#timebomb became canon

[serbianazula]

We got TIMEBOMB but at what cost?

[jaybirdsandbabybats]

sorry im completely arcane-pilled and jayvik-pilled rn i still cant believe its canon

[octospace]

Of all the weird takes about Arcane one that stands out to me it’s the misinterpretation of Ekko now that timebomb it’s canon. People saying Ekko lost everything by losing Jinx it’s the craziest shit I saw about it.

My little man created a shelter for every kid that, because of Silco, became an orphan. Found a motivation to fight amid all the grief of losing Benzo, Vander, Vi, Powder, Claggor and Mylo all on the same day. He was able to move on even knowing that Powder/Jinx was Silco hitman and worked exploding his enemy’s which includes the firelights (the community he devoted his life to take care of). He lost her? Probably because she left, but his character it’s so much bigger than that, it’s weird to reduce him to Jinx unfortunate doomed crush.

[hexhomos]

Hey man, I follow you on bluesky, but I’m too shy to interact openly 😔 Could you maybe share more about the state of the fandom before season 2? I was watching Arcane as it was coming out in 2021, but I never interacted with the fandom back then so a lot of things that you say come as a surprise… Even I knew that a lot of people disliked Jayce tho which was crazy to me because he was my favorite after Jinx and Silco and I always found him to very compellingly written. But I never thought that he was hated to such an extent! Was Jayvik really a crackship with a small fanbase as some people say? I knew it was much smaller than Caitvi which I thought was totally fair and understandable, but I’m pretty sure that I saw a decent amount of fan art on my Twitter TL back then…

Its very inaccurate to call jayvik a crackship during season 1 LOLLLL s1act1 had such a JV boom it was partially marketed by word of mouth as possible canon yaoi. And I say "marketed" with intent, netflix official pages and riot official pages made posts/memes with these two, including some sexual innuendo. Keep in mind, vikjayce was an old ship: from 2012 onwards there's already faint niches in the community and even fanfics.

I have some of those social media posts here.

The marketing yaoi memes became a problem after act2 came out and a lot of the audience felt rightfully betrayed/led on by corporate; i think on the netflix side they got confused on who the canon gay pair was but old time players were well acquainted with riot's HORRID handling of mlm couples - the disappointment wrt jayvik in season 1 was palpable and impossible to ignore, partially because their stories WERE well liked ingame as their lore selves, and in act1 as a potential couple.

for a little while back there "riot HATES gay men" became a whole memetic chorus repeated ad nauseam, and this did affect the decisionmaking process. In the following months they got lil nas X to collab on their yearly esports theme and collab on the new gay champion release (a man permanently separated from his ex partner because he was terrible in the relationship. no comment) and we also got the pride month reconfirmation that tfgraves are gay for eachother, though once again not in a relationship and not allowed to even confess, they were just posing in general proximity under the rainbow flag; an obvious step down from the pitch where they had Old Romantic History. Not even a kiss. You can sense the pattern on how riot approaches gay men here, and /why/ a lot of people on the fence have rallied behind jayvik after season 2. It would finally subvert the trend.

I would say post season 1 it was obviously caitvi city, with some other niches, biggest ones being timebomb and jayvik. Caitvi were Mega viral, successfully tricked general audiences into calling the game "league of lesbians" for a while back there, ascribing progressivity to the company where it was pinkmoneying at best. People's general hatred of jayce made it so he was underutilized, misread and mischaracterized at large, INCLUDING in caitvi or general fanworks. He was a republican trumpian dumbjock stocks guy, insert your least liked man here. It was not uncommon to click on a jayvik fic/fanart and see some sort of sentiment related to "oh jayce sucks but someone needs to kiss viktor", and this was mild ribbings when compared to people who DIDN'T ship it. On these other waters it was common to see "Viktor deserves much better!!!!!!" plastered on all the walls. hence the massive y/n stats on viktors page.

still, people who stuck by jayvik were generally doubly invested on it, and they even got a couple of zines made! Secret santa projects were also up and running for some years. There was fanmerch though not as much as we are seeing now, and also a recapture of league vikjayce content in much, much smaller numbers. Even back then and in the years before season 2 some rioters would already share and interact with these fanworks; people insisting that jayvik is "new" or was uncommon before are extremely wrong. In AO3 stats alone they were in the top 3 league ships of all time after season 1, and they are firmly #2 as of now, rapidly growing. The fanbase is cosmically larger now but the seed was always there.

[earthnashes]

Hello there! If I may ask about your oc Sakura, how did you go about conceptualizing her? Was there any characters or media that inspired her design? How did her character change to what it is now? Apologies for this many questions, feel free to choose just one when you have time; love your work!

