#arcane act 2 episode 6

[venator-signum]

I think the thing that kills me the most about ep6 of arcane is that in vander's memories, it's mostly focused on Vi

yeah there's powder and the others in there, but it's still mainly vi

and in a show that almost revolves around jinx and her actions (she's absolutely main character), it's refreshing to see the spotlight on her big sister and how she got to where she is and if im biased as an older sister who gets overlooked for the younger ones then sue me

[auroragehenna]

I miss Isha.

[nathaniacolver]

guys i'm so sorry but "oinked poison" IS HILARIOUS

like i KNOW they're both MAD mad bc how do you not break at this 😭😭😭

(in her brain cait's already fucked her stupid)

((caitvi stop mentioning random animals challenge))

[thatoneguyfrom-redacted]

Jinx taught Isha how violence and joy could go hand in hand.

Jinx taught Isha that even though everything seemed shit, and where they lived was shit, and her situation was shit, she could paint silly doodles over it all with spray paint. That they could escape into a game no matter where they were. That no matter a persons past they could still love.

Jinx taught Isha how violence and love could go hand in hand.

[midnightcatharsis]

CaitVi fans: Oh no, they really made Cait hit Vi and sleep with Maddie… How can this pairing possibly recover from cheating and domestic abuse? It's doomed…

Meanwhile JayVik fans after Jayce sleeps with another person, breaks every promise he has ever given to Viktor and violently murders him, seemingly with no regret, guilt or inner struggle, without even trying to talk to him one last time:

[halhys]

Been practicing with gouache these days and after seeing episode 6 of Arcane and all the gorgeous art I couldn't resist and try to recreate one of them in painting!!

Overall super happy with the result!!

And I just won't be able to stop painting Viktor ahahahhaha .....

[venstuffs]

just finished act 2 s2, do not speak to me

[human-space-heater]

Theory about Jinx in Act 3 of Arcane

Everyone is theorizing that Jinx is going to return back to her psychotic self and won’t want to lead the revolution. But I want to focus on something. We see that it's not Jinx that reignited the flame of the revolution, it's Isha. Isha was the reason everyone at Vander’s statues began to rally around, she literally lit the flame of the revolution on the shoulders of the statue of another rebel. Jinx is going to help the revolution not because she wants to but because this was Isha’s dream of her. This is Isha’s revolution in a way. Jinx couldn’t believe someone as pure and innocent as Isha could look at someone like Jinx and want to be like her. Even Jinx doesn’t want that as seen by the way Jinx tries to end her life (her fight with Vi and her fight with Ekko). 

Jinx is going to help the revolution because she doesn’t want to disappoint Isha. She feels that it's her fault that her little ‘sister’ sacrificed herself, it's part of her curse again. Then I remember what Vi told Jinx in their final fight. 

“You killed her! I won't let you taint her memory anymore.”

Maybe this will motivate Jinx? I don't know. I'm so upset about Isha’s death. We can see that Jinx will most likely cut her hair in the next act. This has been a part of Jinx’s identity for as long as we have known her, even when she was still Powder, she still had a braid. But she cuts it. Why? Is it because with the death of Isha, it's also the death of Jinx AND Powder? Is it because those braids no longer stand for Jinx/Powder but rather Isha? 

Another thing I realized is in the second episode of Act 1, Jinx was giving Silco a water burial. And she says something that stands out.

“Her and you, always bossing me around. And now it’s so quiet. What am I supposed to do with that?”

That’s the episode where we meet Isha, a character who doesn’t speak. A character who motivates Jinx, who gives Jinx a reason to keep going. Isha was influencing Jinx just as much as Jinx was influencing Isha. She stopped Jinx from killing Stink Maw, diverting her attention and presenting an idea that gave Jinx a new perspective. I’m nervous but also excited to see what happens next. 

[helpwhatusernamesarenttaken]

If anybody finds or writes a fic about Episode 6 of Arcane where Jayvick ship sails and Vander and Isha live- pls tell me 😊

[atissi]

we're back guys arcane is good again

[crazywolfsthings]

Bruh, Jayce just fucking koolaid an entire cult

[hellalesbiangirl]

I love how you can still see the cut on Ambessa from sparring with Caitlyn.

