#silco baby i am SO SORRY people are saying this

[ianthesmells]

idk why people think that if silco found vander's letter (i.e in the ep 7 AU) he would just forgive vander. i thought silco was mad at him for 1. scratching his eye out and 2. being a little bitch who bends over for piltover instead of standing up for them.

why would a 4 sentence letter and an "im sorry" get silco to forgive him? silco? the man who holds a grudge so hard he even coaxes jinx into holding one? the man who saw jinx's heartbreak and rage and took her in because she reminded him of himself? silco seems like an Actions Over Words kinda guy and some half assed apology letter, an apology written IN A LETTER not even said to him directly, probably wouldn't make a child murderer and a drug lord just... stop being mad.

please give the man some credit.

[jinxini]

thoughts while watching episode 2! ☆

summary: necessary amount of love for jinx, unnecessary amount of child hate lmao

oh my baby girl i love u it's ok don't be sad please

jinx focused episode let's gooo

me: omg was that a flash of powder?!

*rewinds*

me: ...who the fuck is that.

me: oh no. oh no. this kid is important enough to make it to the intro, jinx is going to take care of this child isn't she. that sure is... a choice

oh no the kid is here

ugh for me personally the only thing worse they could have done is make her pregnant or have a baby. i hate storylines like this im so sorry. it's different when the parent-child relationship is like the main focus or the premise of the show/movie (the mandalorian, the last of us, the walking dead game, silco taking care of powder who's the main character), but when a random ass child shows up years late to the party and needs someone to take care of them and the child character has no previous connection to the audience... i really dislike that in stories im so sorry. leave jinx alone

also, in what world is jinx ready to be a mother figure to anyone lmao she's very much stuck in a child-like state herself half the time. this is not what she needs, we both deserve better

i like the child's design though

honestly, i hope arcane makes me take all that i just said back, but we'll see

jinx i love you

her voice is so good, the voice acting is sooo good oh my god

does she kinda have a different vibe or is it just me?

honestly thought she would be doing a lot worse than she is. good for her!

don't get me wrong, i get that from the orphan's point of view jinx just saved her life and she's clearly super strong, what else is she supposed to do than follow

what i'm saying is that i personally do not want jinx to take care of a child right now. i want this to be about the sisters. the fact that i don't like this is on me, the writers can obviously do whatever they want with their story buuut.....

sevika<3

can't wait for her and jinx to team up

wait does sevika even know that jinx was the one who killed silco?

i don't know what's going on with viktor and whatever he's saying here is not helping

did she though?

everything viktor does now is so slow. the way he speaks, the way he moves...

im not a jayvik girlie but i imagine that those who are felt rly sad after this scene

ekko my boy! the biker mouse from mars can speak?

my brother: he really does look like one

i literally facepalmed and my brother groaned

ekko please ditch this creature you're better on your own

shut up. you're not cute, you're not funny.

i should probably clarify that heimer is my least favourite character in the show, i kinda have no patience for anything he does 😂

i literally said DO IT JAYCE out loud

this made me laugh

same, ekko, same.

can we talk about the way he's holding the cup lol

it's also kinda funny and kinda sad at the same time that this is probably his first time tasting tea

SHUT UUUUPPPP

i screamed

vi? nooo, what the hell 😫 i thought it was the bad guys after her but no it's VI? don't hurt jinx like this, don't hurt me like this

the animation is making me feel like i'm the one who can't breathe damn

hasn't my girl been through enough?? stooooppp

this looked really cool though

there's no way those were the only two times he saw her cry

also, she's insane, blinking and getting even closer. i am obsessed with her

YESSSHHHH

after getting her ass kicked by vi and jinx repeatedly in season 1, i have a feeling this is a battle she's finally going to win 😆

the whole-body movement she did here, so cute, i love her so much 😭

GET JINXED OMG!!!!!!!! 💙💙💙💙💙

holy shit you can always trust arcane with fight scenes

my brother: no one does fight scenes better than arcane.

me: i know right?! that was so good! best scene in season 2 so far!

brother: yep.

oh wow ok. girl, 1st of all, ew. 2nd of all, that thing was like 80% machine what was there left for you to eat? 3rd of all... this begs the question, what do these people eat, exactly? do they draw the line at cannibalism but everyone else is fair game? huh.

i doubt the people in piltover eat like this

no, let's not do that<3

what is he, jesus? this is a bit too much.

