#but her rise into dictatorship is so hard to reconcile with any other portrayal of her
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Caitlyn's slow but inevitable decline into facism was painful to watch but it's Vi's tacit support of that that REALLY hurts me.
Cait was raised at the top of the hierarchy and it only took her being the one 'in danger' to flip from sympathetic to the undercity to desperately angry and wanting to return to the status quo where she and piltover are in power/control/oppress the weak 'for their own good.' I expected this to happen from the moment her rhetoric began to shift (us vs them, calling Zaunites animals, general dehumanisation.)
Vi knows that the issue is structural and the structure that's used to exercise violence against the oppressed is the enforcers, yet she still joined them anyway. It's excellent writing but the implications that has for her as a character who has been shown to have strong convictions and morals is so heartbreaking. It feels like her years in prison have eroded at the heroic spark in her to the point where she'll justify anything to return to the past. I keep asking myself how Vi could justify using The Grey as a weapon against the undercity, and her parotting what is probably Caitlyn's justification - that they used it to clear the streets and keep as many safe as possible - just rings so hollow. She felt like a lost soul just vaguely drifting through life in Act 1, and of course she did. She has no one left BUT Caitlyn. She has no place in the Undercity because it grew away from her. Her base of motivation as a kid was to fight for and protect the Lanes and now that the Lanes are gone who even is Violet anymore? If only she could rewind time and restore the uncomfortable uneven past.
Vi and Cait are actually the same person, the only difference is that Caitlyn has the power to enact her vision and Vi doesn't. I'm so sore.
#arcane season 2#arcane spoilers#caitvi#vi arcane#caitlyn kiramman#meta#i want to say i stand with my cancelled wife#because i do love caitlyn#but her rise into dictatorship is so hard to reconcile with any other portrayal of her#i also do not think we should be attributing as much to Ambessa's influence as we are#yes Cait is grieving and seeking a mother figure and she's young#but her backslide into the Piltover way of thinking has been developing all along#she's the one who of her own volition took the Kirraman legacy of clean air and weaponised it#anyways idk how caitvi will reconcile but I'm so worried they'll both be worse off for it as people#ethically speaking#and Vi isn't innocent either i still remember her rebuke of Jayce wrt the child he accidentally killed#and her hair trigger temper#gosh they all need therapy and societal restructuring#best case scenario Zaun becomes independent and Piltover has to pay reparations but#yeah idk
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