Be my very own constellation

the eyebrows being dyed to match the eyeshadow

the spiky sideburns

the two hairstrands framing his forehead

the frosty shine on his hair / the gel under lights? making the hair shiny matching the ear/eye makeup

everything about his hair really im obsessed with it

the makeup in his ear

the more clean wing on the white swan eye and the smoky wing on the black swan eye

Hudson Williams on SiriusXM

About Connor: "He's an awful texter so not great in that way. But we'll just facetime each other. Or call each other randomly, very consistently. That has sort of been my stability especially through this. It's just having my best friend who is in the same position as I am."

About the team Canada fleece Shane wears at the Olympics: "I was trying to steal that and then I forgot to ask the wardrobe to give it to me at the end and I really wanted it. It's still my only regret from season 1. My only regret is not getting that fleece."

About Shane's coming out scene: "Some people don't have the benefit of having parents that maybe would be as supportive as his parents were. Even with his parents there's a degree of like clinical-ness to it I think. It's like what about Reebok, it's not the perfect open arms. But I hope that people can take the feeling that you're not alone and that's not something that should be a fantasy. It should be just want you kind of deserve. And whether that is your parents or not that you deserve a community and a family really that just kinda put their arms around you and let you know that you deserve that."

About the s*x scenes: "Fold me in half, turn me into a pretzel, every position, we didn't hit enough. Hopefully in season 2 we can fix that."

About pasta: "Spaghetti sucks. Rigatoni is awful. I like a noodle or a penne noodle. Or fettuccine"

About the Snoopy edits: "Yeah, I've seen a lot of just me next to Snoopy. I don't know if Snoopy comes first or me but I'll do something and then they'll show Snoopy doing that exact thing. I'm like did you create that or am I just Snoopy. I love Snoopy."

About his family's reaction to the show: "They love it. My mum was an instant fan, my dad as well. I think some other distant family members were like "is it a hockey show?" and I was like "yeah!"

About the Golden Globes: "I'm so excited. I'm hopefully not gonna pee myself or something."

About the most challenging emotional scene to shoot: "The coming out to my mum scene was really tough. Because I wouldn't go about it that same way. If I had this really emotional moment with like my mother in real life it would be just like "I'm sad, I'm just gonna cry, you're just gonna hold me" but that's not their relationship. It's a little bit more sterile, a little bit more guarded. My mum would be like "keep crying, let's cry forever". So like the lack of eye contact and things like that were kind of deliberate and I didn't feel as released as I would want as Hudson but as Shane it made sense."

About people speculating on his private life: "I don't care. You can look at whatever I said, I don't care. But the other people in my life, they don't want to be broadcasted. I'm pretty chill about it. On a scale of freaking me out it's like a 2 out of 10. I'm kind of indifferent. There are going to be people who have crazy reactions to it, but those people can kinda go take a hike. Because the people who have a healthy reaction to it are the only people that I care about or really respect for having like a developed frontal cortex. The rest is just Neanderthals."

# ILYA ROZANOV IS A COMEDIAN  

When Ekko is first introduced into the other world, he's disoriented, and we see him looking at himself confused as hell into the reflection.

Right after, thats where Powder pulls up in that universe. Powder here will be who I refer to as the non-traumatized version of Jinx, who she could've been and who she is in this alternative universe.

But, before we even get to see Powder, Ekko sees her reflection:

This isn't Powder's reflection, this isn't even her character model. This can be seen when we do actually see Powder:

Powder is smiling, her eyebags aren't as defined, her skin has these warm undertones, the front of her eyebrows aren't furrowed, and her sclera show under her iris isn't visible. But, in the reflection, we see what Ekko sees her as—the "deadpanned"master criminal", dangerous Jinx in his universe, the Jinx with cool, almost sickly skin, a frown, sharper eyes that show the sclera beneath her iris, and her eyebrows knit together like she's always disturbed.

And the craziest thing is, this scene only plays for 3 whole seconds in arcane.

THREE SECONDS

The attention to detail in arcane to show the audience the difference between the Jinx Ekko knows and the Powder he's meeting here is astounding, and the animators include these tiny details that they don't even know if people will ever appreciate, but they're still added.

TL;DR: the only timeline that could have worked was the one where Viktor gives Jayce the Acceleration rune, where Ekko invents the Z-drive, and where Jayce saves Viktor and gets his partner back.

Something we’ve seen pointed out is that the world rune that worked in this timeline was the Acceleration rune, which has the function of transportation through time and space. 

Ekko’s Z-drive was built by inverting Jayce’s Acceleration rune (this is important later).

We know from his experiments that the limit for reversing time is only 4 seconds. Any further back and it causes catastrophic harm to his surroundings. It’s implied that the further he overextends his Z-drive, the more disastrous the damage and radius of effect.

In the final battle against Viktor, we see Ekko overextend his Z-drive far beyond 4 seconds. Then, he yeets it at Viktor, whose mask is shattered from the impact.

We know that turning back time beyond 4 seconds causes catastrophic destruction of the surrounding areas: Jayce and Viktor, and perhaps countless others should have been caught up in the blast. But instead, we see something different:

Time stands still for a moment, courtesy of the boy who shattered time. 

Now things happen all in a manner of seconds: In the astral plane, we see Viktor comment on the anomaly that Ekko has created.

It’s something that Viktor as smart as he is, couldn’t have conceived— leave it to Ekko (and lest I forget, Heimerdinger and alt-Jinx) to show them all up.

This is debatable, but I firmly believe that Viktor with his awareness of all time and space, could have escaped or even survived the explosion.

It’s only Jayce, the only person who could show him what he showed him, that gets through to him in the end and convinces him to give up his Glorious Evolution.

"In all timelines, only you can show me this". Ekko is the catalyst but Jayce was the key.

Jayce returns the Acceleration rune to Viktor which kicks off a chain of events. The souls under Viktor’s control are freed from his grasp. Back in the real world, and back to the explosion, we see the following happening almost simultaneously: 

The blast from the Z-drive extends from Viktor’s reach to Jayce’s

The Acceleration rune embedded in Jayce’s wrist starts to glow from being activated by Jayce and Viktor in the astral plane

Jayce and Viktor are absorbed into the gem and the gemstone blips out of existence 

Recall that the Z-drive was created through an inversion of the Acceleration rune. To multiply something by its inverse, is to divide it by itself. The Acceleration rune multiplied by the Inversed Acceleration rune, cancels out the effect of the other: nullifying both the anomaly from the Z-drive but also the rune.

This explains why there was no larger explosion. Viktor and Jayce (who chose to stay) sacrificed themselves and took themselves out of the equation. Jayce and Viktor were the anomalies— just like the Z-drive should not have existed, neither should have Hextech.

Through all the timelines and permutations of runes that Viktor tried, the only combination that could have worked was in the timeline with the Acceleration rune. It couldn’t have worked if it was any other rune, if Ekko had never invented the Z-drive, or if Jayce had never convinced Viktor to give up his path of destruction, and got his partner back.

♪ As you wake up in a cold sweat Little girl, what goes on in your head? All this hatred in your heart, yet I mourn the most for all the things that I never said ♪