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Same face syndrome sucks, but what if Maddie looked more like Jinx? Not like blue hair or anything, more like nose, eye shape, and cheek bones. Where it's not immediately noticeable, but it's there if you just take a minute.

When Maddie gets more screen time, as we see her more with Caitlyn (and less with Vi), the similarities become more apparent. The more obsessed Caitlyn becomes with finding and capturing Jinx, the closer she gravitated to Maddie, the more Vi and Caitlyn drift. For Vi meanwhile, Maddies' resemblance to Jinx only serve to further alienate her from actually understanding her sister as Maddie is a (passively) hostile element in her new role as an enforcer. Vi can't escape the shadow of her sister and the way Jinx's presence, let alone her actions affect her life her life in Piltover, Zaun, and with Caitlyn.

Even better, when Caitlyn and Maddie officially hook up, it' really when she's down the rabbit hole on Jinx and just enables her worst traits, like her issues with power imbalances. It already wasn't great with Vi but with Maddie looking more like Jinx, it's not just the implication of Caitlyn having power over Maddie, but Caitlyn having some kind of power over Jinx, even if she's a substitute.

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a lot of people call the inciting incident of berserk's golden age arc (or the eclipse, more specifically) a classic case of miscommunication between guts and griffith, which is true, but what i like about it is that i seriously cannot imagine a scenario in which they do communicate openly with one another. i can kind of see guts opening up under certain circumstances, but griffith? impossible. the only reaction i see him having to guts confiding in him about what he heard him say to the princess on that night and how that sparked his desire to find his own dream and be a person worthy of standing by griffith's side, someone who can become his friend and equal, isn't 'guts, i already think of you as a friend and equal. i have admired you from the first time we met, so much so that i cannot envision a future in which you're no longer at my side. you have nothing to prove to me :)', it's 'ah, you shouldn't worry about those things, guts. you'll always be at my side, because you are mine. i won you, so you belong to me, forever :)' which could, somehow, make things even worse. maybe.

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guts and griffith + erotism: death and sensuality, georges bataille

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One of the most effortlessly stunning Griffith panels I think. Incredibly injured yet still serving insane levels of cunt

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Sinner & Saint

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Tiny Griffith 🤏🏼🩵

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i adore the detail on griffith's eyes here. he definitely shed much more tears than we know, probably until morning giving the fact that this scene happens the day after he slept with princess charlotte. and people still think that griffith was sad just because he lost his "favorite tool", the key to his dream.

like, just look at this man. he's completely destroyed!

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wish i could forget

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Perhaps not all straight men but many such cases

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my favorite part of arcane season 2 was when ekko and jinx got married and raised isha and ruled over zaun together. truly an amazing ending wouldn't change a thing haha

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griffith moment

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only princesses allowed at tea party

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it’s kind of amazing how vi had absolutely no character arc this season. like i don’t know if that even counts a character at all. feels like ai tried writing her. she became a cop, cried, served cunt, got an ugly haircut, cried and then fucked caitlyn. 10/10 writing 😍😍😍 so complex and thought provoking and definitely addresses all the interesting aspects about her identity and violence in s1

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No actually I need to add on more to this. Arcane very unfortunately suffers the same issue that a lot of "progressive" shows suffer in Western media, where they go like "here are some real, systemic issues that exist and look at the consequences of these issues", and then either (1) forget to continue with the theme, and/or (2) don't do anything about it beyond slap on a half-hearted Band-Aid solution that never addresses it.

Caitlyn gassing civilians; lack of accessibility for Viktor which created barriers for him due to his disability; enforcers as oppressors, going hand in hand with Noxian imperialism; Jayce weaponzing hextech, and him already having killed a child because of it; not a single moment is really spent on any of these in S2. If anything, the enforcers are really flattened at the end of this season with little nuance, the complexity that shone in characters like Marcus and Grayson disappearing. Many Piltovan characters do not get even a single second of introspection as to how their actions actively contribute to the oppression of Zaun.

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we are infinite

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the first three episodes of arcane s2 have done a fucking PHENOMENAL job at reminding us exactly who caitlyn is and where she stands.

in season 1 she’s presented as this plucky rookie cop who just wants to do good. she gets vi out of jail after she sees that she was arrested for nothing, she sneaks around behind the councils back, she’s fighting with her parents. can’t you see, she’s just trying to help!

then season 2 absolutely wallops you over the head with her actual position. she’s not some random rookie cop with a heart of gold. she’s caitlyn. fucking. KIRRAMAN. her family basically run the city. she *is* privilege. she’s rich and she’s powerful and she bloody well knows it. at every turn in the first three episodes someone reminds us who she is and the power the kirraman name holds (if it’s not caitlyn herself). why is she here? she’s a kirraman. why are we letting her do this? she’s a kirraman. why won’t you stop her? she’s a kirraman. why is she calling the shots? SHES A KIRRAMAN. they don’t let you forget who she is. not like in season 1. vi is the only person allowed to forget who she is. vi calls her “cait” and everyone else bends a knee. ITS SO FUCKING GOOD