I Love The Concept That Viktor Ends Up With Jayce’s Last Name Through Some Originally Non-romantic

Update for my Beholding portrait.

I haven't gotten to any of the fun detailing yet, but considering that I'm not a good painter, and I have zero experience with any of the mediums involved, and I'm pulling every step of this out of the ether, it's coming together pretty well.

I love you Ceaseless Watcher 🫶🫶

You don't have to love me back.

Really looking forward to being able to see this from my bed. And have it see me, of course.

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Not a brave man, but at times a very stubborn one

(Limited color palette assignment for my oil painting class. I love college <3)

Random linguistic worldbuilding: A language with six sets of pronouns, which are set by one's current state of existence. There's a separate pronoun for people who are alive, people who are dead, and potential future people who are yet to be born, and the ambiguous ones of "may or may not be alive or aleady dead", "may or may not have even been born yet", and the ultimate general/ambiguous all-covering one that covers all ambiguous states.

The culture has a specific defined term for that tragic span of time when a widow keeps accidentally referring to their spouse with living pronouns. New parents-to-be dropping the happy surprise news of a pregnancy by referring to their future child with the "is yet to be born" pronoun instead of a more ambiguous one and waiting for the "wait what did you just say?" reactions.

Someone jokingly referring to themselves with the dead person pronouns just to highlight how horrible their current hangover is. A notorious aspiring ladies' man who keeps trying to pursue women in their 20s despite of approaching middle age fails to notice the insult when someone asks him when he's planning to get married, and uses the pronoun that implies that his ideal future bride may not even be born yet.

A mother whose young adult child just moved away from home for the first time, who continues to dramatically refer to their child with "may or may not be already dead" until the aforementioned child replies to her on facebook like "ma stop telling people I'm dead" and having her respond with "well how could I possibly know that when you don't even write to us? >:,C"

"Silco joined back with Vander in the good AU and that's why Zaun is free"

"No Vander joined back up with Silco and realized that revolution is necessary and THAT'S why Zaun is free"

Wrong and wrong. They joined back up with each other and worked together. The AU we see in S2E7 could not have come about from Vander's peace-favoring complacency, but it also couldn't have come about from Silco flooding the streets with steroids on steroids, turning half their society into unwitting, addicted supersoldiers and terrifying Piltover into acquiescence with the help of a bunch of mad scientists and drug lords. That would have probably worked insofar as independence, but it wouldn't have resulted in the healthy thriving Zaun that we see.

Silco (and Vi's death) forced Vander to accept that remaining under Piltover's boot was no longer an option and demands needed to be made, with violence if necessary. Vander (and Vi's death) helped Silco to understand that wantonly sacrificing the health and safety of Zaunites was not a sustainable solution to build the country that they had promised Felicia.

They are each other's foils, and they are a parallel to Vi and Jinx. Remember Jinx's line from Blisters and Bedrock? "Last time he needed us we tried to go at it on our own, and everything was never the same. I thought maybe this time we could try it together." (Or something to that effect)

Only by working together could the fathers of Zaun create the world that they dreamed of.

People seem to be enjoying the first expression sheet WAY more than I anticipated. So here's the rest of them from that day.

(The second to last one was intended to be mocking, potentially Melanie, about how much everyone wants to kill him but can't. I AM AWARE it looks a bit more like I'm taking backshots... It's going on here anyway, use it responsibility)

I love when platonic love and romantic love is so blurred that it doesn’t even matter anymore. All that matters is the devotion that’s there, the unwavering devotion

vander fumbled hard like imagine having a gorgeous anarchist boyfriend with a straight up sculpted nose and a crazy haircut and then fumbling him so hard he gets a villain arc

Arcane writers were too scared to put these two in the same room together smh….

If you were to make that list of Elias Buchard songs into a playlist on Spotify and drop a link that'd be very sexy of you just saying 👀

Oh, well as long as it would be sexy...

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1KZNnhM2EdszSXirsGxALX?si=VC19N-a_SHGN2bF5KJt3CA