#THE FACT THAT VANDER AND SILCO KNEW THEIR MOTHER

[rnadett]

I love how Ekko's stans project their hatred onto Caitlyn, but completely turn a blind eye to Heimerdinger, who was, by the way, the embodiment of white male privilege.

The basis for this claim is most evident in the fact that he receives almost ZERO hate from the fans, even though for 200 years he couldn’t be bothered to cross that damn bridge and see how far behind Zaun was compared to Piltover. Not even after Jinx and Vi’s parents died in the civil war. He was like "Yeah, that's none of my business"??? But if a female character breaks down because, her mother was murdered, suddenly everyone loses their mind. Now, that’s the real hypocritical attitude and misogyny.

Also, the fact that no one has criticized Ekko and Heimerdinger’s interaction speaks volumes.

Ekko knew that the professor was the most influential man in Piltover for >>>GENERATIONS<<<, yet there was no confrontation between them.

Imagine if that mf had even once stepped out of his bubble before Vander's and Silco's character was even born—none of this shit would've happened. And yet, he gets away with it and the writers gets away with it.

Overall: None of Cait's actions was the best but some of you just really hate women and let men get away with everything.

Edit:

This tweet reeks of hypocrisy and reinforces exactly what I wrote above. The fandom forgave Heimerdinger and portrays him as the Piltoverian who took responsibility for his actions, even though his redemption wasn't on-screen either. The guy literally only lifted a finger after being kicked off the council, and even when they shifted to an alternate universe, there was no ON-SCREEN evidence that he initiated any changes in Zaun. He spent the whole time singing songs, and people felt sympathy for him because he died in the end — which, frankly, was the least he could do.

No one looks past the façade because they see a cute autistic grandpa, while on the other side, we have a grieving young woman who’s being exploited. She didn't need 40 or 200 years to realize the weight of her actions and is fighting tooth and nail to rewrite the future.

This is what I was talking about when I mentioned misogyny. Everyone forgives the grandpa figure for everything, and even Christian was able to comment on a tweet that painted him as the only Piltoverian who took responsibility.

[camifornilla]

RIOT YOU FUCKASS SONS OF BITCHES HOW DARE YOU BRING IN “OUR LOVE” DURING THIS FATHER(S) DAUGHTER(S) TRAGIC MEMORY MOMENT. WHAT THE FUCK DID I DO TO YOU TO DESERVE THIS

[hauntingblue]

ARCANE EPISODE 7!!!!

MY GOD I WASNT READY FOR ANY OF THIS!!! WHAT WAS THAT!!!

Also ekko wallpaper I got with my fries lmao

[srslylini]

what made season 1 so stunningly good was that every scene could be explained with stuff that happened on screen.

Why did Vi know where to find Vander after Silco took him? well of course because of Ekko who was established in the first few minutes of the first episode to be the character to be on look out.

Why did Powder follow the others to the abandoned building? why because she wanted to feel useful, she wanted for her stuff to work and she wanted to help. She wanted to not be the Jinx. This was all established through character moments that were natural and normal human interactions.

Why did Mel invest in Jayce? Why because first of all her own mother sent her away so seeing Jayce's mother stand up for her son must've hit her. And we see her talking about having to find new investments. Of course she would. He sounds interesting enough. Why not try it? If it doesn't work banishment is still on the table.

Why did Viktor help Jayce? Because he didn't want to stand in Heimerdingers shadow as just an assistant anymore. He was sick and knew the problems of the undercity first hand, he wanted to help. Of course he would, if there was a chance hextech could do it.

Why did Marcus continue to help Silco even after Graysons death? Why, because of his daughter or course. He could be threatened, molded and used. He wanted to establish big things, and was hasty in his youth, and we see 1. Silco exploit that and 2. Marcus regret that.

Why did a shimmer induced Huck help Caitlyn out? Why because as early as the very first episode in Vanders first speaking scene he gets help from Vander and well why wouldn't he then show that help for Vi, knowing he can?

literally every scene makes sense, everything can be explained with stuff that we SEE in the show. There isn't anything "off screen" or just not there.

Now tell me

Why did Caitlyn suddenly switch sides again in season 2 act 2? Why and how did Mel know that her brother wasn't actually her brother? Why did she know how to solve the puzzle? Why is Viktor suddenly floating in the universe? Why does Ambessa just ignore her daughter being abscent outside of that one throw away line? Why do Maddie, Loris and Isha exist? Every chatacter existed for a reason that wasn't just Plot even if they sometimes were just for Plot in season 1. But Maddie, Loris and even ISHA for gods sake, really are just Plot. Isha not as much as Maddie and Loris and thank god for that but still, her character, while I still hope it isn't true, existed to die and further Jinx's pain.

it's just so ugh

Edit: A lot (and I mean a LOT) of people have told me how Kino did make sense and I agree with that now. Though I stand firm with my opinion that we should've gotten to know him before so we could have figured it out even easier with Mel, there were actually signs I didn't notice myself before. Thank's for that.

Plus I will not back down on the fact that Mel just knowing the solution to the puzzle "makes sense cause sHe WaS ShOwn TO Be gOoD WiTh PuZZLes" is stupid. Yes, I know she is smart and good with that. But that's like a whole different thing. It's such a leap I don't know how some of you don't see it.

[sourslip]

Vander's flashback sequence here has made so much about this season click for me - the song "Remember Me" has the narrator asking themself to remember who they are, and we see Vander remember Vi, Powder, Mylo, and Claggor, we see him remember Silco, Benzo, and Felicia

and Vander's the most obvious example of this, but this is the scene that made it click for me - these characters are remembering themselves through connecting with other people, whether in their memories or in the present. Jinx connected with Isha, and through it we see her connect with her joy and sisterly love again

Vi, too, has been disconnected from the world since she was thrown in Stillwater, and when she got out, the sister Vi thought she still knew was so far gone her sister might as well have been dead

and Vi began connecting with Caitlyn through her search for her sister, which was a new, tenuous source of hope - and one that she clung to desperately - but was too easily broken by Caitlyn's own grief and fixation on revenge

so Vi was then cut off from everyone she let get close and who she thought she could trust, and it put her in a bad, self-destructive spot

but when Jinx discovers Vander is still alive, she reaches out to Vi, having already begun to remember herself as a daughter and a sister who cares deeply about her family - and Vi ultimately put her faith in Jinx's word that this was Vander - when trust wasn't something Vi gave her the first time they lost Vander

and through that found her father again - found her family again - and she reconnected with the part of herself that was willing to trust the people around her that she loves, was open to reconciling past hurts even if those people have changed

and so, when Caitlyn showed up near the commune and asked Vi why she was down there, having already revealed they were after Vander, Vi was ready to try trusting Caitlyn again with the truth

