#arcane family

[shimmeringdungeon]

He's your Dad too.

[fanartka]

Whhhhaaaaat the ♡♡♡ck Viiii?

[sandraharissa]

To me the core theme of arcane is this specific type of conflict that repeats over and over again in all the main aspects of the story that centers around 'sibling relationships'.

Starting with the two cities. We have Piltover and the bad side of Piltover. Technically they're supposed to be one and the same but one is the 'golden privileged child' while the other is disadvantaged and needs to rely on the rich side of Piltover for support, they can't do it by themselves. And then the rich side of Piltover fails in its duties of taking care of/protecting/supporting/whatever the poorer side and a split happens. Zaun is created and it becomes so dangerous and volatile, it becomes a menace and an active threat to itself/the outside and there's no going back. It's the monster Piltover created and even tho the Undercity suffered unfairly at this point it has become so monstrous there may be no improvement/redemption for it.

And obvs that's the exact same thing that happens with Vander/Silco and Vi/Jinx. However it's also imo completely applicable to Jayce/Viktor and even Heimer/Singed. Jayce and Viktor will only reach their break-up era in future seasons but it's a given this will happen but I know I obvs need to explain the Heimer/Singed example.

Based on what we know about them Heimer is just naturally immortal/long-living, how lucky for him, and completely lacks any ability to relate to beings who from his perspective live short life-spans. Meanwhile Singed is just a human and on top of that he had a 10yo child who died from some kind of disease(maybe?). Currently he is obsessed with discovering immortality: experimenting on ppl, mutating them, resurrecting corpses etc. possibly in an attempt to find a way to heal/resurrect his daughter. And we know him and Heimer were partners and that Heimer didn't help him and threw him out of the university or smth for his research. So the exact same dynamic as the other pairs.

So notice how we've got the cities, and then each city has its storyline, and each storyline has a pair of protags who reflect the conflict between the cities, and then each pair also has the pair that preceded them which also reflects the same conflict. In Zaun all these connections are about family ties: brothers, sisters, fathers/daughters, with inherited political/social roles like the Piltover sympathizer and criminal/revolutionary. Meanwhile Piltover storyline connections are about 'progress': science buddies, mentors and students, with Jayce succeeding Heimer as the barely-scientist-moreso-a-politician and Singed/Viktor being mad scientists. We've even got zaunite 'older siblings' associating with Piltover and piltovan 'younger siblings' being from/associating with Zaun.

Just really nice parallels all around.

But I actually have an honorable mention to add here at the end lol.

Mylo and Claggor. Obvs they don't quite fit cos they never develop into this kinda dynamic and they were never meant to but I can't help but notice the similarities. Claggor being the pure hearted hero archetype, looking like Vander, naturally good fighter, seemingly lacking insecurities, seems like the 'second in command' after Vi (second best with the fighting machine, Vander speaks to him second to get info about what happened), meanwhile Mylo giving off 3rd child vibes, full of insecurities and needing to prove himself, physically looks like a stick bug, a bit of a bully, "weird" lock-picking talents that he struggles with and isn't respected for (like Singed/Viktor's science, Powder's bombs or Silco's dream) that are actually super useful and impressive (like he could have been robbing millions from Piltover banks if he got adopted by Silco instead lol).

[sandraharissa]

That example from silco’s death scene is crazy tho. It’s perfectly recreating the video all the way down to every single slight glance and finger movement, and so we have this animator(?) and his acting skills to thank for how crazy well jinx’s movements are nailed in that scene. You can see that they don’t always animate it exactly like the video referrences but here they followed they guy’s acting choices to a tee.

Arcane animators self referencing!

This animator got to use his son for young Ekko's reference and it's so damn sweet!!

Imagine acting up this incredibly heart-wrenching scene in your lounge to a rolled up sock on a bag... They gave it their all too!

This scene's acting fidelity is incredible! Especially the shakiness of Ekko's movement to punch Jinx...

[time-woods]

havent been able todraw much without my meds but how wefeelin abt the new season of arcane so far . .

[author-without-a-name]

Just sharing this one again because those last episodes of Arcane were rough! 😅 So, some nice family fluff for anyone that needs it!

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x06 - “The Message Hidden Within the Pattern”

[beif0ngs]

THIS SPECIFIC SHOT OF JINX HOLDING ISHA TIGHTLY IN HER ARMS, AND SEVIKA INSTINCTIVELY USING HER ENTIRE BODY TO SHIELD THEM FROM THE EXPLOSION HAS A COMPLETE AND UTTER CHOKEHOLD ON MY HEART 🥺💔

I SWEAR IF ANYONE HURTS THEM I’M GONNA 🔪🔪🔪

[paintedcrows]

*through tears* HER LITTLE POG CHAMP

[rinneycanon]

[tiredcupofangry]

Their eyes.... the matching colours...!!!! 😭

[shimmeringdungeon]

Are we still sisters?

[fanartka]

[sandraharissa]

I have no idea what s2 will bring.

The only thing I know is to brace myself for immediately starting the season off with the immediate fall-out of the explosion.

Scenes of the councilors trying to save their lives, us probs following Mel+Jayce+Viktor as they’re likely the only survivors, them seeing the horror of the situation, maybe seeing Cassandra dying and living through it all the while they have no idea what’s happening. Ppl walking out of their houses in the middle of the night to just see what the hell was that and seeing the tower burning. The absolute chaos on the streets, everybody’s out and watching, enforcers are losing it, maybe even immediate mobilization on the streets of Zaun, calling to action. Maybe Sevika/Chembarons thinking that it’s Silco’s doing and that it’s a planned and organized attack that they were kept in the dark about but really should have seen coming based on Silco’s goals and movement and the recent events. Cait’s horror at the scene and seeing her in the aftermath of her mother’s death, likely going through some mild corruption arc, and I don’t even know how Vi processing all that could look like. She’s freaking out cos Cait’s freaking out cos Cait’s mom is dead cos her sister went off the deep end. Likely a mourning/funeral/panic attack scene with Jinx and the introduction of the Silco hallucination. Just everybody screaming and freaking out. Not a single calm or content or triumphant person in sight. Just absolute chaos.

[ashioksdaydream]

Sometimes family is just a suicidal terrorist, a tired henchman and a kid with a funny hat

[fairynami]

This is what watching act two of arcane felt like