#season 2 intro

[correctdndadsquotes]

Grant: And if anybody, if any street toughs come up to you? You just run. You don't be a hero.

[conspicuous-clown-car]

woagh beastars reference

[cl-0v3r]

Mel is alive, but at what cost

Mel was nearly killed TWICE, her mother began being a struggle, she'd been thrown aside and trying her best to stop her, her boyfriend is not doing well, neither is anyone else (can't blame them) and the fact that she hadn't cried or spoke much about this situation to anyone a single time?? She IS upset about every single thing, yet she stays strong and enduring every bit of torture. The most she did was tell Jayce that Ambessa put her palm on the table, and let him know that she is going to push for hextech. That's it, nothing remotely related to her feelings.

The fact that she was constantly looking at Caitlyn, being able to understand her grief and knew she was in pain?? Mel knows this feeling. She'd went through it.

And in the end SHE has to pay the price of her mothers incompetence.

The intro is very much foreshadowing, we know the hands represent black rose/LeBlanc.

This is what happens in act one, she gets kidnapped by them. The lyrics do correspond to the characters as well (not just Mel, everyone.)

"Tell you you're the greatest" plays as a petal of the black rose floats down the screen, I think it adds significance to the power this organization holds, possibly the Medardas greatest foe.

"But once you turn, they hate us" both Ambessa and Mel were present in this line, I think its foreshadowing for when Ambessa switches up for whatever reason and goes against both Piltover AND Zaun. And Mel WILL go through change as well, a change that could hurt her relationship with others, and receive interest from others too.

"They hate us" could be read individually too, I feel like its a sort of "realization" ?? Perhaps Ambessa WASN'T the one that switched up, maybe Piltover switched up on them, and maybe Mel JUST got out of wherever she's taken to, and saw the mess Ambessa had done to her city??

I think this represents ACT TWO.

The hands pull away and it sort of looks like Mel is fighting back, a "get away from me" type of scream. you know what this reminds me of??

Don't mind me just pushing my Jinx/powder-Mel parallel agenda

Here is when i think Mel truly learns about LeBlanc/BR, she curiously and slowly goes to grab the rose, she learns about the history between her Mother and them, Kinos death, and most of all, learns about HERSELF. The lyrics speak otherwise.

"Pray away, I swear

I'll never be a saint, no way"

This feels like a parallel to caitlyn of sorts if that makes sense. Caitlyn had done everything to try and stop the council from attacking the Undercity, she kept her mouth shut when Jayce asked about Jinxs grenade, she was willing to protect Vi and the undercity, but how many times has she been tossed around? She'd been burned, exploded, kidnapped (god knows what happened during that time) and hit in the face by the same person, her MOTHER died because of the same person. She has every right to go insane. And she is hunting ONE person, which is Jinx. Although she is harming the people around her along the way.

What if Mel goes through a similar situation? Her mother pushed for war in her city, she dragged the enemy along with her even if she didn't mean to, she manipulated everyone around her INCLUDING Jayce, she LITERALLY got Mel hurt from the chembarons attack and killed so many people during a MEMORIAL to get her hextech weapons, Elora is most likely DEAD, not to mention whatever happened in the past between them. And the thing is, this will NEVER end throughout the entire season.

And what if she learns what she is? That she's 'blessed' by Kindred? The fact that the wolf is quite literally in her blood?

I feel like the "ill never be a saint, no way" also sort of indicates Mel will realize she'll never be able to push for peace and mercy like she always hoped for no matter what, and she comes to accept that as much as it hurts. But not like how ambessa accepted the wolf, but she sort of realizes she needs to push a little violence, towards nobody but the one and only, Ambessa "fine, if you want me to be like you, I guess I'll be like you towards YOU." Type of acceptance.

I think its also related to Mels new outfit too, she's dressed like her mother, in red and all of that. I will still stand by the idea that she has plans to decieve, but she will do something she doesn't want to do.

Mel was left with no choice, that lyric sounds like realization, acceptance, but also like a plea at the same time, an "I'll never be who I wanted to be" because in the end, she's still a Medarda, she's still her mothers daughter, she still has violence in her veins, she will never not suffer from the weight her name holds, and she will never escape it either, its like a shadow.