Caitlyn - as Ambessa pointed out - was also deeply disconnected having lost her mother, her father a shell, pushed away Vi, and Jayce missing. she was easy for Ambessa to manipulate into terrible actions, but reconnecting with Vi was a catalyst for Caitlyn to finally push back against Ambessa's constant infringement on what Caitlyn used to believe were her core principles of justice to help Vi save her father from further manipulation by a warlord

the fact that Jinx saved Caitlyn from Rictus when she once resented Caitlyn for taking her sister's care now that she's helped save Vander in efforts to keep Jinx' family together

and that an armed Caitlyn ran past Jinx right beside her in the fighting, more concerned with Vi's injury than her revenge, after connecting with Vi and seeing how saving Vander, reuniting Vi's family, and cutting the Noxians loose was right thing to do - Caitlyn has started to get back in touch with what really matters

and it all started with a scared little girl who, while running away and hiding from the monsters in Zaun, fell into Jinx's life

and during her time with Jinx, Isha gained her own courage

[queermediaismypassion]

so i've been seeing people complain that the vander and silco backstory with the girls' mom retconned season 1 and i'm absolutely baffled by it

i always found the bridge scene a little confusing because of how trusting the girls were of vander after seeing him beat people up. sure, he wasn't in an enforcer uniform, but i'd still be scared of a big man like that who was just beating people to death lol. knowing they already knew eachother before the bridge, that he helped raise them as sort of an uncle, makes it make more sense. (i never saw it as a flaw of the scene, it was always really touching, but the added context helps)

the thing i see most people bring up is the fact that the girls would've known silco. yeah, and ? they never state that they have no idea who that man is, do they ? just because they don't talk about his past with them in season 1 doesn't mean introducing that in season 2 is retconning anything, it adds context.

i imagine silco is a sore topic for vander, and powder was so young who know how much she remembers of him. it makes complete sense to me that they wouldn't really talk about it and only focus on who silco is now in the present.

now as stated above, we don't really know how much powder remembers of him. we don't see him be as involved with raising the girls as vander in the flashback, but that doesn't necessarily mean he wasn't as involved. we see the flashbacks through viktor poking around in vander's brain after all.

we don't knowwhat powder is thinking when she tackles him with a hug; whether she was just desperately seeking comfort from the nearest person or from silco because she knows him. it does, however, add some context to how easily silco gave in and hugged her back instead of following through and killing her. not only did he see himself in her, he was close with her mother and watched her grow up. we know silco is more than willing to exploit and threaten kids. he was fully intending to kill powder until the moment she hugged him, but i'm not so sure he would've taken pity on just any child who did that if he had no history with them.

i'd love to see some arguments for why you think the backstory retconned season 1 if there's others, but the ones i've seen so far just makes me think people jumped to conclusions without actually thinking back on season 1 and just went with their understanding of it that was formed with missing context.

don't get me wrong, you're allowed to dislike the backstory if you liked the story better thinking vander was a complete stranger when he took them in and/or that silco and powder/jinx were complete strangers. disliking it and saying it retconned season 1 are however two completely different things.

[melmedarda]

You know how Arcane has a theme of undoing by a daughter? In the first season, we've witnessed Vander's and Silco's due to their love for their daughters. And in season 2, we may yet see the same theme. Ambessa was not undone by Mel. In fact, Mel was sent away solely that she would not be undone. But now, Ambessa is trying to bring Mel home, and she may yet be undone. And Vander-turned-the-Wolf Warwick. He was undone by one daughter, he may yet be undone by another he once considered daughter, a child made in his image. And it leaves you to wonder if the undoing will be a bringing to justice, or if it will be their death.

Or perhaps it is the inverse. In season 1, it is Jinx, a daughter of Zaun who brings undoing to Piltover. And in season 2, Caitlyn, a daughter of Piltover will no doubt bring undoing to Zaun, but also to Piltover by being consumed with vengeance for the death of her mother. A crusade against the undercity in her mother's honor. Haunted. And Jinx, who will no doubt be haunted by Silco in her hallucinations. And Vi, whose only safe space has been Vander, even in her hallucinations, will no doubt be haunted by Warwick. A sick and twisted phantom of the man she once knew as a father. And Mel, over whom Ambessa's shadow hangs over like an omen. Is there anything so haunting as a parent?

[sage-nebula]

Part of me wants to be like, "Felicia, Connol, Vander, and Silco were in the co-parenting equivalent of a polycule before the bridge incident." This makes sense at first, when you consider that Felicia said that she put Vander and Silco on the hook the second she told them that she was pregnant with Vi, and we see in the watercolor flashbacks later that Vander at the least used to watch the girls while Felicia and Connol were out. Given that Vander and Silco's relationship didn't fall apart until after the bridge incident, it stands to reason that Silco, too, would watch them.

But I can't square that with the fact that Silco was willing to kill both Vi and Powder the night of the incident at the cannery. He went up to Powder with the intention to stab her, and only chose not to when she tackle-hugged him and said that Vi had abandoned her (causing him to remember his own violent abandonment at Vander's hand). Later on, he still wants Vi dead, both when they encounter each other outside Vi and Powder's childhood home, and then finally at the cursed dinner party. Silco trying to shoot Vi was what triggered Jinx to shoot him. (Not that it was a conscious thought, on Jinx's part; she fired in the sound of the gunshot on instinct.)

If Silco had helped look after Vi and Powder prior to their parents' deaths, then he would have had to have known at the night of the cannery that they were Felicia's children. And if he knew that, and had a relationship with them prior to that, why was he so willing to kill them? The only reasoning I can think of is if he convinced himself that they'd been raised by Vander for enough years that they would see him as an enemy, too — that they would "betray" him, same as Vander. And to credit that line of thinking, Vi certainly set herself as his enemy after he captured and was going to kill Vander. (Understandably, but still.)

But that is me reaching for an explanation to try to square these two conflicting pieces of information together. Because Silco showed no hesitation at wanting to kill the children of his friend — and unlike with Vander, who strangled and tried to drown him, we're never told that he had a falling out with Felicia. Her death (and Connol's) was an accident; he threw the molotov cocktail at the enforcers, the riot broke out, and they were killed. He didn't want Felicia and Connol to die. He was trying to hurt the enforcers. Like Powder at the cannery, he was only trying to help.

So I don't understand why he was so willing to kill these kids that he must have had some affection for. Unless, as I said, he wrote them off because Vander was the one who took them in and raised them. He does, after all, call Vi "Vander's prodigy" when they encounter each other in s1e6, and his comments about how he had thought that she was "the prize" of her family indicates that he had paid some attention to them after the night on the bridge. So maybe that really is it, that he wrote them off as being too loyal to Vander, thinking that they would never see him as worth anything because of that.

But I wish we had an official answer, because man, this justification just doesn't feel strong enough.

(Side note: Part of me wonders if the reason why Powder tackle-hugged him is because she recognized him, if he did used to watch over her and Vi before their parents died. I would think any memories she would have of him would be weak, given how little she was when the bridge incident happened; as she says to Vi, what she remembers most about her mother was her scent. But that means that she does have some memories of their parents, and that's at around age 17, so it is possible that Powder, age 11 or so, recognized Silco, and that's why she hugged him instead of trying to run away when he approached her. Again, this is just guesswork / theorizing on my part, but I do wonder about that.)

[deiastormborn]

Arcane Season 2 Finale theory. (Jinx, Cait and Vi)

Heya. Since I was somehow on a roll with my theories about the show previously, and I somehow hit the nail on 90% of the things I predicted, here is a new theory of mine.