[marinerofthestars]

screaming into the void about arcane ep 5

Oh dang young Cait? GRAYSON? We be in flashback territory me hearties

Cool motive, still a cop

Wow Marcus really didn’t want anyone to know too much about his scapegoat (presuming he arrested Vi as a “dangerous criminal” to help him climb the career ladder)

Interesting – Cait knows who Silco is? And he’s an industrialist??

well looks like it’s time for some good old fashioned casual prison brutality

And now I’m wondering whether this is meant to show “there are no good cops, by being one you’re part of a fundamentally fucked institution”, or whether Riot are wimps and we’re trying to go “nOt AlL cOpS aRe BaD aPpLeS”

Well your city’s values are shit, but they did try to do something, so…kudos to them I guess

interesting, is that his kid or the kid of one of the Enforcers who got killed?

nvm

a good old not so subtle threat from Silco, but also him petting the dog and showing he gives a shit about people

Viktor, why do I get the sense that you’re one of those people?

well damn good on Jayce for actually trying to do something about the system

yesssss squirm Marcus, squirm like the maggot you are

Double helix…is this the origin of the Glorious Evolution? Is it really just going to be the result of magic-induced hallucinations? Or is Vik having an idea?

Interesting contrast of the blood and the steel of the guardrail, there’s probably a metaphor about humanity’s relationship to technology or the inevitability of emotion overcoming modernity’s logic, but I’m too lazy to find it

“To the realm of heebie-jeebies” Jayce you better not be trying to emulate Icathia young man

NOOOOO POWDER POOR BABY

Cait aren’t those tickets expensive? Oh wait you’re rich, you probably don’t think of it as a big expense (shower thought: do rich people think of themselves as being average money-wise? or are they aware what’s not a lot of money to them is an obscene amount to others?)

vi be doin parkour, trying to escape? or? Do some good old fashioned pursuer-pursued flirtation???

wait is that you, bald guy from the blonde Shimmer monster teenager’s gang? did you grow up?

“My little sister” ow

yeah honestly I’m with Viktor, using magic as a battery is nice and all but you can do so much more than you are with reality as your clay

roll credits

Ah, the good old “thing that the straight man thought was relevant isn’t and the wise guy seems to know less than they made themselves out to” trope

and a double switcheroo! “seemingly irrelevant task turns out to be important”

Ah Mel, as slimy and manipulative as ever (wait can someone tell me the optics are on the main “capitalist running dog” character being a black woman? I feel like that’s a little iffy but I’m not black and so don’t feel super qualified to judge)

Oh god it’s the scene from the trailer but EVEN WORSE

OH POWDER I AM SO SORRY YOU DESERVED SO MUCH BETTER

Remember when we just thought POW was meant to be a shorthand for “I like explosions” rather than a nickname? Good times, good times

ah a lovely visual metaphor for Powder’s fear she’s not strong enough

yeah bad mouthing Vi’s home, dumb move Cait

“favors among friends” my ass, you’re the problem with the system

yeah Jayce was VERY clearly uncomfortable with being offered councilor (could he have said no?)

well this seems…relatively innocuous (“support me and I’ll make sure you get access to my new stuff first”)

but of course, the fool shakes the devil’s hand, and his soul falls to the sound of laughing gods

beautiful violin music for fucked up politics tho! Wonder if it’s on YouTube or the Arcane OST

hey Cait be more sex positive! though with your background I can’t say I blame you, societal standards around sex work suck

*gasp* VICAIT VICAT VICAIT VICSIT

WOMEN YES YOU GO GIRL

omg that horrendously bad southern accent that immediately goes back to British/Piltovan(?)

“pirate”

oh my GOD

YOU

yussy is canonically plot-relevant I can’t

ah the coin stained with Grayson’s blood, Very Symbolic (but seriously why would he keep that coin? Even if it’s a reminder shouldn’t the blood be brown?)

OH SHIT THAT’S A WAY TO REMOVE A CHARACTER FROM THE PICTURE

HOW IS SILCO GOING TO SURVIVE THIS??

nvm Marcus continues to suck

I mean Topside will definitely have political and economic power – being able to explode skulls with magic doesn’t necessarily translate to true power, as lots of fiction is eager to forget

well, that plus I’m pretty sure he’s more a bio than a physics/mechanics/thaumaturgics guy

Yussy giving us some good old fashioned “do what you gotta do” survivor mentality

I am a mariner of the good ship Vicait but just this??? Cait?? Being tender?? With another woman??? 🥺🥺🥺 A+

Mel I’m sorry but you are so full of shit

viktor: Heterosexuality? in My laboratory? you fool. you nincompoop. you turnip holding dullard. my only loves are unethical science and glaring at jayce talis as i enter a state of sophisticated malding

and red, for the Evolution yet to come

oh shit *this* is the Evolution’s birth! presumably Viktor will wake up, see the hextech reacted to his blood, and realize integrating hextech with flesh is the way to go

ooh 2D fluid animation

Well fuck they just

What

Wh

Uh

Why are they intercutting these two scenes

I got spoiled and knew there was a Jayce/Mel sex scene at some point but why did they have to frame it like that

