I Love Dressing Up Characters And Since Sevika Is Rumored To Be Of Indian Origin, I Dressed Her In Indian

Arcane’s race blindness is a curse honestly. The Piltover cast (counsel and enforcers) are mostly characters of color, while the main characters from Zaun are mostly white (except Ekko and Sevika).

That leads to takes that Mel is racist towards Viktor (or any other white Zaunite character). Which is wack

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My favorite Mel's concept design (she looks like a goddess)

I feel like Sevika kept the giant chompy claw arm. She'd never admit it, but that thing is sacred to her now. It's all she has left of Jinx. She could get a new arm with much more practical articulate fingers, and maybe she does for day to day, but the claw arm feels like it belongs to her in a way no other prosthetic ever has.

And you know she wears it to Council meetings. Just to remind everyone - that she's Zaun, that she's dangerous, that Jinx may be dead as far as anyone knows, but she's not gone. She's never gone. She's a symbol of Zaunite tenacity and ferocity and always will be, the same girl who started the war with a fiery fuck you to Piltovan oppression ended it by saving their asses and the Pilties had better never forget it.

When they're pissing her off, Sevika shrugs off her cloak and thunks that big claw on the table, still covered in Jinx doodles, and taps the claw tips and it echoes in that big stone chamber and every other Councilor goes pale.

When they're really pissing her off, she lets it play Get JINXED.

She long ago figured out how to game the slot machine mechanic to get what she wants. But she pretends, oh no, sorry, it's so random, glitches all the time, I don't control it. With the biggest smuggest smirk.

It's what Jinx would've wanted.

somewhere in a kinder universe

The Arcane fandom is so unserious. Like, why would you post anti shit in a ship tag and then play victim when you get jumped by all the people who follow that tag??

These people really don’t understand the basics of fandom engagement and it’s pissing me atp.

Mel Merdarda my beloved

cookin up an AU where caitlyn is a prince & jinx is a silly little court jester who pisses her off sooo bad. AND they scissor about it!

It should be a way bigger deal some other party figured out how to construct their own version of shimmer, and by some other party, I mean Noxus.

The only person who had access to new shimmer was Lest, and Lest's people belong to a branch of the vastaya that live within Noxus' territory.

The most worrying aspect of this version of shimmer is that it's been modified to create tattoos on its users.

We've already seen Viktor's own experiments with runes and shimmer in the first season.

And now we know from the Ambessa book that not only are rune tattoos a real thing that mages use to modify their magic in Mel and Rudo's case, but the Black Rose is also actively trying to create their own rune warriors out of mages AND non-mages. In fact Jinx’s shimmer altered body shares a lot of similar abilities as the rune warriors in the book, right down to the super speed, enhanced strength, and improved endurance, with side effects more reminiscent of the chemtank soldiers.

This kind of development is such neat twist to the finale, because it all comes back to what Ambessa said, "weapons cannot be unmade and they are always used". Piltover may have forcefully dearmed Zaun from its shimmer and even put it's own hextech on the back burner, but that isn't the end. The arms race is still going on, Piltover's just put itself and Zaun out of commission.

a missed opportunity with the noxian presence in piltover, apart from the political or storytelling dimension, is the fact that they were there for three to six months and we… don’t really see how the ordinary noxians and piltovians interact? like with a military presence for that long, what was the general consensus? were there fights with the locals? disputes over resources? recruitment from schools? whirlwind romances across cultural differences tragically torn apart by the siege as you watch your former lover tear you apart with unholy metal flowing in their veins? noxian-piltover fusion cooking?