Netflix's "Arcane" (League of Legends)

[jorgoth]

I watched Arcane for the first time in late 2023, right around the time of the attacks on Israel, and maybe that made me biased in favor of seeing Israel/Palestine parallels with this show. For me the best evidence for that is Jinx's rocket attack on the Council. Homemade rockets are also the signature weapon of Hamas. The attacks on Israel and the left's support for Palestine have led a lot of Jews to circle the wagons with respect to the left and really kind of ruin their relationship with it. Maybe they thought an escalation of the Zaun/Piltover war would look too much like pro-Palestine sympathy and they pulled every retarded hack fraud trick in the book to distract from it.

It feels like this season's story weirdness is about making the conflict about everything other than Zaun/Piltover, when Season 1 it was front and fucking center. You have Piltover vs. Ambessa, Jayce vs Viktor, interdimensional bullshit, Mel vs the Black Rose, everything but the obvious. Alongside that you have Jinx, almost the crux of the disagreements between Zaun and Piltover season 1, randomly going un-crazy and un-murderous, effectively deradicalizing Zaun.

 

[Mystery Spy]

Speaking of Jinx. While I do think season 2 was a regression of her character for the sake of “muh tragedy”, one of the things I liked is that they actually tried to, since season 1 is that didn‘t just make her a quirky Harley Quinn clone.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like Harley when so is done right. But Jinx here really does feel like an insane woman that was broken by trauma. I still think the MCU multiverse thing was a waste of time, because you could have made the same point in other ways, but I think seeing how Jinx could’ve been as Powder was one of its few saving graces. It highlights her tragedy,

Tough, having VI give up on her so easily on season 2 just made her seem worse. She treated Jinx as this unredeemable pure evil person, and she really wasn’t. She was perfectly fine with her girlfriend killing her mentally I’ll sister. And she seemed completely oblivious of it all throughout season 2. Up to the point that point Ekko, whom had barely interacted with them, was the only one to actually care to stop her from suicide.

 

[Chandelier]

Speaking of Jinx. While I do think season 2 was a regression of her character for the sake of “muh tragedy”, one of the things I liked is that they actually tried to, since season 1 is that didn‘t just make her a quirky Harley Quinn clone.

Jinx, along with Viktor, was absolutely butchered this season. At the end of S1 we thought we were going to see someone fully in tune with her madness, ready to do whatever it took to enact Silco's will. She was his dream, his perfection, his daughter. She was perfect, just as she was.

Then she stops having hallucinations once Isha shows up, grows depressed after her useless sacrifice, and then tries to kill herself.

As I said before, Jinx struck me as the type to kill herself with fanfare, a 'fuck you' type of death where she'd go out on her own terms. It would not be a miserable death; she knew full well what she wanted. A type of suicide where life is measured in day-to-day actions and the disregard for tomorrow. S1 was praised for how it handled her mental illness; such care was not applied in S2. In fact, it wrote it out of the plot, and said that the only way to break the cycle is to kill yourself. Which, in other contexts, is valid, but not here.

Don’t get me wrong, I do like Harley when so is done right. But Jinx here really does feel like an insane woman that was broken by trauma. I still think the MCU multiverse thing was a waste of time, because you could have made the same point in other ways, but I think seeing the Jinx could’ve been Powder was one of its few saving graces. It highlights her tragedy,

The MCU plot of 'we're facing the biggest battle we ever have' in the last two episodes will forever be retarded, especially as the whole Glorious Evolution could have been prevented. Jayce, in case you didn't notice, has his leg broken - which he fixed, by himself - and now he's allegedly occupying Viktor's former role as the token cripple when he's fine swinging around that massive hammer without any impact on his leg. (BTW, piece of trivia: the robot he kills and that also chokes Jayce in that homoerotic scene is Huck, the Shimmer addict. Weird how he got a female robot body.) Jayce's 'humility' is unearned and I'm still pissed at him pulling the 'your imperfections made you who you are' when Viktor absolutely should have broken his neck then and there. S1 Jayce - or even Act 1! - would have said something along the lines of: "You did everything to try to fix yourself. Cure yourself and others of illness and human weakness. It's admirable, it truly is - and what you did for your people is nothing short of selfless. But where does free will come in? You told me there is always a choice. There is no choice here! You want perfection by stripping people of all the things that make them great - that is not evolution, Viktor. Evolution means to adapt and change against all odds, you told me that once. This is insanity. You know it, I know it. There's always a choice. Give these people theirs."

