW: dead body, blood

(ID: sequential art image 1: A wide shot of Viktor walking towards the lighthouse/tower, the shape reminiscent of the hexgates, surrounded by an iridescent haze with debris floating in the sky image 2: Viktor inside the lighthouse, face to face with the burnt and decayed body of Jayce, a dark passage visible in the back image 3: Viktor in front of the Hexcore feeding it his blood image 4: Viktor interrogated by Ambessa and Rictus, who wear hazmat suits image 5: Duplicate Jayce and Viktor holding each other in a hospital bed, their eyes glow iridescent from the shimmer/arcane end ID)

[a-green-misstep]

The last supper of the Machine Herald (1498)

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COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!!

[slvr47]

ARCANE SUPPORT LGBT WHY WHY WHY 😭😭😭

[warship005]

this guy stronger than me cause I would've unzipped Rictus' pants and showed Zaun & Piltover what a real hungry beast looked like

[viridian-fields]

What was Maddie's role in the attack on the memorial?

We have confirmation from writer Amanda Overton that Maddie is in fact Noxian and has therefore always been working for Ambessa. So I want to examine her actions around that memorial attack a bit closer.

I've seen it suggested that Maddie was somehow "protected" during the attack, because the armoured shimmer goon (do these armoured suits have a name btw?) was making a show of attacking her without actually harming her. I'll examine that exact moment a bit later but I do not agree with this assessment even a little bit.

Maddie is a deep cover agent. Presumably her entire identity in Piltover is fictitious. Careful planning and work have gone into integrating her into the ranks of enforcers over a long period of time. You do not take unnecessary risks with the identity of agents like this.

Keeping an agent like this "protected" from Renni's goons, would mean revealing her identity to every single Zaunite that Renni has recruited ("hey no one kill that redheaded enforcer, she's on our side"). If even ONE attacker survives this assault they have the potential to reveal Maddie's true identity. And imagine how it would look for these guys to be attacking everyone except her? And why would they waste their time playing around with her? It makes no sense. It's absolutely not worth that risk. Renni is used as a tool here. She is not informed as to who her actual employer is, and she is lured here by the promise of revenge against the person who killed her son.

If they really wanted to protect Maddie, it would have been much easier to come up with some excuse for her to not attend the memorial in the first place. But Ambessa has no need to try to protect Maddie. Maddie is a Noxian soldier. If a Noxian can't hold their own in an attack they are expecting then what good are they? Ambessa was willing to take the risk and accept the sacrifice if Maddie was somehow killed during this attack.

And Ambessa wants Maddie there because Maddie has a job to do. Maddie knows the attack is coming. She looks alert and on edge before it happens. We see her taking note of Renni's arrival.

So what were Maddie's orders? To protect the council.

Ambessa orchestrated this event to strike fear into the hearts of the people of Piltover, the council included. One of the attackers even gets up on stage to say “You aren’t safe, topsiders. None of you are safe.”

Making the council fearful and angry will motivate them to pursue the course of action that Ambessa has been pushing for. Dead council members can't give her what she wants. She doesn't want harm to come to Mel, and her influence over Salo means she'd prefer to keep him alive. Protecting the council is also something Maddie is in a position to do that will not look suspicious and is likely to give her career a boost.

But Maddie is very nearly killed in this operation. She is dazed from the carriage crash and pulled from the wreckage. She is screaming and fumbles her weapon. She seems genuinely afraid here.

This attacker is not playing pretend. He is seconds away from stabbing her...

... when Steb intervenes. His one and only L

Do you think that fall hurt? I hope it hurt.

But Ambessa very nearly overplays her hand here. By allowing someone who had a vendetta against Jayce to have access to him, he is almost killed.

And Ambessa doesn't want Jayce to be killed as she needs him to build her hextech weapons. Jayce dying would have been disastrous for her plans in Piltover. And what was the deciding factor in the end?

Vi.

But here's the thing. Vi was not planning to attend this memorial at all. How do we know this?

She's not wearing a ribbon.

[See this post for more info on these ribbons]

Vi had fought with Caitlyn and was on a bender. She had no plans to go to an event where there would be a chance of running into her. So why did she go?

Because moments before the memorial began a certain junior officer showed up to tell Vi all about how Caitlyn had sang Vi's praises to the enforcers, and how she was so pleased to have Vi in their ranks.

