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I think the way the camera treats Caitlyn in the first act of season 2 is really interesting. It cuts off her eyes at some very key moments.

The eyes are how we connect with someone. Cutting them off cuts off the ability to sympathize with them. And depending on how the mouth is shot it can make the character seem more base or animalistic in a given moment. I think the show did this quite a bit with Silco in season 1, and they do it with Caitlyn in season 2.

The first one is from s2e1 when Caitlyn says about Jinx, "I want to rip that laugh from her throat forever.

Up until this point the viewer has been quite embedded in Caitlyn's POV when she's on-screen. The musical segment was showing her perspective. We witness her fantasy of being able to take down Jinx. The show is making sure that we understand where she's at mentally.

But here, the first time she's expressing violent thoughts, we're decidedly not in her POV. Her eyes are cut off, we don't get that connection with her. But what we do get is Jayce's reaction. And he's concerned. It's the first kind of "uh oh" moment, where you get a sinking feeling about where Caitlyn's headed.

2. After the memorial attack, she calls the attackers "animals" and we get this uncomfortably close shot of her teeth.

She's calling others animals, but she's the one who's shown snarling in this animalistic way. Again, her eyes are cut off, cutting off that avenue for sympathy when she says this, cutting the viewer off from her perspective, distancing her. Instead our attention is directed at this ugly, unsettling expression of hers. The camera is presenting her as something to be worried about rather than someone to feel sympathy for.

3. After interrogating Heenot, when she's gearing up to go after Jinx, and Vi is about to ask to talk to her.

Throughout the preceding scene, we were getting a lot of shots of Vi reacting to Caitlyn's behaviour, with a quite open expression, and a lot of shots of Caitlyn looking hardened and aloof. And then we come to this shot, and though Caitlyn is centre-frame, it's still Vi's POV. We see how Vi is feeling and reacting to things, but Caitlyn's eyes are again cut out of frame. She's distanced from the viewer, just like Vi is feeling distanced from her. Vi's position in the frame communicates how she's feeling, like she's being edged out of Caitlyn's life by Cait's singular focus on revenge.

And just like with that first shot with Jayce, by focusing on the reacting character, the camera is showing the viewer how they should be reacting to Caitlyn too: unsettled, disturbed, alienated.

4. When Cait and Vi are fighting, and Vi grabs Cait's arm, before she jabs Vi with the butt of her gun.

It's a reaction shot, Vi just grabbed her arm and told her she's acting like Jinx, this cut should be showing us how Caitlyn feels about that. But we don't see the reaction in her eyes, we just see her mouth.

In this case, I think it's not just about presenting Caitlyn in a way where she's cut off from the viewer. Because it is a reaction shot, I think this communicates that Caitlyn also feels cut off from herself in a way, cut off from the sympathy she had for others that was such a part of her character in season 1.

And then it's interesting to compare all this to when Vi and Caitlyn cross paths again, and Vi calls Caitlyn "cupcake." And we get this shot:

We get the closeup on her eyes. Whereas before, the audience was repeatedly cut off from having that connection with her, now it's like, boom, big connection. And just as before, I think the shot is not just about the audience being able to connect with her, but Caitlyn being able to connect with herself. That despite everything, she's still the same woman who fell in love with Vi, that part of her is still there. She's been on this whole awful journey, and she's done awful things, and allowed awful things to be done in her name, but she's still the same person, and she can't pretend anymore that it's all fine. She sees clearly again.

This is what Caitlyn normally looks like when she's aiming her gun

Now here's what she looks like aiming at Jinx in s2e3

She is incredibly distorted. She looks unhinged (because she is). Not only is her eye enlarged, it's also segmented into pieces, fractured. It's illustrating her mental state. And it's so notably different from fall the other times we've seen her take aim.

For all the characters in Arcane, their weapons are part of their personalities. Caitlyn being a sniper is an illustrtion of her clear-sightedness. She notices details, she's deductive, she can use reason to figure things out.

In this shot, that's all gone. Her vision, normally so clear, is all fucked up. Not only is she in a bad state emotionally, she's also not processing things rationally.