See? I had Jayce appeal to rationality and not emotion, and instead of insulting Viktor, praised him for what he did while also calling him out. And no tone deafness!

Tough, having VI give up on her so easily on season 2 just made her seem worse. She treated Jinx as this unredeemable pure evil person, and she really wasn’t. She was perfectly fine with her girlfriend killing her mentally I’ll sister. And she seemed completely oblivious of it all throughout season 2. Up to the point that Ekko, whom had barely interacted with them at that point, was the only one to actually care to stop her from suicide.

Vi was pretty much sidelined this entire season when it was supposed to be about her. Imagine if we delved into her pit fighting arc and how she grapples with being an Enforcer and gassing her people. Imagine that, instead of the bullshit mine Vanderwick scene, Warwick appears as the Wrath of Zaun and she has to grapple with the fact her adoptive father is gone. Imagine Warwick butchering people at a pit fight because he can smell their blood, and he recognizes hers. "You...I remember you...you said my name once." Before sending her on another spiral.

 

[Inside your walls]

One of the more prominent Viktor players has received a message from Christian Linke regarding on why Viktor's visual update completely overhauled his character. Basically explaining that Viktor's previous design was hecking problematic and stereotypical.

>Viktor does not hold up today's creative standards
>Proceeds to make him into a generic twink mage

Sorry Viktor players, but the twink on ozempic is here to stay

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

One of the more prominent Viktor players has received a message from Christian Linke regarding on why Viktor's visual update completely overhauled his character. Basically explaining that Viktor's previous design was hecking problematic and stereotypical.
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>Viktor does not hold up today's creative standards
>Proceeds to make him into a generic twink mage

Sorry Viktor players, but the twink on ozempic is here to stay

I really wish this triggers the inner Mexican of the Russians & we get a Speedy Gonzalez 2.0 happen.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

Don’t get me wrong, I do like Harley when so is done right. But Jinx here really does feel like an insane woman that was broken by trauma. I still think the MCU multiverse thing was a waste of time, because you could have made the same point in other ways, but I think seeing how Jinx could’ve been as Powder was one of its few saving graces. It highlights her tragedy,

I will credit the show for doing a decent job of the whole "the unhinged person is friendly enough that you could theoretically just grab them by the shoulders and ditch it all and save them, but you both know the reality is they're too far gone and have to die for the cause" schtick. You know, they're all the way to the right, and they can only really do one far-left action in a climax cause they're too indoctrinated to gradually and safely go from right to left. I can't really put my finger on any other cases of this but it feels familiar as hell.

I guess Thufir Hawat, sorta? "My boy, look at this nigga thinking I'd betray you" *dies*.

One of the more prominent Viktor players has received a message from Christian Linke regarding on why Viktor's visual update completely overhauled his character. Basically explaining that Viktor's previous design was hecking problematic and stereotypical.

Yea, surely russians don't want to be associated with a successful cool-ass metal mage. Like how mexicans hate that fast rat.. oh wait

 

[Chandelier]

One of the more prominent Viktor players has received a message from Christian Linke regarding on why Viktor's visual update completely overhauled his character. Basically explaining that Viktor's previous design was hecking problematic and stereotypical.
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>Viktor does not hold up today's creative standards
>Proceeds to make him into a generic twink mage

Sorry Viktor players, but the twink on ozempic is here to stay

They might think twinks are sexy, but a man who improves himself, and wishes to achieve the highest form of evolution by himself, and uses people's intelligence to achieve that instead of making them useless automatons - he respects function over form - that is way sexier. The entire point of the Glorious Evolution was him saying 'JOIN ME', meaning you had a CHOICE, and goddamn if what he offered wasn't fucking cool. Better than being an Arcane zombie.

