#sevika lowkey gives eldest daughter energy..... do others agree or is this just projection

[cathrinu]

scattered thoughts on sevika and body modification

As I was rewatching Arcane (as one does) I noticed that Sevika's arm actually wasn't blown off in the blast, just really burnt:

This made me curious as to at what point her arm was amputated: did it become necessary to amputate while she was receiving care immediately following the explosion, or did she eventually decide to amputate? How does each scenario provide different lens to interpret her character?

Save for her prosthetics (and labret piercing), Sevika doesn't really participate in body modification, which is common in Zaun (and kinda atypical for people working in/around the chembarons).

On the topic of her labret piercing, she only gets it after Silco's death and the collapse of the chembarons. I think I could do another post on all of her character designs, but to sum up my thoughts on her post s2 time skip design: it feels like she "grew into" herself more (and generally got her shit together). Her labret piercing definitely feels like it's apart of that.

Onto her (prosthetic) arms: she has a total of four variations across the whole series. With her shimmer-fueled arm she has the "top loader" (as seen in her first fight with Vi in season 1) and the "front loader" (shimmer vials load in her forearm, also the one with the sword). Her gamble-core arm seems to be much more similar, with the only major difference being the shoulder pauldron. Post s2 time skip Sevika has scrapped the speaker, lights, and score counter (and the paint).

I also like that we see Sevika modding/fixing her own arm, it really doesn't make sense for someone as self-reliant as Sevika to outsource maintenance for her prosthetic.

Ill probably add on/edit to this post as I develop my thoughts..... but if yall have thoughts and want to yap pls yap with me i love Sevika analysis.