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if anybody wants a portrait of themselves in the arcane style, DM me! Black & white is ten dollars, full color is fifteen. For now I’m only doing shoulders up, facing forward in the arcane style. I’m doing other commissions as well, if you’d like something more complicated. Im not doing anything NSFW, but will draw whump if it isn’t explicit. My inbox is open! Ask me anything!!
my brain every now and again: and he was ready to give up everything in his life for jinx.
me every time: oh my god and he was ready to give up everything in his life for jinx.
She shot him and he called her perfect.
OhmyGodsheshothimandhecalledherperfect
Like, I’m not sure some people quite grasp just how much Silco was willing to sacrifice for her. The whole point of the Finn and Sevika “I saved your ass this time but don’t count on it again” subplot was to show that Silco was on very thin ice politically. If it had come out that he picked Jinx over Zaun he would have been *done*. But he was still going to do it.
And the fact that he showed absolutely no hesitation in the matter. The way he threw himself under the bus instantly to try to protect her. It didn’t matter how long he’d been working for Zaun or how much he wanted it, how many lives he destroyed to get this close. As soon as Jayce asked him to turn his daughter over he instantly thought “Well that’s happening over my dead body.”
That right there is what makes Silco a parent. Because parents are the ones that make those sacrifices for their children.
Arcane act 1 really said “we’re gonna give you this misfit band of kids that you’ll grow to love then we’re gonna take that away from you and you’ll have to deal with it” huh.
We’re introduced to Vander’s kids and they way it goes it’s as it were any other type of team of friends type beat. Mischievous kids who’re together as a team get into big trouble trying to do a thing but don’t worry it won’t have dire long term consequences right?
That’s where Arcane gets you. If this were a show aimed at kids, or heck, any other show cause we know kids tend to be a protected entity in most adult media too, then that would be the end of it. Vander would’ve solved it, maybe wave Grayson away, and the kids would’ve been back to doing misadventures. Or if they want the kids to be more proactive, have them “make up” for it some other way (like help defeat Silco or something) through the power of friendship and it would be the end of that.
But’s that not what happened. Things escalated, there aren’t clear answers cause it’s not just a thing between Vander - Grayson - and some abstract entity representing Piltover that would concede to what Grayson deems acceptable. There’s a lot of pressure there, and it’s present even before Silco walks up to the plate. And unlike a kids’ show the kids aren’t immune when the pressure finally blows up. Heck, Vi makes a heroic decision to sacrifice herself, but she’s a kid out of her league and doesn’t know the whole picture and it all comes crashing down.
It’s part of how Arcane does subversion so well. Kids aren’t protected entities in this fiction (it doesn’t stop there after all, Jayce does kill that kid later on). The fact it sells you this early on really puts the stakes into the show and really gets you into the narrative, which is heighten by how go everything else is (voice acting, animation, etc.) and seals the impact there.
The best thing about it for me is how the writers play your expectations so well. Like they know exactly what they’re doing when they lay the groundwork with all these tropes and set you up to expect a certain (mostly positive) outcome. Like sure maybe Vander will die making a noble sacrifice because wise father figure and that’s what they often do, but also the kids are definitely going to beat Silco and come out of it mostly unscathed, and the picked-on runt of the litter is definitely, finally going to prove how useful she is.
But then, it just goes completely sideways because *of course* it would. Like if this were a real world event, these kids going up against this gang of thugs would end very badly for the kids. No question. A ten year old messing around with powerful explosives isnt going to pull a miracle out of the air, she’s going to cause a terrible disaster because *of course* she would. It’s like you’re watching all your familiar hopeful childhood tropes (done really well to be clear, but retreading the same familiar, comforting territory) and then you just get a brutal reality check like a bucket of ice water thrown in your face.
I’ve made this comparison before but it’s like if you did Stranger Things season 1 where everything’s the same but in the final episode half the kids die and Eleven gets recaptured by the government and turned back into a weapon. Like…what the fuck just happened???
I also think in the back of your head or in the front, you’re worried about Powder’s bomb not working.
That’s the main fear for us in that tense moment.
Arcane does such a smart thing. They made us think like Powder, whose 10-years-old and can’t foresee the consequences of her action.
Powder and us, are terrier that she and her bombs are going to fail again. That’s the worse case Powder is imagining, because again she’s 10 and her bombs never work.
She even tells the monkey that it has to work this time, for her sake.
And then we and her get what “we wanted.” It worked!
We need more hurt/comfort stories about Silco raising Jinx in Zaun. There’s so much potential for an in-depth analysis about a single father who has trust issue and never have to deal with a family before, raising this traumatized child on his own
Listen, Silco and Jinx are so popular it’s a crime ao3 has only like 500 fics about them, imo when it comes to popularity they’re roughly comparable to caitvi, which has like 3k fics, but obvs there’s a tendency in fandom by fans and due to tagging systems to prefer writing ship-centric fics unfortunately.
Good morning, afternoon or night ONLY to the people who don’t try to shit on one of these wonderful characters in order to raise their views on the other!
This is the official poster. How have I never seen anyone post it here before?? It’s gorgeous.
The bait and switch they did with this, by using the same basic shot but having it be evil!Powder being hugged by Silco instead was so fucking cruel lmao
friendly reminder for geek week june 8th
there’s literally embers flying in this promo pic around Vi’s head like they did during THAT scene
despite everyone being excited and starved for new news/content we can’t take anything at face value, any promo piece could just be a complete troll