I think it's a really cool shot that makes great use not only of the props in the scene, but also of visual language that the show has built up with Caitlyn.

i know it’s a framing thing but Vi being taller in this shot is so special to me

THEY HIT THE SECOND TOWER

man, what would i do to have a love as pure, exciting, and so sweet as mitsuaya’s 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹 sumiko arai also draws them with so much love

i know she’s having one of the worst days of her life but she rly looks so handsome here <3

leyendecker study but make it caitvi 🌸

are you allowed to love? i thought that was forbidden for a jedi

do yall fuck with loser femmes who are hardly ever serious? do you? do you really?

I WILL reply to your selfies saying ZOO WEE MAMA

I will send you my nudes with a little 'hehehe for you🙂‍↕️'

I will tell you that I'm dripping wet, then forget I'm meant to be flirting right now and probably send you a photo of my burger that I'm having for tea

you can be flirting with me, telling me the most dirty, wet things and I'd reply "HELLLOOO SUNSHINE oh my god creaming myself holy fuck"

I will flirt using reaction pics (because rarely can words can match the same energy as a shitty drawing of a chatacter going feral)

I will kiss you and call you gay with an eyebrow raised afterwards

my jaw will genuinely drop when you compliment me

One thing I've always enjoyed about Vergil is that the games make you like him and root for him as a character... but not because he's right. It's not because he's noble. It's not even because he's traumatized. It's because he's Dante's brother.

Vergil is kind of terrible. He's done a lot of terrible things. The game doesn't even try to dispute that. You are not supposed to see Vergil as a heroic figure. Yet we still root for him because Dante, our PoV character, roots for him. Dante loves his brother. He wants his brother to succeed. We see how Vergil's absence crushes Dante. He never truly gets over it.

To Dante, Vergil is the person you love even though sometimes you just can't stand them, and maybe despite the fact that they've hurt you, because they're so important to you that you can't imagine life without them. He is the person you watch destroy themselves over and over, knowing there's nothing you can do to stop it, and you feel a piece of yourself break every single time the cycle repeats. Even if we, as players, may not see that or feel that for Vergil (at least, not right away), it's clear that Dante does.

And I can't emphasize enough how relatable and human that experience is. I think we've all been there in one way or another with someone in our lives. If we haven't, then I'm sure we've all watched a friend or family member go through that with someone they've loved.

He really doesn't need to be anything grander than that. He's not secretly right or noble. In fact, he's dead wrong about a lot. Yet we're still on Vergil's side because when he overcomes, when he finds his peace, when he becomes the person Dante hoped he could be, then Dante finds peace as well.

And we all want a world where the people we love can find their peace, and we can find our peace with them.

And we leave Dante and Vergil basically how we originally found them. Fighting. As Lady originally described "It seems as if they drive some twisted pleasure from this brotherly fighting." For them, fighting is their love language. And they have a lot of catching up to do. After Nero knocked some sense into them, any feelings of true animosity and desire to kill one another is pretty much completely gone. All of a sudden they're back to being kids banging wooden swords together. Hard to blame them for taking so long just indulging in a bit of good old fashioned brotherly love for weeks at a time instead of rushing to go back home.

DMC5 added Vergil as a playable character and extended the ending of the game with some extra scenes with him and Dante in the Underworld which I included into this. First we have another scene showing that Vergil is completely emotionally stunted and incapable of confronting the fact that he has a son and all the crazy mixed up emotions that brings in its wake. Which is cute. Gotta grade the guy on a curve, I'm sure he'll grow into those daddy shoes eventually.

I honestly really like the way the game leaves them off. Reminiscing about their childhoods so casually like that. It was such a painful thing for the both of them, remembering the past. Remember how in DMC3 when they first fought, Vergil only cared about their parentage in the context of using the blood of Sparda to get more power while Dante denied he even had a father. Now they can call back to childhood memories of their parents scolding them like it's nothing. They've definitely grown quite a lot and gotten over a lot of the pain and anguish they used to carry.

I find the dialog they end the scene with to be very poignant and sweet. Dante muses about what their parents would think of them now, as crusty adults. But Vergil just says in a seemingly callous way that it doesn't matter. What does matter is that they're alive, and they're together as brothers for the first time in as long as either of them can remember. And Dante agrees.