Jinx is not dead. Yes, of course, that makes sense considering League of Legends exists, and everything that happened in Arcane happened before the game. Arcane was made canon, and a lot of current lore is being rewritten to match the show, so to people that play the game it's no surprise that Jinx is most likely alive. But how?

Here is what I think:

After Jinx said 'I didn't know your mom was in there', Cait realized that Jinx did in fact change. Or, at the very least, could relate to her pain and mistakes. If you think about it, Jinx's actions were mostly fueled with grief, and the rocket that was shot at the council building happened right after Silco died, who was like a father to Jinx. Caitlyn lost her mother, and became angrier, irrational, fueled with revenge. I think Jinx saying that to Caitlyn made her relate, and maybe understand what is hidden below all the madness that Jinx has in her.

I think Caitlyn and Jinx had a dialogue behind the scenes, that was not shown to us. Knowing Caitlyn's character and somewhat a soft heart, I think Caitlyn sat down and told Jinx that she can't be truely free due to the volume of the crimes that she has done. My idea is that Caitlyn tossed the idea to Jinx about escaping, fleeing, and faking her death. Didn't Caitlyn tell Vi that she became too predictable? Doesn't it mean that Caitlyn knew that Vi will try to free Jinx? Didn't Caitlyn say something about this place being thoroughly guarded too? Yet Jinx managed to escape anyhow?

I genuinely don't think it was done without Caitlyn's interference.

Maybe, after the talk that Caitlyn had with Jinx behind the scenes, Jinx asked Caitlyn to keep Vi oblivious to everything that is happening. Hence why Jinx said that Vi deserves to be with Caitlyn - that could not have gone out of nowhere. Caitlyn and Jinx didn't interact enough in the show for Jinx to say that. And Vi never really spoke to Jinx about Caitlyn for her to make this conclusion.

Now, possibly, Jinx took the whole 'fake the death' quite literal, since we see her go quite suicidal after that. It is possible that she thought that it is pointless, and genuinely didn't want to try and run anymore, hence why she attempted to blow herself up. Luckily, Ekko came in, and the rest we know.

However, it doesn't sit right with me. Not just because Jinx is very much alive in game, but also the fact that we were shown Caitlyn looking at the tower where Jinx fell, while holding the Jinx's monkey bomb in her hand. She also let go of a slight smile when she zoomed in on all the exits and rooms in the tower. Something tells me Jinx knew how to escape, and something tells me Caitlyn was the one who told her. Something also tells me that the balloon we saw at the very last scene of the whole show might have had Jinx in it.

The show is notorious for showing scenes that always mean and imply something. I previously had a theory where I drew a parallel between Vander, Silco and Felicia, with Caitlyn, Vi and Jinx, where Felicia was bringing Vander and Silco closer to each other, and her death ended up splitting them both. I truly think Caitlyn was meant to be the same mediator for Jinx and Vi as Felicia was for Vander and Silco. And maybe that was it. Maybe that's what happened.

Knowing Caitlyn, she is more than capable of forgiveness, and seeing good in people. I think it would be in her character to help Jinx escape, even if it is at a cost of lying to someone she loves.

And, since we see Jinx tell Vi to let go, I think it would be in her character to ask Caitlyn to keep Vi in the shadows.

[low-budget-korra]

Comments on Arcane s02 e1-3

-As someone who is still dealing with the loss of my father, I can guarantee that this type of pain is something else and it truly changes you. Caitlyn lost her mother in an act of violence, terrorism, so of course she will be full of anger and urging for revenge. And also, of course she also felt guilty about it, like she said to her dad, she had the shot on Jinx but didn't shoot.

I've seen people commenting as if Caitlyn had volunteered to be Ambessa second hand and now that I've seen I'm like ? Bruh did y'all didn't see the masterful power and pressure move Ambessa thrown on Caitlyn? After that speech, there was no way she could say "no", those people would eat her alive and she would possibly be treated as a traitor, especially because of her proximity with Vi

-And I KNEW Ambessa was behind it all

-"I'm the one that created that monster" no Vi, you didn't 🥺. See? That's exactly when Jinx loses me. She doesn't take accountability for her actions and blames Vi for it.

"but she is traumatized" grl tell me one one character in that show who ain't?

Okay, let me say something serious. Being traumatized, doesn't give you the right to hurt others. Assholes can be traumatized too, and I'm saying this because I've already seen people hide behind their mental illness and trauma just so they could hurt others and not be held accountable for that.

Jinx asking if Caitlyn and Vi had sex before the fight began, was brutal lmao

-We got the CaiVi kiss but at what cost??? 😭

I think what made Caitlyn snap was being compared to Jinx

-If something happens with Maddie, I will kill everybody in the show and myself. What an sweetheart. In fact, I like all of CaitVi squad

Something I can't say about that kid who follows Jinx. I'm sorry but I couldn't care less about that child.

-And the assholes attack again, and guess who will suffer the consequences?? In my comments on s1 I talked about the need to know how to pick the battles we fight. And Silco's gang just reunited the stronger enemy against them, and the people of Piltover won't care about any more ruthless or aggressive response against Zaun. Now more than ever, they think of them as vile monsters who need to be put down.

What Jinx and Silco started will just result in the death of more innocents, especially the people of Zaun.

-Gotta say, watching Sevika be all "we don't hand over our people" speech, the same of she took as a weakness when Vander spoke.... character development.

Viktor basically became Jesus. I'm sorry but that scene when he wakes up and was like "peace off bruh ✌️" to Jayce, and leaves him...it was so not funny but still made me laugh

-wtf is happening with the Hex? Also, yeah, now I get why Riot almost went broke after making this

[thewistlingbadger]

Let me explain something very quickly: connection is a vital part of humanity and the best stories center connections for that same reason. There's a reason we as a race of beings are obsessed with romance, friendship, and family. The best way to get an audience invested in a story and invested in characters is by showcasing the relationships within the story and the relationships each character has. You can tell the audience so much just by the scenes that you choose to include in the story. It is seriously one of the most overpowered storytelling hacks of all time.

It is for this reason that Arcane is such a beloved show. All the show is is interwoven relationship after interwoven relationship, everything connects together and it's why we feel so passionately for these characters and for the story. I'm explaining this to you now so that way you can understand what I mean when I say season 2 currently has a big storytelling problem. That problem being the Caitlyn problem.

Last season Caitlyn was a pretty positively received character. She was likable enough and we liked the relationship she had with key characters Vi and Jayce. However season 2 has really started to focus on her, and the way it's choosing to tell her story is not only detrimental to her character, but detrimental to the show.

In season two Caitlyn becomes a much darker character after the murder of her mother. She ends up doing tons of terrible things all for the sake of avenging her mother's death. The biggest problem with this is that we barely got to see any interaction between her and her mother in the last season. The most we saw was Caitlyn being discontent with her mother's expectations of her, Caitlyn's mom being prejudiced towards Vi, Caitlyn's mom scolding her for being too arrogant/naive/stupid, and Caitlyn's mom giving her a little gesture encouragement to follow vi after the diaster of the council meeting. This is literally all we get between these two characters, and now we're supposed to rally behind Caitlin because she lost her mom?