Its low quality but I tried

[dao-the-starlight]

no one talk to me I just finished watching through act 2 of Arcane season two

[snakes-of-the-undercity]

My thoughts on the end of act 2 (heavy warning for spoilers) -

Vander’s end/the death of Isha -

Vander’s last love was violence. He could never escape it, he could never be separated from it. And so instead he buried it, turned his violence into fuel to protect his own, his first love; his family. But, as Jinx said in the first season, ‘nothing ever stays gone’. He was never delusioned enough to believe that his violence was gone, but he thought he could control it. He couldn’t and that manifested itself in Warwick. Though I doubt Warwick is dead, Vander now most certainly is.

He died to the hand of that which he loved; his family. He died trying to protect them, he died while bringing them together. I’m not sure what this will do to the family of the heart of Zaun but I hope this will not destroy them. They all carry something of his, it would be a shame to waste it.

Vi holds his violence, Jinx his madness, and Sevika his ideals, though those are only surface level things. Sevika also holds his violence and his drive for family, Jinx holds his want for peace (surprising as that is) and isolation, his escapism, and Vi holds his drive, his want for things to get better, his need for others to be safe. Of course there’s other things they embody, but at the end of the day the story of the heart of Zaun is a story about fathers. How Vander was a father to Vi and Jinx, how Vi was a sort of father to Powder, how Sevika’s own father shaped her into being this protector and king maker of Zaun, how they are dealing of the repercussions of fathers (Silco and Singed), and how they were all a ‘father’ in some way to Isha.

In that same way it is a show about daughters and death. How one single act of ignorance, a drive to help that was seen as such good at first can turn from beauty to bodies lain across the rubble of these cities. How Jinx’s sister, her ward, died trying to help. Died in the way Powder did. And now, once again, vander has died. Their family is shattered once again. And once again they lost their father to a well meaning little girl.

Because at the end of the day this is a story of fathers and daughters, of family.

And, at the end of the day, this story is a tragedy.

Authors note - Might not be cooking with this, I am very sleep deprived— just finished watching and typed this out so yeah! Probs will have more + some old art later

[angryvampire]

Yoooooo!

Powder and Isha paralelsssss!

That's not a good thing thooooo... 😬

[girl4music]

Just finished watching episode 6 of Act 2 of Season 2 of ‘Arcane: League Of Legends’. Nothing I could say encapsulates how I feel better than the ending quote.

"Humanity, our very essence, is inescapable. Our emotions, rage, compassion, hate. Two sides of the same coin, intractably bound. That which inspires us to our greatest good is also the cause of our greatest evil.”

Powerful. Powerful dialogue. Powerful characterization. Powerful storytelling. Powerful visuals. Just powerful.

In a cycle of violence and hatred there is peace and love because everything that causes pain once was pleasure and it spins around and around constantly like a wheel.

The nature of everything and everything of nature. We repeat history and perpetuate the pattern because that’s how the world functions and moves and evolves.

There would be no world to experience otherwise.

No life. We will continue to be heroes and villains. We will do it out of hate and we will do it out of love. Always maintaining the balance of nature for all of eternity.

That’s just the way it has to be so that anything can be. It will always be hard and it will always be traumatic because that’s how much all the good times affect us. If we didn’t feel that much, if it didn’t matter that much then hardship and pain wouldn’t be experienced either.

They say it has to hurt if it’s to heal. It’s entirely true. So you decide whether you’re willing to put up with it so that you can have something that feels great for awhile. In understanding that it’s all part of the process of life.

It’s barely wisdom. It’s something we should inherently know or inherently understand. But we’re lost in the ignorance just as much. Everything is a contradiction.

As it should be. When we play around with the laws of nature we so conveniently forget the price we pay for it in the moment - but it will come back at us ten fold because it can’t be any other way. This is the way it is.

Art/entertainment tells and shows us this all the fucking time and we choose to regard it as nothing. You only have to open your eyes. You only have to listen. That same wisdom is all around us if you’re open to it.

I thought TV shows like this didn’t exist anymore. I was wrong and I’m glad that I was. Because we need them.