#The Arcane

[skvaderarts]

... Can you imagine how truly lonely Mage Viktor is? Really imagine it. Like, it was just him. He probably went and sat next to the overgrown Jayce in the bad timeline just to feel something. Anything. Nothing left but husks and memories of everyone and everything that he'd lost and failed to save to keep him company forever. While he tries to fix it all.

That sounds like a living hell.

Like, you can see it all in his eyes. This man looks like he died a long time ago. I wonder what's left of him. What it must be like to be this way. The regret and anguish that he lives with. I hope I never know.

He traded one type of agony for another.

There is no prize to perfection. Only an end to pursuit.

[hexstrapp]

i notice that a lot of people infantilize viktor while writing jayvik and let me just say

STOP

viktor is not a helpless baby because he is disabled! he is never treated like that in the show either. plz let him be the grown man he is 😭

[inkeyjay]

Glory and Gore go hand in hand

Can't wait to revisit this series. to absorb everything i can and incorporate it to my art, to my writing. it was just amazing. Glorious if u will.

U can get prints if u want here:

If you were to want the tarot card version just tell me in the comments and i will upload it for you :)

[cawsket]

If I was viktor I wouldn't even feel bad abt my ambiguously bisexual lab partner sleeping with mel. I would just look at her and be like yeah. I get it. And then mel would look at viktor and be like hmm I wonder if I can get a two for one deal outta this and this how how meljayvik can still win

[aurelion-solar]

"The Arcane... is waking up." -ARCANE SEASON 2 TRAILER

[timetodiverge]

Hidden images in the Arcane Season Two opening credits

So there seems to be 3 different images spliced into each opening sequence:

Episode 1:

-3:03 Ambessa (in her gold wolf mask) between Viktor & Ambessa -3:28 Enforcer badge after Vi & Cait separate -3:41 Recovering Viktor while Viktor is putting the mask on

Episode 2:

-2:20 Wanted Jinx poster after Jinx stands -2:52 Isha after Jinx waves flag -2:53 Enforcer strike team after shot of Vi

Episode 3:

-2:41 Vi & Jinx fighting before Jinx stands -3:00 Wild arcane rune before Jayce in the light -3:17 Cait in her Dictator Cloak as Vi & Cait separate

Episode 4:

-1:46 Drawing of Silco after Jinx stands -1:56 Vander/Warwick before Ambessa appears -2:18 Jinx-style graffiti (the monkey-cymbol toy from S1?) after Jinx waves flag

Episode 5:

-3:58 Jinx mural after Jinx stands -4:08 Vander/Warwick before Ambessa appears -4:30 the wolves from Vi's black jacket after Jinx waves flag

Episode 6:

-2:13 Isha after Jinx stands -2:23 Vander/Warwick before Ambessa appears -3:00 Viktor (Hex/Arcane version) as Viktor is putting on mask

....there's HEAPS of TINY details in the credits that you wouldn't notice unless you watched in slow-mo (...or you gif.). Someone had a lot of fun with these credits....! I hope they know that we appreciate it <3 <3 <3

[scottingmysummers]

the way that the first thing that viktor says when singed gives him the shimmer is “jayce will understand.” not the rest of the council, not the rest of the city- just jayce. that’s all he cares about. i’m fucking sick.

[basket-of-loquats]

Ekko doodle bc I just finished binging the arcane and his character design is right up my alley

[gothy-froggy]

I can finally leave! Martha I’m coming home, sweetie!

I’M BACK IN THE FUCKING BUILDING AGAIN-

[owenwilsonkisser]

Whatever iwanf to Touch that Old Bald Man......WHATEVER!

[dostarsfallatall]

So I keep seeing stuff for the Arcane season 2 I believe i haven’t even seen the show probably should but I’ve seen/heard and or a character (Viktor) being a religious reference to Jesus so it made me have a brain fart that If Vitor and Jayce are Jesus and Judas parallel are Vi and Jinx a Cain and Abel parallel going a step further would that make isha jinx’s or possibly even Vi’s sacrificial lamb

[skvaderarts]

The Line.

