#team vi

[sandraharissa]

Ok, so a lot of ppl make fun of Jinx being jealous over Cait bcos it seems that like a dummy she misunderstands that they’re girlfriends and that she, as a sister, is not getting replaced by a girlfriend.

But the thing is she IS getting replaced. 

When you think about it in terms of how unusual and unfair to Vi the situation is that she’s like 5 years older and yet she’s burdened with the full responsibility of caring for a mentally ill sibling, well- that could be a job for life. If Jinx took Vi on her offer to run away they’d have no one but each other, they’d co-habit and Vi’s whole attention would be consumed by managing/helping Jinx. Being Jinx’s caretaker is a full-time job and it was a full time job when she was Powder too. You don’t just stop being a parent. 

Caitlyn represents Vi building her own life separate from Jinx, her younger sibling, like ppl in early 20s do. She’s possessive and jealous over Vi the same way kids don’t like their new step-parents or are jealous over other siblings receiving attention from their parents. Jinx is extremely needy, and you can see in how she doesn’t care about making friends and how she doesn’t care about romance (possibly ignores/is oblivious to Ekko’s crush) that she’s not in a mental state where she wants to mature and grow up. As a neurodivergent child she actually always needed more time to grow up than others, but she was forced to grow up too fast and it’s always through these really traumatizing experiences. Growing up is an extremely painful process for Jinx and so she holds onto being a child as much as she can, it seems. She wants and needs a caretaker still, and Vi picking an enforcer girlfriends isn’t even just about needing to share, it’s potentially building a life that Jinx can’t be a part of.

Hence, ‘replacing’ but not in the sense that Cait is gonna be Vi’s new sister but that she’s getting a new life, one where she doesn’t need Jinx anymore and will abandon her parental duties towards her, smth that Jinx desperately needs and relies on daily cos she’s still a teenager, and which is ultimately exactly what happens.

[livsoulsecrets]

Flávia Saraiva “Flavinha” (BRZ) on her fall during warm-ups on today’s Olympic Final for Artistic Gymnastics Teams.

Interview for TV Globo.

P.S.: Guys, I should probably have used other expression than “come to” when I translated. Flavinha didn’t say she passed out, I meant to use “come to” in the sense of “when she realized what was happening”

I found her retelling of the fall so funny that I subtitled it to share here. Flavinha was a beast today and we’re all so proud!

[arcanegifs]

All endings of Vi and Jinx's Stories from Legends of Runeterra's Arcane S1 Event ↳ "Heh. Sure. With family like you... who needs enemies?."

[latenightsundayblues]

Fucking love the final flashback montage in saw VI because the way they edited it makes it look like hoffman is pissing directly on an unconscious erickson's bald head

Ive been cry laugghing for five fucking minutes

[sandraharissa]

yeah, it also doesn't make sense considering the plot. like Vi and Cait wait 15-ish years to assemble a team to go after Jinx? and nothing important happens during that time pertaining Jinx and the war? and her and Cait still aren't an item? or will they have a home/marriage/kid off screen? Or will acts I and II happen soon after s1 and then we get a 10+ year time skip? But then why is Vi still, after 15 years, struggling with being/ becoming an enforcer and is upset about it and still doesn't have her style figured out?

I know the gal looks very similar to Ren but ppl are also overreacting a bit imo. Their hair color is actually quite different, she could easily be Marcus' sister or his wife's sister. or Ren's cousin who's in her early 20s, now has custody of Ren and wants to avenge her uncle.

Gonna go on record and say I do really hope that is NOT Ren in the teaser. If that is the daughter of Marcus that would mean, at best, like a 10 year time skip (girlie was still playing with blocks last we saw her). Which...please no. No time skip. At least not one that long.

Also, while I can maybe see SOME argument to support Vi and Caitlyn look perhaps older (and yea, idk if I'd be convinced). But again. Not aged the number of years it would take Ren to become an enforcer, let alone one considered skilled enough to work with Vi and Caitlyn. Even in a 'Cait sees she has potenal and picks her out of a bunch of really young newbies' situation.

[linterteatime]

More hollow knight gijinka- wait nvm wrong bug game

[soothedcerberus]

Sleepy team snakemouth 💤💤

[tabooi]

okay so at first i thought tinky was wearing some sort of jacket with lots of pockets but after looking a little closer i realized that hes actually wearing a fuzzy button up with a UTILITY VEST on top

they've covered the reflective strip with fur and added rhinestones but im fairly certain this is the exact one. idk something about this detail is extremely funny to me.

