Amber light fractures like cathedral glass around Piltover's shrewdest power broker. Braided crown, folded hands, a gaze forged from calculated resolve - flanked by echoes of the girl she once was and the legacy she's building. Blood-red roses bloom against gold and stained glass, framing Mel Medarda in full regal command. This officially licensed Arcane premium metal poster captures her mosaic-style portrait in rich amber and crimson detail - powerful, poised, unmistakably her. 

this poster but medardas c:

I tried to capture an internal emotional state when she cooperated with her deadly enemy against her family(or something like this, I watched the Arcane season like 2 years ago). And here she looks up at the sky with silent question "what's next?/ or /Am I doing right?" Inner conflict.

Of course, nowadays I would add more emotion to better convey that feeling, but it is what it is.

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Another old art of mine, this art has some issues but I love it SO MUCH. Technically for me personally it's a masterpiece, from time to time I'm re-watching the art make the image bigger and looking at details.

To the certain fans, Viktor is hopelessly in love with Jayce but Jayce doesn’t know it yet. He likes Viktor too, but is enamored by Mel’s slutty, sexual tempting beauty and chooses her over Viktor even tho, deep down, he loves and wants Viktor more than Mel. (You’re typical jock and library girl in 2000s rom-com)

To them, Mel knows this. She is a master manipulator who sees Jayce as a toy. (You’re typical bad girl in 2000s rom-com that the Jock is dating).

Jayce foolishly thinks that she’s good and only wants hextech to help the poor and misfortunate (despite her not ever telling him that and despite Jayce wanting hextech to make Piltover greater so idek where that came from) but Viktor sees through her deceit, lies, and sexual advances (even tho they barley interact). He’s not easy to fool but Jayce is. Bc he’s a man and thinks with his dick. But he’s also a child so he doesn’t know anything and can’t think for himself.

To them, Mel and Viktor hate each other…well more Mel than Viktor. Mel hates him bc she can’t control him and knows Jayce actually loves Viktor grrrrr😡.

In the alternate universe, Jayce realizes that Viktor is his lover the whole time. He realized he was deceived by Mel and made a mistake choosing her over Viktor (the flame scene of Mel “turning into Viktor” while ignoring the detail of both of them having blacked out, empty eyes).

So, he goes back and is done with Mel. He calls her out on all her bs and breaks up with her and dies with his one true love.

Genuinely reading this over, it’s like a whole different show. I feel crazy bc I can’t even see where they’re getting this from. I can see why ppl ship them ofc. But to actually, 100%, believe that this is what happened in the show is just…umm…interesting 💀

But you can’t have any honest discussion bc if you make Mel seem like a morally grey character like everyone else…if you make it seem that she and Jayce have similar goals with hextech, that relationships commonly start out with what one can gain from the other, that Jayce is a grown man that makes his own decisions, that Jayce benefited from Mel, that Viktor and Mel had a grown-up disagreement over weapons, that Mel did care for Jayce and for Viktor, that Jayce wasn’t rly in his right mind at that argument bc of his trauma, then this take on the show crumbles.

Handsome Caitlyn Week day 1

oohhhhh my prince...

"I stopped being part of this family the moment you cast me out. Why ? Why did you do it ?"

- Mel

"She wanted to go back to that night she spent with Menelik and ask him where she fell short in his eyes. [...] Why was she not enough?"

- Ambessa

If she went back to them, they'd know she was weak. [...] They would reject her, all of them, Tora, Rictus, Ambessa. They would call her worthless, just like her parents had whenever she lost in the arena.

-Rell

Let's be crushed under the weight of parental expectations with mama :)

I bet they're no longer allowed anywhere near a pool table 😩I love the idea that every time Caitlyn and Vi play pool, it somehow ends up like this (Part 1) 

ok i know bite marks is about the vibe of noxus in general but if you reaaally want to, you can make a reading of the song that's specifically about mel. my interpretation below for funsies :)