#but Sevika ESPECIALLY

[supremeleaderoofpoof]

and per the post i just reblogged about the wonderful black/POC characters of Arcane, i need to get this out of me now because that post got me on a tangent.

Sevika never worked for Vander, nor did she ever work for Silco. She works for Zaun.

Which is precisely why when she left Vander to join Silco in the first place, it wasn't betrayal to her. Vander had compromised, choosing to sacrifice the Nation of Zaun for the sake of his children and due to the immense guilt he probably had for what happened at the bridge. He was no longer truly for Zaun. Therefore, she no longer aligned herself with him. This explains why when Vi called her a "traitor"(which is incredibly ironic once we see the side Vi ultimately chooses), Sevika simply replied with, "Vander had his chance." Because he did. And he failed.

It also is why, when Silco asks her if she was tempted, she specifies that she wasn't tempted by Finn PARTICULARLY, since Finn was a power-hungry crime lord who had no care for the Zaun or the cause. However, had Finn actually cared about Zaun, that meeting would have gone a whole lot differently.

That entire scene was essentially Sevika warning Silco to get his shit together for Zaun and the cause in the most respectable yet threatening way possible. Dare I say, in that moment, she was the leader?

This is also why I think that having her team up with Jinx is literally so accurate to her character, because it just solidifies the fact that she's not just lackey for whoever sits in the chair, she is a fighter for her people, whom she will ALWAYS PUT FIRST, even if it means helping Jinx, since she is now, apparently, a "symbol" of rebellion to her people, and perhaps a symbol of hope. Or so they believe...

good heavens there's so much more i can say about her(ESPECIALLY the deep down desire for validation i believe she lowkey shares with Jinx. 🥲)

but all of this to say, as horny(metaphorically) of a mf i am i will not let it consume me, and neither should yall to the point where you miss the bigger picture of the person.

Sevika is such a complex, multifaceted character, and I wish more people spoke on it.

Also she better not fucking die.

[nefelibatat]

So if I were to take away from this moment something deeper than “man Sevika's a freak”, I'd point out that we've seen the same tactic not long before.

What does this say about Caitlyn? She's fighting dirty. She's fighting like a cornered rat. She's fighting like a Zaunite.

And first of all there's hypocrisy. Caitlyn's been calling these people animals and monsters and whatnot but when placed in an identical situation she responds identically. Case in point: getting so mad at Jinx for terrorizing people out of grief that she goes ahead and starts to terrorize people out of grief. Sevika's expression afterwards is mostly “joke's on you I'm into that” but there's some surprise there too — you wouldn't expect that move from a Piltie.

Then there's desperation. Because she needs revenge; she needs it or she'll never ever forgive herself for what happened. So she'll throw away her morals and her dignity and just do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, whether it means chomping on someone like a feral raccoon or becoming a military dictator… which puts her in the same mindset as Zaunites, all of whom are desperate to survive and a lot of whom could never afford morals and dignity in the first place.

[sihtryggr]

jail time to the creators for not giving us more of her

[k3n-dyll]

"No, I don't have a type"

[sevikasupremacy]

She’s so cute I just wanna wrap her in a blanket like a burrito and throw her onto the bed and snuggle her

[dykesevika]

happy pride month <3

Men DNI

[dirtytransmasc]

Sevika definitely called Isha "Squeaker" and I will die on the hill.

[normal-human-girl]

happy Sevika day!!!

[mollysunder]

The finale must have seemed like absolute horseshit to the Jinxers. They spent what seemed like several months resisting Piltover's violent occupation of Zaun where they are regularly harassed,

assaulted,

imprisoned,

shot at, and plainly intimidated in their own homes.

All for it to mean nothing, because everything they did had no bearing on Piltover's decision to pull back the occupation. And after what seemed like months of being terrorized they're asked to join a fight of which it's catalyst and driving force is hextech and it's creators. A technology and group of people that have never directly or indirectly benefitted them in any tangible way, and didn't one of those guys kill a kid in Zaun a couple months back!?!?!???

But it's the end of the world so of course they're going to fight, and of course many of them died. Some worse than others, in the uniforms of the forces that beat and imprisoned them.

