#because angst is a drug and i consume it recreationally

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Arcane AU idea:

Set like six months before Episode 1.

There's a big decrease in loyal enforcers and the council notices so they make a new initiative. A Junior Enforcers Program.

Anyway Vander hears this, thinks it over, and submits his kids into the program. He just wants them to have a good life, okay. He wants them to not have to steal to get by and he wants them to not go hungry. This is their one chance to make it topside and have a better life than he could ever give them.

So the kids, despite hating enforcers with a passion, go and take this test to see if they'd be good enforcers in the future.

But only Vi and Powder pass.

So with great reluctance, the two agree to at least try.

First day there they meet Caitlyn. Caitlyn, who just wants to make friends with similar interests to her. Caitlyn, a bit of a loner because no one else in the program wants to talk with the heiress of an old elite family.

Cue Vi and Powder, two of the few undercity kids in the program.

Caitlyn looks at this pink-haired tomboy and thinks "Yeah, I want that one" and makes it her mission to befriend and possibly date her.

She wins Powder over easily enough by giving her sweets and food, but Vi is hella suspicious of her because topsiders always screw them over.

Anyway a comedy of miscommunication happens where Vi tries desperately to figure out why Caitlyn is trying so hard to talk to them. She comes up with wild af theories.

When in reality Caitlyn just has a big ol lesbian crush and is trying to suss out if Vi might like her back.

(Powder of course knows, but she's enjoying the drama too much lol)

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Vi, stuffing a knife into her pocket: Take me out, you say? Not if I take you out first!

Caitlyn, trying on a cute outfit: I can't believe she agreed to go on a date with me!