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[artofsiucar]

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[writingforfun0714]

Hey everyone, while I work on a few different fics, I wanted to talk about Arcane. I haven’t really seen anyone talk about this or make comparisons so I thought I’d put in my 2 cents.

Warnings: Spoilers for Arcane, contains theories/thoughts for S2, lemme know if I need to add more

Ok so we all know that moment when Powder makes her monkeybomb and lets it loose in the building right? It was devastating, yes and I really loved seeing the different perspectives of the bomb going off so we got to see what happened to everyone.

But I’d like to talk about the first person to get hit. Deckard. Powder also gets hit around the same time and gets blasted off the window ledge, but I wanna focus on Deckard. At this point, Deckard is the closest to the bomb when it goes off, but he is a Shimmer-monster.

The first time I saw that scene, I actually expected him to be at least injured. I pretty much knew the bomb wouldn’t have straight killed him but I did expect him to be hurt. He seemed disoriented at first until Silco’s order of ‘kill them’ gets his attention.

I’ve seen Arcane 6 times start-finish along with watching individual episodes out of order and honestly, I hadn’t thought about Deckard a lot until a few days ago when I watched the finale and it finally hit me. I’m probably stupid or wrong about this and as an Arcane-only fan, I have no idea if this goes against the game or not, but I think Deckard was purposely supposed to survive Powder’s monkeybomb.

Lemme elaborate.

The setting of Arcane (currently) is Piltover, which is a huge city consisting of 2 parts, the ‘Topside’ (Piltover) and the Undercity (Zaun). They seem to be pretty opposite of each other so it makes sense that the technology available would be wildly different as well. In Piltover, we have the Hextech technology from Jayce/Viktor. In the Undercity, we have Shimmer/drug enhancements. Then we have Viktor, who merges the two, but that’s a whole other post but Viktor does play a role.

Anyways, this monkeybomb explosion is the first time we see the beginnings of both sciences interacting with each other. The bomb envelopes Shimmer-Deckard and even reaches Singed, his lab and Shimmer. And, as stated earlier, Shimmer-Deckard appears ok after the blast.

At first, I thought Deckard was supposed to be a sort of ‘sacrificial’ character to show the effect of Shimmer, but I also realize he’s actually pretty similar to Viktor. Both are from the Undercity and partner with a morally gray character (Viktor willing, Deckard not). Both are also forced to use Shimmer from their respective morally gray character (Viktor’s illness makes him feel like he has to while Silco literally kidnaps Deckard and makes him ‘volunteer’). And they both end up getting addicted to the Shimmer after their first use. Deckard willingly takes the vial Silco offered to him in ep3 as Vi+co try breaking Vander out and Viktor willingly goes to Singed for help in ep7 and is given a ‘variant’ of Shimmer, which Viktor merges with the hexcore.

Because Shimmer-Deckard was shown to survive the monkeybomb explosion *(which had 4 crystals inside)* with little injuries, I think that’s what’s gonna save Viktor from Jinx’s Fishbones rocket in the finale. I know I said I was an Arcane-only fan, and it’s true as I’ve never played LoL, but I did do some research about the game over the times I’ve watched the series. I used google, so please correct me if I’m wrong about anything.

Jinx uses a stabilized version of the hexgem to power Fishbones, but I believe the stabilized version is more powerful than the ‘un stabilized’ (jagged kind Powder found in Jayce’s apartment), but because Viktor has already merged Shimmer and Hextech, I believe whatever he’s created (that new kind of blood cell shown in ep7 I think) will allow him to survive the blast.

I believe Jayce is the only other Champion/playable character in the Council (I don’t think Mel is a LoL character) so I believe Viktor will also save Jayce as well. But Cait’s mom (Cassandra?), all those other council members and possibly, even Mel, will all die. I can see Mel going either way. One, she dies and Mel’s mom starts a war with Piltover. Two, Mel lives (is injured) and finishes her arc with her mother (the people who killed Mel’s brother still want vengeance).