Now, there's no possible way that Ambessa could have known that Vi would end up saving Caitlyn and Jayce, but this entire meeting feels way too calculated for it to not be meaningful.

Perhaps Ambessa believed Vi would fight to protect Caitlyn and Jayce or other councillors, and was there as an added contingency. Perhaps Vi was a wildcard she wanted to keep an eye on. Perhaps she thought it wouldn't hurt to put Vi in the line of fire and maybe get rid of a potential problem.

In any case, when the dust settles, all of Ambessa's meticulous scheming is rewarded.

Maddie fought alongside Caitlyn, proving her courage and earning her respect. It is not a coincidence that the people Caitlyn later picks for her strike team are the ones she fought shoulder to shoulder with during this event.

And Ambessa succeeds in striking fear into the heart of the council and forcing them to act against Zaun. She also gets to be the big fat hero.

[g-vlssz]

His slutty eyeliner sparked something on my mind: Butch Rictus !

[chocohybrid]

Furiosa character references, posted by Jenny Beavan, Costume Designer (More on her page)

Part 1 // Part 2

[gebo4482]

Jinx vs Rictus - Arcane S2

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Ambessa: Chosen of the Wolf, Chapter 3 Page 41

[angelltheninth]

Every Noxian wolf in Arcane

Ambessa, Mel, Kino, Rictus and Maddie

[multi-muse-transect]

Noxian Vi Headcanons.

Inspired by AU @get-caitjinxed and I made.

Vi was taught by Ambessa and the Noxian education system is that Noxus wants their people to be strong. She doesn't see the people of Zaun as Zaunites but fellow Noxians who want to break free from the shackles of Silco. Tldr; She's female Darius.

She finds cults creepy and disturbing. According to her and Noxian statistics, 99.7% of them ending up doing a mass suicide or get killed by the army. Vi looks at them with disgust mixed with suspicion.

Vi stuck out like a sore thumb compared to the Noxian children of nobles. She didn't like being in a dress and she found the stuff they like fun completely boring.

Ambessa saw her rugged charm and taught her how to be her own fox and its through charisma. Vi has an appeal to the lower class cause was like them which led to her becoming a honeypot for Noxian support.

Maddie and her grew up together. She reminds her of Powder. This resulted in Maddie having some conflicted views. Sometimes Maddie would go against orders to cover for her. (I can totally see Maddie becoming Vi's version of Sevika and after Maddie betrays Ambessa for her, Vi orders her to keep Mel safe which she does and it leads to a heartwarming goodbye).

She follows Ambessa's family values and wholeheartedly believes by influencing Zaun to support Noxus then her sister can be safe. If anything, she really is doing it for her.

Rictus is Vi's stepdad. They didn't get along first but as the years went on, Rictus essentially took Vander's place. He taught her how to use an axe and magic runes. Rictus often keeps reminding her to pack the stuff she needs at the same time.

Kino took a liking to the young Vi when they met. Vi's heart broke when she found he died.

Swain has Vi in his sights at the moment.

Ekko finds her very suspicious. Sure he's glad she's back but he had a hunch that Vi returned with something that followed her.

Vi and Mel have a rivalry the moment Mel saw her and was offended by her presence. She thinks her mom replaced her.

Her first mission was to manipulate Caitlyn Kiramman into being a tool for Noxus. But Caitlyn began to break her Noxian worldviews.

[mint-wreck]

They didn't even interact in the show at all. But I decided to ship them anyway.

I'll just call them "LoTus" (Loris x Rictus) as their ship name.

General fanfic description:

Rictus likes to intimidate Loris but he does have respect to the Piltover guard for his strength. Loris is more annoyed than intimidated from the Noxian but in one way does find interest to Rictus' skills.

Rictus in all honesty just couldn't express himself properly because he's not used to doing so and he doesn't want to be deemed soft by his fellow Noxians. He sometimes thinks his feelings would just become a burden to his duty as the right-hand man of Ambessa.

They're just pretty into each other idk... I'm not used to writing fanfictions hahahaha.

[slvr47]

Had this whole exchange last night on bluesky regarding my husbands’ heights and I decided to share it here as well. That being said, let’s look at the facts, shall we?

[littlemerzoste]

HEAR ME OUT HE HAS A NAME!

This great diva is called Riktus (at least I believe it's spelled like that). Our man Steb already has a lot of love, now let's give this big guy some love.