#arcane ep 9

[anwarism]

CoP Inktober day 7 : Chaos.

This one was hard to do... Not really satisfied but...

#arcane #arcane fanart #caitvi #piltover's finest #piltovers finest #digital painting #copinktober #inktober 2023 #boom #after ep. 9 #jinx what have you done

[jinxini]

feeling like vi in acts 2 and 3

#never have any idea what is going on or what i should be doing #and kinda horrified by everything #vi #arcane #arcane vi #jinx: are you here for the stone? #vi: i have no clue what that thing is #ekko: what do you know about this? #vi: absolutely nothing #mine #vi's just #so lost and shocked by everything jinx does #she has no idea what to do #like. at the end of ep 9 when jinx blows up the council and caitlyn is screaming and crying #she's just #😦 #god i feel so bad for her

[flunkett]

wanna know a secret silco thinks he made jinx with all his rants and his hard won lessons excise your doubts jinx be what they fear jinx like it was all the same as when vander left him but he didnt make jinx you did - you never left i always heard you shadows in the streets prickles on the back of my neck your voice pushing me picking me up when all the colours were black - i always knew youd come back- right here he stabbed vander in the back just as he planned to do with me liar hmm we're missing someone i payed your girlfriend a visit this morning - i made her a snack- sheesh im not that crazy - make her go away please send her on her way and you can have powder back - where would we go no no shes not saying that - what do you have to say about that-

#idk why im reciting the arcane ep 9 script #it def has mistakes its from memory #arcane #arcaneblogging #jinx posting #flunkett

[black-rosegold]

the way i wish i could go and watch arcane again for the first time

#i just watched my flatmate watch eps 7-9 for the first time and im ahdjsjdjjajdjsjs #just took me back to the way i sat in silence trying not to cry after finishing the last ep #nothing will ever compare #arcane netflix #arcane

[friskarm]

man being vi in arcane sucks so bad

its really easy to look at what happened to jinx and think holy fuck that sucks. bc it does! but vi went through as much shit. god.

the first thing is how she’s kinda parentified a bit by vander. he means well, and shit he’s doing a lot better for these kids than leaving them out on the street, but in act 1 vi is still a kid too! you can see what vander was trying to communicate with that "it's on you" convo but he left the complete wrong message. sometimes it's not on you, actually.

then her entire family barring her sister is blown up. by her sister. she forces herself to be an adult after realising she's losing it and makes the incredibly mature decision to walk away to cool down and process, but fate interferes in the worst way. she's thrown in prison.

im not going to get into how awful prison is but let's agree throwing someone into prison is just. one of the worst ways to ruin people. vi was subject to constant beatings and isolation. the fact that she's as stable as she is coming out of it is kind of a miracle.

by caitlyn comes in and busts her out. and vi is admittedly taking her for a bit of a ride to begin with. i don't think vi necessarily doesn't want to help her but finding powder >>>>>> getting this piltie chick dirt on silco.

and all she hears from silco's goons is that oh, jinx works for silco. she's like his daughter. they're family. which must be such a horrifying thing to learn when your last memory of the dude is him kidnapping your adoptive dad and ruining your life.

and then she finally finds powder and it's good, and things are almost working out, but caitlyn shows up, and aggresses her a bit, and she almost manages to regain control of the situation but then ekko runs in and ruins everything.

and vi is so pleased to see ekko but how much must it have hurt to see one of her only allies down in the undercity tell her that her whole reason for living -- to get powder back -- is pointless? vi talks so much about how the thought of getting back to powder was her only motivation for getting through each day in prison.

and vi doesn't give up. but she never gets any real agency to change things with powder after that. she has to chose between confronting powder or helping caitlyn get the gem back (to presumably save caitlyn's life and prevent all-out war between piltover and zaun). and vi is learning to see the big picture! she doesn't want to leave powder behind, not at all. but she's starting to believe in what people have been telling her, just a bit.

then nothing fucking works in piltover, because why would it? it all goes to shit and she heads back to zaun in despair. at least she wins vs sevika in round 2? but it's a fight full of misery.

and then there's the whole dinner party scene. vi just has not had a proper chance to sit down with powder in a situation where they can talk. so vi never gets the chance to understand what her sister is saying. she's trying -- she's doing her best -- and i really do believe that given the opportunity, vi would be able to understand. but she's never given that chance. it's out of her hands.

and then jinx fires fishbones.

vi spends so much of her time just. trying to catch up. trying to do the right thing. but she never gets the opportunities she needs to. really know what she needs to do.

but she tries so, so hard.

#arcane #arcane analysis #vi #jinx #i trust vi so much i really hope she doesn't give up on her sister #ep 9 kinda ended like she did #but #it's not over #it's not over until it's over #i hope caitlyn encourages her to make amends #no matter how i slice it like that line from the trailer #caitlyn doesn't want to kill jinx bc jinx is important to vi #i hope they can make it work #:(

[sandraharissa]

After making the wild rift gifs I decided that that would be how a good ending/”redemption” for Jinx should look like. She’s having fun, more happy and cheerful and confident (probs partially thanks to praise and reassurance from the Silco hallucination via Fishbones *manifesting*), she has her own crew of misfits, some new faces, and she should have a cheeky rivalry with Vi but nothing with blame or hurt feelings behind it.

