#Vander

[na1su]

GUYS THEY ARE FINEEE LOOK!!…😿

[lupinflowrs]

family 💤

[hmyrine]

on everyone's soul this is what happened

[jetbougan]

oh take me on back, take me on back, and take me back to the place where I can feel your heart is this the end or just the start of something really really beautiful wrapped up and disguised as something really really ugly? 🎵

[your-senpaaaai]

so are we gonna talk about how mirror pieces around jinx’s face are literally in the form of warwick jaws ???? like omg ?????

[mer1099]

Sharing is caring

[ririarts]

We were broken and bleeding, but never gave up

And I hate that I made you the enemy

And I hate that your heart was the casualty

x

[technicolorchasm]

OH WOW! and also ouch why would you do that

“ 𝓜𝓲𝓻𝓻𝓸𝓻𝓲𝓷𝓰 „

song: Solitude - M83

[wishfulsketching]

how do you think Silco reacts to Powder and Ekko dating in the au? honest if I was Ekko I’d be TERRIFIED everyday of my life knowing who my gf’s parents are. I also think we need more fanfiction about this

I think Ekko is one of the few people who are safe from the "scary dads" thanks to being Benzo's kid. Also, Ekko knows how soft they really are.

[acesammy]

vander boxing. I was trying to emulate the ashcan school here

[yrrtyrrtwhenihrrthrrt]

I have so many feelings about Vander, he's such an interesting, flawed, sympathetic, tragic, and infuriating character. I'm obsessed with him.

He is introduced as this genuinely loving father and nurturing provider, he loves and wants more than anything to protect his kids. He is kind, he is stern, he is protective. The sheer devastation and fear in his eyes chained to a chair watching his little teenage daughter go to fight a man twice her size for his sake absolutely haunts me.

But looking back on his parenting objectively, it really was far from perfect. He parentified his oldest daughter and made her out to be responsible for the well-being of her siblings (Zaun seems to have a culture of free-range parenting, so his lack of supervision isn't a problem so much as the fact that he pressures his teenager to be the supervisor).

Furthermore, he's struck a deal with Grayson to keep enforcers out of the Lanes business in exchange for them not interfering with topside's affairs, but there is an obvious failure on Grayson's end to uphold her end of the deal. We see enforcers in the Lanes multiple times, in the Enemy mv, and also it's stated by Vi to Powder that one time enforcers chased Claggor until he got his foot stuck in a gutter, then proceeded to harass him and LEAVE HIM THERE where he wasn't found until morning. Like, Vander, the cops hassled your child and put him in a very dangerous situation, but you keep your mouth shut and do what they say? It's clear that his fear of another violent conflict has resulted in a problematic level of complacency where he allows violence to be enacted against his people but acts in fear of fighting back. Sevika was right to call him a coward.

But it's also clear that he does struggle with mental illness to some extent, which I truly truly wish was explored more because it's such an interesting aspect of who he is as a person. The way in which he lashes out at Silco is horrifying. Whether they were friends, lovers, or even just comrades at that point, it is clear that Vander did not have his mental health and his anger under control at that point in his life. And I think that's why he was so complacent. He wasn't afraid of the enforcers, he was afraid of himself. Afraid of what he would do if he let himself be involved in another conflict. Afraid of who he would hurt next, if he was so capable and willing to hurt people he cared about before. Benzo? Sevika? Vi? Powder? Mylo? Claggor? It is my genuine belief that when he said "there are worse things than enforcers out there," Benzo understood it to mean Silco or at least the other Chembarons, but Vander was fully talking about himself.

Then, in the main timeline, he is "saved" and turned into the very thing he'd spent the last several years of his life trying desperately not to be, even at the expense of his people's freedom-- a bloodthirsty, violent monster with no self control. In a way, Warwick is the person Vander used to be. The person who lashes out and hurts people he loves, but also is willing to go to any length of violence to protect them. I don't like the idea that Warwick's violence comes entirely from the animal or something external to Vander, it should be very clear that this monster is Vander.

I also think it's so interesting. When he finally becomes violent at the Cannery, and chokes Silco out again, it is only after his sons have been killed. In the AU, a lot of people criticize this idea that it depicts a "utopia" where Silco crawled back to his abuser after finding the letter, but I don't think that's what's being depicted. It's never stated or implied that he found the letter in the AU. What is stated/implied? Vander's daughter was killed. On a job that she took out of bitterness against topside. We know Silco didn't give a shit about Vi at that point, I don't see this triggering him to find the letter or come crawling back. But we saw in the main timeline, that when Vander loses his children, he's able to become the violent revolutionary he once was. Which is exactly what Silco wanted, so I reckon that's what happened. He came back to Silco, and they fought for Zaun together again.