Hello! You may indeed ask about my baby! 🥹

So for context, Feathers and Flowers' birthing concept was about a girl summoning a demon because she was lonely but too shy to make her own friends, so she concludes summoning a demon would somehow be easier. In that iteration of the story, Sakura was meant to be a side character; a friend to the main characters that acted as the ultimate foil to basically everyone around her. She combated Kaela's crippling anxiety by being confident and overwhelmingly outgoing, contrasted Evangeline's bossy, bitchy attitude with being kind and friendly, and be the opposite of Mal's stoic, silent character with being expressive and chatty. I also needed a character that could conveniently know enough about niche media to reasonably be able to help Kaela summon her demon in the first place, so I ended up making her a huge geek: she loved anime, video games, and had knowledge on obscure things... including occult summonings xD

So I worked off that idea to form her appearance. Again her core direction was to be a foil to all of the main cast: Kaela was short and soft. Evangeline was tall and thin. Mal was tal and hard. I wanted Sakura to be the biggest character, so she originally started started out compact and wide. Her face was what I started with: I wanted her to look somewhat like an anime character, and her inspiration was based off of the older episodes of Dragonball, Pokemon, Tenchi Muyo, Ranma, Inuyasha. I basically wanted her to have Goku vibes (his wide dark eyes, his big smile, his open and easy personality) but with Inuyasha's hairstyle (she originally had long hair).

But then the story changed; it wasn't about a demon being summoned in a silly slice-of-life story but a Spirit getting lost in a magical modern era, still very much slice of life.

That ultimately shifted Sakura's design into something more athletic; football specifically. I wanted her to keep her dorky traits but pair it with the popular star athlete trope, so she became leaner, taller, and more "top heavy". She also became more oblivious; she remained sweet and friendly and outgoing, but in turn she didn't understand when someone liked her. In fact she was later canonized to be asexual originally didn't have romance planned for her character.

Fastforward to now: the story of F&F has changed again. While the core remains mostly the same (found family), it ironically shifted into something much closer to one of the earlier concepts of the story; something more serious and not slice of life, something that focuses more on the good and bad of a world instead of being predominantly lighthearted. So with that change the characters had to get a tune-up to their characterizations. Sakura received the biggest change, I think.

Her core remains true: she's relentlessly kind, expressive, a dork. But I decided to make that her biggest strength and her biggest flaw, as well as making her loving personality be conflicted by how the world views her by changing her appearance. That's how we get current Sakura: she's kind, she's loving, she wants to help others. But people think she's a threat, a ticking timebomb, because of what she is. So her once open smile is now more manufactured, a wall to protect herself, a farce to try and make herself look less like a threat. She's now a pushover; she can't establish her boundaries without it being misinterpreted as being aggressive, so her coping mechanism is to grin and bear it. She can't get visiblt upset or angry, so she has to fight for calm to have even the smallest chance of being listened to. She's "nice" because it's all she's allowed to be.

Hence her appearance change! She is now the largest character in the main roster, the physically strongest. Her smile is now "tainted" by sabre teeth she can't hide, her size contradicts her gentle nature.

It's late for me so I'm sure I forgot a few things but that's what I got for now! If you're interested I could show older concept work of Sakura to illustrate how she looked then vs how she looks now too. But ye! Thank you so much for asking about my character! 🥹🙏

[xtraordinaryfangrl]

*Isha’s still dead*

*Timebomb gains canon status, in an AU-style fanfic where Powder never became Jinx, but Firelight!Ekko ends up losing HIS JINX*

*Heimerdinger evaporates himself for Ekko and his little dog is nowhere to be found*

*Caitlyn and Vi make up and consummate their love, but they do it in the same dirty cell her sister was wasting away in seconds ago*

*Mel has her own storyline and is still somehow sidelined by the useless Science Bromance plot*

*Jinx and Vi finally reconcile and act like loving sisters again, only for Jinx to sacrifice herself and fall to her “quote-on-quote” death*

Me at the end of my rope, staring blankly into the abyss, contemplating whether I should laugh or cry (more than I already have, mind you) OR drown myself more into the depths of Archive of Our Own:

🎶 I wanna drink alcohol, I wanna ruin my liver 🎶

[kaoskuantico]

I hate Act III, sorry. All the second season was too rushed and some characters that didn't deserve a happy ending got it, and those who have been suffering got the worst ending.

Acts I and II were good, but III is the worst.