#there's smth so endearing to me about the idea of jinx hallucinating silco through fishbones #like a balm on the wound that was ep 9 #if they'll allow it #if the writers will be feeling like being mean #i could see them making jinx's final step to a happy ending #like in the last season #be a really gut-wrenching scene of her having to get rid of fishbones for whatever reason #as a way to finally cut the cord and move on from maladaptive grieving #my:arcane #arcane #fishbones #team jinx #jinx #vi and jinx #league of legends

[lavendel081]

I'm the seeker of the arcane truth.

Another Panel from Ep.9!

#stardew valley #sdv #sdv wizard #magnus rasmodius #sdv rasmodius

[luixiv]

So, the pic of Machine Herald Viktor from Bridging the Rift has been sitting in my brain for past couple of days and simply refusing to leave. Therefore, as an attempt to appease my very much obsessed brain and make him to shut up, I went and tried to figure out just how tall he actually will be (give or take cca 10 cm/4 inches, the picture is really blurry and hard to determine where the top of his head is). So, to anyone as obsessed as me with this man or anyone that would be simply interested, I present to you my little moment of analysis fuelled by insanity, lack of sleep and my never ending obsession. Enjoy!

(As a side note, since I’m accustomed to using metric units and imperial units are little bit foreign to me, I used Google to convert them. So if there are any mistakes my converting please tell me so I can correct it. Also, if I’m wrong in my maths anywhere or anywhere else actually, please correct on that too.)

Alright, first we need to determine where the top of MH head is. This was a bit tricky since like I said the image is very blurry, so I had to guess a little bit. But with the help of this picture

we can approximately trace the silhouette of MH. Albeit bit crude and with the Hexclaw missing a joint (there should be 3 [if he is using the model we saw in ep 4], but I couldn’t make the last one out, maybe it’s even folded behind his back, honestly I don’t know) we can make out his hand and shoulders, staff, Hexclaw and shoulder pauldron and his head.

With approximate location of his head known, we now can compare MH’s and Vik’s height. So how tall is human Viktor? Well, looking at the height chart posted by Arcane’s twitter the answer seems to be strait forward.

But it’s actually not. Vik and Mel are written to be 172 cm (5 feet 8 inches), but looking at them, they are not the same height on this picture. First the line which symbolizes 172 cm (5 feet 8 inches) is touching the top of Mel’s head but coming through Viktor’s (I get that he has a fluffy hair, but still, it’s a bit too low). Second his forehead, chin, mouth and eyes are higher too. So, he is a little bit taller. But how much? 2 cm (0.79 inches) if we account for his fluffy hair or 4 cm (1.57 inches) if we don’t.

(Dark red lines symbolize 170 cm [5 feet 7 inches], 180 cm [5 feet 11] and 190 cm [6 feet 3 inches] respectively. I had to add them since they weren't marked, only the nubers were written, but they didn't correspond to any red or white lines. And blue line is 174 cm [5 feet 8 and ½ inches]).

So, Viktor is 174 cm (5 feet 8 and ½ inches) to 176 cm tall (5 feet 9 inches). With this information in mind, we can now compare Vik and MH and calculate MH’s height.

If Viktor is 174 cm tall:

174 cm = 10 units

1 unit = 17.4 cm

their difference is 2 units = 34.8 cm

174 + 34.8 = 208.8 cm rounded to 209 cm

Machine Herald would be then 209 cm (6 feet 10 inches).

If Viktor is 176 cm tall:

2 units = 35.2 cm

176 + 35.2 = 211.2 cm rounded to 211 cm.

Machine Herald would be then 211 cm (6 feet 11 inches).

In other words, absolute unit. Giant even. He is hiding some huge platforms/stilettos in the suit of his. Viktor in his girl boss era. Bless him. I’m jealous honestly. He looked at Jayce and rest of Piltover and went: “Taller than me? Absolutely not. Over my dead body!” I love him so much.

#Arcane #Arcane analysis #Arcane meta #Machine Herald #Arcane Viktor

[jq37]

The Report Card – Fantasy High Junior Year Ep 9

Into the Woods

Note: I almost called this recap "There's Something in the Glade There" but I figured I'm go for the less obscure reference.

Welcome back to Fantasy High and, more specifically, to the Vulture Dimension where our intrepid heroes have been shunted after Kristen, in a moment of peril, decided to “Hey Girlie” a random vulture in the middle of a fight. In fairness to her, she was out of spells at the time but, let’s be real, odds are good that this would have happened regardless. 

