#Vi get behind me

[srslylini]

Protecting Vi with my words isn't enough anymore, I need to buy a gun

like uhm no?? The fundamental misunderstanding of characters here is just

[trashnotfound]

ARCANE WRITERS EXPLORE VIS MENTAL HEALTH AND TRAUMA CHALLENGE

If you really think about it Vi has never had the time to process her truama properly( I mean she’s literally been in fight or flight mode since she was like 7) and I’d love to see them explore that more in depths with how it would change her as a person but also how it would impact her actions. Would she be less guarded, not be a prone to fighting

We’ve seen how she handles mental breakdowns ( with alcohol and fighting, which kinda mimics her childhood surroundings. With her dad owning a bar and her constantly fighting) she automatically diverts her attention to the one thing she is 1 good at plus has known since she was very young. It’s almost like her comfort of sorts ( once again very BAD comfort she is not mentally OKAY)

But when you think about her and what she’s been through, it’s too much for a young mind to handle ( as we saw with jinx)

First she’s thrown into a prison, beat, tortured and isolated for god knows how long. By the time she’d process what has happened more would be on the horizon ( as we know she got beat almost daily) plus it probably lead to some stint in her development either mentally or physically ( which is a whole other can of worms to process)

then when she FINALLY gets out she learns her sister is a war criminal, her uncle has drugged the under city, she gets stabbed and beat up repeatedly, almost dies, gets kidnapped, mentally tortured and then witnesses her sister commit and act of terrorism

The only time in the show she could of mentally processed what she’s been through is the weeks after the attack on the council ( since she was staying with Cait * it’s assumed) but I doubt she would have since she was probably too busy making sure Cait was okay plus thinking about how to stop jinx. Or when’s she was a pitfighter but as we saw, she just drunk her issues away and when she felt that anger towards people she went and fought individuals who had no connect to that feeling, just to have an ounce of control over her mental state.

I’m getting the sense too that she was only taught how to protect others and not herself. She’s kinda self destructive ( in the nature of getting into usless fight, putting her self in danger and being impulsive) she doesn’t know what to do when mentally crashing, she doesn’t really know how to read her emotions properly and that leads to her impulsiveness because she thinks she’s feeling a specific way and thus acts upon that feeling. Not taking the time to process her emotion and figure out her thoughts!

I just think Vi is the most interesting character in arcane when you REALLY sit down and study her character. So much underling lore exists to her when you dig deep into her actions specifically and I’m so sad the writers didn’t focus on that this season. They could make her one of the MOST complex characters but just stick with “anger issues and she likes to fight” but they never explore WHY she does those things. I know a lot of it is *show and not tell* and as I said if you actually use your brain you can figure this out and use just general knowledge. their putting to much trust in the viewer to read between the lines. When most just wanna be told what’s going on and how characters feel or think.

I just really like Vi guys….

[dancingdaffodils08]

Get her away from EVERYONE

NOBODY DESERVES HER

[diamondnokouzai]

mel and cait voices Oh Noooo How Could They Bomb Our Beautiful City AGAIN!! After We Did Light Chemical Warfare In A Church At Some Orphans. WHY MUST THESE SAVAGES PROVOKE US!!!!

[thatgirlmoogie]

she spent 7 years in hell reliving her worst momentttttttt and she went straight to her sister as soon as she could 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

[lovelooksgudonu]

korrasami + caitvi

[jjkyaoi]

i will take a caitvi reconciliation arc IF it’s caitlyn snotting and sniveling at vi’s feet. like. vi deserves to be chased and pampered and treated like a princess after the shit she just put up with bro 😭

[spacedlexi]

As someone who loves both Kenny and Violet, I feel like I’ve found my calling here 😭😭😭

They’re genuinely so similar, and I do agree that the fandom has male bias, as well as protagonist bias actually

Clementine has the opportunity to befriend/romance Violet and then let her get kidnapped 20 minutes later. And for Violet, that is the most obvious feeling of betrayal! I don’t understand why people in the fandom struggle to realize that their actions have consequences

Lee can basically hate Kenny the entirety of the first season and then the fandom defends Kenny for his actions.