I still think Arcane is one of the best shows we've gotten and will get for a long time, the art, animation, soundtrack, the characters...I love Arcane, that won't change. And that's exactly why I'm so critical with the second season, because I expected more and better, I know it could have been better. Maybe they only needed another season to not rush all the plot lines, or even discard some of them.

In case someone hasn't seen Act III yet, ARCANE ACT III SPOILERS

I made another post with the things I LIKED (click).

No one cares but here's a list of the things I hated:

Too rushed, I think we needed another season BEFORE this one

WTF Caitvi sex scene IN JINX'S CELL, RIGHT AFTER SHE LEFT. That's so disrespectful and stupid, Vi wasn't in the right state of mind, as much as I love Caitvi, putting that scene there was a mistake

I'm sorry but I also hate Timebomb (I'm a Lightcannon shipper, which is funny because Lux doesn't even show up in Arcane, but one can dream through fanarts)

Jinx surrendering (why we didn't even get a flashback scene?) and being imprisoned like a dog. Yet the enforcers were never punished

Vi not listening to Jinx telling her MULTIPLE TIMES to get out of there, and because of her, Jinx sacrifices herself (yes, I know she's most likely alive. But that brings my next point:)

Jinx not getting a happy ending at all. She lost everyone, right when she was about to get rehabilitated, Isha dies right in front of her. And we didn't get any Sevika dialogue with her, not even trying to save Jinx (Sevika surely didn't know, but at least a scene where she looks for Isha and Jinx???)

The final scene where Vi is only seen with Caitlyn. Yes, I knew they'd end up together and they deserve it, but what about everything that happened? Losing all her family? Learning to fight just to lose everything and everyone? Ekko not talking to Vi at all after the war? Vi not mourning Jinx?

Why make Jayce and Mel be together if they were going to forget about it and act like it didn't happen? (I prefer Jayvik, but that's another story)

Jinx saving Caitlyn, but apparently that didn't matter at all. Jinx killed her mother, yes. But enforcers killed countless of people, including Jinx and Vi's parents. Even if Jinx surrendered, why put her in that isolated jail? That was Caitlyn's grief acting

Honestly I don't know why Isha had to sacrifice herself, I feel it was too unnecessary, just to traumatize Jinx even more and kill Warwick again.

I wanted to see more of Vi, of her life in prison and before their parents died (besides Vander's memories). But they put too much focus on Caitlyn and the Caitvi. As if Vi's entire character is being Cait's girlfriend

Caitlyn (and every enforcer) didn't get punish at all for their crimes. Caitlyn became a dictator because Jinx killed her mother, but countless of children saw their own parents be murdered in front of them, and now they're the bad guys for attacking back? Mind you, at least Jinx aimed her weapon to the Council, the people who oppressed them.

But Piltover kills civilians like nothing, putting CHILDREN in jail. At the end, they end up like the good guys, giving Zaun a seat in the Council. When they should have fought for it, making Piltover pay for everything they've done. Which brings my next two points:

Zaun is never set free, it's still part of Piltover

Following the previous point: Caitlyn becomes a dictator, Viktor a cult god who almost destroys the world. But Jinx is so unredeemable???

Vi accepting Cait immediately, as if act I didn't happen. I understand they wanted to make Caitvi canon, but it was too rushed.

The 'good timeline' being like that because Vi died???? WTF the enforcers wanted a name, ANYONE to put the blame on, so the Council could 'make an example'. And now suddenly everything is okay? The abuse from Piltover is gone? But even if that were true, it's sad it would take Vi's death so peace could exist

Cait put Jinx, a traumatized, suicidal and schizophrenic girl in an ISOLATED CELL.

In a more relaxed note, I hate the design of Powder in the other timeline. I have to admit I absolutely love Jinx's design, with her bang and long braids but damn I expected a Powder with a single braid and a better sense of fashion xd

I understand Ambessa was behind everything, she was using Caitlyn recent grief to manipulate her. But she never apologized, her actions can't be erased, she said it herself.

Jinx giving 'her blessing' to Vi to be with Cait. Jinx has been feeling replaced by Cait since season 1 and right when we thought they could resolve this (before Act III), they do this. If anything, they confirm Cait replaced Jinx and that Jinx had every reason to feel like that

Jinx sacrificing herself (yeah, we know she isn't truly dead, but I'm talking about the symbolism) WASN'T REDEMPTION. IT WAS SUICIDE, A TRAGEDY. Just a few hours ago Jinx tried to kill herself five times, she just saw an opportunity to do it again and not making Vi fight for her, because Jinx feels she doesn't deserve Vi. It wasn't heroic, it was a suicide

Singed getting his happy ending. HIM, OF ALL PEOPLE. He created the Shimmer, made it a drug and created addicts in Zaun just so he could keep experimenting.