Pic related:

I will credit the show for doing a decent job of the whole "the unhinged person is friendly enough that you could theoretically just grab them by the shoulders and ditch it all and save them, but you both know the reality is they're too far gone and have to die for the cause" schtick. You know, they're all the way to the right, and they can only really do one far-left action in a climax cause they're too indoctrinated to gradually and safely go from right to left. I can't really put my finger on any other cases of this but it feels familiar as hell.

I guess Thufir Hawat, sorta? "My boy, look at this nigga thinking I'd betray you" *dies*.

They weren't even willing to dive into Caitlyn's Il Duce arc. Why would they treat Jinx's illness the same way? The care in S1 was gone. If S2 was like S1, Silco would have been her 'grounding' spirit, while others would still have mocked her. She would still have been pissed at Cait taking away her sister.

Yea, surely russians don't want to be associated with a successful cool-ass metal mage. Like how mexicans hate that fast rat.. oh wait

Linke got miffed at shippers for getting angry that JayVik was not canon (he had said that he didn't think it was romantic, cue the deluge of them saying animators said otherwise and how Jayce's VA supprots the ship yadda yadda) and endured that outcry, but this shit actually gets me mad. Stating 'it's not not up to creative standards' is another way of saying, 'it's just not up to modern standards', as if Russians never had a long standing culture of robotics and fascination with sci-fi. Viktor as the 'stereotypical Russian cyborg' augmented himself as a grand 'fuck you' to the people who stole everything from him, and as one tumblr post put it, it's way sexier for a man to use his own blood, sweat and tears to transform himself than use some Arcane magic to become a twink mage. Viktor's entire philosophy was improving and transforming the body to achieve the highest forms of evolution; his Arcane S2 self thinks evolution means becoming mindless automatons when his LoL self would have an issue with that, mainly: how can one evolve if one has no capacity to evolve? The automatons don't even DO anything; they're just puppets. Viktor, even at his Marvel villain self, used people's free will against them. He still understood what free will meant and could do!

Even 4chan notices some things:

 

[Inside your walls]

Yea, surely russians don't want to be associated with a successful cool-ass metal mage. Like how mexicans hate that fast rat.. oh wait

Not to politisperg but I think stripping of Viktor's Russian origins and inspirations was a very deliberate move due to Russians becoming the no-no people because whole Russian-Ukraine discourse. I wouldn't be surprised with this decision because ever since that whole shitshow began many western creators either removed any references to Russian heritage in characters or just completely retired/removed them.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

I still think the MCU multiverse thing was a waste of time, because you could have made the same point in other ways, but I think seeing how Jinx could’ve been as Powder was one of its few saving graces. It highlights her tragedy,

Up to the point that point Ekko, whom had barely interacted with them, was the only one to actually care to stop her from suicide.

I think my favorite episode of this entire season was the Ekko episode. I know multiple-universe stuff is so overdone, but hear me out. For a brief moment, Ekko was given an absolutely beautiful world. He saw things as they could have been. His dance with Powder and furball's folk music really got to me. Ekko chose to go back because he had to. He had responsibility. Where little fur was fine with living there forever, Ekko could never give up on the people he knew he had to help. When the other Ekko is in front of him at the portal, it felt like he didn't even realize the other Ekko needed to be back as well. His focus was on what he believed was right no matter the cost. He has one of the most complete character arc this season and I hate that's the only real screen time he gets.

Then she stops having hallucinations once Isha shows up, grows depressed after her useless sacrifice, and then tries to kill herself.

