ARCANE: BRIDGING THE RIFT Part 2 - "Persistence (Or When Your Best Still Sucks)"
↳ "You're, like, always trying to get into the heads of the characters in any way you can. "
You know, I originally thought this was a kind of serene picture of Silco. He's young, working at the Last Drop with Vander by his side. The bar and Vander must feel like such places of safety that Silco could let his guard down and sleep.
But then I looked closer and realized Silco’s eyes are open, he's actually AWAKE and staring at the numbers. Idk why, but Silco being awake makes him come off more annoyed than at peace now, lol. Like, what kind of numbers is Silco seeing? What kind bar/blackmarket den are you running Vander!!?!?
I bet Vander's been accepting IOUs and trades for beer and their other goods.
I think the best thing that I could somehow do, and, hopefully, add some value, is make stuff where we ask relevant questions and we can show people different perspectives. Well, for Vi and for Jinx, the simple question is, can you ever forgive a monster? How far are you willing to go for your sibling? Is there a line where you just can't go for your sibling and you say, "sorry, this is where I have to leave you"? -
Christian Linke, co-creator, showrunner and executive producer of Arcane in "Arcane: Bridging the Rift part 5".
*Casually mentions that Machine Herald Viktor could very well be over 7ft if these heights are correct meaning he looms over Jayce and the fandom gets the good juice*
Remember how I pointed out that the cave entrance young Viktor walks through when he first meets Singed has an impression that looks like a hooded emaciated figure?
What if that's Huck?
I'm bringing this up because in Bridging the Rift we get a short glimpse of some future animation with a file title, "viktor_hexcorized_001:1_arm_IK". Without the purple coloring it could be hard to tell which arm is the hexcorized arm, but if you look closely, you can see the arm coming from the left pushing into the obscured face.
The arm has the same layered metallic sheet metal folding as the uncolored model of Viktor's foot, which is under the file name, "viktor_mech_arm_naked_model_w029.ma".
What does any of this have to do with Huck? It's Huck's character model that Viktor has his hand placed over. While we can't see Huck's face we can see the distinguished by the fleshy discolorations (and growths) that cover Huck's skin from his shimmer use. From the twisting lesions on his torso.
To the growths on his hand.
If we put it all together we can see that in this clip Viktor and Huck are in the scene together, possibly in the Sump post-banishment. Viktor has his hand over Huck's face for some reason.
My best guess is that once Viktor leaves Piltover he'll see the debilitating conditions people like Huck live with and will try to help them using the Hexcore, turning them into a similar condition as Viktor did with himself because it did at least require some form of Shimmer. Huck and others like him in desperate need of help won't be transformed (or powerful?) like Viktor. The people Viktor helps will probably care more that they've received any form of help than worry about what kind of Void hybrid he's likely turned them into.