Clearly most of us totally understand Kenny’s response to Lee’s and by extension Clementine’s behavior, so why can’t they understand Violet’s response to Clem’s? Makes no sense to me

honestly i feel like aside from having a male bias the fandom has more of a kenny bias than a protag bias. i see his ass EVERYWHERE. CONSTANTLY. some people act like he raised clem as much as lee did 😭 (and i dont like the way the fandom talks about clem sometimes 😒 ties into the "weird about women" stuff)(and javi? wheres javi? i would like to see more javi. i actually think i see david more than javi)

anyway. i DO find kenny to be a compelling character and understand Why hes popular. its why i initially thought vi would be more popular among those fans! people who like both kenny and vi i can trust to have understood the assignment 💀 because they really do share similarities. but things some people LOVE kenny for they absolutely LOATHE violet for. and its just???? whats not clicking???

i really dont understand why some people act So Shocked by violets reaction in the cells. like hello?? YOU did this to her??? shes done nothing but put herself on the line for clem (even if clem is mean and ungrateful about it), and the One time vi needs clem to have her back, she doesnt (even tho its an impossible choice to make, and deep down vi understands this). and people shock pikachu face when it pushes her back to minnie like no shit??? but i dont think theyre even paying attention to violets character in the first place so 🙄😑 violet settled into that leadership position on her own and not only do you strip her of that role by letting her get taken she also feels discarded by the One Person who was actually influencing her to change for the better in the first place. AND you can do it all 20 minutes after kissing her. of course shes hurt!!! but people act like shes soooo unreasonable for her behavior (and vi would later agree with them! she tries apologizing to clem on the beach actually. thats how quickly she regrets it. but its too late at that point for her i guess 🙄 irredeemable. to the stocks)

kenny will Literally refuse to help lee look for clem if you pissed him off too much like 😭?? if you arent kissing kennys ass 24/7 he is the worlds biggest bitch about it. but endless excuses for kennys behavior for some reason 🤨 him trying to save ben (or christa but its better with ben narratively) is his first Real selfless act and its why its such a compelling conclusion for his S1 arc (only compounded by the fact its BEN of all people hes trying to save, the reason his family is dead). and S2 kenny is all about how his mental health is in sharp decline and hes becoming more violent as he attempts to control what he cannot 💀 kenny defenders out here using up all the oxygen in the room to make excuses for his actions but the minute vi makes One mistake she immediately regrets (after being nothing but loyal), shes an evil bitch deserving of what she got 😐

gee i wonder why 😭😔

[shouyuus]

Do you think vi was a virgin before The Scene

nah. my girl was in prison for 7 yrs. did u see how quick she DROPPED to her knees like that shit comes from experience yall. she knows what the fuck shes doing sdlkfjsodiaghadlf

[xxbrightshadowxx]

It hurts me whenever I think back to the interview with the writers and they admit that they had no idea what to do with Vi in season 2. So instead they just made her do underground fighting and be an extra attachment to Caitlyn instead of, you’ know, an actual person with character development. It hurts me that even as much I don’t like how they wrote Jinx and Caitlyn, they felt like they had a develop and I knew which direction they were trying to take when they were writing. But with Vi? She has nothing. You can argue that her development was letting go of jinx from that line in episode 8 but we don’t see anything else that indicates to that before that episode. They really did her dirty because they didn’t know what to do with her.

[srslylini]

the writers of arcane and some of the fans do not actually deserve Jinx, Mel, Vi and Sevika.

can we just like agree in s2, from only the main cast, they fucked them up the most? what was THAT???

[chalkdaws]

Caitlyn defender for life, I practiced this shit with Catra, Kuvira and azula, and I won’t stop with caitlyn

PSA!!

THIS DOES NOT MEAN I AGREE WITH HER ACTION

[agoddamnsupernova]

Being the adultified middle child means connecting to Vi because you’ve had to be the strong one, the one who bares the weight alone. It means knowing you’ve had to be the one that’s done the leaving…made people hurt. It means understanding that you’re not that person anymore. That you’ve learned and grown and want to see those around you flourish.

But it also means connecting to Powder/Jinx because you’ve been the one that’s been slapped around and getting “I hate you, get out of my face” screamed at you over and over by people who were supposed to love and protect you. It means seeing the world for all its beauty….and chaos and having to learn to ride the tsunamis that life throws at you. It means losing yourself over and over again and still finding the courage to face who you really are. It means being the mistake and learning not only from yours…but from others and how they react to those mistakes. It means having your heart shattered and still having the courage to love again.

[thought-begone]

nearly a million likes aint no way.....

[thisonewhocanbreathe]

Me: *innocently joins a new fandom*

That One Fascinating Character Who Is Heavily Mischaracterized And Unnecessarily Annoying In Fanon Because It Is A Canon Event™️ Apparently: Why hello

(yes this is about Vi from Arcane)

[vv-ispy]

on one hand I totally understand tropes are popular but on the other hand I think Amos is a lot more compelling as a middle aged woman trying to figure out her life after a loveless relationship than a mother figure ya know