Investigator Caitlyn KirammanAnd Again. I Love Her And Have A Healthy ObsessionPart 1| Part 2 Of 2

Investigator Caitlyn Kiramman And again. I love her and have a healthy obsession Part 1 |  Part 2 of 2

I saw a lot of Legend of Korra influence in Arcane. First because Grayson is basically Lin Beifong in a Runeterra AU:

Then there’s Vi with her back muscles and her tall rich girlfriend. Yes, I do tend to see Korrasami everywhere, but at least in this instance I am canonically not crazy!

From an interview with one of the writers:

You have Tweeted about some of your favorite cartoons and cartoon relationships, like Korra and She-Ra. Did these series, or any others, help inspire or influence your work on Arcane?

Everything I like inspires my work! Characters and stories I love both inspire me to build on the success they had, but also to find a new way into, or out of, the story that gives us something we haven’t seen yet. I love how the women in She-Ra and Korra got to be both strong and vulnerable, driven and flawed.

To me, a character has to have the potential to change for me to care about them, and they need to be their own worst enemy at times so it’s satisfying when they finally make a different choice.

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Full interview:

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Interview with 'Arcane' Writer Amanda Overton

Amanda Overton is a television writer with credits on series like Marco Polo, Severance, and Edge of Normal. She worked on Riot Games' and F

i said this in the tags of a post and haven’t stopped thinking about it since

caitlyn spent the good majority of her life looking down the barrel of a loaded gun. not from the business end, obviously. she’s been on the side pulling the trigger, peering through the viewfinder, finger against trigger, cheek against metal. her mind is dangerous and her aim is deadly.

but in all her training, all her hunting, she’s never been in danger until she met vi. in many ways her upbringing meant the gun in her hands was a familiar weight of formality - of performance. a carefully curated symbol of status clearly passed down in the family if her mother is anything to go by. there was never anything dangerous at the other end of her gun.

and then she finds vi and while vi was never on the other end of caitlyn’s gun, she introduces danger to caitlyn. she shows her something worth shooting for beyond the ceremony of it all - beyond the trophies and the time and the legacy. a reason to hesitate. vi is a loaded gun all on her own and the bullets are her fists. and even without caitlyn’s rifle between them she’s still staring down the barrel of a loaded gun when she looks at vi and it’s such a familiar feeling that she’s never scared because yeah vi is dangerous but caitlyn knows which end of the barrel she’s staring down. vi’s always been on her side. even when they didn’t trust each other, vi wasn’t aiming at caitlyn.

cheek against metal and finger on the trigger, caitlyn knows how to wield a loaded gun better than anything else - knows how to empty the chamber so the bullets clatter to the floor harmlessly. maybe that’s why she wins vi’s trust so quickly. you have to know when not to shoot, too.

They switch

CAITLYN KIRAMMAN in ARCANE (2021—)