The Bad Kids are immediately faced with the giant, screeching Vulture King who demands that they answer his riddle and asks if they want to do it individually or simultaneously. Because they have a higher sense of chaos than self preservation, the majority votes for simultaneously which means they all have to answer the same thing at the same time and the Vulture King will kill them if they try any shenanigans (and ooh do they try). Lucky for them the riddle is a multiple choice question: Vultures-Yea or Nay?  Everyone says yea and the Vulture King happily says they all pass. Adventuring Party note: Brennan did have a whole fight planned for if they failed the “riddle” so it’s a good thing they got the nonsense out of their system before they answered. Especially because, contrary to what they assume, time doesn’t pass differently in the vulture dimension. The fight is still happening! As a prize for solving the riddle of the vulture dimension, the King has his minions rip his body apart and his viscera become magic items the party can take, which they do as they exit back to the fight. 

Back at the Festival, the battlefield has changed. More people have fled, the girls washer and dryer are fighting, and Grix is casting Hold Person on Ruben. I won’t give a blow by blow here but suffice to say, they finish up the fight and Fabian gets the killing blow, committing Principal-cide before we’re even halfway through the season. Gorgug, uncharacteristically pissed, gets on mic and tells everyone to get off his lawn and leave his house. Fig, as Wanda, gets a 30 to create an illusion of her leaving on a bus while Ruben desperately chases after her. Shortly after that, Agent Clark shows up asking about the Wanda sighting but Gorgug is absolutely not having cop behavior on his property and asks for a warrant, oinking at him when he admits he doesn’t have one and retreats. Our boy is *aggro* today!

Everyone goes to check on Grix’s body to see if they can figure out what that dude’s damage is. Gorgug thinks there might be something related to the Cloud Rider engine happening but, with a 21 Tinker's Tools check, finds nothing. Grix’s hard drive is encrypted and bears Aguefort’s arcane mark (an on-fire egg and an open book). Adaine’s Identify spell doesn’t clock him as anything other than what we’ve been told he is: an automaton made by Aguefort (and stored at school) to maintain order. Curiously, we are specifically told that he had directives to enforce school bylaws, make sure nothing hinky is happening while the superintendent's office might be investigating, and to leave campus to take care of things that might be a direct threat to the existence of the school. 

Fig wonders if someone tampered with the school’s bylaws to make him act in such an an-Aguefort manner. Riz wonders if making a crazy robot by not thinking things through is exactly what Aguefort would do but thinks the bylaws idea is good to follow up on. Fabian says Mazey, as school prez, might be a good person to ask about bylaws. 

Riz has another idea: What if Ruben and his band were executing some kind of ritual with their performance? Fig notes that there were/are no other Rat Grinders around which feels suspicious while Riz, Kristen, and Adaine investigate the stage. Under the stage, they find these glowing singers/power connectors that are giving off a faint, red glow. They aren’t in an obvious pattern but Gorgug notices they don’t make any sense the way they’re set up–you wouldn’t set up connectors that way for effective electrical wiring. Riz notices there are 24 of them just like the rage stars and where Ruben was standing would be the center. 

Fig wants to question Ruben but he’s gone, still chasing the ghost of Wanda Childa. A victim of her own success! When Gorgug unplugs the power source that’s powering the stingers, there’s not a release of energy. It seems like whatever was going on with them has already happened. He also notices that there was one under each speaker and everyone realizes that the lyrics of Ruben’s song were all about getting mad: probably rage god related! 

Riz wonders if the other Rat Grinders were pressuring Lucy to switch to the Rage god (and *I’m* wondering if this rage god was the reason for Ruben’s switch for acoustic guitar to emo screamo) and Adaine suggests they go to the Farhaven Woods to talk to the rats that they were so fond of grinding. 

Kristen tracks down a rat to talk to and Fabian eats the raw guts of a full vulture to activate a magical item that will allow him to speak with animals before realizing that he completely misunderstood the item. Whoops. He gets it right the second time (eating the V King’s tongue)  and they’re able to have a very illuminating conversation with Spot–a rat that got a Nat 20 on his history check about Lucy. 

Spot says that they didn’t like the Rat Grinders very much because they were always killing them but, around Sophomore Year, Lucy started coming back after her party left to resurrect the dead rats so they liked her a lot. Fabian asks about if the RG’s had a hideout and Spot says they hung out all over the place but there’s one place he and the other rats like to go because it was the last place…he trails off. After a brief interlude about the Rat World under the school (don’t worry about it) and a Bardic from Fig (DO worry about it), Spot agrees to take them to the special place. 

By now, it’s late and Fig and Kristen have a short conversation about how this is all very Cassandra vibes. The shards Kristen carries glows and she vows to find Cass’s husband (or WIFE, cuts in Adaine the ally. Don’t assume). 

As they approach the lake, Fabian feels his stomach get upset and, before anyone can do anything, an owl swoops down and eats Spot. RIP. Please, hold an exorcism for Fig you guys I’m BEGGING you. Anyway, Riz comes in hot with a Nat 20 Investigation check which means that Brennan has to give them EVERYTHING. 