Dude, I get it, you want your daughter back, but at that point you should've just accepted she's gone. Vander is gone, Vi and Ekko are left alone (which brings my next point), Jinx killed herself, Jayce spent days, weeks or months alone in an apocalyptic world, Zaun is still under Piltover's power...And HE gets his happy ending? No consequences? No punishment for experimenting on dead bodies/potentially having killed them, for being in Ambessa's side????

Following point 7, why Vi is only seen with Cait at the end? Ekko is truly alone now, and Vi only has the enforcer who betrayed her and never apologized for her actions with her and Zaun. I get it, they wanted to please Caitvi's shippers, but shipping is not the only thing here (which why I hated Timebomb in the alternate timeline)

The whole Noxus thing. It took away the Piltover-Zaun conflict, and it felt too big to make it fit in the second season

Heimerdinger's death. It was so unnecessary and stupid

As I said in point 3, I hate Timebomb. But I expected they'd go this route. What I didn't like is how they made Ekko focus so much on the Firelights just to make it about Powder in the alternate timeline. As far as we were shown (in Arcane only, not counting LOL), Ekko maybe had a crush on her when they were kids, and since Powder went with Silco they were separated and even fighting.

Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make sense to me why a childhood crush was so important that in the alternate timeline he doesn't hesitate to be with her. Why he doesn't look for the Firelight members, see if they're okay? AND HIS TREE???

Other fans say Ekko loves both Powder and Jinx, but I don't see it that way, even when he came back, he almost calls her Powder again. When he was the one saying she's Jinx now (back in season 1).

They didn't show the conversation after Ekko stopped her five suicide attempts, and even if the creators and writers say they did, I don't like when they don't show it but we have to make the scenes out of what they say afterwards.

Even if it's hinted in LOL, in Arcane there was not enough development to make it believable.

There are so many skipped scenes. Sevika went from leaving the room (not even saying a word, she didn't get any dialogue past Act II) to fighting along other Zaunites and Firelights against Ambessa. No reunion scene between Jinx and Sevika, no Sevika asking where the kid is, no them bonding a bit over the loss.

Maddie being a spy. I knew something was off with her in her first scene, but I feel her traitor reveal was so empty and meaningless.

As I said in other post: I liked how she was presented at first: a (probably) new and naive enforcer who wants to do better, who admires Caitlyn and because of that, she makes wrong decisions such as supporting Ambessa and the Martial Law.

Following in another post because I reached the character limit

[rainbowchaox]

I want to play a game. Reblog with your opinions. How did your opinions change on the arcane ships between seasons. I will start us off

Season 1:

Caitvi: Liked the dynamic. I just wasn’t into rich girl x poor girl sorta of ships though the fanart was amazing. Their story was clearly a love story and we gotta love them for that.

Jayvik: Shipped it because I liked the partner sorta of ships. Complete equals. Though I was shipping it as sorta one sided on Viktor part because I knew the LOL lore and was expecting a messy divorce. Jayvik nation you understand the worry.

Meljay: Look love my girl Mel but I always felt their relationship was more about narratively showing how Jayce fell into piltover corruption. So I never saw their relationship as actual romance. Mel eventually did but by that point it was too late. (Also my queen Mel doesn’t deserve to deal with disaster Jayce)

Timebomb: Sorry Timebomb shippers literally didn’t know they were a ship until after season 1. Was indifferent to it.

Season 2:

Caitvi: Look we all agree that the pacing and character arcs sorta fumbled them. Love the canon lesbian sex but indifferent to actual shipping. The fanart though is still peak.

Jayvik: quickly became my number 1 ship. How dare they make them actual soulmates and not expect me to ship them. And I’m partial because people finally see how good Jayce is now. Never forget the Jayce hate.

Meljay: Their mutual like breakup was a good choice for their character arc. And I feel they are better off as friends. Mel is too much a girl boss to have Jayce as a partner let’s be real.

Timebomb: Was shocked by the AU scene and was like oh. They actually a thing. I ship them but don’t really look for fanart or fanfics. Though you shippers are hella valid.