Isha's sacrifice feels so fucking stupid. There's an emotional musical montage of Jinx being saved by this adopted sister that comes out of nowhere. And then she died. For fucking nothing. Ekko comes back and saves a girl who fell in love with him in another life ... and it was for nothing.

I realize Game-o-Thones has made people cry for the gritting, harsh gut punch of removing character's plot armor. But real risk still requires some emotional reward.

And that's what really got me about Season 2. It was incredibly well produced. The art was amazing, The show kept me engaged. But it was really fast and everything felt unearned. When I saw Vi in that tent, I could easily predict it was a double-cross .. and it was, but why? Why the hell would police-general switch sides here. If she had an episode like Ekko's, or hell even 30 min where she was confornted with the torture Black Warrior Bitch had used against her enemies, or questioning her fanaticism ... that would be something. But no. There are so many loyalties that just flip to keep the plot progressing, and they just don't work.

I did like the Viktor/Jayce arc in a lot of ways. This felt like moral ambiguity done right. Viktor seems like an incredibly benevolent prophet. But then Jayce murders one of his aocolytes. Viktor said there was darkness in Jayce, but I immediately wondered what we missed; Viktor was being a bit too Jesus/God like .. would that be the fall? Sure it's predictable, but it didn't feel as unearned. Even if it is the classic story of the "two alchemists becoming gods" idea we see in so many other stories (Record of Lodoss War, Sea of Stars, RWBY (sorta)). In that ending I was thinking "oh please god don't let them fag out" .. and thankfully they didn't. We saw the love of two brothers, both led astray by moral complexity, coming together to sacrifice themselves to fix this one thing (why did it need sacrifice? Who cares. They kinded needed to die heros. Acceptable).

But all the other deaths and story arc conclusions felt so damn hollow. Jinx's life is saved by Ekko, and he almost rips himself apart in the fabric of time, and then nothing ... all to kill Vanderwolf and redeam herself? .. again? Nothing of her being a "big fat hero" .. none of the three factions at the end with Jinx's bluehairs following her?

I didn't rewatch Season 1, just saw a few recaps .. and I'm glad I didn't bother because they basically threw out evey basic interesting story arc for the big Marvel Endgame battle.

..and the ending has the two lesbians. Several men just died to save the world. Most of the women .. and Ekko ... survive. They could have at least bookended with a memorial like the first episode, but with less mournful tone and more heroic .. with statues of Viktor and Jayce as the hero; the friends become brothers who layed down their lives .. with Ekko looking upon it just a little too close to Jinx. Instead we get "I'm the dirt under your fingernails" from the lesbians, not even morning all the people they had lost.

The production was so good, the music incredible, the art beautiful and yet ever emotional feeling I had felt unearned. Like they stole heartfelt moments with a emotional music but shallow story.

Questions (I have so many)

• Who actually called the funeral hit? It seemed like it was implied black warrior bitch was the one who secretly ordered it and then defeated it for her gain? Is that ever explained? Why is there zero dialog between the girls about the funerl massacar?
• Was there an episode in season 1 where Ekko was out of character (where other-world Ekko would have swapped in?) I vagely thought there was .. that would have been a great foreshadowing (like the mage in the blizzard who gives Jayce the rune being Viktor, or the alchemist taking Vander's body).
• Did furball kick the other version of him into another universe? I thought he said "See you in a week" implying he knew he'd go back to that world, but maybe I misheard it. There's no season 3, so his story just kinda ... ends

I really liked season 1. I was entertained by season 2, but it just really didn't sit right with me.

 

[Mystery Spy]

When the other Ekko is in front of him at the portal, it felt like he didn't even realize the other Ekko needed to be back as well. His focus was on what he believed was right no matter the cost. He has one of the most complete character arc this season and I hate that's the only real screen time he gets.

I agree with you in spirit, but I think my issue isn't so much with Ekko himself as with, as you mentioned, his limited screen time and lack of relevance. On paper, Ekko's arc is quite impressive. I'd argue that he's the closest the show has come to a classic hero. Jayce almost reached that level, but his storyline was sidetracked by the "redeem Viktor" arc.