There are a bunch of violently felled, rotten trees around them and expertly hidden under vines and foliage Riz finds the body…of Yolanda Badgood! That’s Kristen’s teacher that she informed about Lucy a few eps back. Last we heard she was going to talk to Jace about it. The body seems like it was taken apart by force damage (which Emily thinks is Steel Wind Strike which we do know that Grix has, for the record). There’s no magical residue (which either means no magic or great cleanup) and it’s about 3 hours dead. Three hours ago is also around when Ruben was playing. 

Kristen tries to cast Raise Dead but she finds that something is preventing her. Yolanda’s ribs are cracked and in the center of the sternum is something she can’t see–specifically there is something there that she can tell is there but is effectively censored–she realizes that it’s the sigil of the dead god’s name and it has been stamped here in some kind of unholy last rites to keep Yolanda’s soul trapped. Adaine switches her diviner vision to the ethereal plane which allows her to spot the sigil in another place. That helps them find Lucy’s dead body under a tree because the same process was done to her. 

Lucy has clearly been dead for months and her body looks like it was attacked by many assailants–weapons and magic. There’s also something weird about the soil around where these bodies and the sigil are. The plants’ roots are almost refusing to grow. And Fabian notices that Lucy’s blood vessels were crushed with such force that the blood has carbonized and turned to diamonds (Adaine–no).

Gorgug looks at the trees and thinks that based on how violently they were felled and they way they’ve broken, someone fought a giant here (unclear if that means an actual giant or Lucy herself being giant-kin) and the tree on Lucy was put there intentionally to hide the body (which suggests a non-Lucy giant being involved). 

It's about 3am. Kristen tries for a Divine Intervention and fails. Then she remembers what Yolanda said about how since Cass is gone, she’s the one who has to work the miracles of doubt. Kristen reaches out her awareness to her goddess and hears some words: Spies, Tongue, Curse. 

There’s a discussion about whether they should report this so that Lucy’s parents can at least have the closure of her body being found that ends inconclusively but Adaine gets a sample of the weird soil so Riz can take it to his soil club buddy Molman (Riz Gukgak: king of the dweebs!). 

Kristen starts an impromptu, ad hoc ceremony, combining Spare the Dying with her sadness that Yolanda is dead and her regret for not being a better student to a teacher she actually really liked. She places one of Cass’s shards on Yolana’s chest and the sigil loses its grip on her. Her soul is no longer stuck. Kristen quickly does the same for Lucy and Gorgug and Fabian witness the souls of Lucy and Yolanda holding hands and moving on. Kristen may be a so-so student and a meh evangelizer but gods, she’s a GOOD cleric. And a much more useful one now because as soon as this happens, she regains her spellcasting! How? Don't ask too many questions. Her domain is doubt. The logic can be fuzzy. 

Fig gets a Nat 20 to cover their tracks and, with their limited time, she chooses to cover the tracks leading directly to the body, not the ones that show they were in the woods. Riz/Murph hilariously points out something I say all the time–this is a magical world where Zone of Truth exists. If anyone accuses them of killing the women, they can just submit to a truth spell. Once they leave the woods, Fabian calls the cops with a fake name and a voice filter and idk why he thought Brennan would make the cops helpful. They’re transferred to Agent Clark at the Council of Chosen almost right away and Fabian hangs up as Clark starts to trace the call. 

With that, we enter another period of downtime! 

Riz is up first. He rolls Academics first (DC 5) and tries to find the Rogue prof–he needs a 30 for that but “only” gets a 25 which is still an A. Next is Extracurriculars (DC 10) which he gets a 22 on even with disadvantage. He hands off the soil to Molman who is excited to check it out but gets suspiciously aggro when he sniffs it (though it’s played as a joke). Third track is Popularity (DC 15) and with a 19, he’s gathering all sorts of freaks and geeks to vote for Kristen. He doesn’t roll for Relationships which means that he’s not spending that much time with his Mom and he misses her visit to the cemetery to see his dad. He runs into her after the visit and amidst the guilt, asks about her Frostfair case. She said the case folded and he wants to know about that so she says she’ll drive him to school and they can talk about it on the way. We don’t get that conversation this episode so put a pin in it for now. 

Fabian drops some cash on some nurses with B12 shots to help his friends relax, but, due to the mechanic, they can’t roll relaxation later than third to benefit and Relaxation has to be the last track they roll.

On to Gorgug! He decides that it’s time to take care of business and rolls Barbarian first (DC 5) since Porter says that he won’t sign his MCAT without an A+. He doesn’t make it at first but, luckily, his party includes a Div Wizard. Adaine drops a portent roll on him and he clears it with ease as she helps him study. She also starts having visions of him spellcasting while raging and specifically, a vision of him doing that while making a big triumphant leap at a party (which is described as Fabian’s bday party–I assume this is the same party she had a vision of before but I previously thought it was a campaign victory party or Gorgug/Riz’s bday. I will also say, Brennan has specifically mentioned the glowing moon each time. Anyway, moving on). 

