#I'm physically incapable of keeping the plot of s2 the same bc it fundamentally doesn't work as a continuation of s1

[tvckerwash]

you know one of the things about s2 that makes me :/ is that certain scenes and the consequences of those scenes would make more sense if they just...swapped who was saying what. an example off the top of my head is the c/aitvi breakup scene, as I feel it would've A) been more potent and B) been a better parallel for vi to be the one to tell cait "I keep trying to tell myself that you're different, but you're not. it's her (cassandra's) blood (power, influence, prejudices) in your veins."

vi's 1.5 minute crash out montage of her self destructive spiral into alcoholism and violence only focusing on caitlyn now makes a little more sense, as it's not about being abandoned by cait, but because she believed in caitlyn's desire to heal the rift between piltover and zaun, and it was her trust in that belief—and her trust in caitlyn—that convinced her any anguish donning a uniform worn by the people who killed her parents brought her would be a weight worth carrying, because when people look up to you, when they're counting on you, you don't get to be selfish. the end justifies the means.

but the moment caitlyn shows her true colors, that their mission was never truly about bettering the lives of zaunites by removing the chembarons from the picture and stopping shimmer production, that it was never about bringing powder, jinx, whatever she's going by, to justice, but was instead about destabilizing zaun by removing its leaders, dooming shimmer addicts to painful and potentially deadly withdrawals, triggering *major industrial accidents that contaminate the environment, using chemical warfare to weaken and herd the populace—all to prepare for the military/police takeover to come—and for caitlyn to enact petty revenge against jinx for killing her mother, vi finally breaks.

she persisted despite watching her family die in front of her eyes 4 times (her parents at the bridge, vander, mylo, and claggor at the cannery, ekko presumed on the bridge, powder after killing silco), she persisted after being unlawfully imprisoned as a teenager and being beaten by the warden for 7 years, she persisted after the council and memorial attacks, she persisted through the raid in zaun, all because she always had something to fight for. but now, she has no one to fight for, and her attempts to do what she thought was the right thing to do to help zaun actively made everything worse. this is how to better "swap" her with jinx’s position in the narrative whilst still being consistent with vi's characterization. she's asking herself between the two of them "who's the jinx now?"

*turns out vi and jayce's raid in s1 in which vi shattered the giant tank containing the shimmer with zero plans or intention to properly contain and clean up the spill has consequences. those consequences being ekko's tree, among other things.

another scene would be in ep9 when vi and jinx are going to fight back to back against vander (mf doesn't deserve the name warwick bc there is no wrath in that zaun). iirc vi tells jinx that she "shouldn't have come back." which is INSANE to say to a girl who just tried to kill herself, and would again make more sense if it was jinx telling vi she shouldn't have come back—as in, vi should've given up on her and left her to die a heroes death or something. this would make the "always with you sis." line also make more sense, as it would reinforce vi's belief to jinx that "nothing is ever going to change that [they're sisters]."