WHO CARES? WHY SHOULD THE AUDIENCE CARE THAT CASSANDRA IS DEAD?! WHY SHOULD WE CARE ABOUT THE RELATIONSHIP CAIT HAD WITH HER MOM? IT WASN'T SHOWN TO US! We never get a flashback scene to show us what this relationship used to be like before it was strained. We never actually get one-on-one with these two characters. This is why you see a mass amount of people not associating with Caitlyn anymore. While the audience can understand the pain of losing a parent and feel pity, that pity can only be extended so far when the relationship was never treated as being important.

Just to give you a reference, the entirety of act 1 focused on the relationship between the sisters and Vander, as well as sister to sister. The fact that we got to see what the everyday lives of those characters look like and how those relationships functioned gave us something to care about.

The entirety of act 2 and 3 had emphasis on the relationship between jinx and Silco. The moments that were shown between those two characters elicited such a violent reaction from the audience that people debate the nature of their relationship TO THIS DAY.

There's a reason why we feel absolutely gutted for Jinx at the end of act 3. There's a reason why we feel heartbroken at the death of Vander. There's a reason why we will defend Jinx for blowing up the council. There's a reason why we defend Vi for punching her kid sister. It's because we were shown the value and importance of these relationships. We don't feel anything when Cassandra dies because they never gave us anything to actually care about. The only people defending Caitlyn right now are her dickriders. Almost the entirety of the fandom has turned on this girl overnight because the show failed to prove to us why Caitlyn would go this far for a mother we knew she had issues with.

And the issue is not the fact that Cassandra was a minor character, because ekko is also a minor character and we only got one scene between him and jinx that explained their relationship, and it's widely regarded across the fandom as the best scene in the entire show. We never even get to SEE the relationship between Vander and silco and yet it's one of the most fascinating things people like to talk about because the story gave us hints about the nature of that relationship.

I'm so completely and utterly shocked that season 2 is having a problem with showing relationships when it was such a strength of season 1. That, and because it's such an easy issue to fix. All they have to do is either show us flashbacks between the two of them, or emphasize how Caitlyn feels terrible about the way their relationship ended. The show has yet to do either. Until they give me a reason to give a SHIT about Cassandra and Caitlyn relationship, I'm not going to. And to be honest I feel like the boat has sailed because that was stuff they were supposed to either sprinkle in throughout the entirety of the season or just get it out of the way and act one. And they haven't done either yet.

[wren-galathinyus]

okayokay season two arcane has me feeling so many things right now and I know none of these are original thoughts but I have to scream them somewhere, so spoilers under the cut

-GRIEF AS A THEME!!! it is going to be Caitlyns downfall, in the first episode you see her clearly surrounded by a sketchy dissociated world, trying to not let it affect her, and as it goes on, she's part of the world again, and then finally as we get further she has her conversation with vi "don't change" but she already has so much! and that grief is driving her to do things! she shot at jinxs' new kiddo! she is going to go too far down that path and I'm not sure she can come back, but I'm loving how complex and nuanced this season is treating her. she's already to the point where she will hurt those closes to her (Vi) to get the revenge that she thirsts for. episode one and episode three Cait are two completely different people and the switch is so interesting to watch

-the animation is fucking phenomenal!!!!! there are so many brain fucks of different styles clashing while holding hands! rahhhhhhh!!!

-the entire notion of legacy and passing down trauma!!! Jinx is silco and Vi is Vander. they are at odds with one another, one trying to protect the innocent while maintaining the fight for the better, the other on a path of violence that they believe nessacery for change (even though it's not even quite about that yet, right now it's just Jinx being destructive in the wake of everything that's happened). but the directly drawn parallels to Jinx and Silco letting each other go unto the water. and then there's Isha (??) who's an imitation of powder who now idolises Jinx. she looks up to her and is to Jinx what powder was to silco that day in the rain, there is a passing down of trauma and violence

-CAITVI AKA PILTOVERS FINEST oh lord give me strength these lesbians are going to end me. the eye contact, the tension, the inexplicable ability for them to match and trust each other while almost completely being at odds in some ways. the kiss was everything, it was an I'm here, I'm not leaving, I'm not going to change, I love you, I promise. and the visible metaphor of vi letting down her guard (dropping the gauntlets) to fully embrace this statement, only to later see the complete betrayal and break down that comes with Caitlyn hitting Vi and quite literally abandoning her. she did change, it was not longer about bringing Jinx to justice, but having Cait stop at nothing to get revenge. (I also find it incredibly funny that lesbian heartbreak is going to presumably what gives us emo Vi)

-Ambassa Medarda the conniving evil sexy woman you are, that is all

-Viktor omg Viktor, the amount of religious imagery from him alone in his what, 5 minutes of screen time, but there is so much of him clearly lost to the Hexcore as he no longer *feels* human but feels a deep insight to others and wishes to stop pain and finally do good

-the teaser at the end of every episode for Dr Singed creating Warwick (I think that's his name it's been a while since I brushed up on LOL lore). I can't wait to see how his appearance later in the season is going to affect both of our girls

-also, speaking of vander, the fact that all it took for Vi to be like fuck it and put on the badge, was for her to hear someone say that they wished more people with her heart had badges, fuck

-another tidbit on Caitlyn is the fact that the Kirraman key she inherits tells us so much of her mother and family's legacy being the ones to assist clean air in the under city, and Caitlyn in her journey to avenge her mother completely undoing it by abusing to grey air to hunt Jinx

-Jinx saying its only right for her to die at her sisters hands!

-Sevika and Jinx being the power couple (platonic) that I never knew I needed. one begging to be lead and useful again, one need solace and something to fix so that she can fulfil some fucked up idea she has of herself

-another on Caitlyn. just the one scene at the end if episode one when she tells the council members to shut up and respect her? mommy? sorry. mommy? sorry

-Ekko and heigmerdinger are so precious and Ekko bonding with Jayce instead of just completely butting heads with him is actually perfect, but still I can't help but see the way they interact and recall the way Vi and Jayce interact in the first season. Ekko is Vi's little brother and you can't tell me otherwise

-oh yeah, and the new opening credits go hard, can't wait to see the impacts and foreshadowing they hold when the rest of the season releases

-and as a final thought, I'm actually really curious to see what sort of time jump is going to exist between all three acts, and how that mimics the format of the first season

[arcane-temp-fandomblog]

Hello hope your doing well, I wanted to know what you believe Caitlyn kiramman story is possibly becoming in season 2? Do you have any theories? Thank you

P.s it’s fine if you don’t reply

Ah, thank you for ask. I'm gearing up to maybe put some of Bingo card ideas for season 2, but not have ad time yet. Also heard that some S2 episodes were leaked, thankfully I was away for from internet during that time. In a way its sad because some people were spoiled and it takes wind out of mystery guessing since some people know the answer. Anyway.... Caitlyn

First, I don't think she will become somehow more of brutal 'enforcer' but I also don't see her reforming enforcers when becoming the sherif because she has such a strong justice sense. I think her story arc will revolve around uncovering the mystery of the opening on the bridge. It will not be task she sets out to do, that was pretty much explained in the trailer, but that will be what will happen imo. There are key people that are connected to her that she will uncover more depth to, including:

her link to Vi - their both mentor's relationship they still don't know about. While we saw Greyson in very favourable light, who was in charge of enforcers just a few years prior when the bridge massacre happened? Even if it wasn't her, Greyson knew about the bridge and more likely than not was on the bridge as part of enforcers as per episode 1 conversation with Vander. Imo Greyson was the sherif during the bridge scene or next in line and after seeing the carnage, made the whole under the table dealing with Vander. Unless she was in contact with him before the opening scene,. Vander in the end is a character that I'm unsure of, he could have sold out the uprising for something safer offered by Piltover that in the end wasn't delivered on by people in power. He's very ashamed of trying to kill Silco (which was clarified that it happened after) and hides that scar.