The Characters won't be themselves at their core this season. And those vital parts of their characters that represent them are no longer there in the intro, they all have given up what makes them, THEM design wise. (e.g.) Vi without her tattoo, Viktor hiding his identity with the mask. And the thing is, they did that to themselves because they do self-harm, they're changing themselves because THEY want to, they're forcing themselves to do that, they think they're undeserving and they're erasing their past selves.

But Mel? Mel doesn't have her gold accessories, Jewelry, or her Armor, she'd been stripped bare and hidden away because of the brutality of her name. She pays the price her mother brought to HER city. She's forced to change herself against her will, because nobody is giving her a chance to push for her ideals.

This entire theory never ends, and with all of this? I kinda do see Mel actually committing Matricide, it lifts the "Ambessa will die" theory further.

[mothsshoes]

me and the bestie on the rooftops while heart bombs fall from the sky around us

[v4miiii]

"Skip the intro"

HELL NAW 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[cowgirls-blues]

So the Pilot Program's motives are teamwork (Jammer), network (K), community (Sam) and belonging (Evan). Something something the strongest magic is the links we forge with people (as seen in the first season and it's true more than ever now that the world is changing again, and they/people are more isolated). Hell yeah.

[viveela]

The best thing to come out of the revival

[gardenofradiostatic]

jayce and viktor fight(?) in season one arcane intro?

not based on leaks!!!!

I think it’s worth knowing that the two images we see of Jayce and Viktor in the last half of the season 1 intro are not anywhere in the first season.

First off, look at Jayce

He’s wearing his lab outfit!

There’s also only one scene in season one where we see him use the hammer

The shimmer thug fight scene. In that scene, he is not only wearing his council uniform, but his expression is completely different. Instead of the sort of remorseful shock we see plastered on him in the intro, he looks absolutely enraged, as if he’s releasing all of his pent up fury.

Secondly, Viktor. Viktor is kind of offhandedly in the last half of the season one intro, you’re only going to catch that it’s him if you’ve seen the show before.

Note the purple, the leg brace, the boots, the crutch in the background; this is 100% Viktor. However! This doesn’t depict any scene in season one. The only part of the show where we see him run he sort of stutters into it. He drops his crutch, gingerly takes a few steps before picking up and eventually kind of tripping or kicking himself into a full fledged run. This thing, in the intro, it seems to give the impression that he drops the crutch at the same time he starts running.

Also worth noting, viktor is barefoot and not wearing his leg brace in the running scene.

This might be a bit of a stretch, but with the added context of Vi and Jinx’s big fight from the season 2 trailer being in hidden the s1 intro, I don’t think it’s entirely impossible that a big, or maybe even the big Jayce and Viktor fight got hidden as well.

[dragon-ashes1485]

Camnir...no

It's so funny to me how everyone in TROP s2 ep4 barrow-wights scene gets an edgy fighting stance, even Elrond twirls his sword, and YET...Camnir is holding what looks like the tiniest weapon known to anyone, ever.

Like. CAMNIR. Are you joking? I get it, he's a quiet cartographer thrown into battle but...did no one tell him to bring something better?!

I mean, Elrond makes this face when Camnir gets shot, whereas I made this face when I saw his weapon.

[raayllum]

I know the patience of a prisoner. I have not seen the stars in centuries. But when I see them again—when the stars are forced to look upon me, their dark brother—they will know how I have waited. And when everything they have built lies shattered, I will savor their fall from the sky.

[correctdndadsquotes]

Anthony: And you know what that means…. It's time to show up for weekend detention

[lovers-instead]

My back is to the world that was smiling when I turned.

[capaldofilcumbergirl]

So the new Intro for Arcane actually rocks and I will tell you why.

So the first season had it stylized like they are all sculpted.

The second season just changed art. It's just not so obvious.

They all look like they're doing contemporary dancing. Clothes. Moves. The camera work.

It's contemporary dancing. Even Viktor.

[reckon-it]

ALPHA CENTAURI???????

[gojonanami]

MEGAN THEE STALLION THE WOMEN THAT YOU ARE

[gambitandrogues]

X-Men ‘97 creative team…besties…where were they.