Emboldened by his success, Gorgug slams down the door and tells Porter he sucks. Porter is loving this energy and asks about the video of him oinking at a cop. Where has THAT energy been this whole time? Porter finally has a solid conversation with Gorgug and tells him that he has to give himself permission to get angry when he feels it rather than always smoothing it down, especially when he literally gives himself permission to murder people on the regular. He signs Gorgug’s MCAT and tells him about an optional exam called the Last Stand which is kind of a loophole that Aguefort built in to help kids screwed over by bureaucratic rules. He says if Gorgug needs it at the end of the semester then they can talk more and that there are definitely kids who are gonna need it this year because he heard a full class went pass fail. Kristen realizes that her teacher straight up died so that class might be her class. And that will affect a lot of parties potentially because almost everyone has a cleric. Finishing up with Academics, his Artificer 1 (DC 10) is a 23 (A+). His Art 2 (DC 15) is a DC 15. He takes a stress when he fails and passes with a C. Art 3 (DC 20) he also passes with a C once Riz takes a stress for him. He has a talk with Henry, his teacher, who says he needs to buckle down because things are getting rough though he understands there are only so many hours in the day…unless he builds a time machine of course. It’s said like a joke but this is the chronomancy 4 life school so who knows. Gorgug says he’s gonna do better, especially since he has his MCAT now. He also rolls for Owlbears (DC 25) and gets a 26, managing to not get kicked off! Gorthalax is thrilled. With all that rolling for school he doesn’t have time to roll for Relationships and his bio parents head back before he has a chance to hang out with them. Just like Riz, he feels bad about having missed the chance to connect.  

Now, let’s check in with the elven Oracle. Adaine rolls Academics first (DC 5) and gets a 15 which is an A but not an A+. She takes it and Prof Runstaff says that her spellwork is immaculate but she needs better materials. Adaine swallows her frustration at that and, over the weekend, she gets a text from Aelwyn: Can't believe I'm gonna say this. Miss my little sister. Everything all right? Adaine asks for her to come to Basrar’s so they can talk and Aelwyn does. She fills Adaine in on her living situation (TEN CATS???) and seems genuinely concerned and appalled that Adaine is working as a waitress in an attempt to solve her diamond problem. As she correctly points out, that math on that just doesn’t add up. She gets Adaine to take her break, abjures some annoying Falinel elf who’s trying to get Adaine to do oracle stuff, and says that there are other ways to make money besides waitressing. Adaine is suspicious and those suspicions are proven true when Aelwyn reveals that she’s been getting her extra cash by working for none other than Kipperlilly Copperkettle. Just can’t help yourself from working for bitchy, blonde, Aguefort girls huh?

Honor Roll

Kristen for Being A Damn Good Cleric

Listen, I have stuff to say about Kristen the student and Kristen the sole manager of a religion but I can’t say anything about Kristen as a Cleric in the purest sense of the word. When the chips are down and she’s locked in, she’s truly untouchable in her field. And outside of just the raw power, her genuine emotion and care for Lucy and Yolanda was really touching. She may have a C in class but right now she’s getting an A+ when it counts. 

Detention

Fabian for Eating A Normal Ass Raw Vulture

This is honestly more just for his own safety than to punish him. Reading is fundamental my guy! So is cooking raw meat! (Though idk how much that will help when the animal you’re eating mainly eats ROTTING CORPSES). 

Random Thoughts

I wonder if Aguefort had an ulterior motive for going on a semester-long vacation this year. Perhaps avoiding an investigation he knew was coming?

Given Lou is playing Fabian as oblivious to Adaine’s money troubles, how insane must it be to watch your “rich” friend for a moment consider robbing a dead person’s blood for diamonds?

RIP Yolanda :( You would have loved to know that Kristen got her spellcasting back. 

Very predictable of me but I’m so psyched to jump right into Abernant stuff at the top of next episode. Aelwyn said she was gonna get them sandwiches and Dimension Door them to the wreckage of their burned down mansion. That’s SO dramatic. I missed her so much. Also very curious to know to what level Aelwyn is working with KP. In her mind is this an evil plan she’s working on or does she just know KP hired her to do something maybe slightly shady but not evil? I assume this is what she was doing when she texted Adaine back that winky face. Does she know Adaine hates her? Because Adaine is very not subtle about it. We’ll see next week! 

(Also, “miss my little sister”. Ugh, love. And I love that she seems genuinely concerned in a sisterly way about Adaine’s money troubles).  

There’s the matter of what Kristen got from Cass: Spies, Tongue, Curse. In the episode, they speculated that Tongue is Fabian because he had just eaten the Vulture King’s tongue to speak to Spot and the Curse was Fig for obvious reasons. If they’re correct and the words all match up to a different Bad Kid then spy is likely Riz or Adaine. Riz because of all his spy gadgets or Adaine because with this revelation from Aelwyn that she has dirt that she’s willing to share on KP/presenting KP as a potential way to make money, she could be the spy. 

