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#like Jayce Talis in Arcane
windona · 8 months
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There's something so crunchy and rich about a character who genuinely, courageously, and vehemently tries to do the right thing all the time... but because the world is complicated and they don't always have all the information, they don't always know what the right thing is or the efforts they do end up not working out like they thought.
It's interesting, leads to excellent conflict and character exploration. It gets a good theme with regarding what is the right thing in complicated circumstances, and can lead to interesting plots and consequences. It's realistic in a good way.
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mister-sol · 1 year
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more jayvik sketches. in this one viktor has cat ears because I said so
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bedknees · 7 months
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"It's impossible for a piece of media to have a perfect, thematically flawless ending."
Arcane:
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literaryspinster · 11 months
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My girl really got her heart stolen by this cuddly idiot 🥹
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He was like “we hooked up once so now you have to occasionally let me be sad in your lap.” And she was like “that’s perfect logic actually.”
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arcanegifs · 1 year
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Favorite Arcane Scenes: 4/? ↳ Don't mess with Officer Cupcake.
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toytle · 7 months
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(commission wip) i will never ever tire of drawing pouty expressions, what are they so fun to draw for
+ pouts in the past:
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😗
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melmedarda · 3 months
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Happy Valentine's day.
⸻ JAYCE TALIS & MEL MEDARDA, Arcane ep 5
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sharpace · 1 year
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50. Nicknames
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letters-to-rosie · 2 months
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honestly this is probably just because I recently referenced it in a paper for my prof who's a big Marx fan but the family structures in Piltover/Zaun remind me of the passage in the communist manifesto where they're like the traditional family structure is only something you get to have if you're bourgeois because capitalism's destroyed it
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stromblessed · 5 months
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Mel 🔆, Viktor 🌌, and Jayce 🔥 symbolism
SUN 🔆
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Mel's association with the sun is self-evident and still mostly shrouded in mystery, though her love scene with Jayce is notable, which is overlaid with starry imagery, where her silhouette and her freckled face are compared to the cosmos. The sun is also a star. It's just the star that's closest to Runeterra and has the most influence over the world.
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Mel and the Hexcore are the POVs of the scene.
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Hexcore and starry imagery is more strongly and consistently associated with someone else, though!
STARS 🌟 / THE COSMOS 🌌
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Viktor's blue to purple pipeline is real
But seriously, the starry/swirly shapes point toward distant stars, the cosmos, a galaxy. There is no moon in Viktor's night scenes throughout the season, only stars.
Viktor's character regresses as the season goes on (blue to purple, ready to fall into Shimmer-like magenta as his corruption nears its peak).
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His hubris opens him up to some kind of corruption by the Hexcore, or by whatever - or whoever - is using the Hexcore as a gateway, like what Jinx points out. Singed as his mentor plants and encourages the lie that Viktor believes, that he's better off alone and that the ends justify the means.
These perfectly ruinous circumstances lead to him getting Sky killed (Sky like sky blue, like Inspiration, lost as Viktor has lost sight of good in his pursuit of great).
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In his running scene, Viktor runs not from left to right, filmspeak for progression - he runs from right to left, as though backstepping.
(And also for the Rocky Balboa reference called out in this brilliant post, but hey, I think it all works)
It's also worth laying the foundation that Viktor is a fantasy interpretation of Nikola Tesla, the Serbian-American inventor who was fascinated with electricity, radio signals, the cosmos, and [REDACTED for another post probably lol]
If you've fallen down the rabbit hole of League lore like I have, you might have picked up that peoples and warriors who are sun-worshipers are (at least anciently) tasked with hunting down and destroying Void beings, who are eldritch beings associated with the distant stars, or are Runeterrans constructed by the Void Watchers trapped between realms. The sun fights against interlopers from other dimensions or celestial bodies.
Mel and Viktor have the same ideas about risk and the nature of progress, and they are both technically foreigners living in Piltover and pursuing that progress - in two very different (but complementary) ways. They are most likely the two characters whose literal bodies are celestial, imbued with the Arcane. Their bodies are most likely augmented with magical metals.
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Yet the arcane imagery that seems to accompany them respectively are diametrically opposed - Sun vs. Void, possibly. (Also, purple and yellow/gold are opposite or complement colors on the color wheel.)
