You know, when I think about Arcane I can't help but think about the fact that I'm not a huge fan of how Vander handled things.
I mean his heart was definitely in the right place, he wanted to protect his children and his people, but to be honest there were moments where I felt like he was very confidently doing the wrong thing.
Specially in a child rearing sense. Now I just want to put it out there, that we the audience are shown a biased depiction of Vander.
Just about every scene he's in he's surrounded by his people who (mostly) look to him for protection, his children who adore him, or his enemies who are literal drug lord gang leader bad guys and corrupt policemen. Who are not humanized by the story until after his death.
For one there's Vi's pretty obvious eldest daughter syndrome, which Vander does nothing to try and curb. In fact I feel like in most of their scenes together Vander is treating this unhealthy dynamic as Vi being her sibling's leader and that she therefor needs to take more responsibility for them.
Even though I feel like Vander teaching Vi that way of thinking caused a lot of problems for all of the kids.
Sure it's great when your kids can work together, but there shouldn't be a pecking order among them, and if there is you shouldn't encourage it.
Vander fully expects Vi to take responsibility for Powder(which makes some level of sense considering she's 4-ish years younger than Vi), but also Mylo and Claggor, who are both the same age as her.
Meaning that if Vander trusts Vi to look after herself (and Powder) I feel like he should be able to trust Mylo and Claggor to look after themselves.
Vi should not be saddled with the responsibility of being in charge of her siblings, who are literally the same age as her.
If Vander is going to be reprimanding Vi for getting into trouble, he should be getting on to Mylo and Claggor just as much.
Sure Mylo and Claggor mention that Vander is going to be upset, but it's very obvious that the majority of the responsibility rests on Vi's shoulders.
Which, sure they look up to Vi and listen to what she has to say and what she thinks they should be doing.
But if it's to the point where Vander thinks it's gotten to the point that they will literally blindly follow Vi into dangerous situations because she said so. Then I feel like it's time for Vander to have a sit down with the rest of his kids and have the very important "Thinking for yourself" talk.
It's- You can't raise your children to just blindly follow their oldest sibling their entire life, and raise the oldest child to be the caretaker of the rest of their siblings their entire life.
Yeah, Vi needs to think things through a bit more, because the other kids look up to her a lot, and will go along with whatever her plans are, because they think she knows what she's doing and they trust her.
But also the other kids need to know how to assess things for themselves, rather than just blindly follow whatever it is Vi says, no matter how much they look up to her.
Like this man fully thinks that his 15 year old daughter, who clearly has problems with her temper and being impulsive herself, should also be responsible for her two adoptive brothers who are functionally the same age as her [one with a pretty obvious superiority/inferiority complex], alongside her younger sister who already has problems of some kind of anxiety.
Mylo and Claggor are just fully not held to the same standard as Vi in spite of being the same age, and literally getting into the exact same trouble. Their choice to go along with what Vi planned, is put onto Vi's shoulders when it shouldn't be, because if Vi is old enough to know better in Vander's mind, so are Mylo and Claggor.
If it was just Powder I could somewhat understand. She's younger, more impressionable, she idolizes Vi, she's not as strong or fast as the other three and if Vi forgot that at some point Powder could have gotten left behind or hurt.
You know the general "You need to be a good role model for your younger sibling because they look to you for guidance" stuff.
Like the fact that Vi feels the need to fight Piltover in order to secure a better life for Powder in Act 1 tells me so much just how parentified Vi is when it comes to Powder's care.
Which I do think originated from before Vander adopted the girls, to be fair to Vander. Vi gives off the vibe of looking after Powder having always been her responsibility.
To be unfair to Vander, I don't think he did anything to try and undo Vi's over responsible and over protective mindset when it came to Powder after adopting them.
18 notes
·
View notes
Anything for the goodest big boi Beel? I like fluffy/silly but I'll take whatever! Your writing always sparks joy.
You sigh as you catch Beel eating a tablespoon worth of ghoulish garlic glaze like one might sample a spoonful of broth. You’d thought delegating him to spice duty might significantly decrease the amount of ingredients devoured before they could be cooked. That’s on you for underestimating the appetite of a man who’s been known to eat his plate after licking it clean.
“That’ll taste a lot better on the Shadow Salmon.”
He blinks at you, confused, until he finally registers the tablespoon still in his mouth. He pulls it out of his mouth and you’re happy to see it still on one piece.
“Sorry,” Beel apologizes, smiling sheepishly. “Everything smells so good.”
You put a hand on your hip, trying to look annoyed, but you can’t quite help yourself from smiling. Beel is endearing to you, even when he’s being a nuisance in your kitchen when you’re in dinner duty. “I promise it will smell and taste even better when it’s fully cooked.”
“I know. Your food is always the best.” Beel says this so matter-of-fact; like he’s stating a universal truth and not his opinion.
You’d be lying if you said it didn’t feel your chest with warmth and fondness for him.
“I got excited thinking about eating your cooking,” he continues, still sheepish, cheeks turning pink with color. “I promise I’ll behave. Please let me stay and help.”
As if you could ever say no to those big puppy eyes of his, but he doesn’t need to know that. You just let out another long exhale before asking him to pass you the salt.
You catch him sampling the glaze at least 3 more times. You pretend you don’t see every time.
37 notes
·
View notes
So, I guess at this point I'm just posting stuff from months back I never posted for whatever reason X•D
This is a lil looping animation I made of Bits on Tahoma2D. I'm not that content with it, I think I made her hair move wayyy too much and it ways that it maybe shouldn't??? But other than that, I'm content with the rest.
I don't think I'm ever gonna go back and fix what needs the fixes and stuff (her hair + she's wearing the old clothes design), so I may as well just post it to show you guys at least :•)
9 notes
·
View notes