The fact that Grix can intervene outside of school if there is a threat to the school’s existence is a big clue. It seems likely that he was trying to ice Ruben, not for any drugs he may have done but to stop the ritual he was doing. We don’t really know what it was about or how much he (Ruben) even knew about but it’s hard to imagine that it was a fun, chill ritual.  

Lucy’s body seems to have been destroyed by a party of diverse adventurers, potentially her own party which would be messed up. But we have to consider the possibility that they didn’t do it on purpose. Those Rage Mages killed their friends in the mall fight and that wasn’t on purpose. And I can see dumbass teens covering their tracks. 

Lucy being dead and her soul being trapped to her body makes the fact that Fig’s disguise didn’t phase her at the party even more baffling. Ivy, what games are you playing???

Lucy named Spot :(

Let the record show that my autocorrect also thinks that KP has four (dog) names:

#Dimension 20 #dimension 20 spoilers #d20 #d20 spoilers #fantasy high #fantasy high spoilers #fhjy #fhjy spoilers #spoilers #the report card

[embershroud108]

Arcane eps. 1-2 eps. 3-9

#arcane #barbenheimer #meme

[oxenfreeao3]

Saltwater

Rated: M

Genre: Romance, Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Slow Burn

Summary:

"'Oil and water'...and what? She's the oil?" Ekko laughed. "Bullshit. She's salt. Stir her up and she'll melt right into you."

[Immediately following the end of Arcane Ep 9. As the cities descend into war, Caitlyn and Vi seek refuge, grappling with the aftermath.]

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Midnight Oil

Rated: G

Genre: Romance, Fluff, Mild Hurt/Comfort

Summary:

"Read to me?"

She was tentative. Quiet. Eyes downcast. She pressed into sore places on her wrist. 

Caitlyn studied her.

"...read to you?"

A nod. 

Caitlyn let silence ask for an explanation.

Vi lifted a shoulder.

"Bad day. Can't focus. And…your voice, you know?"

—"Keeps me here." 

That's how it started.

Words: 1,671 || Chapters: 1/1 || Kudos: 571 || Hits: 6,425

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Pen and Ink

Rated: T

Genre: Romance, Fluff

Summary:

Vi is on the broad windowsill, tucked behind her knees, sketchpad open against her legs. The breeze from outside is easy, the light is soft and just right. Its angle cuts across the floor and hits Cait like it should—like she's the reason the sun rose that morning.

Vi's hand tightens around charcoal again. It starts to move.

Words: 1,219 || Chapters: 1/1 || Kudos: 236 || Hits: 2,679

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Meno Mosso

Rated: T

Genre: Romance, Fluff

Summary:

"So," she began.

"So," Vi echoed, eyes already seeking purchase elsewhere.

Caitlyn stepped into her line of sight.

"May I have this dance?"

Words: 2,992 || Chapters: 1/1 || Kudos: 328 || Hits: 4,685

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Sunkissed

Rated: G

Genre: Romance, Fluff

Summary:

"I was just wondering how many you had."

Vi blinks open her other eye.

"How many of what?"

Caitlyn's finger brushes with purpose against a point high on her cheekbone.

"Freckles."

Words: 808 || Chapters: 1/1  || Kudos: 425 || Hits: 3,739

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Diffuse

Rated: M

Genre: Romance

Summary:

Anticipation always wrecked her.

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Bow and Arrow

Rated: M

Genre: Romance, Fluff

Summary:

It's a pleasure to see her this way, like a bow unstrung.

Still curved and strong, but without all the strain. 

Words: 950 || Chapters: 1/1 || Kudos: 152 || Hits: 1,705

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One Slow Turn

Rated: E

Genre: Romance

Summary:

"...I've got news for you."

"Oh yeah? What's that?"

Caitlyn kissed her.

"It only gets better from here."

Words: 2,244 || Chapters: 2/2 || Kudos: 447 || Hits: 8,133

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Ebb and Flow

Rated: E

Genre: Romance

Summary:

"You're thirsty as hell, y'know that?"

Cait doffed the pillow, beaming.

"Are you complaining?"

Vi sniffed. "Uh. No. Absolutely not."

Words: 3,078 || Chapters: 2/2 || Kudos: 207 || Hits: 3,415

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Simple Things

Rated: T+ [Rating subject to change]

Genre: Romance

Summary:

Caitlyn broached the subject one night in late winter.

"For as long as you can stand it, let me spoil you."

"Simple Things" is a "Saltwater" compliant anthology.

Over time, this fic will evolve into a small compendium of "Saltwater" compliant one-shots, vignettes, and drabbles-short-and-long. Some may start as Twitter threads, others will be pulled from my stack of WIPs. All will fit with this anthology's main theme of Intentional Love. Particularly, Caitlyn's intentional acts of love towards Vi (as the opening scene suggests).

