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captain-fantasy-fk · 2 years

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IT BETTER FUCKING HABBEN

#arcane #caitvi #violet x caitlyn #vi x caitlyn #arcane piltover #piltover and zaun #arcane zaun #caitlyn x y/n #caitlyn the sheriff of piltover #caitlynkiramman #arcane caitlyn #piltover's gayest #piltover sharpshooter #piltover's finest

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alstanfordart · 2 months

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Ghosts of Piltover

#arcane #arcane viktor #arcane fanart #piltover and zaun #fantasy art #machine herald viktor #sky young #jayce talis #heimerdinger

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amorphousbl0b · 3 months

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Arcane does a fun thing with its narrative Darkest Hour.

Or: yet another post about how insanely smart this show is and how absolutely genius its writers are (and how jealous of them I am).

For the uninitiated, the Darkest Hour is the moment just before the climax in which the heroes are at their lowest point. When the Avengers are scattered and Loki opens the portal in NYC, when the Falcon has escaped the Death Star but lost Obi-Wan, when the Fire Nation is set to annihilate the Earth Kingdom, when Frodo fails to destroy the Ring at the Crack of Doom. The heroes must confront their flaws and change for the better for a happy ending.

Arcane’s darkest hour is, of course, in Act 3. One might place it at the very end of episode 9, and that’s certainly where the story is at its most hopeless. But I’d contend it starts as early as the end of episode 8 and carries on through the entirety of episode 9.

After all, that’s when Caitlyn and Vi have separated, lost all hope, and Cait is kidnapped by Jinx. Jinx’s mind is fully gone and throughout the episode everything falls apart around her. Silco is losing control of his chembarons and may well have lost his daughter, the thing most precious to him, and is only barely keeping his powerful façade in line. Zaun has realized how ridiculously outmatched they are in a war with Piltover and the revolutionary cause has become almost impossible. Viktor has manslaughtered his assistant and may never be cured. Jayce has manslaughtered a child and finally realizes how quickly he’s losing his morals. Mel and her mother are fully separating and she is struggling with her warlike destiny. Sevika gets the absolute snot beat out of her and limps to an empty office without a boss.

So yeah. Lot of personal Darkest Hours going on.

“But what’s the interesting thing?” I hear you ask in my ear. I don’t know why I hear you. Shut up. I’m writing. Are you even real?

Excuse me.

Arcane’s interesting twist on the Darkest Hour lies in part of the trope that I didn’t mention. That’s in the villain.

Most stories with a clear-cut villain have a plot structure something like this:

Whether things are going well for one side is inversely proportional to the other. During the Darkest Hour, when the hero is at their weakest, the villain is at their most dominant.

Wait… isn’t Silco the villain of Arcane? Not to be too blunt, but he’s having a shit time. Things are falling apart for him just as badly as for everyone else.

That's the trick. Caitlyn and Vi are suffering. Jinx is suffering. Silco is suffering. Jayce is suffering. Viktor is suffering. Zaun as a whole is suffering. There is only one party in the whole story that isn't suffering, that actually is benefitting from this horrid state of affairs...

EKKO AND HEIMERDINGER

Kidding. They're not really a part of this dance. A big part of Arcane's theming is that acting to help people without an agenda is simply more virtuous than fighting for any invariably-flawed nation that innately perpetuates the cycle of violence.

No, the side that is doing fine is the other that is conspicuously absent from my two prior lists. While the characters that make up its leadership are experiencing personal Darkest Hours, the organization itself is essentially on top of the world, having just scored a huge victory and getting set to bring the war to an end before it even begins. I mentioned how poor the situation for the Undercity looks, but not its counterpart.

Piltover.

Wasn't it so that Piltover started this whole mess? Didn't their oppression cause the revolt that orphaned Vi and Powder's parents? Isn't it their actions that drive Silco to ever greater extremes? Isn't it their normalized political backstabbing that causes Jayce to sacrifice his principles because that's the only way to get ahead? Isn't it their corrupt police force that lets Silco operate his drug empire with impunity?

Silco might look the part. He might be the most personally evil character, might be the one who causes the most misery for our main protagonists Vi and Powder.

But structurally, the shining city of Piltover, its political machine, and its Enforcers are the actual villains of Arcane.

#arcane #darkest hour #writing #silco #piltover #zaun #piltover and zaun #heroes and villains #good writing #just realized this #still noticing new things #even two full years later #i love this show #has someone said this before?#long post

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lumenemporium · 2 months

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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.

#arcane #arcane fanart #arcane vi #piltover's gayest #piltover's finest #arcane piltover #piltover and zaun #vilyn #caitlyn cosplay #caitlyn kiramman #caitlyn arcane #vi x caitlyn #jinx #caitvi #violet arcane #hextech #artists on tumblr

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whomst-the-hell · 5 months

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as an arcane fan who never played league, the geography of piltover/zaun makes no fucking sense to me like,, at first i thought zaun was like. under piltover? right? bc its cavernous and shadowy n everything, but the bridge (which is a majorly significant element of the story) wouldnt really? make sense in that context? then i thought that they were neighbouring cities under one singular government divided by a river and that the “undercity” thing was just like. figurative yk? but then i saw maps like this

which does seem to present a more literal above/below divide but then?? what the fuck is the bridge?????? this isnt a rhetorical question, someone please actually tell me how the fuck the bridge works /gen

#arcane #league of legends #piltover and zaun #arcane piltover #arcane zaun

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phalanxus · 19 days

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He will learn, one day

#league of legend art #league of legends #comic #clip studio art #comics #phalanxus #legends of runeterra #gaming #digital art #lol #humor #viktor #nami #jhin #khada jhin #blitzcrank #piltover and zaun

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muchachalatosa · 9 months

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⚽️🏃🏻‍♀️🏟️🙌🏼

#fanart #arcane #caitlyn kiramman #arcane fanart #vi #league of legends #football #soccer #jayce talis #jinx #caitvi #piltover and zaun

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ohnoitstbskyen · 1 year

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What's the deal with Renata Glasc?