“better then gen:LOCK’s” my ass

Guess there’s your equal and opposite reaction – for every tender Cait and ViCait scene, there’s a really weird het sex scene

damn Jayce is really just this post but steampunk

Silco: dips

jinx: “um dad are you okay this can’t be happening again”

is it just me or does Silco look actually hot after that chem dip? If nothing else his hair’s def slicked back

Powder this might sound good but I promise you it’s gonna fuck you up in the end

“You’re strong now” kiddo you gotta make like Allison Ruth and realize that strength beyond strength is found only in those you love

“Jinx is perfect” oh god does he know what this means to her?

uh Silco why do you gotta hold her Like That

and this DEFINITELY isn’t healthy are you going to give her a rebreather Silco? Is she just going to hold her breath??? What if she emerges a new kickass woman and then dies a week later from septic shock???

JINX SHIMMER TRANSFORMATION?

no

something better

BWOMP

BWOMP (LOOK OUT FOR YOURSELF)

IT’S THE BOYS

THEY CANONICALLY EXIST IN UNIVERSE

WAS THAT MUSIC VIDEO OF THEM RELEASED BEFORE ACT II OR AM I JUST BEHIND

BECAUSE IF IT WAS RELEASED BEFORE THEN DAMN THAT’S A NICE TEASER

I am now just realizing that I would like sevika to please step on me

Bastard man is miserable at work! Good for him

wow that drawing does NOT bode well for his chances of survival (also can we please just let shitty cops be shitty without any redemption arcs? bad people can have sympathetic qualities but still be bad people)

Part of me – a small, silent part – feels kinda bad for Mel, because to the surprise of nobody it turns out being a manipulative elite is lonely

Oh

Oh fuck

This is much worse than just nausea and a nosebleed

Ah some good ol major arcana! though I’m not sure if they represent people or events, or if it’s just a cool little detail that ultimately doesn’t mean anything

YOU GO VI

oh so those guys ARE blonde shimmer monster’s old gang members! Bald guy got his nose fucked up tho

Wait it’s been a While since I saw Act I, did Vi and Sevika know each other? or is she a traitor in a broader class traitor sense?

ah the good ol fashioned slow mo cape throw off. bit cliche, but still classic!

OOF that’s gotta have hurt

okay at first I was wondering if I was overanalyzing this fight scene but. there’s definitely something iffy about all the protags being white and more antagonistic characters (Mel, Sevika) being POC

okay make the darker skinned woman display visibly animalistic behavior okay okay yep this is totally fine /s

at first I wasn’t sure how I felt about how the punches’ weight not seeming to connect, but yeah it’s very clear that this is a visceral fight, like episode 1 – no theatrics, just two people trying to beat the ever living shit out of each other and gradually wearing each other down

oh that reaction to her name is subtle but speaks volumes

OH FUCK

a mortal wound, to body and soul

Cait not saying you should have but you could absolutely have headshot her, especially in that brief pause where you looked all cinematic-like

thank you for proving my point Vi

Again, not saying killing her was justifiable (though maybe I’m overthinking how much socioeconomics influence the morality of a no punches pulled fight) but it’s kinda yours Cait

“But you’re so sweet. Like a cupcake.” “Shut up.” MY HEART

oh fuck Jinx is gonna use magic, like not just as a battery but actually do reality warping shit, oh god oh fuck

also as an aside: LOVE how Arcane portrays Jinx here. it’s nice to see the fact that she’s not only a mechanical genius (all her weapons? SHE BUILT THOSE HERSELF), but a mechanical genius who deals with psychosis (in maybe less than healthy ways, but still) highlighted, rather than just having her be “haha funny crazy explosion girl

Sevika: comes in clearly having been beaten up and with a busted arm

Silco: dammit sev I just got done with my eye goop needle

act ii finale is going to wreck me isn't it

[clownpi]

I have finally downloaded this app!!! I have been meaning to respond for like a week but rl stuff and not knowing how to use this website actively kept me from it

But lo and behold I see a draft of the new chapter of Jinx's Hellcat, my day just became better, Papa Rengar is coming

I have been reading your other stories without commenting and you couldn't have chosen a better moment for Void!Caitlyn, VOID EVENT BABY!!!!