Holy shit.

This fucking song has me in a death grip. I've been listening to this song on a loop for 3 days now. The line about the goddamn BLANKET?! Exquisite in the worst possible way. Fuck that blanket. That blanket has given me emotional damage and so has this song.

I accidentally found the song through a random AMV that was recommended to me, and it's RUINED MY LIFE. And then I learned the context and it got 100 TIMES WORSE. Every time I hear it it gets worse because I think even deeper about what it means. I could write a thesis paper on this shit at this point down to the key signature and the bpm. "I can't fight this time now"? Why did you have to come for my throat like this? Song's choking me harder than Viktor choked Jayce during that fight. It's perfect. Do you know how many times I've thought that in my life? I hate it. It's too real. I'm so glad for it.

I want to reach through the screen and hug Viktor so hard that his shiny new Hextech spine shatters.

I want to clamber my short butt up onto a step ladder and grab Jayce by his giant goofy but loveable shoulders and shake him and tell him it's okay. But like, talk to your boy. Just saying. Leave the laser hammer at home. You both need each other. And I need you both to be okay.

These people who don't exist have hurt me so bad because I UNDERSTAND. That pain is REAL. I feel it. This song hits me in such a real, personal way, and so do these characters. I feel like this song sat me down and put me through therapy and I came out with deep personal insight and an urge to feel better about myself.

I've been under that blanket. Spent years under it. Sometimes I still am. This song made me want to stand up, shake it off, and burn it. I just never even thought about it that way. Never even thought about that I was under it. Literally or figuratively. I've been under it so long I didn't even know it was there anymore. This song woke me up. It was just what needed in my life right now. The lyrics cut me like a knife and I can't thank them enough because all the best music does.

And I know I'm not alone. You aren't, either.

Fuck The Line. I love it. Best song I've heard in years.

Thank you Twenty One Pilots.

[hexstrapp]

JayVik Headcanons to Cope

viktor doesnt know how to tie a tie. he was lowk just throwing that shit together til jayce taught him how to tie it

jayce learned how to take viktor’s brace off and learned how to put it on, he wants to make viktor’s life easier

jayce hides his notes from viktor and viktor didnt know why until he flipped thru them one day and saw so many sketches and doodles of himself throughout the pages

viktor CAN NOT cook. the entire city will burn down if he tries, but jayce is a godsend w his cooking

jayce loves when viktor is drunk, i say he had No filter and is giggly asf

jayce’s love language is absolutely touch. he is always hands on viktor which made viktor more fond of touch. now theyre just a very touchy couple

viktor’s love language is quality time. he will never say no to spending time with jayce, weather its in the lab or just out and about

basic, ik, but jayce runs Extremely hot while viktor runs Extremely cold. they balance each other out

jayce is the little spoon 🤷

even if theyre laying on top of each other, jayce is the one on top of viktor and loves listening to his heartbeat

jayce wanted like 7 kids but instantly got humbled by viktor who managed to convince him to bring his goal down to 2

now that they both have bad legs (💀) they just continuously support each other with love and patience

then again, now that they both have bad legs, if anyone pisses anyone off they will promptly be tripped

thats it for now, more will come later

-rome

[samibamitami]

I have a little theory about “sky”

I don't know if this counts as spoilers but here's your warning anyway

Don't think it's actually sky that we keep seeing alongside Viktor. She didn't have much importance before so it would be weird to suddenly bring so much attention to her, and how she's apparently able to go in people's minds alongside Viktor no problem, even appearing in that weird space mindscape as a weird mirage in the background.

So my guess is that this is actually the arcane itself using Sky's image as a way to interact with Viktor,, a way to guide him, a way too more easily manipulate him, to keep a close eye on him.

So that's my little theory, I don't really have a lot of evidence to back this up, it's more so speculation, but let me know your thoughts on my little mini theory

[cawsket]

The jayvik to meljayvik to melvik pipeline