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[mam-te-moc]

Spot the difference

[arcanegifs]

ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS (2021 - 2024): Caitlyn "Rizzlord" Kiramman

[viwifey]

CAIT + NECK KISSES -> MADDIE VS. VI

[henwilsons]

How are you feeling? Right at home. Why? Because every significant moment in our lives happens in a hospital? It’s becoming a thing.

[dogpawsswapgod]

the way Maddie falls onto Caitlyn, her last words having been "I appreciated your warmth," only to have Cait's warmth be the last thing she likely felt as she died... what does that remind me of, oh yeah--

betrayal requires intimacy!

[dawntainbobbynash]

#they are 9-1-1 and they will take care of their husbands

[bibvck]

Maddie, Chimney, and Jee-Yun 9-1-1 | 8x07: Hotshots

[s4buck]

[thelazydoodle]

I hate that netflix doesn't have a slowdown feature on consoles

Cause we can miss some cool details that Fortiche did for Arcane. People are finding out about Maddie's botched execution, especially that there's 3 impact frames that expose her true nature and when the bullet hits her. So I went on youtube, found the execution, played at x25 so I can cap them. Here we go!

First, the trigger pull. As you see here grin

The blast, showing off more of Maddie and a bigger outline of Caitlyn in the blast

Then the Third, which was tricky. The bullet hitting Maddie

And the scene all together

What was cool about watching it at ×25 speed, was that the bullet had a red tracer. So you can actually catch the bullet was traveling and where it ricochets

Again, I wish the playback feature on Netflix was on there

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9-1-1 x text posts 2/?

[viridian-fields]

What was Maddie's role in the attack on the memorial?

We have confirmation from writer Amanda Overton that Maddie is in fact Noxian and has therefore always been working for Ambessa. So I want to examine her actions around that memorial attack a bit closer.

I've seen it suggested that Maddie was somehow "protected" during the attack, because the armoured shimmer goon (do these armoured suits have a name btw?) was making a show of attacking her without actually harming her. I'll examine that exact moment a bit later but I do not agree with this assessment even a little bit.

Maddie is a deep cover agent. Presumably her entire identity in Piltover is fictitious. Careful planning and work have gone into integrating her into the ranks of enforcers over a long period of time. You do not take unnecessary risks with the identity of agents like this.

Keeping an agent like this "protected" from Renni's goons, would mean revealing her identity to every single Zaunite that Renni has recruited ("hey no one kill that redheaded enforcer, she's on our side"). If even ONE attacker survives this assault they have the potential to reveal Maddie's true identity. And imagine how it would look for these guys to be attacking everyone except her? And why would they waste their time playing around with her? It makes no sense. It's absolutely not worth that risk. Renni is used as a tool here. She is not informed as to who her actual employer is, and she is lured here by the promise of revenge against the person who killed her son.

If they really wanted to protect Maddie, it would have been much easier to come up with some excuse for her to not attend the memorial in the first place. But Ambessa has no need to try to protect Maddie. Maddie is a Noxian soldier. If a Noxian can't hold their own in an attack they are expecting then what good are they? Ambessa was willing to take the risk and accept the sacrifice if Maddie was somehow killed during this attack.

And Ambessa wants Maddie there because Maddie has a job to do. Maddie knows the attack is coming. She looks alert and on edge before it happens. We see her taking note of Renni's arrival.

So what were Maddie's orders? To protect the council.

Ambessa orchestrated this event to strike fear into the hearts of the people of Piltover, the council included. One of the attackers even gets up on stage to say “You aren’t safe, topsiders. None of you are safe.”

Making the council fearful and angry will motivate them to pursue the course of action that Ambessa has been pushing for. Dead council members can't give her what she wants. She doesn't want harm to come to Mel, and her influence over Salo means she'd prefer to keep him alive. Protecting the council is also something Maddie is in a position to do that will not look suspicious and is likely to give her career a boost.

But Maddie is very nearly killed in this operation. She is dazed from the carriage crash and pulled from the wreckage. She is screaming and fumbles her weapon. She seems genuinely afraid here.

This attacker is not playing pretend. He is seconds away from stabbing her...

... when Steb intervenes. His one and only L

Do you think that fall hurt? I hope it hurt.

But Ambessa very nearly overplays her hand here. By allowing someone who had a vendetta against Jayce to have access to him, he is almost killed.

And Ambessa doesn't want Jayce to be killed as she needs him to build her hextech weapons. Jayce dying would have been disastrous for her plans in Piltover. And what was the deciding factor in the end?

Vi.

But here's the thing. Vi was not planning to attend this memorial at all. How do we know this?

She's not wearing a ribbon.

[See this post for more info on these ribbons]

Vi had fought with Caitlyn and was on a bender. She had no plans to go to an event where there would be a chance of running into her. So why did she go?

Because moments before the memorial began a certain junior officer showed up to tell Vi all about how Caitlyn had sang Vi's praises to the enforcers, and how she was so pleased to have Vi in their ranks.

Now, there's no possible way that Ambessa could have known that Vi would end up saving Caitlyn and Jayce, but this entire meeting feels way too calculated for it to not be meaningful.

Perhaps Ambessa believed Vi would fight to protect Caitlyn and Jayce or other councillors, and was there as an added contingency. Perhaps Vi was a wildcard she wanted to keep an eye on. Perhaps she thought it wouldn't hurt to put Vi in the line of fire and maybe get rid of a potential problem.

In any case, when the dust settles, all of Ambessa's meticulous scheming is rewarded.

Maddie fought alongside Caitlyn, proving her courage and earning her respect. It is not a coincidence that the people Caitlyn later picks for her strike team are the ones she fought shoulder to shoulder with during this event.

And Ambessa succeeds in striking fear into the heart of the council and forcing them to act against Zaun. She also gets to be the big fat hero.

[mysterysage]

do you think maddie’s head game was strong

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[arcanegifs]

ARCANE: TIDDIES OF PROGRESS: Caitlyn's 🧁🧁 in Season 2 (2024)

[henwilsons]

ORPHEUS: How will you remember? EURYDICE: That I love you? ORPHEUS: Yes. EURYDICE: That's easy. I can't help it. —Eurydice, Sarah Ruhl

[abbyismywife]

Wife as fuck I love her maddie nolen my wife

[dawntainbobbynash]

You should've gone with him.