Will I curse to my TV screen when certain characters appear on the scene? Yes. Because it's fun, and because I have superficial opinions sometimes. But I do it after being involved in DEEP conversation about the layers that build every character in the series. And understanding different points of view to agree with one side or the other. I have challenged my mind to follow a belief my values can agree upon.
Anyone, who after watching arcane, hates on or blames any one character, did not understand what they watched.
There isn't any one character who is narratively 'in the wrong'. We get to see so many different perspectives of so many different characters. We get to see what got them to where they are in their life. We got to see what made them who they are. Almost all of them have done horrible things and have made unforgivable mistakes. They're all deeply flawed. But the point is to show that their actions exist in the specific system they live in.
None of those characters would've done what they did if they didn't live in the world that they did. Their lives are influenced by the system and so the way they go about their lives is also influenced. The system is at fault. The effects of the system are at fault. Not the victims.
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I would like to add how relevant it is for her to still fall into these feminine characteristics here and there. She is not a man, and that's the whole point. She is not extremely feminine but still wears makeup and tops. Her facial features are soft. Even still, there is no "revelation of extreme happiness, and motivation from being feminine, and how it would be life-changing." (That's just stupid, I hate that trope.)
She just doesn't care. There are more important things (like an upcoming war, losing her family, dealing with being an enforcer, a heartbreak, and the list goes on and on...)
Even if there was a situation/scene of her wearing a dress, I don't think she would hate it. I believe Violet is just too comfortable with herself to care about that. Honestly, I feel like her clothing style is practical and a reflection of the life she has.
can we just…appreciate Vi for a second? For all the “let women be feminine” posting I’ve seen, I have literally never seen a butch 100% gender non-conforming female character. There is always a scene where she is forced to wear a dress, where she learns that being girly isn’t that bad. But Vi? She’s so unapologetic about her presentation. She never wears a dress once. Her fighting style isn’t “oh she’s skinny and fast” like most other women fighters on TV: Vi is muscular and punches the shit out of things. She’s angry, commanding, and assertive. We need more female characters like Vi.
Mel and vik flirt by annoying the fuck out of each other
Grew up Catholic. My friends are unhinged. I love them.
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The fact that Cait canonically wears a skirt is weird to me because what do you mean this is not only a fan's guilty pleasure but a reality for everyone???
caitlyn in a skirt is my guilty pleasure
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Fear of failure is where potential goes to die.
Life has taught me to trust my experiences and decide from there. To protect. To fight for what I defend and never forget where I come from.
Loving means I might lose them. I fear losing her. But if that fear stops me a few seconds more, then I will never be able to claim this moment for us. Now that I've met warm, soft lights outside of war, I refuse to go back.
I agree with every. single. word.
I like to think that a while or years later while living with Cait, Vi starts to get smile lines. And that their decently prominent and that she gains some happy fat like in the last scene where she looks fed for once. Because my bbg deserves all the happiness in the world after all she’s been through and even if she hadn’t been through all that.
I like to think of little inconveniences she’d have, like her neck prolly hurts a little in the mornings from the difference in pillow quality. Since Cait prolly has soft large pillows or just good quality ones unlike prison or every establishment vi has lived in. But she eventually gets used to them or she just sleeps with her head on Cait.
Something funny would be vi slowly adopting the posh accent Cait has but only on certain words, not entirely and ekko mocking her whenever it slips. Even better if she gets interested in the books the kiramman’s have. Like her vocabulary would switch up like crazy and since those books are probably generational it’s possible she’s pick up (ancient slang lol) old pompous words and weird sayings that even Cait wouldn’t be able to understand. It’d be cute to think about Cait working at her desk or on the couch while vi sits by the fireplace reading for her and pointing out funny or weird parts and mocking them. Or her reading in silence and randomly speaking up to tell her a random fact she just learned and Cait just smiling to herself.
I wonder if vi would take to tea, or maybe just certain tea’s. I can imagine she and Cait testing out a new type of tea every day and rating them all, pretending to host tea parties. Bonus points if Caits hunting dogs join them and get a biscuit and pet from time to time. I feel like vi would take well to the dogs and play with them. Cait would tell her to leave them alone due to their training and needing to be on guard only for her to dote on them too.
Cait prolly takes vi hunting with her and tries teaching her the ways to track prey, how to aim a rifle and such. I’d say vi might be a bit into foraging and maybe in the mansion she’d find a book on the shrubs and such the Kirammans have on their land and in turn point them out and teach Cait about them. They then start carrying baskets when they go out and come back with berries and game to make dinner and dessert out of for later.
lol all this just from looking at vi smile once.