2. Her family as part of the council link to the bridge massacre. While I don't think council said anything explicitly, enforcers don't just do things for fun and giggles because their evil. They're pawns. They answer to the council as we've seen from S1 part 1, and it's council unyielding position to turn the screw just a bit tighter instead of any sort of reform that fans the flames. Her mother for sure was part of the council during that time, as the governing body her so Cait's family's governing legacy is death of Vi parents. (the only council member who was probably not part of that day is Mel, who I think was not yet exiled to Piltover.)

Yes, she was told pieces of these informations by Vi but being told is not the same as having to face facts. (We've seen the same thing with Jayce and Victor in S1.) So anyway, I think Caitlyn's will set out to capture Jinx etc. and will be pushed to become the sherif because that will give her modicum of ways to protect Vi plus council needs one of their own after Marcus' betrayal, but while doing that she will uncover all of Piltover's council's corrupt dealings and what really enforces do (definitely not protect justice). The tragedy will be that knowledge about reality of Piltover and Zaun relations will come to late to be in position to change outcome for Vi and be a real force of change. Instead she'll probably have to settle for a desk job which is just ceremonial position of sheriff that sweeps council's dirt under the rug to protect Vi, just as Marcus had to settle for being Silco's pawn for his daughter, etc. Hindsight is 20/20, but she is not yet in position at start of S2 to see the whole picture of Piltover and Zaun's relationship; nor did she directly cause harm in the undercity like Jayce to have to face that a person from Piltover may not actually know better. She will but imo. it will be too late to break free from Piltover's system grasp.

All of sherifs we've seen so far in the story had to go behind council's back to do anything for undercity, or positive, so likely so will she... for the rest of her life.

Also pretty sure Renni's goons will be hunting down Vi and Jayce, seems so from the trailer where they attack Kiramman's tent where Jayce and Victor's stuff was presented.

Anyway, that's what I think her storyline will be - she'll uncover the mystery of who's behind undercity violence which she asks in S1 E4 - it's Piltover - but it'll be too late to do anything to extract herself from being Piltover's for show sherif.

[ravenkinnie]

abnormal familial relationships my beloved, tenderness in violence my beloved

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For a while, Silco considers killing her.

Not the first night, with Powder's scrawny figure bathed in fire, her eyes shining through the layers of grime and the redness of her cheek, her arms wrapped tight around him. The first night he can only think of himself, of blood clouding his vision before everything went dark, the river water burning his lungs, the shivering creature that overcame his own body, sharpened his edges into steel blades. She's a pathetic sight that first night, her fingers gripping his so tight into the morning, but Silco doesn't think about killing her.

Powder turns into Jinx within days and yet, she doesn't let go. She wakes screaming in the night, impossible to ignore or console, the issue only rectified when Silco is torn from his own sleep to find her heaving with tears at the foot of his bed, holding onto his calves so hard he has to curb his instincts to rip her off him. Jinx refuses to leave his side during the day too, fingers twisted into the sleeve of his coat, a shadow two steps behind him. Every conversation is punctured by eyes wandering to the space behind him where Silco's acutely aware of a small presence always following his steps.

It's not a problem, per se. She's a quiet presence, even if her shadow burrows in his mind like a sharp object stuck in his brain matter, but a powerful one. Whole of the Lanes knew Vander’s children, the ones gone now and the one still here, the one letting Silco lay a hand on her shoulder firmly and cowering under his gaze, the smallest touch. Jinx is as much of a symbol, a statement, as the Last Drop is, with the gutted basement and upper floors, with the eye crudely painted on the door - a garish reminder but one Silco allows, for the same reason he allows slim fingers to slip between his own, a gesture catching eyes with no effort on his part. 

She's a symbol but her presence would be as much of a symbol as her absence would, yet Silco’s hand can only hang above the knife snug behind his waistband, can only consider Sevika’s irritated gaze briefly before shaking it off. Because stupidly, Silco keeps hoping.

There's this glimmer in her eyes, the one he saw illuminated by fire that first night, one that dimmed and disappeared as the smouldering wreckage of the cannery burned out and stopped turning the sky fiery orange. He sees it flicker through Jinx’s face sometimes, when she catches the glimpse of weaponry blueprints stamped with the Glasc Industry sigil. It shadows her blue irises when she leans in in Singed’s lab, eyes tracing the odd shapes and outlines of specimens inside jars laid out on shelves lining the walls. But then one of the odd shapes moves, just barely snaps its jaws and Jinx flinches, jumps back, her face falling, her hands shaking as she clasps them together, turns away from the shelves. 

Silco starts considering that perhaps, he might have been mistaken, a mistake born from the night of past laid over the present, throwing shadows of the future in the warped walls of the wrecked cannery. He was weak before, but he's never been dependent, never clung to another falling in their step. The Sump broke off those parts quickly, and if they didn't let go it devoured cruel and fast. Silco never clung to Vander, not in the mines or the Lanes, he never clung to his mother or father, their lives barely converging from the day he could pick up menial work, scramble together money or barter exchanges to help himself survive, to take this burden off their shoulders. Part of it was the Sump, the toil it took to keep yourself alive, let alone another needy being. Part of it, the fact Silco has come to understand with age only, was that his parents never particularly enjoyed having a child around, the fact they probably learned only after he was already wrapped in thin blankets on his mother's chest in the damp freezing shack she nursed him in. 

The thought brings him no bitterness now, the way it did when Silco was still that child, scraping by on scrapes from full Topside tables. He never planned to care for a child either, work so menial and minor with the whole of the Lanes, whole of Zaun to think about. He's not sure if, when that has changed, he's only sure of one thing: Jinx has shaped herself into a presence that cannot be controlled, that he's not sure he can maintain.

Her hair is reaching well below her waist now, untamed and tangled more often than not and everywhere. Silco doesn't particularly pay attention to what the girl does with herself - she's clean, she's clothed, she's eating, she's everything that shows how little she has to scrape by, how minimal scrambling to sustain herself she has to do. 

Except her hair. He picks it off his clothes routinely now, finds long blue single strands on every surface. He brushes it off his desk with disgust, despite it being a rare occasion where Jinx isn't around. Yet, the signs of her that he's somehow not accustomed to still are suffocating either way. Silco almost expects to glance behind his chair and see her scraggly messy self there, wide eyes and apologetic turn of her mouth.