It's very sweet. These two deserve their happy ending. The culmination of a relationship that chronologically started with a duel to the death in the rain ontop of the tower to the underworld. All of that baggage and drama and hatred and anguish has been swept away. They're together again. And always will be from now on.

<3

mister "my family crest is a demon of death"

single dad vergil is my fav kind of vergil

Dante and Vergil's profiles from the Devil May Cry 3 manga.

Please take note of Nero making such a big deal out of Urizen being Dante's brother. "Your own flesh and blood." THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO NERO. The blood relation is PARAMOUNT in his mind. Keep this in mind.

V admits in this scene that the one thing he and Urizen have in common is their hatred of Dante. That is the one defining foundational trait that makes him Vergil, whether whole or in pieces.

He's always defined himself as "Dante's older brother." He felt that that's how the world and his parents defined him. He saw Dante as the favorite, as the one who never had to struggle, who could be irresponsible and get away with it because HE as the older brother always needed to be held to a higher standard. To Vergil, brotherly love is irreparably entangled with his feelings of resentment.

That's why V says "you've lost me, and I've lost you." This is not a simple "my good half and my evil half" kind of thing. Urizen is all of Vergil's selfishness and pride and power incarnate. And those things are part of Vergil just as much as his humanity, his empathy and his eccentricities. He can no more give up that demonic pride and still be himself than he could his love for William Blake poems. They are all essential ingredients that make him Vergil. All this experience has taught him is that he was out of balance before, and that is why he lost to Dante at the Temen-ni-gru, because he was willing to suppress the things that truly mattered and were important to him in that blind quest for power. Just as Urizen lost to Dante here and now.

Now that he's learned his lesson. Now that he's remember what truly was important about being human. NOW that he is whole again, he can finally truly defeat Dante once and for all. Or so V is thinking in this moment.

When he does recombine with Urizen, I wonder. Does the memory of Dante telling Urizen that Eva died trying to find and save Vergil remain for him? Would that knowledge make a difference to him now? Given how Vergil acts from here on out... maybe I'd like to think so.

God this moment was so fucking hype when it happened back when the game came out. "The alpha and the omega Vergil." holy shit this game kicks so much ass.

i miss my girlfriend

meirl

Elphaba came back from a long study session at the library to a worked up Galinda...

this is goofy af, but it was fun (draws the build up but not the deed)

Brazilian Wicked is now one of my favorite versions cause SUITPHABA?!? BADDY GLINDA?!?!?

YELLOWJACKETS 308. A Normal, Boring Life

are you kidding me. it hasn’t been that long yet since my freedom (yes, i woke up feeling sick again)

I’M SO FED UP WITH THIS SICKNESS BROOOOOOO CAN I GET BETTER ALREADY I CANNOT EMBRACE MY FULL POTENTIAL AS A RAGING FEMME LESBIAN 🔥🔥🔥🔥

mari finna be in the pit

mari and jackie scissoring in the afterlife to spite shauna shipman idgaf anymore they’re ghost gfs haunting her and making sure she never has another good day 😁

Im so obsessed with Shauna Shipman and her obsession with consuming Jackie. Her boyfriend, her life, her body. Shauna doesn't even believe in the Wilderness. The girls don't even need to resort to cannibalism anymore, she's just making them do it so she can relive eating Jackie. It's why later she makes their victims wear Jackie's necklace when they kill them. She literally never moved past losing Jackie. "Do you think Mel has to wear Jackie's clothes when they make out?"

hello, tumblr! it’s nice to meet you. 💜

i am mary, i am currently 21 years old, i go with she/her, i’m asian, a neurodivergent femme lesbian, a libra, 5’3, and a femme4butch.

i deeply like spider-man and star wars, i like anything pastel—especially orange and baby pink, wearing converse, summer dresses, some adorable trinkets to put on my heart-shaped carabiner, and a couple of video games!

if there’s anything you’d like to know about me; i am always trying to grow my hair out because i keep on cutting it short and i swear that i will succeed this time! i wear prescription glasses like harry potter’s, i’m taken by the prettiest butch, and i’m currently reading ‘the last night at the telegraph club’ by malinda lo. 📖 there will be nsfw in this blog from time to time, please be wary before interacting. mentions, asks, and dms are very much welcome, let’s be friends!

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