#vander and silco are totally fucking in the alt world

[anonymouscrane]

okay but the way that the alternate universe is not just a universe without hextech, it's a universe without shimmer too. violet's death and the job going bad can't alone account for the undercity thriving in the future, that's because silco and vander got back together, and thus shimmer was never created (or never used/abused in the same way). we can see it in alt silco's eye - it's just a normal scar. we can see it in the colors of the alternate world, they're muted and soft compared to the harsh neon contrasts of the world we're used to. and in jace's hellish future the colors are muted too, but in a different way, they're melded. we can either have the utopian world without hextech/shimmer or the world where there are too much of both. because as much of an emphasis on hextech being the catalyst for apocalypse, there would not be any significant fight without the scrappy but effective underdog of shimmer to fight back. blue/pink/blue/pink. and the most interesting thing about this alt world is that the elements to make hextech (and presumably shimmer) are still there. alt powder has the crystals from the explosion, dormant in the drawer under her alter. the lizard thing that shimmer comes from is probably kickin' it in the cave still. the elements are all there. the only difference, as silco says, is the willingness to forgive, to end the cycle of revenge and violence for good.