However, here's the problem—and why I called it a waste of potential: Ekko's lack of relevance. We barely saw any meaningful interaction between him and Jinx (or Powder) up to that point.

While it made some sense in Season 1 that all the League champions had their own lives and weren't necessarily close, it felt jarring in Season 2 how isolated they all were. It was difficult to believe that Ekko was truly important to Jinx when they had almost no shared screen time. I even had to look it up to remind myself that they shared a childhood and fought in Season 1. It's a hard sell to think Ekko was so compelled to give up on this heaven-like AU just to help people he barely knew.

In theory, the idea of him using time travel in the finale to turn the tide is amazing. But in practice, it felt unearned because he wasn't shown to be particularly close to Jayce, Vi or Jinx, despite the story implying otherwise. Additionally, he had very little importance to the main plot overall.

For those like me who haven’t played League of Legends, it was hard to connect with Ekko. While he ultimately played a crucial role in defeating Viktor, his great moments felt underwhelming because he was barely above "cameo" when it came to plot importance.

 

[Chandelier]

Who actually called the funeral hit? It seemed like it was implied black warrior bitch was the one who secretly ordered it and then defeated it for her gain? Is that ever explained? Why is there zero dialog between the girls about the funerl massacar?

Ambessa. She wanted the Council crisis to gain control of the city so she could get Hextech and reclaim her seat in Noxus.

But yeah, Cait never figures out Ambessa did it because that would mean her admitting gassing Zaunites was wrong.

did like the Viktor/Jayce arc in a lot of ways. This felt like moral ambiguity done right. Viktor seems like an incredibly benevolent prophet. But then Jayce murders one of his aocolytes. Viktor said there was darkness in Jayce, but I immediately wondered what we missed; Viktor was being a bit too Jesus/God like .. would that be the fall? Sure it's predictable, but it didn't feel as unearned

The issue with Viktor is that he has no agency in his own existence. Mage Viktor basically creates the meet cute because he cannot let child Jayce die to prevent an apocalypse - and gives him the crystal to start said apocalypse - and magically doesn't get his shit pushed in by mages like Ryze who exist to PREVENT such a thing from happening. Even LeBlanc has nothing more to say on it than, "The Arcane is waking up" when that's the source of her power.

Viktor displays none of his genius or inventing spirit as he does in S1, and his entire life revolves around Jayce. When Jayce says "there must be some part of you still in there" I basically scream "You made him that way when you shot him in the chest!"

Viktor says "that isn't Jayce" and earlier said Jayce was touched by the Arcane...and did nothing more about it. We're supposed to infer that the "ancient voice" and "portal closing" is Mage Viktor. Which also does not get commented on.

 

[Chandelier]

Double post but I found the original TikTok where the official LoL account voiced its support for JayVik.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7438842572711234859

Local archive:

Regarding the VAs supporting the ship, Jayce and Mel's VA support it. Harry Lloyd, Viktor's VA, is said to have read fanfic of them:

I wonder if Mel's VA knows how much JayVik fans hate her character and are *this* close to calling her a nigger.

The tweet that also made this claim go viral. She later plugged in a Palestine charity, obviously.

The Latin American Spanish VA for Viktor had a chat with some fans, saying 'Te amo, Jayce' aka 'I love you, Jayce' adding more fuel to the shipping fire.

https://www.tiktok.com/video/7441430673979673911

Local archive:

This is in reference to the Spanish dub of the infamous Castiel line where he tells Dean he loves him, and Dean says, 'and I, you.' This was taken as canon. In this case, though, this was done because of a fan request.

Some sense on Pinterest:


And some disagreement:

"We need more men loving men"
"It's a societal expectation that men be friends"
Yes and what happens when you see them in a room together? You sexualize them because you are coom brained. That is the problem. Close male friendships being seen as homosexual seems to be a distinctly American issue.

