#tindras arcane rambles

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ARCANE S2 ACT 1 SPOILERS UNDER CUT

Did anyone else notice that when Jinx was about to bomb Vi with fishbones, but fishbones started glitching and threw Jinx into the pillar, Vi was going to catch her? If she didn't her sister would be long gone. She didn't want to kill Jinx. She didn't even want to hurt her. Vi was so lost and couldn't fight even fight properly. Jinx purely knocked her to her knees.

Also when Vi was about to do the last punch, Jinx said "I'm glad it's you. It had to be you", Vi shaked her head like she didn't want do complete it and end it all? Jinx wanted Vi to be the one to complete the mission and put Jinx away, but Vi didn't want that. The (*only* one wanting Jinx DEAD was Caitlyn.

URGG THESE TWO SISTERS MAKE MY HEART BREAKKK ☹️ Can't wait for act 2, and see the 2 hopefully reunite, and grow their bond back over act 2 and 3 🙏

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I figured I am gonna post a Caitlyn Arc-themed analyzation aswell, because so many people need to hear it after being mad at her for her reactions and actions in act 1. So here we go. Sit down, relax, and enjoy my suffer off explain how Caitlyn is being unfairly treated.

ARCANE SEASON 2 SPOILERS UNDER CUT:

I will, in this paragraph, describe certain scenes, and go into detail about Caitlyn's change. I fully support her vilain arc in s2, but there is also the things we have to explain on why she is doing so. Here we go!

Caitlyn is grieving. When you get driven by grief, it eventually turns into madness, and the need to get justice, no matter if you get blood in your hands or not. When you are in a constant state off doubt, violence, anger, fear, distrust, and betrayal, you aren't yourself. You are being knocked around by all those voices. Or as Caitlyn describes it; the 3 faces. Her mother Cassandra, Jinx, and Vi. Your identity and personality is being questioned. The heart and the mind isn't going together, and uniting. The mind is driving Caitlyn. Her heart is starving and grieving. She doesn't want to be this way, but she is forced to. By herself. By her anger. Anxiety. Fear.

When the 3 faces off your loved ones and enemies are constantly there, you can't figure out what path you want to take. Does she take on Cassandra's and the Kirammans' legacy? Does she become stone cold and seek the blood off Jinx? Or does she want quiet and peace with Vi, the only one caring truly about her? Would she be willing to risk one off, if not *the* most important relationship in her life, just to get revenge?

If you got put into a scenario where you had to choose between things such as these, would your mind go at ease? Would the decision be easy? Would you just be able to choose then carry on? Would you ever question yourself after deciding?

Caitlyn has 3 emotions that carry her actions in each episode. The first one being grief, second being fear and anger, third being ferocity. She can't control herself. When there is a pain that eats you up so hard and violent, you try your best to get out off it. Caitlyn doesn't want this. She never did.

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Your biggest question may be; why does Caitlyn blame Vi for Jinx's actions? And what did Cait mean by "HER blood runs in YOUR veins"?

Well, we can state it like this; Caitlyn is a only-child, with a lesser good relationship with her parents, arguing, which apparently happend alot, especially between her and Cassandra.

Caitlyn doesn't know what Vi has been through, not all off it. The only thing she knows is that her parents were killed by enforcers, and her sister is Jinx. Nothing else.

Caitlyn doesn't know that feeling when you want revenge, but that revenge is having to hurt or, in this case, kill your own family. She would never kill family for another. Family is so dear to her. I think she would rather sacrificing herself for another, but never family. If someone were to ask Caitlyn if she would kill her own sister (if she had one) for Vi, do you think she would have done it?

And, now, we can talk about Violyn splitting up, knowing what Cait knows and doesn't.

In that moment when Vi and Caitlyn got blown into that hole, she was most likely thinking about how, after Jinx blew uø the council, Caitlyn said to Tobias, her father; "I had the shot", referring to she could have killed her at that moment, but she didn't. She blames herself deeply for that. And the same happend in the Vi and Caitlyn VS Sevika and Jinx - fight. She could have shot Jinx, but didn't and now feels like she betrayed herself, and what feels like her mother.