But yeah, I just thought showing Shimmer-Deckard surviving the monkeybomb kind of foreshadows Viktor surviving Jinx’s rocket since Viktor’s also technically Shimmer-injected/fused as well.

Thanks for reading💖

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Ruby and Jaune just sighed, cringing at what monstrosity of a weapon this man would conjur up this time.

Eccentric man: Don't look so morose! I've kept your dear girlfriend's vords in mind and have gotten you two more weapons that are both tactical and practical as well!

The man pulled out yet another case. This one was considerably smaller than his last weapons opening up said case the man let out a creepy giggle before turning it around to both Ruby and Jaune, who peered in before looking at each other confused.

Ruby: It's a pistol...

Jaune: And a doll...strapped to dynamite?

Eccentric man: Not just any doll, this here is the Monkey Bomb, created by zomeone who is still VEXING ME TO ZHIS VERY DAY! ahem...uh it's really quite simple, wind up the monkey, toss it to your allies who are surrounded, and the monkey will attract all Grimm nearby and once they are within range...BOOM!

The man laughed as Jaune reached in and picked up the monkeybomb, feeling slightly disturbed at how a child's toy had been twisted into a Grimm killing device.

Eccentric man: It also does a little jingle, and its explosion rivals one of the explosive shells from your orange hair bomber friend, although I do ask you to refrain from tossing into fire.

Ruby: That is oddly specific...

Eccentric man: zhe monkey doesn't like fire...

Jaune sets the monkey back down before pointing to the pistol next to it.

Jaune: And what pray tell is this?

Eccentric man: Zhat, my dear boy, is called 'Conversion Ready-Binary Repeater-Standard,' or CRBRS, Cerberus, for zhort. Zhis little pistol fires concentrate Lazer energy and only use small amounts of lightning dust combined with regular .45acp!

Jaune picks up the gun and aims it before suddenly a ball pops out of its of the weapons center as if began floating around Jaune.

Eccentric man: It also has a copy-cat ai companion that shoots out extra shots at NO cost to your own ammo supply, I zhink it makes its own internally, and the AI can talk, but who it chooses to voice is completely up to it.

The copycat companion still floated around Jaune as he just looked the gun over and handed it too, Ruby.

Jaune: What do you think?

Ruby: it seems nice, but I was thinking more of a bigger gun for you...

Eccentric man: Ah gut, Zhen, you vill be pleased to know this veapon comes with a modification you can attach to turn this pistol into a rifle with more supreme firepower.

The man hands Jaune a mod kit labels 'Blazer Mod Kit'.

Eccentric man: This kit can be assembled on the fly, and it vill keeps you in zhe fight as well as still using the same ammo type!

Jaune just nodded as Ruby handed him back the gun.

Ruby: Well, I mean, it seems perfect, Pistol that can turn into an AR as well as having a little Ai copy cat that also fires back at Grimm.

Jaune with the floating AI next to him.

Jaune: it does sound pretty go-

CopyCat AI: Hello Again~

Jaune: ...

Jaune: What the hell...?

Ruby: W... Was that Pyrrha?!

Eccentric Man: Vell, I did say it vould be random.

Jaune: I... I don't...

Copycat AI: Keep going forward.

Jaune: I... (Sets pistol down) I can't.

Eccentric Man: Oh? Vhat do you mean?

Jaune: I... I just...

Ruby: Jaune and Pyrrha were really close, and this weapon is... kind of opening up old wounds.

Eccentric Man: Ah, yes... Zomezing along ze lines of sehnsucht und weltschmerz, ja? Zay no more. I will refrain from any furzer, er, voices from occurring. But ze Monkey Bomb is ztill sehr gut, ja?

