#save me Mel medarda

[melatonindeficient]

live laugh love mel

"Mel manipulated jayce" yeah you fucker she's a politician.

Mel isn't telling people what to or what not to think or convincing them to make drastic changes to their lives or personalities in order to bend them to her will. She just knew how to appeal to certain interests in order to achieve a goal. Jayce is an honest and sincere person—say what you want about her, but she was honest and sincere to him as well.

Not only that but she was a politician brought up by a narcissist who quite apparently skewed her perception of what relationships should look like so can we be so fucking for real.

Mel saw an opportunity for some sort of positive change and improvement and took it, and along the way she softened and began to actually love jayce. She didn't have to hold on to him any longer than season one. Hell, as smart as she is if she really didn't want to embark on a romantic relationship with him, she probably wouldn't have had to. And dude, jayce talis might be naïve but he also performed illegal operations in his apartment and performed immense scientific feats by the skin of his teeth. It's not like he just sat there without a thought in his head while him and mel first interacted.

And it never sat right with me that one can be so quick to call Mel a manipulator for wanting to use Jayce's knowledge to create hextech weapons while ignoring that that logic makes Viktor a manipulator in joining forces with Jayce to advance his own search for personal perfectability. I mean, they're parallels for a reason. And it doesn't seem so at first--because they worked as partners in the lab, but Viktor knew he couldn't do that without what Jayce knew, and he couldn't make the most of what Jayce knew without getting close--but Jayce and Viktor's lofty ideals of progress prove that they are flawed once the two of them begin to start working separately for different goals (as Jayce creates a hextech weapon and Viktor insists they must stop).

And in the end, who's the one who uses Jayce's knowledge for worse rather than better? Vik.

In addition, I saw a comment somewhere saying that when she met Ambessa again (in season 1) she realised that she didn't want to continue the cycle of transactional, manipulative relationships which her mother started and began to try and change in the way she viewed relationships, and in turn in the way she loved, and that's so fucking true like holy shit.

Jinx's projection of Silco says that "the cycle only ends when you walk away" at the very end of season 2, but Mel breaks her cycle far before she has her final encounter with her mother in episode nine of season two. No, Mel broke her cycle when she realized she didn't want to do to her great love what her mother did to her. When Ambessa tried to sink her teeth into Jayce.

(Meljay is my endgame I scream as they drag me to my enclosure)

[nikolaiar]

Meljayvik I see and hear you

Also Jayce shut up why are you so hard to draw

[proxythe]

two wolves cuddling 🐺🌞

[stealingpotatoes]

Mel Medarda

you agree

I DO AGREE!!! I AGREE WHOLEHEARTEDLY!!!! mel makes me go CRAZY both bc her character/story is so incredible and also bc like... those arcane modellers knew what they were doing ok--

[guardianbee]

Hi everyone I came back because Arcane S2 treated my girls Mel & Sky like absolute GARBAGE and then Ekko is rewarded with absolutely NOTHING for saving everyone from themselves and I'm here to reblog shit AND talk shit about it.

I mean, I cannot BELIEVE the disposable black girlfriend trope was used TWICE in a show within TWO episodes of one another, oh my GOD. I cannot BELIEVE they had Jayce verbatim spew out the same anti-Mel talking points this fandom has had since Season 1 Act 1 Episode 1. I cannot BELIEVE they had Sky comfort Vik the same way Mel comforted Jayce in S1, had her be his emotional rock through all his changes with the hexcore only for him to kill her a SECOND TIME. I cannot BELIEVE how little screentime Ekko had this season given how pivotal he is to Jinx and Vi's backstories AND his overall importance to the main plotline (which was totally sidelined in the last act, wtf).

Like what the fuck black characters can't have anything lol, lmao even.

[miraofhearts2point0]

i still havent processed how insane ep5 is.

like wdym Caitlyn frees Vi from the prison she's been in for YEARS. wdym Jinx almost beats Vi's high score. wdym Vi calls Caitlyn hot. wdym Caitlyn agrees to pretend to work in the brothel. wdym SEVIKA is a regular at said brothel (!!!!!!!!) wdym Jayce and Mel's sex scene is framed as Jayce cheating on Viktor. wdym we get the Jinx baptism scene. wdym Imagine Dragons is a canonical band in the Arcane universe. wdym Sevika's cards forshadowed Viktor's transformation. wdym Viktor is dying and again, is framed like Jayce cheated on him. wdym Sevika/Vi fight (butches save me save me butch lesbians). wdym Sevika hip reveal. WDYM CAITLYN SAVED VI A SECOND TIME.

[adoracja]

Uhh so like. I've almost forgotten how to use this app but many things have happened and I finished arcane when the finale dropped. Is this anything. + More under the cut

[m4chine-her4ld]

Practicing drawing one of the prettiest women in arcane 🩷🩷

[maneskinwh0re]

me anytime someone says “hear me out” over arcane women:

it’s like a cis straight white man saying “hear me out” over megan fox

[raincoll3ctor]

Everyone talks about the Jayvik divorce, NO ONE talks about the jaymel divorce

Jayce you fumbled TWICE in one season idk how you managed that

[cvntroach5000]

i love mel so fucking much but queen why are you wearing a fucking curtain to the battlefield

[notnotravenpond]

hi

Mel Medarda

[artificialcaretaker]

-Don’t get lost in heaven-

[Haven’t cleaned up a traditional peace in a while, so this was a real nice throwback for me!!

GOD. Mel my BELOVED. I feel so bad for my wife bro she just keeps going through it. Y’know what I’m thinking of, though? She is just. SO much more emotionally mature than everyone else. Like, barely anybody in this series can actually handle grief without doing something that fucks at least a couple people over!! Everyone else loses someone and decided to blow shit up about it!! Only other character I can think of who’s gone through significant loss and STILL hasn’t lost it is Ekko, probably. Maybe it’s just the black people, maybe we’re all just really calm and composed!! Or maybe we intentionally tone down our emotional reactions in order to still be respected because even the smallest slip up knocks you RIGHT down to the Stereotype Zone with the people around you. Idk if real world racism exists in LoL it’s prolly not that lmao.

But either way, Mel’s holding a lotta emotions back, and while I sincerely doubt she’s gonna start killing people about it like everyone else I DO hope she finds SOME way to truly and finally express all of it. I WOULD be like “Oh she’ll talk to Jayce and it’ll be a beautiful moment showing their mutual love and support for each other dawwwwww” but no he’s going insane and killing their boyfriend. And their boyfriend developed a messiah complex and became a cult leader. Oh and also her buddy-in-law became a dictator with her MOM. GOD she’s gonna be so pissed when she gets back 😔😔😔

[survivalove]

everyday i log on here to see a post that makes me happy jayce is sky dust (no pun intended) and will never be in any canon media with mel again 🥰

[clementinetalkshow]

i cannot engage with anything mel related I’ll get mad. Not because I hate her but because I love her but everything arcane sets up about her sets her up to be my fav and they do Nothing with it

[pinkysberg]

the flash art for mel's arcane inspired league skin is stunning!

WHO THAT IN THE BAAAACK

in mel medarda's league of legends gameplay voicelines, if she kills jayce she'll say "another love torn away"

and here i sit, rly hyperfocusing on the word another. what love could she have lost? the one person that mel laments over the loss of (that isn't of familial relation to her) is elora.

in this essay i will-