League of Legends is a game absolutely marinated in fantasy tropes - swordsmen, sorcerors, rogues, wizards, clerics and every fantasy creature under the sun populate the world of Runeterra.

But with now over a hundred and sixty champions and with a full fourteen years in operation, somehow, one archetype has been missing: the old witch. And it is an odd ommission! The old witch with her cauldron, brewing potions and being mysterious - whether in the form of European fairy tale figures or hags like Baba Yaga - is an absolute fantasy staple, it is I would argue a foundational archetype of fantasy. And it is conspicuous in its absence here.

To Riot's credit, though, when they finally did pull the trigger on creating their version of the archetype, they came up with a hell of an interesting spin on it.

So let's talk about one of my favourite champions in recent memory, a champion who is compelling from her story to her design to her animation (especially the animation!). Let's talk about Renata Glasc.

#league of legends #renata glasc #piltover and zaun #zeri lol #ekko lol #seraphine #league of legends caitlyn #vi league of legends #piltover #zaun #video essay #tbskyen #Youtube

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trencherzovin666 · 3 months

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Can't even begin to describe the absolute terror this image instills in me 🥲 "You made the monster......"

#arcane #arcane season 2 #warwick #vander #singed #league of legends #arcane league of legends #teaser #arcane netflix #zaun #piltover and zaun #piltover #zaundads

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margoisthemoon2 · 9 months

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Uhhhhh here is the 🌽 Masterlist of the smuts i wrote… ENJOY!!!!

18+ MINORS DENIED 🔞🔞

HOBIE🇬🇧

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MIGUEL O’HARA 😈

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SILCO 👁️

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VIKTOR🩼

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shimutsuki · 2 months

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2xko ( Project L ) Phone Wallpapers

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matchamilkislover · 5 months

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Masterlist.

asks/requests are always open!

⊹ ⋆｡˚ ————————— 𓆩♡𓆪 —————————⊹ ⋆｡˚

ABBY ANDERSON.

White Horse, knight!abby x princess!reader. incomplete.

teaser.

part 1.

part 2…

VI.

In The Darkest Corners, vi x oc/reader. incomplete.

preface.

part 1.

part 2.

part 3.

part 4.

part 5.

part 6.

part 7.

part 8.

part 9.

part 10.

part 11.

part 12.

part 13.

part 14…

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alstanfordart · 10 months

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Viktor and his future self reflected in the water puddle after a storm hits Piltover.

#arcane #arcane viktor #machine herald viktor #piltover and zaun #fantasy art #arcane fanart

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mistresscitrusslice · 1 month

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“Heimerdinger perpetuated the system that allowed the Piltovans to profit off of the Undercity while keeping them poor and disadvantaged.” WRONG. Heimerdinger did not perpetuate this system, he CREATED it. He’s a FOUNDER of the city. Do you know what that means? Zaun existed for centuries before Piltover did. Piltover is a city founded by Zaunites who grew wealthy enough off of trade to rise above the fissures and instead of using that wealth to uplift the rest of their people, they ran off with it to found a new city while leaving the poor behind.

HEIMERDINGER IS ONE OF THEM. He predates Piltover by at least a hundred years. Where was he during this? Did he once live in Zaun? Because he looked at that city (one that he might have lived in) and saw enough of a lost cause, people and all, that he decided that it wouldn’t matter if his shiny new city on the hill dumped their sewage there. It wouldn’t matter if their factory exhaust blew in that direction. People that he once knew were going to suffer and that would be okay. He ponders the deaths of friends and he’s probably the cause of some.

Heimerdinger didn’t just sit by. He IS the root problem. So few people seem to see it because he’s so cute and fuzzy, and that’s deliberate. I don’t find Heimerdinger endearing at all. I look at him and I just feel a deep sense of loathing. I hate him more than I hate Marcus (partly because I don’t hate Marcus; his character writing is just that cool). I don’t find Heimerdinger redeemable, or at least, a redemption arc probably wouldn’t feel satisfying to me. I just want to watch him suffer, but I fear he’s too fluffy for the writers to do that to him.

#in this essay i will-#heimerdinger #arcane #piltover #zaun #piltover and zaun #arcane season 2 #league of legends #league lore #arcane lore

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alexcaninnit · 2 months

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Stupid fuckingg. League OC.

#league of legends #league of legends oc #lol oc #alexcanart #piltover and zaun #zaun #arcane

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phalanxus · 2 months

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"And no one is perfect You don't need to be strong, every single day No one really knows along the way That the best things in life won't be, perfect anyway "

#league of legend art #seraphine #digital art #digital illustration #phalanxus #legends of runeterra #gaming #comics #piltover and zaun #league of legends #clip studio art #wild rift #runeterra #lol

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