#arcane loris

[theresascove]

oh. oh… vi’s crashing out scene shows how she’s the kind of person to be like, “eh, I don’t care,” but as time goes by they REALLY fucking do

—> so here’s a FULL break down of that 6-9 month time skip scene

• how shaky, flashy, and quick the camera moves and continues to get. It’s similar to how you get when you’re drunk. It starts out clean and then gets snappier as the scene continues

• her relationship with Loris going to shit. It started out with celebrations (you can see them cheering together, arms around each others backs) to him pulling a drink away from Vi, to him sitting further away with his back turns towards her. Then we get another scene of Vi going to cheers w him and he’s not there, she sets the cup down and then proceeds to fall on the bar counter and the drink falls to the floor

• Vi goes from laying fully on the bed on her back to (a few frames later showing a time skip) Vi barely even making it to her bed

• the alcohol bottles piling up & her throwing up from the amount (or possibly from screaming into the sink full of water)

• she also keeps screaming a ton—during fighting, in her apartment (by punching bag and in the sink). the only other times I’ve heard Vi make such a sound is when she’s fighting other people as seen in s1 and s2, so her just screaming in her bedroom is showing INTENSE feelings

• the prision wall day counting on the walls (I didn’t really count, but I estimate there’s about 100+ days seeing as I picked out each grouping and timed it by 5). they seem to show up more as they switch between different frames of Vi in her room. Also be aware this is as much as I COULD count, there’s definitely more just out of frame. The writers confirmed this time skip is about 6-9 months

• smearing the black paint on her face w intent at first but as time goes by she gets messier, full hands on her face and eyes almost rolling up

• she’s literally sobbing against her punching bag (they don’t show her crying anytime else but I’m SURE she did it a lot more… but look at the tears on her face and the pain in her expression-IT KILLS ME).

• ^^towards the end (last photo of her smearing the paint (just before that she had broken the mirror). seemingly getting fed up and reaching a breaking point

• she goes from clean fists, to bloody fingers as the time skip goes on

• how beat up she gets as the time slip continues as she loses focus and begins to fall apart

• Vi going from pit fighting, to the bar, to her room to sleep/get ready/punch the punching bag

• then she “sobers” back up as best as possible, puts the paint on again, just to go there with a heavy heart and get beaten quickly

• Vi hallucinating Caitlyn in many ways. When we see the flag and in the bar scene and one last time when Vi thinks back to when they had that moment in Caitlyn’s room in s1

• Vi hallucinating the girl she “fell in love w” and not who had hurt her/how she had become since Caitlyn’s mother died

• the way she would look up at the Kiramman flags and think of Caitlyn each time she went up the stairs to her room. pictures show her doing it a first time, and then later down the line after a few months—she’s still looking up

• (eventually snatching one at some point and using it as a blanket as shown by the show)

• practically drowning herself in the sink full of water and screaming (maybe to try and silence her thoughts…? Water is quiet)

screenshooting Vi’s crashing out phase is so much more depressing when you take it frame by frame and remove the rock music and upbeat animation

[mvmnbnv]

Loris would affectionately call her chipmunk

[angelltheninth]

Alright I'm sorry but most Enforcers are goofy ass idiots. They're gonna get absolutely SLAUGHTERED by Ambessa.

It really seems like the only ones with any skills are on Caitlyn's personal strike team. And hell, even they might die (looking at you Maddie, the girl already has 2 DEATH FLAGS!)

But I hope they don't die.

[lanschpaket]

Arcane | S02E01

[thermo-catz]

Actual panel after cut

Manga: Veil

[terrapia]

Her dad's right. There's no point in sticking around up here.

↪ VI and LORIS in ARCANE 2x01 "Heavy Is The Crown"

[metrocat]

! ARCANE S2 SPOILERS ! ⇗   .・。.・゜✭・.  ⇖ matching icons / pfps !

S2 // E3 - FINALLY GOT THE NAME RIGHT (HELLFIRE) Here are some matching icons / pfps from the starting sequence in the episode! Enjoy!

