hakuna matata

Meanwhile Caitlyn sits alone outside in the pouring rain calling herself a ‘misfit’ whilst talking to her only friend who’s a grown ass man and practically her brother 😭😭

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if you pick them for the end of the new war...my god. their child self from the lowest point in their life is like "it has to be you" to save the solar system. they crossed realities to save a woman they never met, and go from stroking her cheek as she lays in her hospital bed (hey drifter that's not YOUR mom) to condescending to her in a paternalistic manner in the final mission (drifter tells her that ballas "put hooks in you that go deep. And you are not back to your fighting weight, lady," which is CRAZY for someone who literally admitted like fifteen minutes ago they do not know ballas's name. and that second sentence, yowza). they help her kill her abusive ex then princess carry her back to safety. And then they just kind of...smoothly step into the operator's life, if you let them.

they're tonally completely incorrect for all this and at its best, the writing kind of gets that! it starts with their extremely 21st century expressions, phrases like "stay cool" and "don't sweat it" which kind of read like action movie hero dialogue (appropriate for someone whose development was seriously derailed at a young age, and unlike the operator their past wasn't actively concealed from them and more of it seems to have stuck with them), and which ordis acknowledges as weird and unfamiliar. but the best exchange is in the orokin tower, when ordis is like "oh yeah the locals say this tower is inhabited by a spirit they call the unum," and the drifter very confidently goes "haunted, huh? nice trick to ward off would-be thieves" and it's so funny because they're SO wrong like fuck dude, you're so far out of your depth here even after whatever unclear time you've spent in the origin system, you don't even know that not only is unum real, cetus actually IS in the middle of a bunch of "haunted" plains because of fucking eidolons! but of course this ignorance costs them nothing, and unum even bails them out.

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I see so much hate toward Caitlyn everywhere, and it’s almost always justified through the most superficial reading imaginable, like people watched the show through their asses, I kid you not 😭

Here’s what I think…

Caitlyn’s entire character arc is empathy constantly fighting against conditioning, privilege, duty, love, rage, power, and finally grief… and some of y’all still analyze her with the emotional intelligence of a fucking TikTok comment section.

Half the fandom treats her like she’s just Vi’s pretty plus-one. A soft little submissive trophy girlfriend with no reason to exist outside of validating Vi’s pain, embodying her desires, and looking hot while doing it. Like she only exists to fulfill some lesbian fantasy and smile lovingly in the background. Yeah, season 1 Caitlyn is fucking perfect. She is hot and nice and empathetic and sweet…

But then she is confronted with trauma, in multiple forms: abuse, violence, grief… and most of all guilt. She blames herself because “she had the shot” to prevent her mother’s death. And I genuinely think it’s that guilt that completely blurs her perception of everything that unravels afterward and makes her feel justified in acting with such harshness.

And the SECOND she stops being emotionally convenient, the second she spirals, fucks up, acts out of grief, anger, pressure, inherited ideology, trauma, and responsibility, suddenly she’s fantasy Hitler personally committing war crimes for fun 😭

People either want Caitlyn to be harmless, innocent, and submissive or completely monstrous. There’s apparently no space in between.

It’s like they completely missed her constantly trying to challenge her own status and prove that she deserved her place beyond her name and legacy. Caitlyn never saw her privilege as freedom. If anything, she saw it as something suffocating, something that kept her disconnected from the real world and the people suffering in it.

She desperately wanted to understand how things truly worked outside of Piltover’s bubble and genuinely wanted to help the less fortunate. She always had that rebellious streak in her, which is exactly why Vi was destined to fall in love with her in the first place.

Reducing Caitlyn to anything less than that is honestly insulting to Vi too 😭 because Vi could never fall in love with someone ordinary ❤️

And what annoys me the most is that people constantly dismiss her trauma because she’s privileged. As if privilege magically makes grief hurt less. As if being kidnapped, abused by a crazy lunatic who ultimately caused her mother’s death, being manipulated politically, carrying impossible responsibility, and slowly realizing the system she believed in is rotten somehow shouldn’t affect her psychologically because she grew up rich.

Like sorry, but Caitlyn is one of the most nuanced characters in Arcane, and reducing her to either “perfect girlfriend” or “evil cop bitch” is such a painfully shallow reading of her character.