Nothing is cuter than Mel looking at Jayce this way. JUST LOOK AT HER EYES?!? LOOK AT EM.
I still can't believe someone thought they had the right to say "she isn't cute" like how DARE YOU
And people still think they can say that Mel doesn't love Jayce when she has so much adoration for him, she cares for him so much you can literally see it visually yet y'all refuse to do so.
Insane guy voice. Guys guys hear me out what if we get shyvana cameo-[GUNSHOT]
[Looks at arcane! Caitvi/Piltover's Finest] Close enough! Welcome back Leodia!
I LOVED THE INCORPORATION OF JANNA LORE
I was so pleasantly surprised
Okay I'm about to watch arcane with my polycule
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Need season 2 immediately
guys mel survived omg shes literally alive. the trailers a fakeout. she's literally alive. real and true
Wrath must be met with wrath.
⸻ AMBESSA, Arcane s2
[disclaimer: This is all the personal opinions of one sleep deprived rando on the internet and its fine if you disagree with anything I say]
On a surface level, the decision to make to make Arcane canon and make the runeterra universe one cohesive canon sounds pretty harmless and actually good. After all, Arcane's writing was really good and the idea of having a consistent universe sounds really good in theory.
The problems start to arise when you remember that Marvel and DC have been trying to make a singular cohesive universe for decades and have both failed every single time. It's nearly impossible to make a single cohesive canon when you have so many characters and stories and that's not even getting into the implications of Arcane being canon
Now, on paper, it doesn't sound too bad and if I'm being completely honest, I wouldn't have minded if they just implemented some worldbuilding from Arcane (like shimmer) into the main universe, my problem arises with the fact they are planning on making the Arcane characters fully canon
The reason why I personally think Arcane worked so well is because it wasn't confined to the main canon and was able to use it as a jumping off point to do its own thing. By making it canon, they're essentially going to have to do one of three things:
They essentially can't do anything without either changing or erasing parts of the main universe's lore or Arcane's lore. There is also a part of me that's scared that if Arcane lore does overtake the main universe lore, it's going to set a precedent for potential future shows doing their own thing with the main lore and then that show's lore overriding the main one
Okay so before I move onto the next section, I do want to share a bit of cautious optimism I'm feeling in regards to this. Call this copium if you will but who knows? Maybe Riot will have actually learned something from the Sentinels of Light event and will actually give this whole "one singular canon" thing the money and resources it desperately needs to work. Maybe after seeing Arcane's success, they'll allow creatives more freedom but have weekly meetings across all departments and constant check ups from lore coordinators to make sure nothing contradicts itself. Maybe Riot being a gaming company, and not a comic book publisher with comic issues coming out frequently. will actually allow them to somehow manage to do the impossible and make a cohesive universe. Maybe if there are screw ups, they'll be minor and be patched up relatively quickly
i fucking wish Anyways, moving on
As mentioned before, making sure nothing contradicts itself in a universe with this many characters is almost impossible. I wouldn't mind the whole "one cohesive universe" thing if I didn't know it was almost impossible to manage and that the easiest way to have a strict cohesive universe is to restrict everything and simple it down and that scares me. Riot the corporation literally didn't give two shits about lore until it made a line on a graph go up for them. I'm scared they're not gonna give this the effort and funding necessary to actually maintain this
An pre existing example of them already restricting creativity because of the canonisation of Arcane and Runeterra becoming a singular shared narrative would be Legends of Runeterra. LOR has been carrying most of the main universe's lore and worldbuilding. It has expanded so many forgotten champions and is one of the main reasons Runeterra's lore is so vast, complex and interesting and Riot fucking pulled the plug on it, by cutting its budget and forcing a lot of its artists to move to other departments, and told the remaining LOR team to stop developing all new narrative content because they didn't want any runeterra lore to be developed independently and not as a part of the entertainment division. All of this to say making everything one big shared canon, they will probably end up just restricting most of their creative departments and creating less interesting and unique art and stories as a result which I think is a shame
In conclusion, fuck capitalism (kinda ironic, because, yknow, arcane,,) and go play lor/hj
pst pst arcane season 2 you wanna have more noxus so bad OooooOooOOoo you wanna namedrop Demacia so bad OooooooooooooooooOooo you wanna a Noxian general to complain about "Demacia having a dragon" in one off scene so baddddddddd (pov youre a shyvana main)
Random Arcane theory. I don't think I'm the first person to think of this but I believe Mel is from a part of a Shurima that was conquered by Noxus. We know her and her mother are Noxian but I heavily believe she's from Shurima because of the outfit we see her wear in her flashback
Her outfit looks very Shuriman to me because of the gold and the sun symbol. Both things associated with Shurima. I feel this has got to be intentional because they put Ambessa in the traditional Noxus colours (black and red)
So, the arcane team clearly knows the colour palettes and iconography of different Runeterra regions. You could make the argument that Ambessa wears the Noxian colours because Noxus ideals (strength over everything and conquering others) align with her characters more, so it makes sense that Mel wouldn't wear those colours because she doesn't align with them. But I feel like they could've dressed younger Mel in literally anything else. The gold could have been a coincidence but the sun symbol feels too specific
Also, we know that Noxus has canonically conquered parts of Shurima (parts of Shurima not too far from Piltover and Zaun no less) so it's not that big of a stretch
YOU GUYS WANNA KNOW WHO DIED IN ACT 3????
Me. I died in act 3. Thanks for coming.
Silco anytime Jinx does anything: ✨Time to self project✨