[nyxlarkyn]

Let's Focus on Loris the Shield Man Real Quick:

Much like how Isha is there to reflect Jinx's inner child and Sevika fills in the sisterly/motherly role Jinx is so desperate for, this man will fit into the role of Vander to Vi.

Loris is meant to be there during Vi's darkest moment (like how Vander took the girls in) and help guide Vi down the right path. He disapproves of Caitlyn's raise to Dictatorship because he aligns himself with the good of all people. Something Jinx will soon symbolize to the people of Zaun. We see his alignment foreshadowed through the blue bead he wears in his hair, similar to Ekko's hair bead of a Jinx bomb later in the season; this is further pushed when Loris is covered in blue paint in ep.3.

The only thing we hear him say in all 3 episodes, the only thing is "I like peanuts" in response to Vi's negative rant about the events at the end of s1 and what just transpired with Caitlyn earlier in the episode. The only thing we hear him say, is something positive out of all that negativity. He's meant to bring some light in Vi's darkness.

He symbolizes the shield Vander failed to give the girls. Both him and Vander find Vi while they're struggling. Vander - the aftermath of a war and Vi losing her parents. Loris - the aftermath of Jinx's attack and both having fallen down a drinking spiral. He will help guide a hurting, lost Vi into the person she's been trying to be since she was a kid.

Junior Officer Maddie Nolan plays a major hand in this as well. She fits into the role of a younger VI, at least the aspirations and hopes she once held towards the future.

The show gives us a really good shot of Vi watching Loris give Maddie a comforting hand after they come up on Jinx's doll trap in the airducts. They look almost like father and daughter, like Vander and Vi... Maddie is by no means a young Vi the way Isha is almost a clone of Powder, but she holds this naive optimism for the future that helps inspire Vi to open up about joining the enforcers. Not just from what Cait had to say about her, but what Maddie said about Vi's actions and how she is viewed amongst the younger officers. This is another call back to her past when Vander tells Vi how her siblings Powder, Clagger, and Mylo look up to her and follow her. She becomes in a way Vi's two brothers story wise.

-Earlier I said Loris will be the shield Vander failed to give the girls. That's not an accurate statement, Vander tried his best to make sure his kids would be protected. He pushed for peace at every hand choosing to use his fist when all other options have been exhausted. At the end of the day his weapon is a brutal offense, Vi has never seen a true defensive weapon that protects. She only knows how to protect through means of force. Loris' treatment of Vi and her struggles will teach her how to be a proper shield for others and how she wants to protect her loved ones.

[feppepurin]

i'm not sure if anyone talked about him yet but can i give a shoutout to loris. initially he joined cait's strike team bc he thought he was doing the right thing (question mark) but as soon as she upgraded to military dictator he ditched that mess REAL quick!!! and was the only one to do so, as far as we know. love a man with a strong moral compass

he's also just a really kind dude =<:]]c supporting vi from the first moment they met. everyone needs a drinking buddy after your gf goes ballistic trying to hunt down your sister! look at her resting on this dude's leg lol loris looks after her the best he can while vi is spiraling but once she makes it clear she wants to be left alone he promptly fucks off. this scene is really funny to me 😭

hoping we get to see him again bro is delightful

[bluemoonpurpledragon]

Anya 🤝 Loris

[biscoitocraft]

I only learned about Loris' "I like peanuts" here on tumblr because in the brazilian dub he says "I like bananas" so the joke will make sense in portuguese

Now I need to know what else he likes in other languages' adaptations of Vi's drunken rant.

[mvmnbnv]

Do you think he went looking for her and found her like that

[angelltheninth]

Man, I love the Piltover's Finest team!

[incorrect-piltover-quotes]

Maddie: If you make a comment about my strength, I might throw you into the Grey.

Loris: You couldn't.

[msfarnon]

It will get better, kiddo

[therabbitthatpostthings]

Yall I might have issues…

God bless the nation of Zaun for giving us some of the FINEST bitches around

Lmao they all start with the letter V