#ekko the boy who shattered time

[thedepressedjuggalette]

The Ekko Essay: How Riot Games Failed A Revolutionary.

For whatever reason I cannot post the Essay itself. Because of this, I shall post it via a link to my drive. Sorry. If I had any video editing skills, and the confidence of a god, I'd have made it a video but I don't... so yeah. Have fun reading, but be warned, it is long. Seventeen Pages to be exact.

Here is the link!

[thedepressedjuggalette]

Okay as I was writing today, I ended up realizing Ekko and his group have a LOT in common with the Black Panther Party, in the sense of wanting to liberate Zaun from the oppression caused by Piltover. Fact is, Ekko was actually the greatest example a Zaunite being ignored by Piltover.

For Arcane you'd say, "No, Jinx is! If she went to Piltover's Academy, she would've been one of the best inventors there!" But the thing is, Ekko is the exact same but he doesn't want to go to Piltover because he doesn't want to benefit the Oligarchy there.

Him going to Piltover is like a former slave staying to work for his former slave owner and get paid pennies for it and still be treated the same for it.

If you look at Viktor you'll see that his condition is completely ignored until he collapsed into a pool of his own blood. As established earlier in THIS POST, his ailment was completely fixable but remember, disabled = Zaun = lesser = unimportant = exploitable. They wouldn't help Viktor and Viktor likely didn't even have the money to even save up for it.

Ekko is someone who actively fights against Piltover and rejects them entirely because he knows they'd never help him and his people.

To give you the general points I'll be making in my Essay:

1.) Ekko has parents and his parents are actively working themselves to death to get enough money for him to attend Piltover's Academy, but this comes at the cost of them rarely spending time together and him sometimes not recognizing them.

2.) Ekko's father, Wyeth, works in a Chemtech plant that has took his hearing and sight.

3.) Ekko witnessed a Piltovan murder one of his friends in cold blood.

4.) CAMILLE FUCKING EXISTS.

5.) Many of the Chem-Tech plants have products that are bought by Piltover and thus benefit Piltover.

6.) Ekko's father works in a Chem-tech plant that produces products for JAYCE.

7.) The Entirety of Zaun is being exploited for Piltover's profit.

8.) Ekko grew up and witnessed damn near all of this and thus knows exactly how Piltover works and that him trying to change Piltover is useless and thus the only thing that can be done is to sever Zaun's ties to Piltover.

So yeah, fuck Piltover.

Ekko in the end was such an underdeveloped character that ppl headcanon stuff about him that was never actually established in arcane canon and don’t even realize that. Like the idea that Ekko cares about The Independent Nation of Zaun or that he would ever care about the revolution or that he had a crush on Powder. I think it’s bcos if you get rid of all the headcanons what’s even left? The viewers need to do so much work in order to give this guy any beliefs or connections within the story.

[lady-griffin]

One of my favorite details from the finale is how three sky tendrils go into the Hexgates to take Vi, Jinx, and Ekko.

But Jinx dodges one of them.

This at first seems like a false victory, since she’s immediately grabbed by Warwick and another one just takes her.

But it’s not a false victory. The one that took Jinx was originally meant for Ekko, who was an unconscious duck at the time.

Because Jinx dodged the first sky tendril, Ekko remained disconnected from Viktor’s hivemind – which as you know, was kind of a major factor in the whole stopping the apocalypse from happening.

It’s this small, short-lived triumphant moment that seemingly doesn’t matter and yet it was essential to Ekko's major triumph in the end.

So yeah, I just really love that detail.

Also, I couldn't resist putting the flash frame of Ekko here, because my god, the art in this show is beyond amazing.

[poummiee]

[violent-viscera]

episode 7 was the best of season 2 idc don’t @ me

[timebombficexchange]

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[arcanetoymakerau]

Arcane: The Toymaker AU - tm!Ekko final lore and design

He surely was a challenge to write when it was about the Firelights development, because I had to think how it went with barely any reference from canon and with Vi's influence in middle.

Ekko's character in this AU was much more influenced by the changes on Vi and Jinx than it looks like.

Other main characters: [Jinx] - [Viktor] - [Caitlyn] - [Vi] - [Zeri]

Constructive criticism is welcome and reblogs are highly appreciated.

[bedknees]

hey yall. idk if anyone can actually help me, but I'm gonna give it a shot. I'm looking for a piece of timebomb fanart. It was one of my favorite arts of the ship and I hate that I can't find it now.

It's pretty easy to describe. it's literally just Ekko and Jinx recreating the cover for Lovely by Khalid and Billie Eilish:

if anyone knows who drew it or has the source, I'd be eternally grateful. Ty in advance 🙏

[metalichotchoco]

The doctor is looking a little different..

[phantasmal-wizard]

They didn't just rally the firelights, they rallied the rest of Zaun too. I would have liked to seen all of this, but I really wish we saw that part in particular. Even if was just a montage I would have been happy.

He implies she's worth building something new with, next thing we know he's wearing a more revealing outfit with her signature X doodled all over his body. Good for him!

Also, between this scene and the moment they show up in battle, they've apparently had the time to: - turn her entire lab/hideout into a blimp - cover the whole thing in giant tags of the firelights symbol, her cloud tatoos, and more - rebuild pow pow and fishbones, which were very much broken in act 2 - rally the firelights - cut and dye her hair - crop his top - pierce his ears - sew her a shark hoodie - cover her entire body in crayon drawings - accessorize their outfits - again, turn her lair, a giant airshaft, into a functional blimp

Maybe Ambessa gave her entire army the week off before battle. Maybe Jinx and Ekko were on unfathomable amounts of cocaine. We'll never know

[thedepressedjuggalette]

One thing I find crazy about Arcane is that Ekko is the actual hero of the show and we didn't more Ekko, and we didn't get Kendrick Lamar and Mustard to help with the soundtrack. We were fucking cheated.

[daretolovemyrambling]

can we talk about the alternative vinyl design for 2x7????

Don't get me wrong, I loved the one we got. Especially since it's more subtly replacing the Jinx & Vi design, but this looks so amazing.

I love the colors. I love how at peace the two look in eachothers arms. I love that they included the blue smoke tattoos and the clockwork design.

[alchemyfreak123]

"Read what I could, deduced what I couldn't"

[regieluciferi]

This is so good. The lights behind him really stresses his good guy vibes, and make him look like an epic hero.

Last one fr maybe

[violent-viscera]

as an s2e7 >>>>> proponent, i just want to say how lovely it was that there was a timeline where ekko–who lost almost everything in his life and ended up basically alone in the main timeline–got to have it all while jayce–who basically skated through life on his multiple privileges relative to zaunites and ekko–experienced unadulterated terror and misery by himself.

i cant keep talking about how beautiful and comical the juxtaposition was. it was an unfortunate prodding for personal growth for jayce and it was a well-deserved respite for a boy who deserves it all.

this episode showed how and what these two men experienced to end up saving the world. they weren't the main characters like vi and jinx were intended to be, but these two ended up being the main characters in saving the world.

im so glad we got this episode.

[korraofthereef]

Quick headcannon,

Jinx is the type of person who would tattoo one of the symbols Ekko drew on her body. Definitely while she’s escaped to a different city like Demacia, or something.

She’d do this to remeber how Ekko had touched her with such gentleness and care—a stark contrast to how their brief moments of contact over the past 7 years were full of anger and pain.

She’d also do this to keep a reminder of him, a reminder that she’s leaving to keep the people she loves safe. And that’s also why she keeps the streak of Violet in her hair.