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moonsdancer · 2 months ago

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#like do guys do know that ‘yay this character is perfect in every single way and the only ones with braincells<3’ is not#the progressive statement you think it is#a step up from the insane misogynoir during s1 era but still not great#it’s how nobody really focuses on mel or ekko’s characters on their own and water them down to being ‘perfect#never did anything wrong ever’. which they are but like… how to say this…#i feel arcane didn’t allow them to be fully fleshed characters#and gets some mvp scenes but that’s not a compensation for actually giving them proper attention and fully fleshing them out#i might be the minority but mel is a step up from ekko since she had more of an arc but again they barely fleshed it out before making her#op enough to defeat leblanc (was it leblanc?) in her own domain#like that is literally insulting to mel it’s a cop out and just reducing her to a cool moment#in compensation for not giving enough attention to her black rose arc#it wasn’t cathartic because there was no build up to those moments

I don’t know how to say this exactly but like… fandom and show are kinda weird about Mel and Ekko and it is very much rooted in racism

#THANK YOU.#again the characters only hold value so much as they're useful to the white people around them #performing emotional physical and magical labour for them despite rarely getting the same themselves #it was especially egregious with mel this season and last bc we see her support jayce's raggedy ass CONSTANTLY #but he rarely if ever does the same for her #and the ONE time when it really would've counted this season even if they did break up in the end the show had him #try to beat her up and then talk shit to her face and she wasn't allowed to push back. gross gross gross.#but yay y'all got your white x spicy white yaoi so all is well with he world. fuck that tbqh.#as for ekko some of the writing was so bizarre with the 'what would you do without her' nonsense #like actually ekko was the boy saviour who started a resistance group of orphaned zaunite kids providing care #community and livelihood to those in need WITHOUT jinx/powder.#almost the entirety of ep7 was about ekko being there to further jinx's arc twice over.#all this to say jayviks now claiming they lurvee mel and have always lurved her bc they 'won' is grossly transparent to me #keep the same energy mfs #the weakness of the season was harmful to all the characters but it's doubly so with these two #bc of how they're positioned in the story and by fandom #and how the way ppl talk about them only lays bare the issues op pointed out #mel medarda #ekko #you both deserved a better show and more stories #hope we get to see you soon #arcane

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