[sandraharissa]

The more time passes the more convinced I get that s1 caitvi that was relatively smooth sailing is over and there's gonna be some kind of angst and break up in s2, likely post-council explosion, before they mend things, so that could be how they do it.

Part of me wonders if one of the conflicts of Arcane will be Cait blaming Vi for stopping her from killing Jinx, which then lead to Jinx blowing up the council and killing her mother.

[jacaeryswife]

Jace got that Jon Snow glow up as soon as he stepped in Winterfell

[sandraharissa]

imo while both Jinx’s feelings towards Cait and Vi’s towards Silco aren’t identical they both can be boiled down to three things: the job, the insecurity, the person themselves.

When it comes to Jinx’s feelings toward Cait I do think that her being an enforcer is crucial and that if she had a different profession that didn’t have "arrest Jinx" in its description that'd make the situation significantly better.

And while at the core Jinx is insecure over Vi’s love and would hypothetically be upset over anyone who came with Vi I do think Cait is special, bcos of her job, but also bcos of her in general. She's presented as a Jinx replacement for Vi in the narrative itself but also to Jinx's face by Sevika. She looks like her but she's more competent, cooler and stronger. A better Jinx. And it becomes quickly apparent to everyone, including Jinx, that there's also a potential for a future romance between Cait and Vi. This makes the two bond with each other extremely quickly which makes Jinx jealous and she starts viewing it as a competition as canon caitvi creates a possibility for Vi to love/like somebody more than her and to move on with her life and form a new family without Jinx. So yeah, if Cait wasn't an enforcer I do think Jinx would react way better, and if it wasn't Cait at all but somebody like Grayson or some random enforcer guy, somebody who Vi wouldn't fall in love with, then that'd also make the situation way better.

Similarly with Vi’s view of Silco tho I don’t really need to explain that one. The whole drug lord position he holds and the things Vi learns he did to the Undercity obvs makes it ten times worse and yes on some level Vi’s insecure over her relationship with Jinx and her ability to fix it as she finds out that bcos of her mistake Jinx essentially replaced her/Vander/the old family with Silco (and she probs would be a little jealous of anyone who took her place and arguably did a better job than her/bonded with Powder more even if they were completely unproblematic), but at the end of the day it’s about Silco being Silco, the guy who took everything from her. Her old Undercity, her family, Powder.

Just like Jinx is upset about being replaced by a shinier version of herself that's more appealing to Vi (as Jinx values strength and is afraid of being unappealing/a burden to others, so it hits her where it hurts) Vi is essentially upset about being replaced by a more wicked version of herself that has more influence on Jinx (as Vi values morality and has a sense of responsibility towards her younger siblings).

[vioyume]

(Edit: Thanks to the people who informed me on what Leif's species is!)

Sat down and got to finally properly render these fuckers while also settling on how I should draw them. I actually did a tiny bit of research on their respective species, took a few elements here and there but nothing to drastically change them.

So as far as I'm aware, Leif is not a specific moth but plenty of blue and red moths will usually have the eye patterns on their wings and as well as have fluff on their bodies. Had fun with the posing and if you can guess where I referenced it then you get a cookie. Thought it was neat that the original concept was that he was suppose to dance.

Vi is obviously a honey bee, they're very well known to be fuzzy. I don't have much to say besides from that but if anyone doesn't know, only females have stingers.

Now Kabbu was really testing my patience, according to the wiki it states that is he is a rainbow scarab beetle. If that is wrong then too bad, those guys are gorgeous and it took me too long to figure how to balance the colors without burning my eyes. Its faint but noticeable, just so I can still be true to the game model, also I know it's not as visible here but I realize beetle wings are very pretty.

So what's the conclusion here? There needs to be a website dedicated to bug references so I can sit there and admire them all day.

[sandraharissa]

Also if we look at s1, the poster was a misdirection and the person actually holding Powder in the show was Silco, the vibe of the scene was also completely opposite to that of the poster, so just maybe they're doing this again.

Poster of Jinx possessively holding disturbed Vi but in the show this shot could actually be of Caitlyn holding disturbed Vi and comforting her.

the whole "everyone is going to be a little bit opposite to who they were in s1" thing, the poster with jinx holding vi in a possessive way and now the teaser with enforcer vi is making me think that maybe in season 2 jinx is gonna try to "save" vi.

like in s1 vi was all about how jinx was being manipulated by silco and needed saving so maybe now jinx will see vi in her uniform and think she's also being manipulated and needs to be saved from caitlyn/piltover's influence

[shrimpricebowl]

here's to a safer bugaria

[turquoise-eyes]

Sorry I don't get on tumblr much anyway look at these bugs