@monjustmon as new lore comes out about silco and vander’s backstory in season 2 + tie in games, felicia feels more and more like a self insert than an actual character. common tropes in self shipping fics for silco and/or vander include:
knowing/being best friends with the pair before the fall out of the bridge. not only is felicia bffs with them but she’s so important to them that vander tried to kill silco over her death
being someone that silco admires for x, y, z. in felicia’s case, silco is just soooo impressed and thinks highly of her for having kids in the lane. nothing else. not her wits or ability to survive but that she’s “brave” enough to do it. as if she’s the only person popping out kids in zaun.
forced one-liners. were this a self shipping fic, i can bet you the title would have been “blisters and bedrock”, a line that felicia comes up with and vander loves it so much he quotes it to silco in his apologize letter.
grossly twisting silco and vander’s personality and canon to accommodate reader. look back at all the other points. i’m not the first to point out that felicia’s character serves little purpose and actually makes canon messier due to silco and vander never mentioning or hinting towards her existence in season one.
bland reader. the main character in reader inserts are supposed to be somewhat generic. they’re a vessel for reader to insert themselves into the story. what we know about felicia is very generic and it’s really not about how she feels but how she makes vander and silco feel.
so while no, she’s not shipped with either of them romantically, she does have all the hallmark traits of a reader insert character. hence the joke that arcane made their own self insert to compete with self shippers.
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