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sunfyrisms · 1 month ago

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it’s genuinely so sad seeing some people blaming vi for cait leaving her, because it’s exactly what people did with the whole powder situation.

vi was a child when she saw the brutal, horrific end of her brothers and fathers. she was a child, she was hurt, physically and mentally, she lashed out at powder. it is clearly a mistake that she regretted. she looked at her bloodied fist in horror, started crying when she looks at powder, and she left to collect herself. because she was the only one powder has left, and powder was the only one she has left. vander’s last words to her were instructing her to take care of powder. she needed a moment, just a moment, to grieve. but the moment she saw powder is in danger? she immediately got up. she was ready for another fight. she was ready to protect her sister, without hesitation, even after fighting and losing the rest of their family before her very eyes.

i think a lot of people take jinx’s words as an immediate, inherit truth. “you created jinx.” perhaps it’s because jinx herself is the one who said it. but i don’t think vi did that. vi was in prison, as a child, surrounded by violence. constantly beaten, constantly hungry, but she never once forgot about powder. not a day, not an hour, went by that she didn’t think about her little sister. the first thing she does upon getting out of prison is immediately try to find powder. powder may have been traumatized by that fateful night, rightfully so, vi was too, but i don’t think vi created jinx. silco was the one who created jinx. he manipulated her, worsened her mental state, the whole nine yards. i’m not here to discuss whether he loved her because that’s ultimately not what this post is about. what i’m saying is that vi didn’t create jinx, but she blames herself for it anyway. she blames herself for abandoning powder, for not being able to protect her, for her roughness.

it’s so painstakingly obvious she isn’t willing to do that again. she isn’t willing to hurt those she loves. as a result, she’s so soft, so gentle, with caitlyn. she wipes away her tears, holds her, and genuinely sympathizes with her loss. she is able to be there for caitlyn because she has lost people time and time again. she joins caitlyn’s elite force to compensate for her actions (because, again, she openly states she believes she created the monster that is jinx). she becomes the thing she hated most to attempt to right her wrongs, but she still has her morals, she’s growing increasingly uncomfortable with caitlyn’s increasingly violent and cold deposition.

vi is scared of what caitlyn is becoming. she is openly scared of caitlyn, of how unrecognizable her rage and grief is making her. she doesn’t call out caitlyn’s rapidly growing hatred and dehumanization of her own people, not at first. but she’s scared. she’s scared what’s happening to the woman who was shown the reality of what her people face, what’s happening to the woman who genuinely wanted to make a difference, the woman who is ultimately kind as she is naive, the woman who gave away her only means of protection to save vi.

after their battle against jinx and sevika, she voices her concerns. she openly asks caitlyn what’s wrong with her. when she says caitlyn is acting like jinx, she isn’t being cruel. she’s trying to bring caitlyn back to reality. she’s saying “you’re losing yourself and it’s scaring me”. she grabs caitlyn’s arm, but, remembering that she hurt powder, what resulted from that, she immediately loosens her grip, positions her hand so she’s gently holding caitlyn’s wrist. she’s not willing to hurt caitlyn. she wants a productive conversation, she wants to understand, she wants to communicate, she wants caitlyn to understand that she’s becoming something dangerous, and she will do something she will regret.

caitlyn is triggered by vi’s words. she likely, at least subconsciously, resents and blames vi for her mother’s death. vi pleaded with caitlyn not to kill jinx, and caitlyn hesitated, and that resulted in the death of her mother. to be clear, i don’t blame vi for cassandra’s death, because she legitimately had nothing to do with it. but i think caitlyn blames her. she blames her for stopping her a second time, and takes vi’s statement as a direct comparison to her and her mother’s killer. on a surface level, it might have been, but i think it was a warning. it was a warning to caitlyn that her grief and rage were blinding her and she was betraying the morals she held so closely in season one. she’s actively becoming unrecognizable to vi like how jinx is unrecognizable to her, and she doesn’t want that. she doesn’t want caitlyn to lose herself.

in the end, that softness, it doesn’t matter. it doesn’t matter that she tried so hard to go about it differently, to be gentle rather than strong. because caitlyn strikes her in the same place she healed her wounds. caitlyn strikes her with her weapon, looks at her with such obvious contempt and disdain, just like the enforcers she’s encountered her entire life, and vi knows she’s lost her, just like she’s lost everyone. caitlyn is unrecognizable, blinded by her hatred, and vi is alone. she’s left alone after the woman who promised to not change changes so deeply and so badly.

i think that’s the tragedy of vi. she learns from her mistakes, she tries to be gentle, she carries the grief of everyone she loves, and she loves very deeply. however, she can’t save people who don’t want to be saved. she can’t stop people she loves from becoming their worst selves.

