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rewatching arcane s1 to remind myself how great of a character Vi is

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What's funny is that Caitlyn would NOT have survived that fight with Sevika, the duration of that entire fight scene, Caitlyn doesn't have her gun, and when the two times she tries to - it glitches on her or Sevika is too fast for her.

You know that Caitlyn is just a self insert of Am@nda just because she doesn't want Caitlyn to lose to Sevika😂🙏🏾

Sevika would've actually BODIED Caitlyn, plot armor or not🙂‍↕️

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i really hope the writers didn't have Caitlyn lose an eye as a way to "punish" her in a "subtle" way, or to show the audience she suffered some kind of consequence for her bad actions after all.

people get hurt in a war or during a battle, it's how battles work, and in a realistic story like Arcane whether you get harmed should have nothing to do with how much you "deserve it" (just like in real life).

not to mention that the concept of a character becoming somehow disabled as a punishment for their bad actions is disgusting to say the least, and deeply rooted in bigoted/religious beliefs. we also see this concept with Victor in season 1, and the fact his disability is a consequence of the unhealthy place he grew up in, and not of something he did, gave me some hope that the writers had some idea of how to properly approach this theme.

but i fear they did, in fact, wrote that scene as a punishment moment, where Caitlyn "sacrifices" a part of herself in order to defeat the Real Bad Guy™ of the story, therefore "proving" to the audience she has "earned" the right to be forgiven.

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They were so wrong for making us believe that their relationship would be an important part of the season by releasing this as the first poster

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something absolutely insane i've seen some people use to defend caitlyn is that on-screen we're only seeing her gassing chem barons and similar combatants and i'd just like to point out that defending chemical warfare because it was "done against criminals" has both historical and moral implications that i cannot believe we're debating in the big year of 2025

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arcane's "cycle of violence" always takes me out like girl be serious you mean systemic oppression and class divide

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amanda overton apparently said during a discord call vi has found a family in caitlyn. more like she found another abusive jailor from piltover in caitlyn. but okay. if y'all happy with that.

blink twice if you need help, violet

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I'm so sad that hit netflix show arcane will never get a second season </3

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I’m back to rewatching s1 and I literally cannot believe how different the tone and story telling is from s2. It’s hard to believe it’s done by the same people.

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The fact they even captioned it: ""She did bad things!" AND SHE LOOKED GOOD DOING IT!!"

Fuck off bro....

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Creating Maddie just to be hated by the audience and then die is extremely gross, especially in the context of her being queer. She existed for the sole reason of adding drama between Cait and Vi even though there were already chasms to be bridged in that relationship because of their origins and class difference and Cait's entire arc this season, none of which were really addressed in the end. Between this, the treatment of Isha's character, the misogynoir in both Mel and Sky's cases, the erasure of Sevika, and making Ambessa a one-dimensional villain, I'm so beyond disgusted with the writing this season.

What a disappointment, what a gut-punch, and how offensive. So much for continuing to write dynamic, fleshed-out female characters. So much for good representation.

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i’ll say it! i’m sick of pretending some mainstream wlw/lesbian representation is good just because they fuck onscreen… i feel like public enemy number 1 rn but i just wish the bar for us wasn’t in HELL

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I will forever have personal beef with the Maddie being a traitor reveal, simply because it validated the people who were absolutely AWFUL about her character, even long before anything was confirmed. And not even because she was supposedly a traitor, but because she "got in the way of Caitvi."

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CAIT DIDN'T DESERVE VI I WILL SHOUT THIS FROM THE TOPS OF MOUNTAINS FOREVER

LET ME PREFACE THIS BY SAYING THAT I AM A LESBIAN SO THIS ISN'T COMING FROM A PLACE OF FUCKING HOMOPHOBIA THIS IS ME BEING PISSED THAT THE REPRESENTATION WE GOT WAS CRAP

I will once again be back on my bullshit about their "amazing sesbian lex scene" that pisses me off to no end because it gives me all I need to know about their relationship and what Cait thinks of Vi. Look at the goddamn scene, watch it. Watch what happens before they start kissing. Vi is in AGONY she thinks she's chosen WRONG again! She is laying out all her insecurities to Cait, she is telling Cait that she is SCARED of herself! She doesn't think she can EVER make the right decision to save the people she loves. She is in an extremely fragile state of mind right now, she desperately wants someone to be the right choice. Then Miss Priss casually props up her shoulder on the wall and SMIRKS at the girl she apparently loves who is having a MENTAL BREAKDOWN she has been punching the wall for hours at this point (based on her bloody knuckles) and berating herself for not listening to Cait over her own sister, and what does Cait say? What does she say so the supposed love of her life who is currently in ANGUISH over her inability to pick the right path and person? "you really think I needed all the guards at the hexgates? Sorry to say, you've grown a bit predictable". A sexy quip that may or may not boil down to "dw dollface I'll be the smart one in this relationship" are you kidding me Cait? Read the fucking room Vi was insanely sympathetic when you cried in her arms after losing your mom even though she grew up emotionally stunted (being in Zaun, and then Stillwater) and told you that she's going to find Jinx herself because she doesn't want anyone else important to you getting hurt over this, but she doesn't deserve the same level of sympathy after her sister left? Vi has been trying to salvage the relationship with her sister since before Cait met her and YET she doesn't get a hug, or empathy, no "well you chose me... and I'm still here" to make her feel better about her choice in Cait? Nothing? Just rile her up in her already volatile state where she's once again DESPERATE for someone to choose her, for a little pussy? An apology doesn't constitute a light touch to a wound where in Vi quickly shoves her arm away because she doesn't want to think anymore. That light touch DOES NOT equal "I'm sorry for hurting you and your people and trying to kill your sister multiple times for revenge and also tricking you into becoming the very thing you hate and also fucking someone else AND ALSO not being sympathetic in THIS MOMENT for the purpose of getting my metaphorical dick wet".

She pisses me off so fucking much and I'm eternally grateful for fanfic that addresses this and makes her less of a bitch to sweet lovely Vi. Just because Cait is the femme in the relationship doesn't make all she's done to Vi "cute" or not as serious. If the goddamn roles were reversed and big butch Vi was the one downplaying Cait's extensive Piltover related trauma, and goading her into a quick fuck people would be fucking PISSED so why the hell does Cait get a pass?

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I think most of the hatred that Caitlyn gets isn’t just the standard misogynistic hatred that female characters get, it’s hatred for the system she represents.

People forget that the enforcers are literally vessels to show Piltover’s dictatorship over Zaun. Enforcers started in LOL as a joke about police brutality (VI’s old attack names anyone?). In our current day and age it’s more than understandable why people might hate the character meant to be the oppressor. Caitlyn isn’t like Ekko or Jinx, she’s not fighting the system she’s a representative of the system.

I’m not saying nobody’s supposed to like her, the show wants to test your boundaries and make you think about stuff like this, I’m just sick of people not acknowledging the very real reasons people may not like Caitlyn. Right now in the US it’s not very fun or calming to see people fawning over a character that gassed a “lower people” with the way our politicians are acting.

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i personally think i would have liked s2 better if caitlyn instead:

became a class traitor, effectively and completely betraying piltover (and the enforcers) as a whole and accepting the fact that the council had the bomb jinx set off in S1 ep. 9 coming,

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acknowledged that while she has and always will love her mother, she can’t and won’t deny that she and her family also contributed to the corruption of piltover and the continued oppression of zaun and its ppl, and that their suffering should have never even happened to begin with.

(not to mention that if their oppression never existed in the 1st place, jinx would have never set off the damn bomb !!!)