#jinx can quite literally murder a child and no one cares. no one. but caitlyn is vaguely disinterested in a one night stand? criminal

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Arcane fans will look you dead in the eyes and tell you they cant support caitlyn and vi because its “abusive” and then ship ekko with the terrorist that murdered his entire peace group, viktor with the man that murdered him, and think silco was any kind of good person

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Good Example Of What I Mean

**Spoilers For Arcane**

Okay. So, regarding my recent ranting on the topic of people making baseless arguments and by extension my harping on them, this is what I mean. And for the record, I'm not new to the internet. this sort of idiocy is far from cutting edge trolling. I know that. But as we are all here routinely in this space devoted to this story, I saw this earlier this morning and it happened to be a great example of what I posted last night.

First of all, I am not re-blogging the person who had posted it with sincerity because I broke my own rule and responded to an Arcane Critical post last night and woke up to 20+ comments this morning. That's on me. But I will say I am not mentioning this just because of one stupid meme. I have seen some variety of this statement countless ways:

"Caitlyn suffers for the first time and loses her mom and everyone acts like its an excuse to hurt all of Zaun".

This kind of thing right here is exactly what I mean when I say some of yall are just flat wrong. I can't tell if it is intentional or not, because you quite literally have to ignore massive chunks of the show to believe something like this, but at the end of the day when I say some takes are not worthy of discussion this is what I mean.

By the way, this isn't even about our man Silco here. I can't read enough to tell if anything in that box is real words or not but he has lived forty something years of history in this world. You better believe his box would be full. Because here's the thing. It isn't about agreeing or disagreeing with his reasons. It's about recognizing that he has them. THAT is consuming this story in a way that is worthy of respect and discussion.

But this?:

Survives being lured by child's voice to building fire by Jinx that kills six other enforcers

Almost killed by Jinx on bridge where Vi is also almost killed

Taken hostage nude in her child-hood home, forced to dress in Enforcer clothing and bound and gagged while Jinx tries to convince Vi to murder Caitlyn

Spares Jinx at Vi's request

Jinx smashes Caitlyn with gun and kills Caitlyn's mother, 2 other councilors, and blows up building

Attack squad of Zaunites crashes memorial killing several including almost Caitlyn and Vi

They know Jinx has weaponized hex-tech and has proven a threat

Comes up with plan for strike team after Vi (not blaming her she was right just pointing out) tells her they have to find a way to stop the invasion of Zaun.

Survives brutal fight with Sevika, saves Vi from Isha (presumably, we don't know if Isha would have shot), and after she held the shot for Vi the first time, Vi swore she was ready to end it this time, Vi blocks her shot. (Vi was right and Caitlyn was in complete mental health spiral, just giving some perspective).

After all that an incredibly talented manipulating warmonger takes over and that's all she wrote.

And of course that is to say nothing of the fact that the people I'm irritated with completely leave out the concept of Caitlyn's grief and trauma when considering her actions and story at all. Ignoring it in your consideration I can agree to label as ignorance. Disregarding it because you think the fact that she comes from privilege means she is unaffected by extreme traumatic violence and loss, or worse undeserving of recognition and care from it, that I'm afraid is a question of humanity.

As I have stated before none of this is to say I expect anyone to agree with everything or even anything Caitlyn did. She is a complex character and her decisions in many cases are SUPPOSED to be hard/impossible to accept. The way we each connect to these characters and this world is what makes it special. But stuff like this? You can do better.

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ghost- vi and jinx

a/n- this is my first post, I'm just getting into writing so ik it's not good I'm just having fun. I also am missing a lot of dialogue bc I quite literally forgot what was said and don't really care enough to find it.

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When Vi first saw her baby sister it was a few hours after she had been born, she was tiny- smaller than anything she had ever seen. How could something so small exist? She’d need to be protected, she would die in the undercity if no one looked after her. Vi swore from that day forward that she’d protect her sister at all cost.

Walking through the rubble of the battlefield was the most terrifying thing Vi had ever seen, Powder had covered her eyes, the sight scaring her. So her older sister wasted no time taking her hand and guided her through the massacre stopping when she saw a big husky figure beating somebody to death. The figure turned around, it was Vander. Vi had barely let out a sigh of relief when she realised she couldn’t find her parents- where were her parents? She looked around frantically, her stomach in knots before locking eyes with Vander in questioning. He looked towards where her mom and dad laid, unmoving, with their eyes open staring straight ahead lifeless. Suddenly it was she couldn’t breathe, falling to her knees she could feel small hands wrapping around her, Powder the little girl who just a few moments ago couldn’t bear looking at the sight around them, her baby sister she was supposed to protect was comforting her. That day as Vander carried Vi and Powder from the bridge she made another promise to herself: she would never let Piltover make Powder feel as worthless as she felt.

Vi looks around at the mess Pow- no Jinx made, her sister is gone, she fell down a well. Vi just about killed her, when she punched her and called her a jinx. God why did she do that? How could she hurt the one person swore to protect? The last piece of her family is gone because she lost control. She drank with a guy who’s name she didn’t know and thought about how bad things have gotten, she blacked out.

“I’m glad it's you, it had to be you…” Vi’s heart stopped, she can't do this, not when this monster still has the face of her sister. Suddenly she's staring down the barrel of Jinx’s pistol and sees a child…what? So many questions fly through her head when a bullet gets knocked out the kids hands and she rushes to cover Jinx-not that she can cover much. Caitlyn reloads her rifle. She's not gonna shoot the kid in the way.. Is she? The look in Caits eyes was murderous, she's going to take the shot. Vi tries to reason with her, it doesn't work and she has to physically stop her. They stare at each other, Caitlyn is angry, Vi’s horrified. A bomb goes off and they rush to hide from the debris once they’re alone an argument breaks out. Caitlyn thinks Vi would never let her kill Jinx and deep down Vi knows she’s right.

Vi looks down at her sister, dangling from the ledge of the monster that used to be Vander pulling her down. Jinx looks down at Warwick then back up at Vi. “Always with you sis” then she dislodges the hex gem from her gauntlet falling to her death an explosion goes off sealing her fate. She’s gone, her little sister she was finally getting back on good terms with is dead. She should’ve left Vander, she shouldn’t have left her, she shouldn’t have given up on her. Vi lays there for hours mourning the loss of her family.

a/n this is Lowkey really lazy I'll try to put more effort in my next one.