Arcane Spoilers ! So Excited For Tomorrow 😩

Did her best 💖

Jinx and the mystery child(◕‿◕✿)

Tryina learn how to mix them into my style

In the second one, her pupils are getting wider 😭

ARCANE S2E05 | “Blisters and Bedrock”

( warning, it's been a hot minute since I've read the books so correct me if I'm misremembering anything)

We as a fandom need to discuss where the "cardan is a malewife haha what a girlfailure loser" comes from, because yeah he has a complete lack of care regarding politics, and is extremely irresponsible, however not only is he shown to be very intelligent when he wishes to be, (literally stole Jude's ring without her even realising).....he is also quite literally terrifying. Unlike Jude who is violent only when she has to defend herself, Cardans cruelty (......the book is called the cruel prince for a reason) is just. For fun. He has little moral compass, and even Jude was scared of him in the first book (in which some of his actions against her are literally horrendous???)

Cardans failures only come because of his own laziness/lack of caring. When he wishes to he is a terrifying ruler. I love the jokes, but we've reached a point where all the posts I see about Cardan are "haha silly alcoholic malewife :3 " like. Y'all this man has ruined (or/and ended-) people's lives 😭😭😭

Taryn and Nicasia: *betrayed by Locke after they both were manipulated by him into betraying their closest friend*

Jude and Cardan: 🎶 karma is my bf🎶

Look i don't wanna sit here and get up on my soapbox and start being preachy but i just find it funny how certain sections of the fandom treats TB and by extension Ekko and how that ultimately just shows an underlying problem in shipping culture that honestly only seems to have gotten worse.

TB is such a impactful ship at least in my opinion because i feel as though this is one of the rare occasions where a ship staring a black character is not only loved and praised but also has a view in the mainstream. Most of the time black character when involved with shipping are either cast aside, mistreated or used as a stepping stone for the white character to find their "True Love" so to see TB be loved and praised is genuinely such a amazing and important thing to see and how some of this community reacts to them has shown me that despite this love there is still a major problem with Anti-Blackness.

Now I'm not saying that you have to ship TB or that your Anti-black/racist if you ship them with other characters but from some of the stuff i've seen it seems like its less about the fact that you don't like ship and more about the fact that you don't like Ekko and specifically you don't like Ekko with Jinx. The way some people try remove the importance Ekko has in Jinx's life at this point comes off a malicious. We have people out here describing Ekko as "some random black boy she knew" and it's like okay that's such a one layered look at their relationship and when he is granted the privilege of being apart of her life by some people his role is minimized and relegated to "oh well he is there and he was a small part of it but her ACTUAL motivation was...." and listen, you could make the argument that he wasn't the only thing that spurred her into action but to sit here and act like he didn't have a large impact on her and her subsequent call to action is just lame.

Now S2 in general can be looked at as the blame for why his impact is questioned by some people and i won't lie and not act like seeing them in a couple more scenes together wouldn't have been nice and just seeing Ekko in general more wouldn't have been nice but considering the fact that this community loves to analyze things to the bone i just find it a bit odd how apparently this specific relationship is looked at on such a surface level by some people. Ya'll will sit here and analyze eye movements but then call the bridge fight "just a cool scene" and ignore the weight and impact of it. Ya'll will sit here gush about this loving and deep connection Jinx forms with Isha who she's known for no less then 3 months but apparently her childhood befriend/enemy/crush/lover is just a open and shut book.

One thing that really bothers me as well and I'm gonna use Mel in this section is that her and Ekko are not allowed to be loved. What i mean by this is that the love that their respective partners have for them is always called into doubt. Jayce's love for Mel is doubted because "Well she manipulated him" and that she was just using him and Jinx's love for Ekko is doubted by "oh well she's to mentally unstable to feel that way towards him" and "she tried to kill him" as if a good 85% of the arcane cast hasn't tried to kill or at least physically harm the people they care about. Ekko and Mel are not allowed to be yearned after and loved by the two of the favs of the show despite the fact they are are in fact yearned and loved by these favs. Jinx is over here drawing hearts around this man every chance she gets, her voice lines in game towards him, drawing his symbol on her stuff. Jayce despite all the chaos automoically going to check on Mel and see if she's okay, his voice lines towards her in game and yet despite all this, some of the fandom just can't seem to fathom that their favs are in love with a black character.

Idk man, maybe I'm reading to deep into this all and maybe I'm just yelling into the void but i just find it odd how all these doubts and excuses and reasons for why it wouldn't work only seem to get brough up for ships that involve a black character and a usually white fav.

He didn't immediately sit next to her, he waited a few minutes, to make sure she's not uncomfortable around him and now she doesn't want to come closer than this to make sure she doesn't push him away again I CAN'T WITH THESE TWO

Ekko in ARCANE season 2 | Official Trailer

Ekko and tea served by Jayce vs served by Jinx