Whether they wind up working together or whether they clash (as Viktor loses himself) or if it's a mix of both, I think Mel and Viktor are destined to collide in season 2.
So where does this leave Jayce?
FIRE 🔥
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Fire for Jayce means more than one thing. The first thing that should come to mind is the fire of the forge. Creation and industry. The legacy and hard work of his family.
However, his FIRST imagery with fire occurs when Elora says "Speak of the devil" and Jayce is framed in flames at Mel's fundraising party.
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He's similarly framed in the flames of a Molotov cocktail on the bridge between Piltover and the undercity with Viktor, after he's just called the people of the undercity dangerous.
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What I think we're being shown here are Jayce's choices. He can use his talents and influence for good - creation and industry - or he can use them for destruction and oppression. A hammer can create.
A hammer can also be a weapon, a tool of destruction:
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Fire can quickly burn and spread out of control.
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Hey look, blue all the way to magenta in one scene!
And if you know his original League lore, the reason why his rivalry with [REDACTED] crosses the point of no return - fire and destruction. Yeah.
Jayce is interesting because his point position in the Mel-Viktor-Jayce trifecta makes it tempting to assign celestial imagery to him, too. However, adult Jayce is only present with Hexcore, star, and sun imagery when he is sharing a scene with Viktor or Mel respectively.
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The show makes it a point that Mel and Viktor are the reasons he is the Man of Progress at all:
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Note that Jayce in the center of his Man of Progress posters is backed by a gear (Viktor) and the sun (Mel). If Viktor had not intervened in episode 2, Jayce would be dead or disenfranchised. If Mel had not intervened in episode 3, then Jayce AND Viktor would have been kicked out of the Academy if not imprisoned or exiled, and Hextech with Jayce and Viktor at the helm would not exist.
(This is reaching, but I like to interpret that the circle + notches in the gear shape are like Viktor's star symbolism, but even if that's the big reach that I think it is, Viktor is a machinist, engineer, and techmaturgist with Artificer parents - the gear definitely represents him on a meta level)
The imagery that I believe is Jayce's and Jayce's alone is that of fire. He is terrestrial, using magic contained within tools the way he has always wanted to bring Hextech to every household, while Mel and Viktor are influenced by magic on a whole other level.
Sure would be a shame if Jayce found a reason to choose the path of destruction and be corrupted further, diverging from Mel and Viktor's core values
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Sure would be a shame if Viktor's personal choices had consequences that radiated out further than season 1 and he gets put on a disastrous collision course with everything that Jayce and by extension Piltover hates and fears
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Sure would be stressful for us if Arcane decided to be a Greek tragedy about it
Though possibly the most important piece of this picture is how Mel - gold like the sun, gold that doesn't tarnish or rust, gold that is an excellent conductor - has already faced the abyss and said NO to her own corruption:
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It sure would be something for her to have to watch Jayce and Viktor go down a different path, huh
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binghe-malewife-goals · 10 months
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The one thing I fucking love about Mel and her interactions with Jayce is the fact she's always like "maybe you should be with Viktor since he's. You know. Dying."
She has more emotional intelligence than jayvik combined.
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hangingoffence · 1 year
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heyyyy have this old arcane/lol 'comic'
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i borrowed (stole) the line from a mortal kombat (i think 11) intro bc it fits them
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xxnelli · 1 year
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Happy pride month!!
Viktor and Jayce are celebrating their first pride together :)
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mister-sol · 1 year
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Found these among my files, they’re from a little JayVik comic I was making but I gave up halfway through it and now I have no idea where i was going with it sooo I’m just gonna post them like this
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arcanegifs · 1 year
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Favorite Arcane Scenes: 7/? ↳ "I'm working." "Oh, I can see that. I mean, there's so much crime to thwart outside your family's tent."
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haemosexuality · 4 months
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small brain: the scene where jayce gets it on w mel and the scene where sky asks viktor out and he refuses are paralleled to show that jayce has decided to focus on politics (mel) and neglect his partnership with viktor, while viktor continues to focus on science and experimentation (as well as poiting out viktors growing isolation from those around him).
big brain: the scene where jayce gets it on w mel and the scene where sky asks viktor out and he refuses are paralleled to show that viktor is not interested in women and is gay. and in love with jayce.
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