venusjinx

Does anyone else find it incredibly strange that a character who is supposed to be a victim of physical abuse kept getting beat up by her love interest

the writers were very deliberate with the horrific oppression of zaun and caitlyn’s spiral into fascist dictatorship, and yet, nothing got resolved. only one individual was made a representative of zaun, while piltover has several. zaun won’t be heard, because it wasn’t given the chance to, even when one of their own was put on the council. caitlyn didn’t redeem herself, because nothing that she sacrificed or did could undo the fact that she gassed the people who her society oppressed. she quite literally weaponized the gas that was created as a result of the labor of the oppressed, which we know permanently disables and decreases the lifespan of those who are exposed to it longterm (the only ones affected by this are zaunites). her story feels wrong because she suffers no actual repercussions for her horrendous actions. the story falls flat and the writing seems disingenuous because decisions like this were made. they cared more about a ship than they did about either caitlyn or vi and both characters suffered for it. caitlyn faces no consequences for her actions and vi is made a narrative device who has no opinion and immediately sacrifices her morals and forgives caitlyn. this results in them having sex in a jail cell very similar to the one vi lived in for years because of people like caitlyn. it is very… weird.

Hot take, but in a show where our main characters go through shit like being falsely imprisoned as a teenager and being robbed of several years, accidentally killing your entire family and being blamed for it, being saved from a deadly snow storm by a wizard in a world where people are against magic, growing up with disabilities directly caused by the government's pollution, and being exiled from your family and home as a teenager and forced to grow up in an unfamiliar land... A singular parent dying instantly is literally nothing. I'm not sympathetic to Caitlyn's trauma because literally everyone else has gone through way worse shit and ended up way more normal than Caitlyn. Caitlyn's hardships, which at the start of s2 is literally ONLY being kidnapped by Jinx, sustaining a small injury from Jinx, and having lost her mother, don't mean shit to me! You lost your mom? Girl look around literally EVERY CHARACTER in arcane does not have parents- to the point where even their ADOPTIVE parents die! The only character besides Caitlyn who had two living parents (that we know of) was Mel. I literally never want to hear this "oh but Cait's mom died and that's a horrible thing to go through and had it been my own mom I would have done worse" bullshit ever again.

I feel like Jinx calling Silco 'dad' when he's fucking her would freak him out but he'd get used to it as time goes by.

Silco about Jinx.