Silco fights the urge under Sevika’s unimpressed gaze. She's sharing those more boldly with each day, his mistake in asking her advice in the off-putting delicate matter of Jinx’s hair, her refusal to sheer it short punctuated by panicked gasps and full body sobs at mere suggestion. She had it braided the first night, Silco’s sure of it, clearly done by someone else judging by Jinx’s guilty expression when he brought it up.

"If you want to play house, have at it. I'm not fucking babysitting," Sevika reiterates her point now, watching blue strands fall to the floor. 

"I'm not playing house," Silco reiterates his, colder than before.

Sevika adjusts her cape falling off the smooth metal arm hidden underneath it; it makes Silco pause before the next sharp remark leaves his mouth. She's not overstepping, he's the one who involved her, and Zaun remembers its debts, he makes sure it does. 

"Use her, leave her, parent her, I don't care. Don't ask me to do it." Her voice is as sour and displeased as ever but then something fractures, softens, a shift that Sevika seems to hesitate on. She waves her hand in his direction before turning away. "Tell her she can cut it or tie it. Give her a choice."

When Jinx steps her foot on the Promenade, hands fiddling with the skirts she's not used to wearing, the hair usually covering her face is pulled back, a small knot almost a bun at the back of her head, the rest of wild strands falling in a brushed-out curtain on her shoulders. Sevika tries not to scoff when she holds the opera door open for her, but Silco sees her reach towards her hair to undo her own when he glances behind his shoulder in the booth anyway.

Jinx looks neat, something he wasn't sure was possible to achieve, her face uncovered, the new clean clothes he got for her for occasions like these not yet ruined by grease stains and random tears. She looks uncomfortable, though, shifting in her seat, picking at the edge of her skirt so much she's pulled strings free leaving the hem frayed. Another reminder of the mistake he might have made seeing himself in her in one moment of weakness.

The Promenade theatre, for all its carved details and velvety curtains, is not much. Walking in, it's easy to forget it's still Zaun but looking closely one can see all the markings of the Fissures: the water damage on the high ceilings leaving dark damp stains in corners, the brass holding the curtains open worn down in places from years of use and lack of maintenance. It's much easier for Silco to see now too, with all the opulence added in recent years contrasting the features he remembers from his youth, the way the velvet has worn down on the floors, but the seats and the curtains are new, the shiny floorboards of the stage where he remembers the rough unpolished wood.

Still, the beacon of the theatre in Silco’s mind will always remain the same as he saw it first back then, as a kid sneaking in through backdoors past technicians and workers and performers stubbing out cigarettes. He must have been Jinx’s age then, keeping to the shadows of the high pillars and heavy curtains, devouring the rare sights of opulence across the bridge. The theatre borders Piltover more than Zaun, a place for pampered polished foreigners visiting to taste the more brutish side of the isthmus but told in high art, the gleam of the fake daggers and clean spots of blood never flowing to the floors, punches that leave no damage, no marks.

Silco envied them then, nursing bruises and cuts and breaks in the shadows of the auditorium, catching the gleam of the real jewels in the low lights, the clean stories of the Undercity that never existed playing out on stage. A painful pang of ache in his chest at the thought, memory, at the long-buried yearning and anger but now, up from the booth always reserved for him only, it's a pain as distant as the stories on the stage were then.

The girl on the stage grasps her heavy skirts, lifts her powdered face to the light and opens her mouth to let her voice unspool in the theatre, travel up to the high ceilings, curling around every pillar, every body in the auditorium in front of her. Silco closes his eyes in the sound, feels his own heartbeat thud to the orchestra below; smaller and more broken down than anything Topside but the theatre stayed open all those years because the stories are bigger, closer to life here than anything Topside ever could be.

He opens his eyes to steal a glance at Jinx, a more hollow jarring pang at the sight of her twisting in her seat, bouncing her foot with boredom she stopped trying to hide on her face, her eyes glazed and wandering the ceilings.

No matter. Silco hasn't brought her here to refine her palate anyway, and Jinx serves her function perfectly: his hand on her shoulder in the atrium afterwards, the curious wary gazes the few fledging barons here tonight steal at her. Spindlaw leans towards her, his interest and respect clear in his eyes, the studious but carefully disinterested gaze of the girl on his arm even more clear.

Silco gestures towards Jinx, pleased. "Jinx, my ward."

He emphasises Jinx, he emphasises my. He doesn’t need to say more for Spindlaw to understand; the man came to power recently but brutally, the blood of the previous head of the house still staining the gutters of his part of the Factorywood. He understands the value of a prize exactly the way Silco needs him to.

Spindlaw reaches towards Jinx, his slim spidery fingers seemingly ready to catch the loose strand of hair falling on Jinx’s face. Jinx is faster than him, faster than Silco, stepping out of his reach and hiding herself behind Silco in one swift move.

The move hangs in the air, the tension broken by a clear laugh of the girl on Spindlaw’s arm, slapping his shoulder with familiarity. "Even the young ones know better than to come with you."

Silco smiles as Spindlaw gives a gruff chuckle, straightens his back to give Silco a curt nod. 

He reaches back, lays his hand flat on the back of Jinx’s neck, underneath the curtain of hair falling down her back. She doesn't tense nor does she try to move out of his reach.

***

Blood drips out of the boy’s lax mouth as he sags against the chair, going limp in his binds. Twinge of annoyance plucks at Silco’s high strung nerves, the stains already impossible to get out of wooden boards on full sight with the rug pulled back.

The boy looks dazed when Silco lifts his chin, his eyes glassy but clearing for just a moment: a glimpse of relief at Silco’s gentle hand, none of the force in his touch that splintered his bones and flooded his throat with blood. He holds the same gaze as Sevika’s blade enters from his back, a momentary recognition sparking up as he chokes on blood, low guttural gargle rumbling in his throat under Silco’s fingers.

Silco drops his face before crimson spittle falls beyond the boy’s lips onto his fingers. He ought to have dealt with this in one of the warehouses by the docks, the ones where the boy has been skimming the Shimmer supply he's been running. But Silco stepping foot anywhere there is a clear threat; an invitation to walk up the narrow staircase to his office on the other hand, is an agreement, a reward even. He likes the turn in their eyes when they realise it’s not either of those this time.

Sevika turns to leave, to grab whoever she hasn't sent off into Lanes to help with clean up. The door barely shuts behind her when he hears it: the creak from somewhere up in the rafters.

He waits until Sevika’s steps disappear down the hall. "Jinx. Down."

He doesn’t turn until he hears the loud thud of her body hitting the desk behind him. Turning to face her, he expects disgust, fear maybe, a queasy uneasy expression on her pale face, her body curled on itself, leaned away from the macabre scene.

Instead, he finds interest. Jinx still looks somewhat uncertain, perched on his desk in a low crouch like she wants to make sure she can jump away at any moment. Her hair is out of her face, held back with an array of mismatched pins on her head, the rest flowing down her scrunched body, alleviating absolutely none of the shedding problem. 

But Silco can't feel the same annoyance looking at her now as he usually would, not with the way she's tracing the body in front of her with her gaze, her eyes wide. 