[pinkpastels113]

Tell us how you feel about arcane. Use your emotion words! Use a visual aid if you must, too lol.

you want some visual aid? i'll give you some visual aid:

that describes perfectly ab how i am feeling rn

first of all the LESBIAN SEX SCENE????!! I-??!! i knew that something was bound to happen (esp after meljay and the rated for sex warning in season 2) and i celebrated when they (finally) kissed but oh my god?? an actual lesbian sex scene? in a prison?? in vi's sister's prison?? after a parallel about how cait is always finding her in a prison and expected her to be there?? (with dramatic music and banter and soft giggling and the ANGLES and HAND PLACEMENTS??) I AM NOT OKAY

just that scene alone is enough to nudge me off a cliff. but moving on

how is JAYVIK more homoerotic than now-100%-canon caitvi?? that's all i have to say. (what do you MEAN that love conquers all?? that he loved and admired viktor for all his imperfections and that was what made him special and beautiful?? GET OUTTA HERE)

i did not know that i needed timebomb until this season but HOLY FUCKING SHIT why must you make ekko fall (surprisingly, even to himself) in love with jinx/older powder and have that ripped away from him not like two days later?? WHYYYYY (the dance. the "can we pretend it's like the first time?" the "oh and he's got lines." the nervous wave after he fucked up in that scene with dead vi and powder was like hmp and he goes :(. the mural. im sent. im gone. nobody speak to me.)

ISHA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO (she was just trying to be like jinx and copy everything that she does and is and looked up to her as a hero STOP WHY MUST YOU DO THIS TO ME. also the song?? IM CHINESE BRO AND I WAS SOOOO EMOTIONAL OVER THE LYRICS like hit me where it fucking hurts why dont you)

i cried at how vander suffered a fate worse than death. @becasbelt can attest to that

caitlyn adfshjk i knew she would come around and she was and always has been my blorbo (even if she stayed evil) MWAH my female rage filled, slightly wild, grief clouded, confident, "im an excellent shot," sexy, " i am a decorated officer, leader of house kiramman, address me with respect, or keep your mouth shut." dictator, vampire, badass, mofo. YES

the way she said "no amount of good deeds can undo our crimes" hit me bc she's acknowledging that she went off the rails and did some pretty bad things to justify and achieve (which she didn't. not really) her goals

i LOVED jinx in this season. she single-handedly made it a comedy show and was the sole focus of a lot of the emotional damage the storytellers and animators wanted to convey

the way jesus came to be and then quickly became evil SDFHSDKJ i was legit like WEEO WEEO ABORT ABORT JESUS HAS TURNED EVIL (also want to point out the "no you wont" sky dialogue bc DAMN she really called you out huh viktor)

that alternate universe timebomb episode had me gasping so much (like SILCO?? WHAT ARE YOU DOING THERE?? WHERE DID YOU COME FROM?? what do you mean everyone is well and happy but at the cost of vi's death???) i think i had asthma for a split second there

MELLLL MY GODDESS MVP PLAYER you saved cait's ass so many times it's not even funny and ugh the way you finally stood up to your mom (very cleverly too, i might add) ugh i applaud

EKKO MY KINGGG the way he hurts himself so bad turning back time and specifically saving jinx from offing herself BYE

HEIMERDINGER MY TINY ANNOYING/affectionate FURBALL WHYY

no but yea i am ruined and my emotions have faded away into numbness and i hope this post was relatable to the people in the arcane fandom and i also agree that this season was way too condensed and rushed and the last episodes in particular needed at least a couple more to drag out the events and character development bc at times when i am supposed to be cheering i am crying and at times i am supposed to be crying i am screaming and at times i am supposed to be screaming i am Horny and at times i am supposed to be Horny my heart is wrenching but only a few tears slip out bc IT IS CUT TO THE NEXT SCENE AGAIN??? does that make sense??

(also do we think jinx is actually dead or no. im still not sure but obv i would hope/am hoping that she is lmao)

[vaya-is-dead]

Hour two of my delusional city

Let's talk about Timebomb

* arcane act three spoilers under the cut don't read it if you haven't watched it you have been warned*

HOUR ONE HERE FOR YOUR VIEWING PLEASURE

*Note* I am not personally a Timebomb fan. I don't really care for it, but I think there is a lot of nuance that can go with it, especially considering that it happens in an alternate universe.

As a sidenote to the whole jinx might be alive thing. I wanted to touch upon the now sort of canon ship TimeBomb. I say sort of purely because it became real in an AU.

I see a lot of people complaining about it, becoming Canon, but I think this is a good demonstration for Ekko and Jinx as characters.

Think about it this way, in the AU there is no jinx, there is only Powder. Everyone but Vi lived. This means, specifically for Jinx, she didn't have to go through some of the most traumatizing events in her life. This allowed her to fully become who she was probably meant to be. A brilliant young woman named Powder with ideas that would change the world.