Words: 2,397 || Chapters: 2/2 || Kudos: 202 || Hits: 1,405

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[simslegacy5083]

NSB (Straud Legacy) Gen 9 Ep 21: Townhouse Times

The young townhouse dwellers powered through their initial issues and began to find their footing.

Luigi’s misery subsided as the virus ran its course and his eczema settled. As soon as he felt like his old self, he threw himself into making up for lost time. Everything, and everyone, took a back seat as he turned his full focus to catching up on his coursework and excelling at e-sports.

He even picked up some daily vitamins to help ward off further unfortunate “time outs” in the future!

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Olive’s work in media engagement gave her an excellent excuse to escape her relative packed new home as often as she wished.

Her long hours at the office, exploring the town and cataloging all the coolest hangout spots for her followers on Sinstagram did not go unnoticed by her superiors who rewarded her with a quick promotion. She might still struggle with learning to balance friend time with “me” time, but her success proved she’d made the right decision moving away from the backwoods – she was officially on her way!

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Hunter was also finding himself glad he’d moved away from home, though his “job” as a student wasn’t what made his time in Britechester bright.

As an only child, he’d often felt smothered by his parents’ expectations and undivided attention. Now he was free to explore all sorts of hobbies and interests with little more interference than taking turns picking shows with his old friend Tess.

Even the “problem” of his overly cheerful cousin practically solved itself as Luigi was too busy with schoolwork to wear down his patience.

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Tess enjoyed spending her copious class-free time with many more sims than just hunter and her other young relatives.

She didn’t see as much of Julio as she’d hoped, busy as he was with his senior year studies, but like Olive she enjoyed exploring the town, meeting new sims and even helping them with their problems. With the company of Hunter and the others she missed her boy less than she’d anticipated.

Tess told Chance that she wasn’t comfortable repairing herself yet, which kept him coming by often for minor tune ups. Time spent with her father after one of their repair sessions always left her face screen glowing a happy green.

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Denton still struggled to coexist harmoniously with his messy roommates, but Tess had noticed his distress and rose to the challenge, pitching in more around the house to keep things organized and the filth under control.

Like Olive he was able to work from home whenever he wanted and found that moving to the city helped him gain a new perspective. His follower count grew as his streams became more relatable, peppered now with witty commentary about life in a university town.

In addition to his videogaming Denton found himself with a new interest in honing his magic skills. His parents had always treated magic as a practical tool, but the power his dream promised was intriguing. Time spent in the practice of the arcane paid off when he gained the rank of acolyte – and that, he was sure, was just the beginning!

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Things, it seemed, were looking up all around for the 5 friends!

Unhappiness turned to hope for the future as they began to look forward to what each new day held in store.

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[jinxini]

was ranking netflix icons with my brother today and as we were looking at the arcane icons i asked him if he has seen the show.

”of course not.”

”why not?”

”it’s about fucking league of legends. i’ve never played that game.”

and i was just like. ok.

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UPDATE:

Forced him to watch the first episode with me because i’m annoying af

He said it was fine, he was excited to recognize some of the voice actors. I asked him if he’d like to watch more at some point and he said yes.

So it’s going great! I love being the annoying older sister who wants to share everything

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UPDATE 2:

Took a while to get him to watch it but we successfully finished ep 2. He thought it was okay but slow and that it was too repetitive and that not much happened.

He's 100% sure Viktor is evil and he can't understand how everyone around him doesn't instantly see it. Especially since his eyes are yellow (kingdom hearts fans will get it)

He does not like Heimerdinger because a) he looks like he's from a completely different show and b) he hates his name, he said that it sounds like a last name they would use on the simpsons to mock the character

He's so happy about mylo because he's voiced by yuri lowenthal

He says that Jayce looks way too old to be 24

"There's no way Vander will survive this season. Don't know if they're going to kill him off right away or if he's going to die in the last episode. An older mentor who is also kinda responsible for the deaths of the sisters' parents, yeah he's definitely going to die."

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UPDATE 3:

We finished ep 3. Sadly, I can tell that he's not really feeling it, not sure why :/ don't know if we're going to keep watching or not, only time will tell.

But here are some of his thoughts about the episode anyway:

My brother said he hopes Heimerdinger gets robbed. He said he hopes he gets robbed multiple times during the show.

Looking at Vi and Powder: "How can these poor people afford to constantly dye their hair"

About Jayce and Viktor and their experiment: ”…so what have they achieved exactly? 😐” THEY WERE FLOATING IN THE AIR AND HE WAS NOT IMPRESSED LMAO

Mel: The era of magic. / Jayce: The era of Hextech. / My brother: Magic sounds better.

"Is she hugging him? Can’t she just look at his face and tell that he’s evil, it’s so obvious. But I guess not, clearly she really is that stupid. [I remind him that Powder is still very young] I would get it if she was like 4, but she’s at least 9. Does she not realize he tried to kill her whole family?"

”They really just killed off like 80% of the characters. No one else is left except for Silco and the sisters. And the council members but I don’t really know them yet. [I remind him that Ekko is still alive] Oh right! They’re not going to kill him, he’s too young.”

