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Arcane Season 2 - Blog Posts
So I watched arcane…
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Hear me out
Jayvik to that "here comes a thought" su song? Hmmm? Butterflies?? Emotions taking over???? All that stuff in an astral plane kind of thingy???
let your feelings slip boy
but never your mask boy
Vander: I've always liked the name Violet. Silco: *snorts a line* Hey, you know what I like?
not friends not lovers but a secret third thing
Isha: Pew!
Can we all agree that this season is just pulling our heartstrings?! Arcane writers know how to hit where it hurts!
Jinx: But I should've known better...
Nothing ever stays dead~
not friends not lovers but a secret third thing
Gods I feel so dehydrated now LMAO
(yes I did basically cry the whole way through act 3 of arcane season 2) (slaying the day away fr)
Hey what if I just sobbed forever and ever
only you ✨
take me back to s1…
(as soon as i figure out how to get the gif to fit tumblr’s data limit, the wedding is BACK ON. until then, here’s the low quality video)
(and the still!)
Jayvik enjoying their interdimensional honeymoon
"There's beauty in imperfections"
I just want to be loved the way Jayce loves, c'mon universe
Oh, being a Viktor kinnie with no Jayce kinnies around is quite saddening...
Can't stop thinking about these tragic little gays
(although Jayce is anything but little...anyway)
Arcane Jesus WIP bc I won’t have the time to finish before part 3 comes out </3
Another reason for Vi to pull out might be the phrase "Everything might have been different" as she doesn't know how to approach Jinx's "what if", because it not only implies that Vander wouldn't have "died". It also implies that Jinx, like seemingly happened in the other universe, she could have had both Vander and Silco.
Jinx being the sister that becomes the symbol is important because she is both Vander's and Silco's daughter, she is the legacy shaped by Vander's heart and Silco's ambition, even if she lacks both of them for several parts in the series. But only Vander is Vi's father, and Silco is just the main reason her life became miserable, even without being "responsible for making/forcing Jinx from Powder", so she can't step in.
Even in the other universe she doesn't get Silco as a father, or as a positive part of her life. That idea is so "other" to her that even in another Universe Vi doesn't get to experience that "what if", so she pulls away.
Damn, this scene right here where Vi reaches out to her to comfort Jinx just KILLS me every time.
It's a very small scene, but it carries so much weight because it shows how, despite all that's happened, Vi's love for her sister is still very much present, and the bitterness and resentment she felt toward her all those years ago are withering away.
I also love that when she retracts her hand, she doesn't do it forcefully or speedily, which would indicate hostility or resentment. She does it gently as if she's saying to herself, "Maybe I'll just give her some space for now."
As great as the big emotional scenes are (e.g., Vander reuniting with her daughters), you CANNOT undervalue the little moments that made them all the more impactful.
We got the hug but at what cost );
ARCANE S2 SPOILERS
WE FINALLY GOT THE HUG
jayvik designs so iconic they only lasted one episode
Thinking about how the arcane artists and designers made sure isha had big eyes to make us see her more innocent and childlike (and make her death hurt even more.) They do this with the other children in the main cast, but with Isha they make sure to push it further, her eyes were bigger, full of wonder joy and innocence, just to make her have a stronger impact as a character
They do this same thing to powder to an extent, they don’t push it as far with her character but they do it, this plays in to how jinx and powder’s character models change, one of the main differences is her eyes because eyes are so key when it comes to character design and shape language and how we perceive each character
Character design save me save me character design…
i know everyone already did this, but i don't care
Loris !!
Jayce "I miss my wife" Talis but lesbian
viktor nation how we feeling??
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finally tried painting in grayscale and playing around with gradient maps
the boy savior!
featuring top surgery scars 🤫
(closeup under the cut)
my girlification of jayce talis
close up under the cut!
i couldn't find solid refs for his leg brace, i tried my best!! may eventually color this too if i feel like it one day
“In an interstellar burst, I’m back to save the universe”
close ups!!
Okay, Arcane rant real quick. Would love to get some of everyone’s thoughts on this! Season 2 spoilers.
So when Future! Viktor is explaining that he had tried to stop the Glorious Evolution before, we saw blips of him giving Jayce different runes when he initially gave Child! Jayce the stone. When Ekko and Heimer are trying to recreate the singularity, Ekko says that the time travel component worked because he was tinkering with “Jayce’s acceleration rune” and circled the rune that was carved into that stone.
Does this mean there are other timelines where Ekko used other powers, based on different runes that Future! Viktor tried to give Jayce? Or did the singularity only work because it was specifically the acceleration rune? Just wanting to bounce some ideas around with people.