In the main timeline, Ekko and Jinx are at odds there is no room for the relationship that could've developed to be there. Even after the fact, after Ekko talking to jinx and convincing her to do one final strike with the fireflight (think the name might be wrong. Please excuse it.) Jinx is still extremely traumatized and at this point, her goal is to make sure her remaining family, Vi , to be happy. in her mind that means without her.

So I think Ekko and Jinx would never work, at least not with an intense amount of therapy or self-discovery for Jinx.

But as we see in the AU, it works with powder.

Powder is what jinx could've been, had given the chance to live a normal life. She still has the same sass and charm, but instead of it being a coping mechanism, it becomes just something that naturally is a part of her personality. She is still deeply hurt by the loss of her sister, but she has the network to cope and to heal while still remembering her, which gives her the room for a romantic relationship in her life.

And as for Ekko, there is a flashback to a time where he actually killed jinx on the bridge but he rewinded time (it might've been a hallucination too, so correct me if I'm wrong)was this just reaffirm that he still cares for her and hasn't given up on her like he's so claims to. It is a show of his compassion for others and for the cause that he fights for. There is also the parallels between season one episode seven "boy Savior" which gave us the fight scene of The fireflight against Vi and jinx which gave us older Ekko, and episode seven of season two which gives us an explanation for where he's been for majority of season two.

On a sidenote, I also wanted to add that I think the talk with Ekko, made jinx realize that Isha sacrificed herself for her to live. And I like to think that maybe somewhere in her mind, she thinks that it would've done a disservice to Isha's sacrifice for her to die. (yes this is relating back to my delusional our number one theory.)

[angrycloudloud]

I'm about to finish writing a Timebomb FanFic post canon where Jinx is alive and spend a year going around the word just to come back and had to face an Ekko who was still mourning her while trying to help Zaun became a better place...

I write in spanish so it'll be on ao3 once i translate it to english cause a like to drop the same FanFic in the both languages i write It at the same time.

I'll post an update soon... I hope.

[spwarkles]

bad news chat. or maybe good news chat. i got impatient and have uploaded my s2e9 timebomb au to ao3. i'll probably edit it again in a few days/weeks but i was too impatient to post it so here you go.

Tags: my take on the the beggining of s2e9, Hurt/ComfortAngst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Unhealthy Coping Mechanisms, Making Out, Jinx Needs a Hug (League of Legends), jinx keeps her bob because every girl deserves a fuckass bob, Jinx doesn't 'die', Dialogue Heavy, Mentioned Isha (Arcane: League of Legends), friends to enemies to some nebulous third thing, ekko is down BAD, Jinx and Ekko are BOTH little shits, and they BOTH have trauma, consistent tone? don't know her, I Tried, I Will Go Down With This Ship

Summary:

“But it wasn’t you,” Ekko said. “It was... you were... different. Like... how you used to be.”

“How I used to be?”

“You were Powder again. And you were so..."

“So much better than I am now?” Jinx guessed bitterly.

“Happy,” Ekko finished. “You were happy.”

or, s2e9 rewritten. walking away isn't the only way to break the cycle. in which ekko forgives jinx for everything she became, jinx forgives herself for everything she did not, and together they carve a way forward.

[rosaemoux]

I've been thinking of a Magic Batman Au in which there are three main types of magic each person can choose to practice:

Spacial, or physical magic, which is the magic that affects physical spaces, it can go anywhere from elemental to gravitational control of some kind.

Time, or chronological magic, it is the power to reverse, advance or stop time in a specific area for a specific amount of time

And

Ilusory, or psychic magic, it is the magic of the mind, the power to create hallucinations to deceive the mind, to feel other's emotions and manipulate them or to even control other's mind.

Magic is mostly used in everyday life like a convenient tool, but those who practice it and harness it to perfection are called Mages. It's treated no different to a science, however the knowledge behind becoming a mage is very much gatekept by governments all around the world to avoid the use of those powers outside their control.

There are also people ways to steal other people's magic by killing them, making yourself very powerful but also corrupting parts of your soul, making you a Death Mage. Those who choose not to are Life Mages.

Bruce Wayne comes from a long line of spacial mages of the Wayne family. He, however was born like the Kane side of his family, and had a natural affinity for Ilusory magic. After travelling and learning a lot from many different masters, including the Death Mages of Family Al Ghul, he returns to his Victorian Fantasy Gotham, using his power and wealth to make the city a better place and researching magic.

Then, Dick comes into his life, a young boy affected so early by death, like him. To avoid that the boy going out on his own and kills someone, he takes him under his wing. Dick became a spacial mage like his parents before him, also with some of the spells and techniques of the Waynes. I think he's really good at gravitational magic and controlling wind on his favor.

