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Incredible analysis, thank you!!

This video is the first time I noticed Jinx in the background behind Caitlyn 😳

Can we also talk about how fucking awkward this must have been for Jinx. Just waiting around thinking „Damn when will this bitch finally be done? Can’t she hurry??“ And then the awkwardness of having Caitlyn dress herself/ knocking her out and then dressing her?? Like girl you are literally a genius could you not have figured out a better way to do this 😭😭

No matter who Vi chooses, I will be devastated. I really hate when a story is well written 😭

BAHAHAHAA i just saw the Jayce: pet project?? LMAO

You’d love tenjuo tenges.

Well Simple for the ESG scores, if not it would be the same in LOL.

If there isn’t a kiss between them in season 2 I’m going to LOSE IT

Miss your videos! Any plans to comment on the trailers/Annecy Vi scene, etc?

Girl the new trailer is out. We need u out here 😊

this is a fantastic video, very well done! thank you

LOVE YOUR ARCANE ANALYSIS SO MUCHHHHHHH

There's also the moment when they are in front of the council caitlyn hesitates when asked about jinx's grenade. First she says no then "well" looking back at Vi. But only when vi steps in does the council get the answer. She didn't want to ruin the trust she had built with Vi by telling them about Jinx.

I've got a theory about what they were doing between that scene and the council. Since Vi was sharing a childhood memory and Caitlyn didn't, I reckon Vi drew her out. Caitlyn then told her the story from her flashback about Grayson, which made Vi upset and she related the traumatic experience from ep 3 when Grayson was murdered a few meters from her. This reinforces everything that happened later: Why Vi was sad during the council meeting, why Caitlyn said the collective "they" failed her in so many ways why Vi during the "breakup" emphesised their class diferences cos it hurt her to realise just how different their childhoods were (she must've been also permitted to take a shower, and we all know what kind of an impression that gigantic luxurious bathroom must've left on Vi). And it reinforces why Caitlyn asked 'what about us', since Vi expressed interest in getting to know her story.

What drives me to believe Vi fell this quick is because of her values and her love language. Vi’s love language is mainly sacrifice and protection, so when she sees Caitlyn trying to protect her and sacrificing her life for Vi (when she comes to block Jinx’s bullets from her in the bridge scene) Vi becomes very "attracted" to that. Making her therefore trusting Caitlyn more than she would’ve otherwise. Also Vi’s love language mainly occurs with members of her family. She was brought up knowing that family make sacrifices for each other, so when someone non family does just that she gravitâtes more towards loving Caitlyn for those reasons. So in return, Vi becomes protective of Caitlyn, as shown in the Tea party scene where she got mad at Jinx for involving her in their troubles. That earned trust from Vi is why I think 5 days would be more than enough for Vi to fall in love and same for Caitlyn, hope I made sense 😂

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Loooll totally agree that they Did Not Plan. Vi just wanted Piltover’s help eliminating Silco, and Caitlyn had the naive belief that once they identify the key criminal (Silco), he’d be brought to justice, the gemstone would be found, and the war situation can deescalate. They thought once they prove the case against Silco, all would surely be well and they didn’t do a single “what if” exercise. Shoulda listened to Mommy Kiramman. My heart is in pieces that Cait’s last look at her mom was that “well done” nod. Ughhh the cruelty.