Huh, sounds like an ultraconservative culture, that views close male relationships as homosexual, would have such a stern hatred of them. Netflix is known for making characters gay - see Jaskier of the Witcher - so this isn't a case of queerbaiting. Or it could be, since the official LoL account supported it. Someone let the intern loose that day.

 

[BigKant]

>Viktor does not hold up today's creative standards
>Proceeds to make him into a generic twink mage

Being a cool robot/cyborg Russian man > retarded slavic purple twink

Double post but I found the original TikTok where the official LoL account voiced its support for JayVik.
https://www.tiktok.com/video/7438842572711234859

It's gone!
HAHAHAHAAAAA! Suffa Rito! Suffa!

 

[Chandelier]

Being a cool robot/cyborg Russian man > retarded slavic purple twink

Absolutely. Viktor stood out because he, as a normal man, tamed magic to create new tech. Now he's just a generic twink mage.

It's gone!
HAHAHAHAAAAA! Suffa Rito! Suffa!

Someone got a call from the higher ups to wrangle in that intern (thank God I archived it, whew!). On the same note, the Spanish dubs for Twink Viktor's voicelines take on a more romantic tone when he says, 'Neither friendship nor love can stop this, Jayce'. It's like Riot wants to tease them being a couple, but won't commit.

 

[Chandelier]

Not to politisperg but I think stripping of Viktor's Russian origins and inspirations was a very deliberate move due to Russians becoming the no-no people because whole Russian-Ukraine discourse. I wouldn't be surprised with this decision because ever since that whole shitshow began many western creators either removed any references to Russian heritage in characters or just completely retired/removed them.

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As of yesterday, the Machine Herald is officially dead in LoL - but he still remains alive (for now) in Legends of Runeterra.

Here is the trailer for Licorice Herald. Nearly all of the comments are mocking the new design or are negative.

Needless to say, the lore of the game is now entirely in limbo. Renata Glasc's relationship with Viktor is entirely nonexistent; Blitzcrank never gets invented by him - Viktor just says he 'evolved all on his own' (??), and most importantly, since Arcane is now canon with LoL, Jayce and Viktor are now dead/disappeared, so their rivalry and stories are now nonexistent, and Hextech is 'allegedly' destroyed when Camille is supposed to take it up and continue it, meaning that Jayce and Viktor's deaths were for absolutely nothing.

Lastly, EFAP has a highlight on how shipping is one reason Arcane is so shit, that being their willingness to overlook shitty storytelling in favour of sexual gratification.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Needless to say, the lore of the game is now entirely in limbo. Renata Glasc's relationship with Viktor is entirely nonexistent; Blitzcrank never gets invented by him - Viktor just says he 'evolved all on his own' (??), and most importantly, since Arcane is now canon with LoL, Jayce and Viktor are now dead/disappeared, so their rivalry and stories are now nonexistent, and Hextech is 'allegedly' destroyed when Camille is supposed to take it up and continue it, meaning that Jayce and Viktor's deaths were for absolutely nothing.

Lastly, EFAP has a highlight on how shipping is one reason Arcane is so shit, that being their willingness to overlook shitty storytelling in favour of sexual gratification.

I've already mentioned before how tiresome it is to see multiverse and time-travel be used to ruin so much lore across media, but seeing these two bits in conjunction made me realize how much shipping and sexuality seems to be the only "canon" or at least hard-coded unchangeable aspect of so many universes now.

Kind of depressing to think about.