Barbara was mostly self trained, but had some techniques that her dad taught her for self defense, before Bruce also decided to train her. I think that she would have a natural affinity for psychic magic, before switching to time magic once she completes her mage journey and becomes Oracle post her paralysis (Clocktower symbolism, Oracle symbolism, it's perfect). Both her and Dick are very respected in their respective fields, and people start to see them and Bruce like the Wayne and the Kane; a clan, a powerful but small clan of Life Mages. Who also currently can't stand each other.

Then there's Jason Todd. A boy full of raw talent and an affinity for time magic like no other person that Bruce had ever met. When Bruce adopts him, he teaches him what he can. Things were mostly good, even if Dick wasn't very happy with the surprise adoption of a new boy and Barbara wasn't very present. However, when he figures out that Catherine Todd wasn't his biological mother, he and Bruce try to find his possible other living parent.

It goes mostly like in canon. They meet Shiva, ask her about it, she laughs it off, but their meeting makes Shiva a bit reflective about old business. After all, that little girl should be around that boy's age, shouldn't she ? She wonders how that experiment is going... and she feels, conflicted ? Huh, wonder where that came from.

When Jason finds Sheila and she ends up selling him out, they both end up tied in different rooms of a abandoned house, with a ticking timebomb.

Jason uses every single bit of his training to slow down, rewind and stop time, stalling for when Bruce comes for him. He eventually gets himself out of the ropes, but instead of trying to find his way out, he goes to find Sheila. He finds her, and Bruce finally found where they were, but it was just too late.

Ironically enough Jason Todd runs out of time.

Bruce looses a part of himself. His grief overcomes the entire city. He swears that he'll never take in another child, he closes his heart to all of those around him.

However, the mages of House Al Ghul are no strangers to the ways of death, and necromancy is just another way to get what they want. And if a piece or two of a soul gets lost along the way ? Well, you can always steal someone else's.

Part two is about the actual point in which the story would start;

[stanlunter]

Well I completely understand people who are complaining about Caitvi writing in s2, but it makes me so mad when they're trying to "belittle" it to make their ships look better, or are saying that Caitvi screen time should belong to Timebomb or that Timebomb dance was "more intimate" than Caitvi prison scene or etc

Like that's one of the few wlw sex scenes we got in the animated show, especially in the one that doesn't fetishize wlw couples for men and seeing them hating on it for such bad reasons (and I mean hate, not criticism) or trying to make a wlm ship that had like 5 scenes together in the show actually makes me sad and mad at the same time

Caitvi is one of the few my favourite ships that became canon without any of them dying and with pretty good development (even tho it was rushed in s2), but people treating it so bad and trying to extol mlw/mlm ships by making a wlw one look worse is so annoying

[jinxsleftmiddlefinger]

timebomb highschool au

(part 6)

(pt1) (pt2) (pt3) (pt4) (pt5) (read on ao3)

description: timebomb highschool au pretty much sums it up lol. there’s also canon storylines (vander death, vi conflict etc.) but translated into a modern context

note: this one is short (as always) and more…filler ig? was going to have it be the one where vi comes to jinxs house but that’s actually gonna be the next one lollll. anyway I’m so sorry dear readers I popped out of the womb with underwriter syndrome so all my chapters are disgustingly short 💔

A fight was not on Ekko’s checklist for his first week at this school. It was definitely not something he wanted to happen, it just did.

When he saw Jinx pinned up against that locker, he acted without really thinking about it. What kind of douchebag would do that? His first instinct was to get him off her, whatever it took.

Next thing he knew, he was in the office, sitting beside Jinx and her attacker, who even with a clearly injured face, looked annoyingly smug.

It made him want to bash his face in with his fist all over again.

“So,” Principal Silco sat in front of them, looking bored. “Which one of you wants to inform me of exactly what occurred?”

Jinx looked up. “I would just like to say, I really shouldn’t be here. I wasn’t the one fighting, I was a victim.”

The guy beside her scoffed. “You vandalized my locker!”

Silco turned to him. “Ezra, please, do stop talking.” The principal sighed.

“This is simply unacceptable. Attacking her in the hallway? Pinning her against the wall?” Principal Silco leaned closed to Ezra. “I’m afraid you do need to be punished.”

Jinx’s lips curled up into a smirk.

“Ezra, you will be suspended for 5 days. If there is any more complaints, you will be expelled.”

“Wha-no!” Ezra stood up, throwing his arms out. “You can’t do that!”

