#and Mel of course

[idkwhatimdoingbutslay]

Love that my first watch of Arcane made me realize that I didn’t just like girls but I really liked girls, but starting my third watch of Arcane last night because I finally had the chance to force one of my sisters to watch it with me made me remember that I actually do find guys attractive sometimes and do like them on nice enough occasions.

[fazcinatingblog]

Happy fazzy day!!!!!

[hextechmaturgy]

icarus hades 2 is so funny to me. a character you don't even meet until you reach chamber 20 or 30-something of the SURFACE (which you can't get to at all until you're a few runs into the underworld) is the reason the protagonist is missing a limb. he's the person making the hammers melinoë's fated to utilize (because daedalus retired) but he's like hehe don't mention it, and just the fact that he shows up at all is hilarious because he just? got in the mood to fight in a war that involves gods and titans? you see heracles fighting around too but fighting is kind of his thing. icarus has wings, a few bombs and a crush, and damn if he's not gonna be doing some cool shit with that

[egophiliac]

starting off with an amuse-bouche of some of my initial favorite bits! y'all, this update was WILD.

[mixed-fandom-mess]

with everything that has happened in arcane today I want to take a second to appreciate all the new relationships and connections the show has established. It’s so great to see different characters interact that haven’t before, like Mel giving Caitlyn her condolences and talking to Jayce about her, Ambessa and Caitlyn interacting which has so much potential and the Heimerdinger-Ekko-Jayce-trio is great as well! Especially after the last season we were so used to characters only staying in their little bubble (Silco, Jinx, Sevika or Cait, Vi or Jayce,Viktor, Mel for example) but now that they are branching out we get to see so many cool and interesting interactions and I for one am loving it.

[fauvester]

dumps mels nicktoonsunite pacific rim au art and runs for the hills

[avariceaside]

We were ROBBED of Zagreus getting to be an annoying older brother

[danykindaforgotaboutdre]

”I love Viktor and Jayce and Jayce and Mel, how am I supposed to choose?!”

You literally don’t?! How is this fandom this progressive but also this hung up on monogamy? read The Ethical Slut and get out of my face.

[aquaquadrant]

Rhngn situation to make me cry just hit me over the noggin,,

Imagining Bravo shouting about how Vile and Disgusting and Evil hels players are, trying to convince Jimmy that Tango is Not Right For Him - only for Jimmy to look right past Bravo and at Timmy - starving, dilapidated, suffering Timmy. A version of himself that he presumes Bravo has been dragging around, and he sees how Timmy absorbs that information. Imagining the WHIPLASH on Bravo as Jimmy points out "All hels players? Timmy is RIGHT THERE, look at him -"

I sob hysterically - I DESPERATELY NEED for someone to point out to Bravo THAT TIMMY IS R I G H T THERE AND HE IS H U R T I N G and how Bravo's words ARE JUST AS CRUEL AND JADED AS ANY HELS PLAYER.

Alternatively, that one meme of that lady holding up some guy while pointing a finger at someone, except make it Jimmy holding Tango and Timmy whilst pointing at Bravo.

Aaaand oh god the parallels of how Jimmy and Bravo truly *aren't* well matched in how while Bravo is dogmatic in his hatred and detests hels and their players, Jimmy has such a capacity for compassion, I couldn't possibly see him hating even a hels version of himself that could be everything he may hate in himself. FUCK THE NARRATIVES ARE SO GOOOD. I will forever chew on this au, thank you Aqua and thank you Lunar for this masterpiece.

accurate meme is accurate^^

[pillowenvelopchair]

Arcane’s theme of power is so so so interesting to me.

On one hand you have characters who had power in the first season now feeling powerless. Mel, i think is the biggest one.

During the entirety of season one she was pulling the strings but it slowly gets stripped away when her mother comes and now? It feels like she is absolutely powerless after the attack

Now the characters who were powerless are given power.

Caitlyn was powerless for the entirety of season one- no one took her seriously and when her and Vi went after Jinx they were powerless to stop her.

But now? Ambessa sees that grief- that loss of a loved one because she had lost someone too- and manipulates/weaponizes it by giving Caitlyn a position of power.

[teleportationmagic]

The thing is, Ambessa's daughter does not undo her.

She sees, with an wolf's eye, the choice that both Silco and Vander will be weighing up right before their deaths - that to have and raise and keep a daughter, this daughter, would require balancing everything she ever wanted, or her. She sees with withheld breath that someday, she would stay her hand to keep her daughter's heart whole. That Mel was never going to survive in Noxus and that Ambessa Medarda knows nothing else. Of course she sends her away. She chooses what neither Vander nor Silco could, to lose her daughter, so that she and those who are her's might survive. She chooses before the choice rises to a fever pitch, before it narrows into extremes.

Except she undoes that choice. When Kino dies, all paths of power lead, inextricably, back to Mel, and Ambessa pleads with her the same - to come back. To come home. And it's her presence here that makes Mel so sure she wants to stay, that she could not bear to follow her back to Noxus, that her feet were planted too forcefully in this faraway land. Ambessa loses both at the same time, the power she needs to stay a conqueror and her last child.

And so, we ask of her the question that neither Vander nor Silco are alive to answer - having lost twice, how do you claw them both back?

[mabsart]

!!Arcane Season 2 Spoilers!!

Everyone is talking about THE family reunion hug but there’s another reunion hug that pulled at my heart. Even if, y’know…

[feenixmork]

New year, same blorbos

[basicallyblobbity]

BIRTHDAY X3 (birthday)

[letshareapapou]

Everyone is saying it but Mel has too badass of a character design to be taken out

[arolegos]

cooking up a ninjago arcane au rn and what if i was evil