"We lost ourselves. Lost our dream.
In the pursuit of great,
We failed to do good"
These two make me emotionnal
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💜Magnetic Hextech Hearts 💜
Love comes in purple and red-violet 🔥
This magnetic set of necklaces inspired by Arcane, is a fine gift idea for you Valentine: chose the Classic Hextech Heart, the Experimental Hextech Heart or the New Zaun Neon Heart for your hextech love.
Perfect with a Cupcake.
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it took a lot of asking but riot finally deigned to discuss the lore of their billion dollar video game franchise
i absolutely called it that riot was going to retcon the Brackern/Hextech connection out of existence, but i didn't call that they'd use Arcane as the excuse to do it with. i thought they'd just quietly retcon it away with the skarner update without offering much explanation.
they say they're going to give seraphine an update to fit the new status of hextech which made me laugh a bit because, like, y'all already retconned her lore to hell and back when it turned out you had severely failed to read the tone of her connection to the brackern and launched her with a story that essentially implies she uses slave labor to be a pop star. I remember fucking marc merrill throwing the writers under the bus on twitter about it like an absolute douchecanoe.
and then, instead of engaging with any of the ways in which seraphine's powers of empathy generation could be incredibly interesting when paired with the brackern narrative that casts them as essentially brutalized victims of colonization for Piltover profit, you just go "uuuuuh, no, wait, she can't hear the brackern actually ha ha ha whoopsie doopsie." like, literally just nerfing her powers, but doing nothing to alleviate the horrible implications. "oh yeah, no, she still uses the enslaved soul of a brutalized species to power her platform, but now she doesn't know she's doing that, which I think we can all agree means the problem is solved."
hopefully they actually give her a new story that engages with her abilities beyond just "she is good at being a pop star" - building on the LoR version of the character, I would hope - but I fear it's more likely they just do the minimum viable edit and just find-delete any reference to consciousness in hex-crystals.
as for skarner himself, well he's Ixtali now so they'll probably still square him up against piltover's colonizing incursions into Ixtal, but more in a "primordial protector of the natural world" kind of way than "lone avenger reclaiming his people's stolen bodies." which, y'know, okay, sure, why not, but I would very much like him to have a more compelling character motivation than "preserve the status quo because nature and balance or something."
my big fear is they'll use the update as an opportunity to make camille a good guy or more sympathetic. like, house ferros made its fortune by selling the souls of a sentient species as batteries, knowingly, and camille was a ideologically committed defender of that decision, and that made her an interesting villain. but they've been humanizing the living hell out of her and i am real worried they're just going to tip straight on over into "oh no the authoritarian enforcer for the bourgeois power structure is sympathetic actually, she's really nice once you get to know her, she's just misguided" and ffffffffff
just... please let camille be evil. let her be a villain, please for the love of god
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Magical Hexcore plants and tasty Rio snack flower pattern GOOO~! :D
Gosh, I just love making fandom-inspired patterns. <3
there may or may not be another hextech-themed pattern in the works, watch this space
(You can find this and other pretties on my Redbubble!)
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More than Jayce retaining control of the bank accounts and his share for Hextech, I think what really would kill Viktor, is the council reclaiming that 50%. And it makes sense too.
Come to think of it, sentencing Viktor to exile is nothing but a massive win for the Council. You want a scapegoat for Jinx's attack? Check. Want to show to Piltover that there is no such thing as a "good zaunite"? Check. Want to seize power for the 50% of hexgates and hextech? You can do it now. Oh and the Golden Boy figure you had been using for propaganda the last decade gets away unscathed and with less control over the gates
Oh god you’re absolutely right… this is how they seize control while making it look like they aren’t. They make themselves look like the good guys, stepping in to ease the burden on Jayce in a time of strife. Meanwhile, now they get a say in what is or isn’t created using Hextech… i.e. weapons. And his voice on the matter gets weaker and weaker, eventually relegating him to nothing more than a mid-level employee of Hextech, rather than its creator and rightful owner.
It also allows the council to seize any assets Viktor may have had, rendering him penniless in his exile, despite being owed possibly millions. Especially if/when they go to war with Zaun, they use the excuse that those funds can’t go to the enemy, they’d be put to better use fighting them. Leading to Viktor’s intellectual and physical property being used against him and the very people he set out to help… Zaunites.
Oh it’s so slimy, and just the thing i can see happening.
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i think the worst possible outcome for these two, for me, would be caitlyn blaming jayce for her mother's death and never being able to restore their relationship because jayce also blames himself after watching the people he cares about most getting destroyed by the physical form of his love for them; hextech, which he created to protect them
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