it's the middle of the night and i'm feeling a little insane so i just wanted to say that the plot of arcane was built on the shoulders of caitlyn kiramman being almost impossibly good until that goodness was taken advantage of by every single person around her, whether deliberately or inadvertently.
she doesn't have to fight, doesn't need to investigate, doesn't need to treat others with the sheer amount of kindness that she does—yes, she's sheltered but she listens, she takes in new information, and she isn't selfish for a second. people like to say haha she'd do anything for her butch but that's not it. it's not simpering, it's not fawning, it's a giving kind of generosity that asks for nothing in return, that comes from someone who's always had so much but never gotten what she's really wanted, for someone to see her for who she is, both caitlyn and kiramman and so, so good, but still human.
still human, pushed to her limits, isolated from any support system, trapped in spaces and roles that constantly remind her of how she got her mother killed, and yet still doing her own investigations, coming to her own conclusions, breaking out from under Ambesa's thumb on her own, all this before she bumped into Vi again.
It's a crime to hide these in the tags, @loycos.