Ruby: It would be, but uh, the thing is that our teammate uses a LOT of fire, so catching it would be-

Eccentric Man: Ah, of course. Very vell. (Loads up crate) Until we meet again. I must say you kinder are quite picky vith your veapons, but zen again, zo am I. (Leaves)

Ruby: Jaune?

Jaune: I'm fine. I just... I wouldn't have come here if I knew I was going to hear her again.

Ruby: I know.

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I think that there must be a parallel between Jinx trying to kill herself and Ekko with a monkeybomb and Viktor taking some suspicious time to disarm the mokeybomb that could kill him and Jayce.

[writingforfun0714]

I haven’t really seen people talk about this (like one other person tbh), so I figured I’d put in my thoughts/theories.

Warnings: Spoilers for Arcane

Important: Hexcrystal—regular, unstable crystals and Hexgem—are the perfected/stable version

Ok so when the kids rob Jayce’s place, Powder opens the chest of hexcrystals. There are 6 crystals inside and she takes them all. In her haste, Powder accidentally drops one and it explodes. She’s left with 5.

During her mental breakdown in ep3, she spills her stuff onto the floor and when the stuff spills out, we only see 4 crystals.

When Powder decides to ‘help’ the others and she puts the monkeybomb together, she uses 4. It took me multiple rewatches and pausing to see how many hexcrystals she uses but I found out she uses 4 hexcrystals total in her monkey toy. She puts 2 inside the body, 1 around the neck/in the cymbals, and, if you pause it right, you can see she put one inside the monkey head (it glows blue slightly before she attaches it to the body). This was the best screencap I could get, but you can clearly see in the head, a blue light glowing from a hexcrystal.

SHE HAS ONE EXTRA HEXCRYSTAL!! It’s never shown again and I’m sure the writers don’t do anything by accident. There’s no way that a crystal is just ‘missing’ or ‘gone’.

Now for the theories…

—Jinx will figure out how to stabilize the Hexcrystal into a Hexgem. She clearly figured out Jayce’s notes to power a Hexgem (the one she stole) so it’s not crazy to think Jinx would be able to learn to stabilize a Hexcrystal. If she figures it out, we could see how the Hexcrystals are obtained (since all we know rn is that Jayce just has them).

—Jinx will be able to fire her rocket (Fishbones I think it’s called) AGAIN, but she would have to stabilize the extra Hexcrystal (or risk the rocket not working right).

—Ekko will find the missing Hexcrystal. There’s no proof Jinx still has it, so it’s possible Ekko will find it and he/Heimerdinger will argue about using it. Heimerdinger would obviously try to persuade Ekko not to (cuz of Jayce/Viktor), but Ekko being the science boy he is, cannot resist.

—After some convincing, Heimerdinger reluctantly agrees and they figure out time travel w/ the missing Hexcrystal.

—Jinx has the crystal and Singed learns she has it. He asks her if he can use it to reanimate Vander’s body (causing Jinx conflict w/ her wanting Singed to revive Silco instead—but it being impossible w/ him).

—Jinx could’ve given the hexcrystal to Silco for safe keeping-not wanting to be around it. Silco wouldn’t have it just laying around on his desk or something, he’d keep it hidden/locked up to not traumatize Jinx. During the finale, Sevika is shown to be in Silco’s office when Jinx fires her rocket. Sevika could snoop around and find the crystal herself and use it to blackmail Jinx (w/ Silco dead, someone has to take charge and I def see it being between Sevika vs Jinx).

I suppose there is a TINY chance that the writers did just miscount the crystals and one is just missing/gone, but I really, REALLY doubt it. There are so many possibilities w/ having an extra ‘missing’ hexcrystal that I think the writers would definitely wanna expand upon. If it turns out that the hexcrystal really is just gone/missing, I’d be pretty disappointed.

What do you guys think? Will the missing hexcrystal be important going into S2 or do you think the writers just ‘forgot’ about that extra blue crystal? I’d love to hear your thoughts/theories regarding this as well (since it’s not really mentioned).

Thanks!

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