#ship: silco x vander

[justincorrectarcanequotes]

Silco: Have you ever met that person you loved so much you wanted to stab them? Vander: What? Silco: Oh, I love you. It's just better if we're both dead.

[lynx-224]

every time a male character refers to his homoerotic situationship as his “brother” an angel loses its wings

[allthepandasintheworld]

just gonna post like 30 doodles today apparently anyways i wonder when ill finally draw them kissing properly

[pignk]

Some sketches to cure my yaoi addiction

[lucrezianoin]

Not me yelling at my gf that silco and vander have a NON BROTHERLY RAPPORT a second before we literally SEE silco smaller jacket INSIDE vander??

a friend on twitter reminded me this happens at the end of brokeback mountain too with the shirts...

so i had to explain the plot of the movie to my gf and she finally is on board

[lilly-townshend]

[4rk4n4]

I’m gonna be real honest with you, not once did I ever think that Vander and Silco were actual brothers, because they referred to each other as such in the context of a shared political struggle for freedom which signified to me that “brother” is a term the collective uses to organize and mobilize and fight for their freedom. I’m impervious to the discourse surrounding whether or not it’s moral to ship them on the basis of real or perceived familial ties thanks to the amount of historical knowledge I have stored in My Huge Brain. Some! of you fans are not so lucky. Y’all stay safe out there.

[devildmeggs]

okay i have to speak my truth for a second: i do not care for how much hate silco x vander is getting on tiktok. its okay if you interpret their relationship as brotherly, you don’t have to ship it. BUT calling ppl proshippers for liking it makes no sense at all?? YES they refer to each other as brothers in arms but so do jayvik? and no one bats an eye at them

idk i just feel like their relationship is so complex and can be interpreted in multiple ways but all ppl hear is “brother” and look no deeper into it like where’s the freedom for interpretation? where’s the media literacy? where’s the fun??

[sh1shi4]

The inherent homoeroticism of trying to kill your best friend.

[her-soliloquies]

I'm half convinced that if Vi and Cait hadn't actually kissed and slept together, there would be some people showing up out of nowhere to say that their relationship is supposed to be platonic and seeing it as romantic is harmful to the concept of simple friendship and that two people can be close without it being romantic etc etc (which they are saying about jayvik and silco/vander)

Now since explaining a thousand times that people can have different opinions and they should learn to respect them instead of correcting them as if there is only one true answer does not seem to work, here's an idea: just block those ship tags and let us all have peace in this fandom.

Thank you.

[maxdibert]

My two gay ships in this show end with the beefy himbo attempting murder on the nerdy twink after a massive clash of interests culminating in tragedy and I don’t know how to feel about this but all I know is that yaoi angst is my passion

[justincorrectarcanequotes]

Vander: Hi, I'm Vander. Silco: Silco. So you wanna ditch the others and go somewhere to get weird with each other? Vander: ...I feel like you skipped a few steps.

[nllick]

I was rewatching that one animation posted by teamfight tactics and I noticed this🥲

ZAUNDADS CONTINUES TO BE REAL🙏

Silco was so irritated but he knows he loves it

[weirdly-specific-but-ok]

hot take about silco x vander that no one asked for

okay so it's 3:25 am and i spent too much time in pinterest comment sections so now i have Thoughts and y'all are gonna hear it (this is mostly spoiler free even for s1 but it won't make much sense unless you've watched arcane so go wATCH IT if you haven't). so there were a bunch of posts shipping Silco and Vander and in the comments people were really pissed coz they're said to think of each other as brothers.

TLDR: They did not grow up as brothers, they think of each other as such, and those thoughts can change over time or evolve without it being incestuous (with nuance), and of course it could stay the same too.

and I have a bunch of things to say, starting with for one, some folks were legitimately confused because they thought silco and vander were biological siblings. so, first off, let's get that clarified, they're definitely not. they weren't adopted or step siblings either. they met in their early adulthood, i believe, in the mines.

i'm gonna continue below the cut coz this is gonna be looooong.

now, the thing is, silco and vander explicitly state that they were each other's brothers and/or call each other brother. why? there could be multiple reasons for that. one, that's how they saw each other. they were as close as brothers and they saw each other as family. two, in the sense of being brothers in arms, fighting together against a common cause that brought them closer. three, they felt affection for each other and that was the closest term they knew to describe it. or something else.

and like, i do not mess with found family, that shit is sacred. if someone told me my brother isn't actually my brother because we didn't grow up together or share blood, i would happily punch them in the throat.

HOWEVER, Silco and Vander are fictional characters. so if someone headcanons that their relationship changed, and evolved, that's not disrespectful or incestuous. it just means the person believes that how they saw each other changed. or maybe they didn't realise how it was that they felt for each other. or any number of other things.

and hey listen when i was a teenager in two of my long-term relationships, i thought at the start that what i felt was platonic love. i'd literally call them my brother. because that was the way i knew to describe the intensity of my affection. i was figuring shit out, and then i realised that what i felt was romantic, and not platonic or familial.

does that make it incestuous? well i fucking hope not. i was a queer greyace teen trying to figure out what the fuck i was feeling.

and that's not even toUCHING the surface of queerplatonic feelings. like i had no vocabulary to describe that for most of my life. it was clearcut in my head--romantic, or platonic. and if platonic was very intense, then sibling. that was the only way i knew how to describe it.

and that's changed over the years and now i know a little bit better how i feel, and i have platonic feelings that aren't siblingy, platonic feelings that are very much siblingy, platonic feelings that aren't siblingy but familial anyway like that for a parent, and romantic feelings also of various shades.

but back then, i didn't have that vocabulary and distinctions and self-awareness. and it's entirely plausible for someone to headcanon that maybe Silco and Vander didn't either. maybe people ship them and hc that they had feelings for each other and didn't understand them, that could be romantic or queerplatonic. or had feelings for each other that were familial, but that evolved in a different way later (or in the AU). both of which ARE LEGITIMATE INTERPRETATIONS OF A FICTIONAL RELATIONSHIP WITHOUT IT BEING INCESTUOUS.

anyway so it's entirely chill if you don't ship them but it's also entirely chill if you do. the issue is when you attack people for interpreting a fictional relationship in their own entirely valid way and call it weird or incestuous and attack them as people for their ship. just let people be sigh.

so that's my unnecessarily intense take at--jesus christ it's nearly 4 am. :)

[drayce-el]

I am not a multishipper, never will be, but why can't people understand the fact people can have different love interests at different times in their lives? I ship Vanco as exes in the main timeline and as a married couple in the AU. I also ship endgame Sinco in the main timeline.

I mostly brought this up because of the whole Mel, Jayce, and Viktor debate. Mel and Jayce broke up and it could be read as Jayce choosing Viktor in the end. I don't think Mel and Jayce's relationship devalues Jayvik in anyway shape or form in fact it could make the ship better.

Does Maddie devalue Caitvi? How I see it is who they end up with at the end is what's important. Jayce chose to stay with Viktor while Mel left for Noxus.

I will leave you with the lyrics of a song actually written for Jayvik that sums up this situation perfectly

"You tell me don't change, don't try to bend But every time she's in your eyes, she wins I know with you it's always complicated I know the first time you regretted everything And now you're here, breaking time for me So I'll take her spot just this time, if you please" - Marcus Skeen - Infinity End

[radio-audience]

i didn't ship jayvik, timebomb, OR whatever vander x silco is called, but by the end of s2 i was like oh shit... they are literally in love with each other