Real Talk Istg If The Bonus Features Are Just* Bridging The Rift I Will Be A Little Annoyed

Real talk istg if the bonus features are just* Bridging the Rift i will be a little annoyed

*Bridging the Rift is amazing and I enjoy seeing how they made this show exist but I wanna see VA interviews please please please plea

It blows my mind that in 2024 there are still people who want to be like "it is 100% all Vi's fault that Jinx is the way she is" or "Jinx is 100% just an ax-crazy hell monster that Vi needs to be saved from" when the entire point of the show is that, yes, both sisters are flawed human beings who have made mistakes, but the true failure lies not with them, but with the overall system that was destined to fail them at every step.

This is most obvious with Powder, who shows signs of her psychosis within the first opening beats of the show, the little scribble hallucinations popping up between her fingers. Powder's mental illness is genetic. Trauma exacerbated her symptoms, but the illness was always there. And there are absolutely no resources in Zaun to give her the care she needed to healthily manage that illness. And the solution isn't "make her a Piltie instead," because Powder wasn't the only Zaunite with mental illness. The problem was that Zaun was in that state of poverty, police brutality, and systemic oppression at all. Powder was failed by by the social structure that killed her parents, that parentified her sister, that ensured she went hungry, was constantly at risk of police brutality, and had no means of accessing adequate mental health care. All of THAT is what led to Jinx.

Oh, and speaking of parentifying her sister — this system failed Vi, too. Not only does Vi also have hallucinations, but Vi never got to be a child from the moment her parents died. She had to be BOTH sister AND surrogate mother to Powder. No, Vander never told her to, but he also does spell it out. Powder, Claggor, and Mylo follow her every word as the oldest. She was their leader. And for Powder especially, she was all they had left of their biological family. Vi stepped into the role willingly, but at an age so young she had no idea what it was she was sacrificing. What she HAD to sacrifice, after her parents were killed, after she and Powder were, yes, rescued by Vander, but Vander could only do so much and had two other kids besides. Vi was only 15 when Powder accidentally killed Vander, Mylo, and Claggor; despite having to sacrifice her childhood, she was still a traumatized adolescent. She should have been allowed to act like it. But the systemic oppression and structure of the Piltover - Zaun setup didn't allow for that. It certainly didn't do her any favors when an enforcer's idea of saving her life was to leave her to rot in a cell indefinitely. The system failed Vi, too. Just like it failed Powder.

Arcane is a tragedy. It's a tragedy in all aspects, but it is primarily a tragedy about two sisters. And the fact that some people want to wholly blame one sister is just beyond me. They've both made mistakes. But they also both had the decks stacked entirely against them from the beginning. That's what makes it a tragedy. It didn't have to be this way. And yet, there's no other way it could have ended.

“Silco took powder in when vi abandoned her!!!”

Silco had a knife behind his back with intentions of probably killing powder before she hugged him and vi didn’t abandon powder (even though vi blames herself for it all the time), vi was 15 and she saw her entire family die because of a bomb her SISTER dropped (ikik bcz she wanted to help but still) she punched powder and walked away because she was TRAUMATISED, ANGRY, AND PHYSICALLY HURT SHES A CHILD HELLO?????????? And even then the second she saw silco walk up to powder we see vi getting concerned and RUNNING to protect her sister before Marcus KIDNAPPED HER AND SENT HER TO STILLWATER.

HE SENT A 15 YEAR OLD GIRL TO THE DEADLIEST PRISON IN PILTOVER.

VI WAS RUNNING TO HER SISTER THE SECOND SHE CALMED DOWN AFTER SERIOUS INJURIES AND HAVING SEEN HER ENTIRE FAMILY CRUMBLE BECAUSE OF THE SAME SISTER.

silco protected powder from things in a sick twisted way which he wouldn’t have to in the first place if he didn’t kidnap vander and try to kill the other three kids in the first place.

So respectfully keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth.

cutie

jinx is such a mirror. she doesn't care about loss of life when she's doing it for silco because she basically reverts to the lost child she was when she met him and all she wants is his approval and he doesn't care about loss of life (except hers) so she shouldn't either, but she had artistic purple tears streaming down her face before firing fishbones because it was to prove a point to vi and in that relationship loss of life matters a lot. and the fascinating merger of the two in how she's cementing vi's initial knee-jerk reaction to call powder a jinx and picking up silco's ideology as her own all in one. i need to know who she'll be when she comes out of this because powder's gone and even the girl that she was growing up in silco's undercity slowly disappeared over the season as his control on her slipped and she started making her own calls. jinx is already the most thematically correct character for accepting change in the end instead of trying to reverse it but now she has to reinvent herself and decide who she's going to be all over again

there’s absolutely something to be said about ‘booktok’ books being largely wattpad quality written erotica i’m certainly not reading them however having seen a guy on tiktok make a video like ‘all the women in your life are READING PORN’ about a book he picked up and read in his FEMALE FRIEND’S HOUSE in a tone of scandalised horror and disgust i actually don’t think men should be making those criticisms. he said he picked it up expecting a romance and was horrified it was GOONER SHIT he said specifically like ‘who are you getting your pussy wet FOR??’ in a tone of revulsion. idk man im not sure shes the weird one. i kind of wish you were dead

She means the world to me your honor.

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