Also I wanted to show you this

😂😂😂 I was just messing around with their supposed heights (Silco is around 5'9") and my estimate of Lux's and like can I just say that little gremlin Jinx being protected by all this intimidating tall people is everything to me (also I have her exact height, so I feel kind of attacked and intimidated at the same time)

I just imagine everyone seeing Rengar looking up at this tall lion man being like "Ha, I see where she gets it from" and realizing Lux is not quite done growing, at some point when Rengar becomes a more common sight he hits people with the "I am on the smaller side for my species" and everyone just bluescreens jsjsjsjsjsjs🤣

Sorry I think about Rengar to much, he is my beloved son and I really like his character even though Riot really doesn't

I'm glad you've been liking my works, especially Jinx's Hellcat since it gave me a neat story addition I hadn't even thought of! The current WIP for that one is a struggle through the tears of the two finally meeting (practically dusted myself imaging Lux giving a shaky "Papa?" when first seeing Rengar).

Hoping that the Void event gives some juicy lore to play around with (already got my eyes on the new champ to see how I can work that in). That fics been fun to write even if I don't know where it's going, latest chapter I'm working on actually brings in the intro to our good friend Warwick (....or at least a void variant)!

Can't believe I'm shorter than Jinx the smol gremlin.....

I can understand really loving a character even if it seems like the creators (or others) don't seem to, experienced it many times over the years watching anime. Still not over the fact of what Devilman Crybaby did to my boys Ryo and Akira, they were perfect in the old OVA series and then....😔

Anyway to stop myself from going on a tangent, I hope to have some fun stuff with Rengar and the gang once he gets fully introduced to the group. Hope you enjoy what's to come with that one along with any of my other fics you read!

[superbattrash]

Arcane thoughts part9

let me just preface this by saying: AAAHHHHHHHHHHH

“make me” damn alright, maybe it’s bi vi after all 

then again that was not a ‘make me so that we can fuck’ that was a ‘I'll kill you before I'll give these back’ so maybe not 

oh thank god, you wouldn’t have won that, Jayce 

also me @ my sis right now: THIS IS THE LAST EPISODE, NOTHING WILL GET RESOLVED, THEY DON’T HAVE TIME, THEY’RE ALL DEAD AREN’T THEY

she ain’t alone, jayce, you asshat, she’s got Caitlyn unless jinx already killed her

I'm in love with how awful Silco is, there I said it, I hate him so much that I love him, damn it 

oh Viktor. yes, you did that. you killed her. you didn’t mean to, but you did

don’t take her letter to mean that it’s okay, hon, it isn’t. she’s gone because you had to meddle with this, and I know you didn’t mean to and that you’re sorry but now would be a good time to just stop

I know you’re not gonna stop

it is so controlling you. god damn herm- her- the professor was right 

oh no, not you again. go home lady, I hate you and not in an I-love-you-for-being-so-bad way

and now you’re dying again? GOD DAMN CRAPPY ASS MAGIC

okay for a second there I was sure she was gonna kill him, man, I almost had a heart attack

are you - are you seriously making a deal with him?????

would you seriously sell jinx out???? also now that we’re back to her WHERE THE FUCK IS SHE

oh my god we’re coming full circle. “What are you willing to lose?” and you’re there talking to him because he WAS your brother, he really was. god damn it, arcane, you’re too cruel to me 

oh god no, you weren’t supposed to be there baby, I'm so sorry 

oh. you’re gonna take all of them on by yourself? damn it, of course you are

the neck cracking HELL YEAH 

what the - HOW ARE YOU LOSING, AGAIN?????

oh. Vander 🥺 

that is some techno ass show, that is, but at least she won

OH FUCK THAT SCARED THE HELL OUTTA ME

“what? giving the poor oppressed people what they want/need? that’s preposterous!!!!” Jesus Christ people 

please don’t be a jump scare, please don’t be a jump scare 

oh god no, please, p, don’t bring Caitlyn into this, please 

oh god I almost screamed

WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING, SHUT THE FUCK UP SILCO, I AIN’T LOVING YOU NO MORE, SOMEONE FUCKING KILL HIM

I sort of actually believe him but then again not really maybe I just wanna believe that he wouldn’t trade her 

GOD DAMN IT POWDER, JINX, WHAT FUCKING EVER 

he’s gonna shoot, he’s gonna get the gun and fucking shoot

NO WAIT DON’T 

oh god

i am sobbing what the fuck is happening

I HATE HIM WHY THE FUCK AM I CRYING

there goes the last of her sanity, fuck

what THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK WHAT THE FUCK NO NO NO THIS FUCKING SHOW WHAT THE FUCK 

I CAN’T FUCKING BREATHE THAT FUCKING SUCKED WHAT THE FUCK