Caitlyn is, again, driven by even more furiosity. Vi doesn't recognize this woman. The one she knew was sweet. Relaxed. Kind. This is a whole new person, according to Vi. Caitlyn has gone into madness, grief, and even paranoia. She forgets about everything, and is blind to what she is doing. Vi, asking worridly and also confusingly '"what's wrong with you?", leading to Cait answering with "I keep telling myself that you're different. But you're not". When she says this, it's a way off telling Vi "You are just like other Zaunites, ignorant, mocking, and no different than your sister". Caitlyn is feeling like she got betrayed by Vi after Vi 'protected' Jinx, which Caitlyn has NO remorse for. She only sees a terrorist, psychopath, murderer and criminal in Jinx, yet she barely knows her story. If not, none off it at all. Cait eventually says, in coldness; "it's her blood in your veins. Caitlyn is, again, saying this because off what she sees as betrayal, and the fact that Vi still, deep in her heart, loves her sister. A murderer, in Cait's eyes. This leads to Vi arguing back, asking "then why are you the one acting like her?", which Vi is totally correct in saying. Because, matter off a fact, she is. Both are driven by the same madness to get revenge because they lost a loved one because off the other. Caitlyn is on the exact same redemption arc as Jinx is. Caitlyn being after Jinx, and Jinx being after Vi.

In that moment, Vi holds Cait's upper arm, slowly sliding it down to Cait's hand. Vi doesn't want to argue, because she knows what Caitlyn is going through is beyond impossible to get over, and Caitlyn is the only one left that is worth fighting for, and with. Vi wants to communicate. She wants Caitlyn to let go off the anger for just a second. Yet, Caitlyn can't seem to know how. She is so worked up, stressed, anxious, and beyond pissed at the amount off chaos happening in her life. Her whole future and life is being inverted.

The build-up off these emotions leads to Cait doing an unthinkable act, hitting Vi into her chest with a heavy rifle. She does this, because she is letting go off Vi. She probably doesn't think she is letting her go forever, but for awhile. She wants to end this. She can't take Vi anymore, reasoning being what I talked about earlier. There is a parallel in this scene, from when Vi hit Powder in s1, and left *to take a second to breathe and calm down, so she could go back to Powder again, but it lead to her being taken by Marcus*.

Caitlyn, feeling like Vi is and has been unloyal to her (again, NOT Caitlyn's fault, purely blinded), leaves Vi, a desperate woman who only seeks purpose, sobbing at the pits off the underground. In a mess off memories.

She goes back to her cold self, like she never left, and eventually gets put in the Commander-role off the Enforcers by Ambessa, whos' role in Piltover is questioned.

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Caitlyn does now not only carry all off the city's future, but also the entire enforcer team, and security off the entirety off Piltover, right in her hands. Could you even think off the amount off responsibility this is? The stress?

I also want to include carrying House Kiramman's legacy, with her dead mothers hands resting on her shoulders, relying on Caitlyn's dedication to be a savior.

Also gonna state that she is the only one, currently, to have access the Kirammans secrets and history. She is revealing both truths and lies to herself, about the region off Piltover and Zaun, and so many unnamed cases.

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That leads me to the end off my ramble. I hope you enjoyed the pain I may have caused. Can't wait to see the countinuation off her progress in act 2, and seeing which path she chooses to take! She is a charcter with so much development, so I am beyond happy seeing different sides off her, and being able to analyze all off them! 🫶

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Alright, so first off; there will be alot off rambling about the characters in act 1, until act 2 releases. So I think I'm gonna divide my analyzing into a few parts, depending on who characters I find that need it! But today, I wanna start with Jinx and Sevika

SEASON 2 SPOILERS UNDER CUT

So first off, Jinx is a complex character. Now that the entirety off the Undercity is leaderless, there is a race to the throne between Margot, Smeech and the last dude who I forgot what his name was. Smeech obviously dies, so we have Margot and the other dude remaining as competition. Jinx, and Sevika, who one have lost their father-figure, and the other their boss, loyalist, they cannot figure out what they can do to relax the Undercity and bring it to peace. Their final decision, for act 1, is then "to watch it all burn", meaning they will let chaos errupt, and could not care less about it. Isha comes into the picture, so we can call them a little family. I also found Jinx so, I don't know, calm? Broken? But also happier which makes me happy!

I think that Sevika feels like she betrayed both Silco and Vander, and is blaming herself for not being able to "clean up his mess". She is obviously struggling to figure out what the hell she is gonna do now, because who is a loyalist without their loyalty? I feel like she can finally let that loyalty go, and be a human again without feeling the need to keep her word, because it's not always that easy. She kept her loyalty for YEARS to both Vander, amd especially Silco, even when Jinx and Silco's gang annoyed her.

I am so happy they are on better terms now. The gift to Sevika was absoulutely Jinx-coded, and I love her for that!!! They both needed someone, and they have someone, finally. I can't wait to see what act 2 brings us, and what they have done/accomplished after the (very possible) timeskip between act 1 and act 2.

I think I am gonna do Violyn tommorow, and that one is gonna be LOOOONG.