On the battlefield all the double standards are laid bare for them to see because Piltover has fully weaponized hextech to defend themselves from an aggressor. Meanwhile one of the core reasons their home was gassed and occupied was to rid the place of shimmer. Without it Zaun was easily occupied by Piltover and they died in droves on the battlefield from wounds that it would have easily healed by it.

And after everything that's happened, from the invasion of their home, the violent repression, the deaths of their leaders and their symbol, they gained practically nothing in return. Even the power Sevika gained as a councilmember is completely dependent on when a Piltovan deigns to side with her. What's worse, there's literally nothing stopping from Piltover from doing it all over again. Piltover didn't need hextech to occupy Zaun, without shimmer, all they needed was their guns.

So what happens next?

Obviously, this isn't over. None of what's happened will be forgotten, especially by the faction that appeared to spend the most time fighting the occupation. Even though they've gained nothing of material value from Piltover, the connections and skills they've forged in the conflict are decent substitutes.

Some of these new skills include gunsmithing! An incredible development in Zaun as only Jinx and Piltover had a monopoly on the technology. Add to that the fact that the Jinxers don't just admire Jinx, but likely Silco as well and are even depicted fighting the enforcers alongside Silco's former underlings, there's clearly a new wave of militancy brewing.

This leads me to wonder if over time the Jinxers would morph into something like the Inx. The Inx are of course a noncanon Jinx-aligned faction, but their creation was heavily inspired by Arcane and even included Silco's iconography in their aesthetic.

Now first off, the Inx are dangerous. They're violent, obnoxious in a hooligan kind of way, and they operate kind of like a cult (real estate fraud and all), but they're also the kind of dangerous Silco enabled in Jinx. Leading members like Chadd above are artistically creative, inventive, charismatic, and genuinely well-organized.

The Inx are incredibly capable of amazing feats (and great music), they're just sort of directionless, and the Jinxers have an ideology that's likely to only get more extreme and a real enemy, but little in terms of power. With a foundation like the Jinxers, something like the Inx could form in Zaun, but far more dangerous. Post-finale the Jinxers will likely be the ones to invest their time in making Zaun's next generation both as innovative and dangerous as possible to make Zaun's streets as uncontrollable and terrifying for enforcers as when shimmer was around.

[jankypromoters]

"erm you can't ship melvika because they've never even interacted—" you would've never survived the Jack Frost x Elsa x Merida trenches.

[rabbitsideblogs]

an angel gains its wings every time you draw arcane women with body hair

[sovamurka]

i just KNOW that if sevika was a man, people would be shipping sevilco like crazy, making analysis of even tiniest bits of interactions, screaming "HOW CAN YOU NOT SEE ANYTHING BETWEEN THEM???"

[tbhshaped]

the way some of you treat sevika is a bit sad, I know she's unbearably hot, but she's way more than just smut, tough girls deserve to cry, be taken care of, be emotional, cuddle, and not just be your knight in shining armor

[never-rxne]

if i'm being honest.. i do not think sevika actually talks the way she talks in the show lmao

[melvika]

I need the tea on the ATLA AU you referenced in the tags. Sevika as an earth and metal bender......hmm. Maybe Mel could be a metal bender too. But she gives water or fire energy too. Hmm.

so i’ve actually already done a lot of brainstorming for this because atla and arcane are my favorite western animation series. also currently commissioning the goat @g-vlssz for what i’ve had in mind 🥰♥️

but yea, i think mel is absolutely a firebender avatar. the entire medarda family are firebenders and sevika is an earthbender who can also metalbend. lowkey wanna headcanon her as a lavabender too while i’m at it 🤫

i have several melvika fics in the works including the atla au but idk when i’ll actually finish it because i’ve been obsessed with playing infinity nikki over my winter break and catching up with old friends/family while also preparing myself for the new year 😅

regardless, please enjoy this side by side comparison i used for visualizing my mel avatar truthing because this pic reminded me of aang 🫡

[dykesevika]

hey y’all pleeeeasee do not be uploading my shit to Pinterest.

Or anywhere else. Especially not without asking.