All the uncertainty comes out in her voice. "It was so," she hesitates, scrunches her nose searching for the right word, "slow."

"It was meant to hurt." Jinx glances at him, then looks back at the boy, unable to rip her gaze away. She looks down the sweat soaked hair covering his face, the blood-soaked shirt, to the slow drip into the puddle forming at his feet. She flinches when Silco grabs the back of his hair, tilts his head back to uncover the cloudy dead gaze. "Word carries. Would you think twice to follow his steps?"

She wraps her arms around herself, a clearly suppressed shudder. She doesn't look away, though. "Yeah."

"Then it worked perfectly as it was meant to." She flinches when the head drops back on the boy’s still chest. It doesn't matter, though, because she never averts her eyes.

She's back in his office barely a day later. None of that uncertainty in her face now, only angry defiance in the frown between her brows, her pursed lips, the way she's grasping the sling on her shoulder she's nursing her broken arm in.

The explosive she placed inside Sevika’s Chemtech arm barely brushed flesh; Sevika’s reaction was instantaneous, Jinx’s sling a proof of that. She's barely grabbed her from what he's heard, Jinx fracturing her own bone trying to twist away from the grasp. Regardless, standing in the doorway of his office with the sight of Jinx’s pathetic small figure with the heavy sling over her bony shoulder stirs something heated inside his chest.

He turns to Sevika, her lip curled over teeth, a snarl he regards emotionlessly. "Playing house, was it?"

"I told you to keep that wench out of my way," Sevika spits the words out, more burning her tongue clearly but Silco cuts her off.

"You were bested by a child. Don't let it happen again."

Debts aren't forgotten but neither should their real price. He holds Sevika’s gaze until she straightens her back, her nostrils flaring but her gaze firm, settled. 

Jinx gives him an unhappy look when the door clicks shut behind him. He can't shrug off the searing heated spike of fury at the sight of her, now stronger with the slight wince she gives when adjusting her arm. It melts at the edges into something odd, warm and curling his hand into fist to stop himself from brushing hair off her shoulder to get a better look at the injury. But at its core it remains angry, the sling a consequence of the trouble she got herself into.

Jinx's shoulders drop under his gaze, even though he keeps his voice calm. "What was your goal here?"

He’s almost disappointed at her sulking, the defiance in the furrow of her brows making him think she would hold her own. Jinx pipes up at his words though, a defensive note in her voice. "She said-"

"I didn't ask why you did it," Silco cuts her off. "I asked what your goal was there."

Her teeth catch her lower lip, chewing on it as Jinx seemingly holds off her anger, swallows excuses she knows he won't accept. "I don’t- I wasn't thinking," she almost spits out the words, her legs coming up onto the seating, her body curling on itself protectively under Silco’s disappointment.

"But you were." 

She hides her face in her knees as Silco makes his way to the desk, takes the seat behind it. He turns it away from her slightly, just enough for Jinx to unfurl herself from her place, quick unsure steps desperate to leave the conversation before he decides it’s not finished. 

He speaks before she reaches the door. "That explosive." Jinx pauses mid-step, throwing him a flighty glance over her shoulder. "Good work on it. Exceptional. Incinerated the wiring before Sevika even realised." 

A flicker, a gleam like light catching steel, just barely in her surprised gaze. The anger melting, caramelising in his chest should be uncomfortable but with the way the corners of Jinx’s mouth quirk up, he can't feel all the hard edges.

***

The theatre at the edge of the Lanes, unlike the one on the Promenade, looks worse than Silco remembers. It's never been a sight to behold, with the dilapidated outside, an abandoned building picked to be occupied, the bare walls inside, the small suffocating space adjusted to resemble an auditorium, the raised stage that makes Silco suspect the building might have been a place of worship a long time ago. The signs of the attempted upkeep, the new walls and the private tiny spaces carved out in the stuffy theatre, work only to make it seem more derelict.

Jinx’s interest spikes when she crosses the doorway; a child of the Lames she's probably heard rumours, whispers of the place but never been inside, sheltered from everything outside the heart of the Lanes, the Drop. Her interest wanes in the booth, though, her usual bored mask slipping over her features as she shifts in her seat.

He can relate to her boredom better here. Long before the Promenade, the carved ceilings and stories on the high stage, part of the experience sneaking into this building was the crowd. The seemingly endless to a child stretches of time before the backdoor shutting and the curtains opening, where all that was left to do was blend with the audience. And what an easy feat it was, the small space of the theatre allowing barely any movement, bodies always brushing against each other, sweat and perfume and odour indistinguishable from one to another. The idea makes Silco flinch with disgust now but back then closeness was expected, touch was easier, brush of bodies and flow of the crowd part of the Fissures as much as the thick air and coal dust was. It makes him uneasy, unsure to imagine Jinx amongst that crowd too, with her frail figure, her arm in a cast still with pigtails trailing down her back. It wouldn't accomplish what he set out to achieve here.

The play is just as crude as Silco remembers though, the simple plot carried by exaggerated acting, the shrill voice of the cheating wife planning the murder of her husband with his pain so large it borders on a caricature. Jinx watches the stage with vague interest, her eyes unfocused except for the few lewd jokes that makes her mouth twist, an amusing reminder of her teenage immaturity.

Her eyes sharpen into focus when the actress on stage fishes a prop gun out of her skirts, shaking hands pointing it at the husband. Silco’s only marginally aware of the happenings of the story, his eyes locked on Jinx, but he sees it all play out in her face: her hands grasping the skirts in her lap as she leans forward when the husband apprehends his wife, the gun dropping to the stage, a flash of the sharp razor he plucked out of his pocket against her throat.

Her cheeks flush pinker the more panicked the shrieks of the struggling actress become. Silco sees the red spillage on the stage out of the corner of his eye, but he sees it reflected on Jinx even more, her mouth dropping open as the wife's throat opens, gushing dark blood onto her clothes, onto the stained floor of the stage, rivulets dripping into the audience. Her eyes flutter from the ruined garment the husband rips off the body to throw into the crowd, down onto the puddles off blood, the small glimpses of it hidden by the crowd in the auditorium, all the noise, the hooting and hollering and the loud monologue from the stage barely reaching Jinx in her fascination, a memory of Silco’s own warped childish interest too intimate to see it play out on her face so clearly.

She's silent all the way to the river, her steps falling in line with Silco’s as he leads her down where the pier turns into the dock, well above where the current stops, the water becoming murky and still with death hidden in its clutches. She wrapped her arms around herself, worrying her bottom lip in thought; Silco lets her, occasional glance stolen to Ran behind them, ensuring their presence still there.

Jinx stops under a streetlamp, the yellow light bringing out shadows beneath her eyes, in the dimples on her cheeks. She turns to him, determination turning her frazzled face into a stony expression. "Was it real?" She demands. "It looked real."

Silco pauses his steps with her, hands in the pockets of his coat. "Did you want it to be?"

"No," she says then hesitates. When she corrects herself, the word wavers, uncertainty blurring the consonants at its edges, "Yes."

Her stony expression wavers too, the same uncertainty creeping on as she looks into Silco’s face. Pitiful, gut wrenching almost, the way she expects him to be disgusted or horrified, the inhibition visible in every taut unsure line of her body.

