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milfbrainrot · 4 months ago

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admittedly we do not know anything abt most of the new characters yet and assuming she's not in LoL that includes Maddie but it is... a lil odd to see infantilization of her at this stage.

I get she seems like a ray of sunshine character so far but "girl has no idea what martial law means 💔" kind of jokes are making me think abt how if maddie IS just a naive enforcer thinking she's doing good for piltover, she'd still... know what martial law and fascism etc entail. She'd just think those things are Good and Just!

Idk not to take jokes too seriously but there's something interesting abt what makes a character complicit in horrors esp when they seem so nice, and I feel like that's kinda being brushed aside w the interpretations that she is just an oblivious kid... esp since those jokes are about the scene where she's supporting Cait's dictatorship promotion which is after she's literally been in Zaun with her gassing people lmao.

She knows what's going on. Her framing of it is just extremely biased. Maybe a bit naive of her if so, but not stupid yknow.

#Arcane tag #I have complicated thoughts on the whole 'any portrayal of a fictional cop is copaganda #and people who like fictional cops are irl police brutality sympathizers' stuff this site does #bc i think people can like a character or a show And be cognizant of how it differs from the real world #AND a show as politically charged as arcane lends itself to some interesting takes #where you can see how a person might also think about irl situations based on what they fall for in the show #Ie people can love maddie or Cait or any other character who does awful shit #without that appreciation of them being an excusal of their actions #(Like. I love jinx and ambessa lmao)#And sometimes defenses of a character are necessary when fandom is disproportionately hard #on that character and the people who like them #It's just also like... you don't need to excuse or explain away why a character is Good actually #They can be sympathetic! Definitely! But they're still committing atrocities and that's fine #They're fictional and it's better to embrace what's being put down imo #Doesn't mean you support any of that irl so you don't need to explain why it's actually #not bad behavior you can just go 'yeah my blorbo fucks up a lot'#bc otherwise if ur looking at a character doing awful things and going 'But #they had no idea what they were doing 🥺' it's... odd to me!#Maybe some of them don't #Like powder didn't mean to blow up her loved ones #But maddie means to help ensure peace however it's deemed necessary #Maybe she doesn't see zaunites as people and therefore justifies it #But.... she knows what she's signing up for even if her framing is off #At least that's how it comes off to me. She's barely spoken so I could be off base ig

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