Arcane’s Race Blindness Is A Curse Honestly. The Piltover Cast (counsel And Enforcers) Are Mostly Characters

Mel Medarda 🌟 (my first fanart)

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oh look at this dyke

Sometimes I want to join arcanetwt because the community is more active there, but then I actually see the conversations happening there and go “nope”.

I feel like Sevika kept the giant chompy claw arm. She'd never admit it, but that thing is sacred to her now. It's all she has left of Jinx. She could get a new arm with much more practical articulate fingers, and maybe she does for day to day, but the claw arm feels like it belongs to her in a way no other prosthetic ever has.

And you know she wears it to Council meetings. Just to remind everyone - that she's Zaun, that she's dangerous, that Jinx may be dead as far as anyone knows, but she's not gone. She's never gone. She's a symbol of Zaunite tenacity and ferocity and always will be, the same girl who started the war with a fiery fuck you to Piltovan oppression ended it by saving their asses and the Pilties had better never forget it.

When they're pissing her off, Sevika shrugs off her cloak and thunks that big claw on the table, still covered in Jinx doodles, and taps the claw tips and it echoes in that big stone chamber and every other Councilor goes pale.

When they're really pissing her off, she lets it play Get JINXED.

She long ago figured out how to game the slot machine mechanic to get what she wants. But she pretends, oh no, sorry, it's so random, glitches all the time, I don't control it. With the biggest smuggest smirk.

It's what Jinx would've wanted.

miss my dysfunctional family already

some pre canon mel sketches (and not an excuse to play dress up!!!)

i need this daily routine prescribed to me more than anything else

Mel is my Barbie to dress up

I really don't know what the story is with this but it was a fun value study hehe

This post implores you to give some grace to Mel Medarda by considering what it's like to grow up in a household where achievement and success are valued above all else, and where virtues like kindness and generosity are trivialized at best and outright discouraged at worst. If you grow up in that kind of environment, even when you're grown and you've done work to unlearn the worst of it—even when you've gone low or no contact—there is still something viscerally frightening about slipping below that parent or caregiver's expectations.

For example, when Elora points out that Mel is the richest person in Piltover and she immediately responds with "but I'm the poorest Medarda," that's not coming from a place of greed or arrogance, but one of fear that she'll never measure up. I'm not saying she's perfect, or that other characters didn't have it way harder, but it's important to remember that every time she chooses kindness or diplomacy or compromise over force, she's going against a lifetime of conditioning—exposing herself to the threat of failure, which couldn't have been be easy.

You don't have to love her, but please give that woman a break. I am begging you.

started thinking on how silco and sevika would be able to recognize mel’s political tactics and now i’m here