"Death is a tool, child. Violence is. You can't deal it out senseless or you'll find yourself paying the equivalent price." He tilts his head towards the cast on her arm, Jinx’s fingers twitching where they are laid against it, her eyes flicking across his face, gaze hanging on his dead eye. "Or more."

Jinx scrunches her nose, her mind racing. "When he used the razor... he wanted to it to hurt. But do you think he liked it?" Silco is vaguely aware of the crowds in the distance, the sounds of the docks and the river right next to them, the voices and shuffles and rumbles of life removed from them. There's always distance in the way he's approached, in the way he manoeuvres the crowds now, space that includes Jinx, that Jinx’s presence ensured even without this side of her, the curiosity she can't choke down despite all the hesitant pauses in her sentences. The possibility she opens with the simple question, the things he could make her become. "Do you think he liked hurting her?"

Unexpected, Silco thinks of Vander, the first time the image shows up in his mind so clearly since Jinx stopped screaming in her sleep. He doesn’t think of Vander’s vice grip on him, though, the familiar gentleness in his hand on the back of Silco’s neck just moments before, his face blurred and twisted through the sheet of water, of where the blade of the dagger entered the socket, piercing pain in his eyeball. No, Silco thinks of how the blade lingered, just for a moment, so short he paid it no attention in the flurry of searing pain but so undeniable he's come back to it for years, the slow drag of it out of his face that got lost in the agony. For years Silco wondered if it did linger, if it was his mind playing tricks on the memory of prolonged pain in every part of his body.

"He did," he tells Jinx, her open face showing how hungrily she devours each word. "Or he wouldn't want it to hurt."

Jinx grasps her shoulders tighter, starts to shiver, goosebumps on her arms. Silco doesn't have to think, to consider before he takes his hands out of his pockets, shrugs the coat off to lay it over her shoulders, a gesture so natural it only catches him off guard when it's done.

A momentary flinch in his body dissipates when Jinx sticks her chin out, looks right into his eyes. She's a bright spot on the pier, pale skin and bright blue hair shrouded in the darkness of the evening.

"I loved it," she rasps out, no hesitation, no uncertainty. Shivering under his heavy coat, illuminated by the faint light of the streetlamp, her eyes so fiery they burn brighter than the light or the sun ever could down here, Jinx might be the most magnificent sight Silco has ever seen in the whole of the Fissures. The highest form of its spirit condensed in her small figure.

"Good." The ties holding her pigtails loosened during the play, sliding down the length of her hair, her bangs falling into her eyes freely. He brushes them off her face. "We ought to do something with your hair."

Jinx’s wide eyes flicker with uncertainty now, her fingers grasping the lapels of the coat tighter. "We can braid it," she offers quietly, like she hopes Silco won't hear.

He doesn’t miss it, the we that should bring a sting of irritation at the hold she refuses to loosen on him. The shadows in Jinx’s face remain at the edges of her bright gaze, just like when the blood reflected in her hungry eyes, glistening so rich it almost turned the small ring of blue around her blown pupils red.

Silco tucks the lapels of the coat closed over her chest, slips a button shut so that it stays on her shoulders. "We can."

When Jinx weaves her fingers between his, he gives her a squeeze: curt, firm, undeniably in her grasp.

[frostybearpaws]

random robot au facts & tidbits

Sevika’s initial name was Eve 8, she chose the name Sevika for herself when she was twelve.

When Singed first found Sevika she attacked him with the intent to kill and eat, but she was so tired from being born she fell asleep gnawing on his arm.

Sevika was “born” from a tree.

Those in Piltover have a more uniform and proportionally humanoid appearance compared to those in Zaun.

Most enforcers in Piltover were never children. Sevika was also born an adult.

Singed knew Cassandra Kiramman’s mother, her name was Claudia.

Cassandra knew Orianna as a girl. Orianna was her first crush.

As a polyp Silco was marked with a deep notch to be harvested as a trimming. He however was missed and found upon “hatching” and raised by a couple in the undercity.

Silco was supposed to have four arms but has three because of the notch caused the two arms on his left side to never un-fuse.

The notch also left Silco with short legs that make walking more difficult.

Sevika likes salt licks.

Mel has a centaur body type.

Ambessa has a centaur body type as well. She very much has the physic of a draft horse.

Jayce Talis can turn into a cube furnace. (He deadass looks like the thing from Minecraft)

Sevika is too heavy and unable to talk on two legs, instead she walks on her back legs and wings.

Jinx has four tentacles coming out of the back of her head that she uses in leu of her wing arms.

Benzo walks on his forelimbs and grabs stuff with her back hands.

Vander is a quadruped.

The first time Sevika and Silco met she tries to eat him.

Marcus is one of the few high ranking enforcers who wasn’t born a child.

Marcus had to gain permission before he had Wren.

The first few weeks of her life Sevika went on a killling spree know as The Riverside Massacres.

Heimerdinger was on the council and was the turning vote which okayed the Disassembler project.

Sevika has vague memories from inside her tube.

You’ll never guess who Vi’s sire is.

Runeterra was a war ground which is made of many crashed ships.

As the name of the au suggests, the species that they are is made from a marriage of nature and technology.

Ask me questions if you have any!

[restrainedhungr]

one thing that also i feel hints at caitlyn going down the worst possible path for her morally is the fact while she is willing to sympathize with the undercity and zaun

she can't extend that to personal people. Caitlyn lost her mother, but she can't phathom the same pain Jinx or Vi went through. Yes, Caitlyn losing her mother is horrible, but Vi watched, feet away from vander as he died. Seh saw presumably her mother die as well. Jinx literally killed Silco her only remaining father (and also lost vander as well, fuck she lost 2 dads guys)

While Caitlyn doesn't grasp it at all. She doesn't extend the same understanding of hatred to the individuals who have lost loved ones in very similar or even more extreme measures.

Caitlyn didn't actually watch her mom die, im sorry she was shown to be literally *so far away* from her. - Her "i know what its like" to vi again shows just how she doesn't extend or understand the differences. she just believes she does without truly understanding. She's halfway there but not fully. with Jinx, well she's willing to understand for Vi but not Jinx all cuz jinx acts out more. Vi was in prison, vi didnt have the opportunity to do as much damage. despite teh fact jinx *literally killed what was basically her father*. And doesn't even try to understand how it might hurt her as well.

which is valid. Caitlyn has her own grief to go through, but it's so interesting to me to see Caitlyn expecting everyone to understand her, she puts herself as if shes "above" the other piltover ppl because she "understands" zaun. or is more open to listening, but she hasn't gotten to the point of truly *learning* yet.

Cuz in the end, it wasn't Piltover who was going to give Zaun freedom. It was silco, Silco was brokering blanket amnesty to the people of Zaun so they wouldn't be hunted down even after they were at peace because he knew that was the only way to break the cycle far before anyone. Caitlyn still is trying to persue justice, she still continues the cycle unknowingly and it's exploited by those around her (ambessa) and its just. so. so fucking great im sorry another ooc ramble but GUYS I RLLY LIKE THIS SHOW OK