#arcane #arcane s2 #vi #caitlyn kiramman #cassandra kiramman #jinx #silco #astra.txt #she and ekko and mel and jayce and ambessa are my favorites oh my god #it’s just. she is an inherently tragic character who loves so so deeply #she tries to be gentle and she’s given a massive fuck you from the universe #i luv her #very much.#jinx needs to realize she’s not a jinx and that she and powder are one and the same and she isn’t doomed #vi needs to realize that sometimes people just change and sometimes you can’t do anything about it #but it isn’t her fault

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stringbeans-and-peas · 6 months ago

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^ This was about Philip Wittebane

I had surgery 2 weeks ago; so after I got wheeled out of the hospital and fell asleep, these were the very first things I sent to my friends(????)

Bonus:

#i love my friends #very much.#They have many important things to say about the wittebanes #The first thing I sent to my friends after waking up from surgery was “Back on my wittebane grind” what???????#I love posting stuff my friends say and a very vague au related thing and dropping off the face of the earth for week.#it's therapeutic.#To my 3 tumblr followers I appreciate you very much #:)

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meringuejellyfish · 2 years ago

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lets talk about this otto figment

#the way otto is depicted within the other members' mental worlds is somethin. ive been thinking about this for the longest time #i think helmut is the only one with a version of otto that isnt negative. but i suppose thats just because helmut loves all his friends so #very much.#this pictures actually funny because compton and cassie are 1 figment aswell as ford and lucy being 1 as well. and ottos just standing #all the way over here.#awesome #interestingly to me is the fact that an otto figment is at helmuts version of the wedding but there is no otto figment in bobs version of #the wedding while all the others are there (IM. pretty sure. ive checked a few times #which since i forgot about the otto figment in helmuts mind made me wonder for a while whether or not otto was at the wedding at all #but no. he was and for one reason or another bobs memory of the wedding does not have otto in it...lmfao #however there is a fully fledged otto on one of the islands in bobs mind - interesting to me considering the other two characters here are #lilli and truman.#(this version of otto is very unsupportive and all like ''we never really liked you that much helmut deserved someone better blahblah''#so id say perhaps this otto is a more general ''this is how bob thinks the other members thought of him'' and using otto to represent the #entirety of the psychic 7 #im kind of just ? about bob and otto especially because in helmuts mind they are hanging out and theres maybe? and implication that they #actually did have a bond in the real world #yeah theyre arguing in helmuts mind (or something of the sort) but its like friend banter #.kind of #i think they annoyed eachother a lot sometimes but it is okay.#(i like the implication that helmut and bob used to get high together (i like the concept art of otto smoking psitanium #i was going to make a point somewhere where like i wouldnt be surprised if maybe bob gained a deep hatred of some sorts towards otto #after helmut was lost like oh its because of your stupid machine its all your fault #but im not sure if theres any real evidence for this (psychonauts is a game all about small throw away lines theres definitely a chance im #forgetting something #im very much just rambling and saying things #ok fine maybe bob and otto were just arguing in helmuts mental representations of them it does seem like bob has the least fond memories of #him out of any member #most definitely why hes missing from bobs version of the wedding and why otto is the stand in for how bob thinks all the members saw him #sad

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yellowocaballero · 2 years ago

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Oh wisest of DC fanfic writers, I come to your shrine with a request

You think Batman can work in a cyberpunk setting?

Oh, I'm relatively certain that somebody's done it! I'd call Batman Beyond the closest to Bat-cyberpunk we've had. And it fits in extremely well - Batman's highly stylized noir and always has been, and cyberpunk is always just futuristic noir.

Cyberpunk is one of the few genres I've consumed almost NOTHING of so believe it or not I'd have no idea how to do it myself. I think Batman Beyond's done it and done it very well.

#my asks #although there is much I will never forgive Batman Beyond for.#very much.

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river--ghost · 1 month ago

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