”Nothing happened in episode 2 and everything happened in this one.”

#i went into the show pretty much blind myself #didn’t stop me from enjoying the story the characters the animation #🤷🏻‍♀️ #arcane #i only knew 3 things: #1. an animated tv series based on a videogame (had no clue what game) #2. there are lesbians in it #3. i knew what jinx looked like because she was all over tumblr when the show was first released but i didn’t even know her name #i still hardly know anything about the game #and i want to keep it that way #mine

[queersilcozine]

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[Image ID: An altered screenshot from Arcane, a low angle view of Silco sitting by Vander's statue in ep 9. The sky is overlapped with nonbinary colours. Text on the right side of the image in art deco font and golden colour reads: "This moment is all we ever wanted". Below reads "Link to the event in the description". There are golden art deco graphics in the left upper and lower corners. The QUEER SILCO ZINE logo in art deco font and rainbow and golden colour is positioned in the upper right corner./end ID]

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[eddawrites]

One of my favourite things about Arcane is what a prominent role visual storytelling plays in the show. Take the council meeting in ep. 8, for example. There are several things that this scene tells us, without actually saying a word.

First things first, Jayce and Mel's council seats are adjacent, symbolising that they're allies (among other things 😏), and they generally look to each other for approval and reassurance during the meetings, exchanging small looks and nods. 

Next to Jayce, to his left, Heimerdinger's former seat at the centre of the table remains empty, unclaimed.

However, when Jayce suggests using force to reclaim the hexgem, he walks up to Heimerdinger's seat as he tries to convince the council to support his suggestion.

Interestingly, he uses Mel's method of giving the other councillors the look™ (man is a fast learner) as a way of pressuring them into siding with him. He gets denied, however, signalling that he is not the leader yet. Visually, this is conveyed by him merely leaning on the chair rather than taking the seat, physically and figuratively.

Furthermore, the divide between him and Mel in this scene also visualises their differing opinions on this matter. There is - quite literally - a gap between them.

But wait! There's more! 

In ep. 6, 8 and 9 respectively, Jayce approaches the council with some sort of a proposal. In ep. 6, it is Heimerdinger’s demotion, in ep. 8 it is the aforesaid retaliation against the undercity, and in ep. 9 it is the infamous peace treaty. 

In the previous two cases, Jayce’s body language projects insecurity. Although the tone of his voice is firm and decisive, he is slouching, leaning forward and avoiding direct eye contact with the camera, the other councillors, and most prominently Heimerdinger himself.

The peace treaty with Silco marks the first time Jayce is truly confident in his decision, his stance is upright, he makes direct eye contact with the camera as well as his fellow councillors, and he continues to stand his ground even as a fight breaks out in the council room.

It is rather ironic that the first political decision Jayce truly believes in should be prefaced with his effective resignation, not to mention answered with a very literal termination of the peace talks coming from the Zaun leadership. 

#arcane #arcane analysis #visual storytelling #jayce talis #mel medarda #arcane thoughts #trying to bring a braincell back to the jayce tag

[friskarm]

and then there’s jinx’s line “but he didn’t make jinx. you did.”

and i keep seeing, like, videos trying to explain what she means by this as if jinx is implying that vi is the reason she’s Totally Crazy Now Guys (which she isn’t in the first place but,)

but the follow-up to this is so. like. you need to understand that powder is jinx is powder. “jinx” the person is just powder who grew up. we know this, we know this for a fact. take one rewatch of the get jinxed scene and look me in the eyes and tell me this not exactly the kind of person powder would have grown up to be. confident, happy, tinkering with her little creations and having a fantastic time doing it. inventing for the sake of inventing! she’s making the firelights in that scene. she doesn’t even conceptualise how to use them as a weapon until episode 7. she’s inventing for pure pleasure. the get jinxed scene is really good guys

BUT ANYWAY that line from ep 9, right? given how jinx follows it up with all of the ways vi has keep her going, it’s just... you can’t just take “he didn’t make jinx, you did” out of context.

what happened between them -- jinx thinking vi left her on that awful, awful night left deep scars in their relationship. but even that’s not enough to undo all the good vi did for her, when they were little.

“you never left. i always heard you.”

“your voice. pushing me. picking me up, when all the colours were black.”

and then, the biggest, most important one:

“you’re the reason i’m still alive.”

painful circumstances or not, vi gave her that name -- jinx -- and vi's voice was what she heard when everything was crumbling.

so like... yeah. vi made “jinx”. but that’s not a bad thing. it’s... complicated, like everything in arcane. vi hurt her, but vi kept her going. silco took her in, silco loved her, and for a long while she believed that was just it, but vi loved her first.

#arcane #arcane analysis #jinx #vi #is this anything #am i making any shred of sense #i'm just trying to parse out the dinner scene really #and i think i'm really getting there #i've watched far too many videos ripping this series apart #in a good way!