Silco shrugged. “Sure I can.”

Ezra threw out his arms, his mouth trying to form words of refusal all the way out the door. Silco smiled once he had left.

“Now, you, Ekko.” 

Shit. This was not going to end well for him.

“Taking in to consideration Ezra’s actions leading up to your fight, and the circumstances, I don’t believe your punishment should be too harsh for simply defending your peers. You can leave.”

“That’s…that’s it?” Ekko’s eyebrows furrowed. Was he really getting off this easy?

The principal simply nodded, and Ekko didn’t wait a second longer. He took his bag and left the room, sparing a glance back at Jinx, who got up and put her arm around the principal’s shoulder.

Ekko became even more confused. Sure, he knew Jinx was a little unhinged, but crazy enough to be hugging Principal Silco?

It was none of his business, no matter how odd or confusing. So he left the office, trying to clear his mind of the strange events of today.

A head injury was also not on Ekko’s checklist for his first week at Zaun High, but as fate would have it, his head smashed directly into someone else’s just as he was leaving the office.

“Ow, fuck,” He muttered, stumbling back and putting his hand on his head.

“Sorry.” The boy said, although he didn’t sound very sorry.

It was Zach, the one who had threatened him before and who was Jinx’s maybe ex boyfriend.

Zach looked him up and down. “Is Jinx in there? I heard what happened.”

Ekko looked back over his shoulder. “I think she’s still talking to the principal.” He replied dryly.

He did not like Zach.

Zach studied him again. “Were the one who fought him off?”

Ekko nodded, still attempting to get past him.

Zach snorted. “Should’ve been me there. I thought I told you to stay away from her.”

Ekko had to stop his jaw from falling to the floor. He was mad at him for helping Jinx?

“What?” He couldn’t form any other words. “I was just supposed to leave her so you could be the one to save her?”

Zach rolled his eyes. “I’m just trying to help you, dude. You don’t want to make enemies here, do you?”

Jinx’s maybe ex boyfriend was infuriating.

“Hiya!” Jinx suddenly appeared behind them, looking between the two boys. “What’s going on, boy saviour?” She turned towards Ekko, not even bothering to acknowledge Zach.

“Jinx,” Zach stepped closer to her. “Are you ok?”

Jinx’s eyes closed for a brief moment, pressed so tight it was obvious it was an action of annoyance. “I’m all good. Not even scratch. Probably not a concussion.” She replied tightly.

Ekko was feeling more and more awkward by the second. How did he always manage to get stuck in these situations?

“Is he your boyfriend?” Zach blurted out, wide eyed.

“What?” Jinx and Ekko said in unison.

“Is. He, Your. Boyfriend.” He drawled out his words, looking at Jinx with narrowed eyes.

She blinked at him. “Frankly, Zach, I don’t see how that’s any of your business.” 

“But is he?”

Ekko’s eyes flipped between the two at lightning speed. He had no clue what to say.

Jinx huffed and pushed past her maybe ex boyfriend, disappearing into the hallways. “We should all be getting to class, shouldn’t we?” She called at the two boys behind her before disappearing behind the corner.

Ekko dashed away from Zach before he could make good on any of his thinly veiled physical threats.

[arcaneconfessions]

Love the fans of the show, but some of the shippers, mainly CaitVi shippers are toxic af. Some ya'll act like a victim (if you're a chill caitvi fan, love ya). CaitVi have the most no of toxic shipper fans I've seen here at the arcane fandom whom will attack other ships, mainly JayVik shippers cuz it'a not canon and a mlm ship, and somehow TimeBomb shippers as well, a wlm ship, whom are like just happy for the confirmation.

Like I get that wlw ship are not common especially in a big media to be canon hence you want it to be the main focus or something, but ya'll act like other people celebrating other ships makes caitvi less canon (they've been canon for 10+ yrs now in lol get real.) Another point is how ya'll can't take actual criticism in how their relationship was written, which became a reason why other people (like I) grew to appreciate more the other ships despite having lesser screen time in season 2.

Ya'll already won, like ya got the wish after season 1 of a kiss, them being together till the end, and a even sex scene. CaitVi is also a canon ship that the general audience of any gender accepts so why you gotta act like ya'll still lost. If any of you are dissappointed at how CaitVi is written, don't take it out on the other ships, please. We're all fans of the show. CaitVi not being the fave ship of someone in Arcane doesn't mean it's hated or ignored. Lastly, not liking CaitVi doesn't automatically mean someone is mysogonist, ya'll like to throw that term around to anyone who doesn't ship them or isn't their no. 1 ship.

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