 

[Boopims]

Needless to say, the lore of the game is now entirely in limbo. Renata Glasc's relationship with Viktor is entirely nonexistent; Blitzcrank never gets invented by him - Viktor just says he 'evolved all on his own' (??), and most importantly, since Arcane is now canon with LoL, Jayce and Viktor are now dead/disappeared, so their rivalry and stories are now nonexistent, and Hextech is 'allegedly' destroyed when Camille is supposed to take it up and continue it, meaning that Jayce and Viktor's deaths were for absolutely nothing.

some excerpts from the new bio i’ve seen :


its bleak

After S1, I was quite hyped to see Viktor’s falling out/rivalry between him and Jayce, his potential role in the PvZ plotline, or him becoming the Machine Herald would all play out. Fast forward three years and finding out that instead of the chad cyborg-man story, we get a twink licorice jesus was unbelievably disappointing. It all comes back to a HUGE problem with S2 is that it lost a lot of the grounded nature that S1 had: you go from the nuance surrounding the conflicts between Piltover and Zaun, nuance with hextech and the ethics around it to, to piltover and zaun uniting to defeat big bad, hextech bad, TIME TRAVEL, MULTIVERSES, and KILL GOD like some shitty JRPG.

Also:

>Prof. Cristobal Lymere
>CL
>Christian Linke

this nigger really did just kill Viktor to replace him with his cool new OC Vincent

 

[Chandelier]

It appears that Overton and Linke are now at odds over whether Jayce and Viktor are an official canon couple.


Both Linke and Overton were not in agreement with what happened to Sky and the Hexcore, either.

Another angle:

She was asked whether Jayce and Viktor were a canon couple, and was deliberately vague about it.

One of Viktor's character designers, Victor Maury, is considered a proof of them being canon as he liked a piece of JayVik fanart.

Spoiler

Admittedly, not a bad piece of fanart.

Spoiler

In the Greek dub, the word used for 'partner' is the same one used for gay lover. If there are any Greek kiwis here, your help would be appreciated.






Regarding the new bio and the 'loved ones' comment, people interpreted that as Viktor admitting that he was in love with Jayce:


From Hexhomos, who once said she would forever stay off of Twitter (and kept rancid butter out in her kitchen):


"Specific and twofold meaning"



Homophobia does not exist in Runeterra. This would just be a case of ignorance, as Viktor was more or less written out of the lore.


Someone's dad loved it, too:

Later, Arcane fans threaten to leave the fandon because JayVik is being baited in front of them.

Spoiler: More

As predicted, there are accusations of queerbaiting:

No one will miss you if you leave the fandom. You are the ones harassing Linke over his comments, btw. Once you leave only League players remain, because you are just Arcane tourists.


From the same user that called Viktor a 'fruit':

its bleak

After S1, I was quite hyped to see Viktor’s falling out/rivalry between him and Jayce, his potential role in the PvZ plotline, or him becoming the Machine Herald would all play out. Fast forward three years and finding out that instead of the chad cyborg-man story, we get a twink licorice jesus was unbelievably disappointing. It all comes back to a HUGE problem with S2 is that it lost a lot of the grounded nature that S1 had: you go from the nuance surrounding the conflicts between Piltover and Zaun, nuance with hextech and the ethics around it to, to piltover and zaun uniting to defeat big bad, hextech bad, TIME TRAVEL, MULTIVERSES, and KILL GOD like some shitty JRPG.

Not only that, they're really teasing Jayce and Viktor being gay lovers because people are harping on the 'brothers' and 'partners' terms when you have that homoerotic council fight scene and of course the ending. Now, Linke and Overton are basically contradicting each other regarding whether or not they are canon and people are throwing shitfits.

Now, we have the 'entire art team' saying they are canon:

Again, no names mentioned. It is known that Mel's VA reblogs JayVik fanart on her IG (without knowing what the fans actually think of her character and how open they are about hating her as a black woman) and Jayce's VA signed it. As for the others, it is currently unknown. But they are desperate for it to be canon.

Also:
>Asexual
> Gay as hell
Pick one.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Pick one.

Incredible. Riot became so Californianized and obsessed with pandering to LGBT twitterinas the very showmakers themselves are now fighting one another over potential faggotry and not.... oh say.... fretting about making a quality product.

They have only themselves to blame.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Shippers were a disaster.