Losing people he loves pulls violence out of Vander like nothing else.

He's just-- he contains such multitudes. He is all of these things. He is a kind, protective father and a nurturing provider. He is a flawed parent. He is a coward. He is a monster. He is a sick and violent man who is willing to hurt the people he loves. He is fiercely protective and driven to intense violence and madness when people he loves are killed.

Vander, the man that you are.

[onlyvika]

Thanks Vander, we sure do. I guess that old adage really does hold true… “you’ll understand when you’re older.”

Feeling old, might delete later

[joyogurt]

arcane actors au

i've been OBSESSED with this whole arcane actor au so i decided to make my own version of it!! (and i gave them names). i rarely post anything i write bc i’m very self conscious and english is not my first language, but anyways, here it is:

♡ ☆ (:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅[̲̅:♡:]̲̅:̲̅:̲̅:̲̅) ☆ ♡

jinx: jinx’s actress name is paige and she’s canadian. she’s a rising actress and played a big character in a very popular coming of age gen z canadian show. arcane consolidated her fame worldwide. she’s pretty active on social media and recently came out as queer on tiktok (nobody was surprised). paige loves modeling for fashion brands, her photoshoots are always super creative.

vi: her name is esther and she’s an american woman who at the time had just graduated college and had an youtube channel where she posted song covers and pursued a music career. she then decided to try acting and was so shocked when she got her role in arcane. now, not only is she an emerging singer (she made songs for the show) but also a brand new name in acting. just like vi, esther is also openly lesbian!

caitlyn: she’s a well known british actress and runway model (tall queen) with a vietnamese mother and a dutch father, her name is imogen. she started acting when she was very young in a kids tv show and became a huge name since then. imogen is a big activist for human rights. she’s much more extroverted than her character caitlyn irl and she is super close with her coworkers (every time they decide to throw a party, she’s the host).

silco: his name is adam and he’s a well respected jewish-american actor who started working in his 20s and is famous for acting in sci-fi movies and tv shows. the public was really excited to see an actor like him in a production like arcane. he does not have social media but is always present in the premieres and loves interviews. he’s a certified divorced dilf with 2 children (20f and 13m). the fans go crazy with the tiktok edits.

vander: vander’s actor is half american half puerto rican and was huge in the 90s/2000s. his name is elijah and he’s has just returned to the screens. even though he’s been famous for years, he is still a shy and very sweet guy. he came out as bisexual not too long ago and is engaged to a man, they are the cutest couple ever.

sevika: she is a sri lankan tamil actress named pavithra who moved to the uk as a preteen with her parents. before arcane she was considered a b list actress but she’s getting more recognition now. she’s insanely good with accents but her usual accent is british from london. pavithra is a more private and introverted woman, rarely making posts on social media, but when she does, the fans go absolutely insane. she also has a dry sense of humour that always shows during the interviews.

jayce: xavier is a mexican-american born in texas and is a pretty popular actor and comedian. his mother is/was a famous actress and singer in mexico (she played ximena talis!) who introduced him to acting as a child (nepo baby? kinda yes, but he’s actually good). xavier is very active on social media. half of the times he’s posting the most hilarious shit and in the other half, he’s promoting his supplement brand.

viktor: he’s a czech actor named tomas who moved to america just a couple years ago when he became a bigger name in acting. yes, his accent is real. tomas used to be super reserved when he came to america but he’s been more open recently, specially with his coworkers, who became great friends of his. he’s always seen hanging out with xavier (jayce) and imogen (caitlyn).

mel: her name is eliza and she is nigerian-american. she used to work only as a runway model before arcane but eventually fell in love with acting (and the public fell in love with her skills too). the paparazzi caught her and xavier (jayce) walking together and being suspiciously romantic with each other several times, which makes the public suspect that they are actually dating irl, but it was never confirmed.

ekko: cameron is an american actor from a well known family of artists. he’s been acting since childhood and is also a great singer, model and painter (a true all rounder), he even has a separate instagram for his artwork. cameron is openly and proudly bisexual. he has dated adam’s (silco) daughter in the past but they broke up after 2 years.

ambessa: eva is french-canadian from quebec but she has been living in the usa for many years now. she works mainly as an actress and voice actress but she used to be a very popular bodybuilder in the 80s (of course she is still very much into fitness). the fans find it so funny that she is in fact married to a “twink” irl. he is not as young as the one in arcane but they always joke about the fact that even the actress is a twink lover.

[mardyart]

i am not immune to the zaun dads

[jetbougan]

backstory revealed

[weirdagnes]

do u guys think viktor saw all vander and silco’s freaky say gex while going thru warwick’s memories