Accident

Healing magic - the ability to stitch yours or someone else's wounds together with a touch - spreads, ironically, like a disease. Get healed by someone, there's a small chance you'll become a healer yourself. Perhaps this was intended by a higher power to be a nice gesture. Someone helps you, and then gives you the power to pay it forward.

For Singed, this was an exploitable loophole.

OR: Viktor finds another way to live.

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Jayvik nation pls check out my fic 🙏

The problem with canon CaitVi isn't that it's 'toxic'. Plenty of the relationships in Arcane are unhealthy and yet remain compelling. Silco and Jinx undoubtedly have an unhealthy parent/child relationship but it's still interesting. JayVik and Timebomb have unhealthy aspects to some degree. (Most relationships in the show are lime this, lbr.)

The problem is that the way CaitVi is unhealthy comes off as either clunky or unintentional. Like, the dirt under your nails line could be interesting as a line halfway through the series to show Vi's codependence and attachment toward Caitlyn to the point where she undervalues herself, but instead it comes at the end, and it feels like the vibe is supposed to be romantic, but instead it comes across as self-demeaning, and as the final conclusion of their relationship... a little unsatisfying.

That, and I ship Vi and Jinx in a very platonic sense; all of season one was the tale of two sisters, and I think Jinx was more important to Vi than Caitlyn ever was, and the fact that she now thinks Jinx is dead... The last scene should be her mourning with Ekko, the only other person who might understand what Jinx meant to her.

You might say this would make her 'bad rep' or something because the lesbian ship doesn't become endgame or whatever, but the thing is: representation isn't necessarily about ships. Vi would still be a lesbian or bisexual if her and Caitlyn broke up forever (and so would Caitlyn). They've already very firmly established that throughout the series.

Keep in mind I'm not anti-CaitVi at all and I still think they could have become endgame, but like... As it is in the show, they haven't really convinced me it's a viable long-term relationship and I can see them easily breaking up at some point after the credits roll, and the most important thing to note is that if that was intentional I don't think it would be as bad, but I don't think it WAS intentional.

Essentially, what this reads to me is the writers attempting to tell a certain type of story in which Vi and Caitlyn getting together is positive for the series, the sweet in the bittersweet ending of Arcane and Vi's arc, and failing to communicate that effectively.

Anthro gourmand!

The thing is, I wish there WAS ace rep in the arcane. That would have been pretty nice. But, like, it is not there. It's like everyone saying falin is fat in dungeon meshi. I have no problem with fat headcanons for falin! But, like, in the canon itself, she's just curvier than marcille in all the scenes she's naked and wears baggy clothes in all the scenes she's not. I would say she has the average female body type, even. Do not put her on your good fat rep list or whatever. People are going to be disappointed if they watch arcane or dungeon meshi for ace or fat rep when they find out that is in fact not an element of the show at all.

Hottest Arcane Character Polls

This poll is not part of the tournament, but does that make it any less meaningful? I don't think so. Reblog for sample size.

(so this is the final we *would have gotten* if there hadn't been that last-minute Vander surge. let's make this count)

Viktor vs. Ekko

"Words. Images. Sound. Moments and memories, frozen in time. If there is no true death, then let there be stillness. The world will be my pearl."

Serin, my half-Vulcan engineer who spends most of his life roleplaying as a wizard

I love rain world gourmand. Perfect creature. They took the appealing simplicity of the slugcat and made it round. No notes. Reblog if you agree

Horrible AU where the transformation after Viktor's death in the commune was forced on him by Singed, and he is now both Rio and the weapon he hoped Hextech would never become. Ambessa uses him to invade Piltover, and he has to fight Jayce, who even as he's defending himself keeps trying to reach him, break him out of the mind control - and meanwhile, Jinx and Vi are doing the same with Vander.

Vague doodly concepts for a rain world scug. They subsist entirely on water and and karma flower nectar, feeding from a little proboscis-like tongue which can also be shot quickly from their mouth as a defensive weapon. Despite being called 'noodlefish', they actually compete with the noodlefly for resources and thus have a hostile relationship with them. Though they have the same walking speed as a normal scug, they have high swim speed and internal gills that help them actually breathe in water. Their campaign takes place between Rivulet and Saint.