There is lesbian invisibility at play here, pure and simple. People perceive this as too fast because all the early indications slip through their radar. When a hetero pairing so much as look at each other for a second too long, they clock it. In fact, even the mere presence of an attractive man and an attractive woman in the same scene primes the audience to anticipate sexual/romantic tension. We know it before they even interact, if the show makes a point of introducing a character as hot when they first meet the other. Because that is actually how humans often behave. Sometimes, attraction registers instantly, and when you do have smack-you-in-the-face attraction it frames everything else from there. It doesn’t mean people instantly fall in love, but they’re certainly predisposed to it. Whereas here, because most people don’t take homosexuality as the default assumption, they only first notice it when it hits them over the head, at which point it feels sudden and “out if nowhere”. It’s the same reason two women could show up to a hotel holding hands and ask for a room with one bed and the receptionist will assume they’re sisters. If the receptionist sees them making out at some point they’ll feel blindsided. People don’t see what is there; they see what they identify. To my eye, sexual tension began the second we were introduced to Vi in prison through Cait’s eyes. We got a slow scan of tattooed back muscles glistening with sweat and the face reveal with the hair over eyes. It was a “hot character reveal”. Some may say it was a “tough character reveal” but are these opposites? These pieces of information often go hand in hand unless the tough character is pointedly ugly. Or, as in this case, unconventional. If Vi were a man, muscles = hot. Even if Cait were a man too, that reveal might scream “gay!” If Cait were a man, and Vi was a buxom hourglass? Unambiguous. But with Vi being unconventionally hot, and the beholder being a femme woman too, the scene doesn’t read as a “love interest” reveal to people who aren’t used to imagining someone like Cait drooling over someone like Vi. Cait’s literal first thought about Vi was “holy smokes”. She spends the entire rest of the time struggling to think clearly and focus on the mission. If you clock that, you’re also clocking everything else from there and by the time she’s almost kissing her, it’s no surprise at all. No one says they’re ready to get married after the 5 days. They might discover they don’t even like each other if they hang out normally for 2 weeks after this. But what they do have right now is raging attraction, growing respect, and a caring trauma bond. Potent ingredients for falling in love and craving closeness.

Great timeline review! This finally clarifies things

Will you make an analysis about season 2 teaser? Pls🥺

Right there with you on coping with withdrawal ❤ It’s cool that our 2 protagonists are in the middle of a love triangle of their own. Vi with Cait and Jinx with Silco. The elephant in the room is mental illness. Vi has tons of trauma and, to a much lesser extent, Cait may have some too, but Silco and Jinx both have woefully untreated BPD, *plus* those piles of trauma on top. Powder was younger than Vi when they lost their parents. Vi got to hit some developmental milestones before The Worst happened. And sometimes it’s just luck about the brain you’re born with, but bottom line is Powder is legit crazy and Vi is not. Powder’s meltdown when Vi leaves her behind (before the mission) is a textbook BPD reaction to “abandonment”, not just youthfulness. When she jumps into Silco’s arms later it’s “she left me. she is not my sister anymore”. Black and white. Silco says black and white things too: “everyone always betrays us”. Bro, you just made a speech about loyalty when Sevika was having your back earlier. Vander also mentions “you had my respect”, but people with Powder and Silco’s mental illness often struggle to see love or feel safe. I do think Silco manipulates Jinx’s insecurities but i also think he often believes the dark things he says about Powder being betrayed and abandoned because he projects his own experience / distorted worldview onto her. Back to Cait-Vi-Powder. Vi always chooses Powder. Powder is never able to internalize it. When Vi is leaving her behind because “you’re all i have left”, when Vi is back and holding her (“are you real?”), when Vi says “im here for you. Only you.”, when she says “nothing will ever change that” (re: are we still sisters?)”, when she sees Vi part ways with Cait on the bridge, when Vi chooses her again by saying “we’ll go away together”. Vi doesn’t even reject Jinx! That’s a misconception. When Powder says “I’ve changed”, Vi says “it’s okay; you did what you had to do to survive; so did I”. But Powder really struggles to retain these things when she’s splitting into black and white thinking. It can be thankless at times to try to reassure someone who is disorderedly insecure. 100 devoted acts disappear behind 1 hesitation. A detail I enjoyed is the way the sisters know each other. When Powder does crazy things like talk to people who aren’t there, Cait is thrown off by it but Vi is not. Both Vi and Silco occasionally just kind of move past some of Powder’s most erratic actions. Do we think Powder’s meltdown before the Vander rescue mission is the first time that happened? Nah. Powder has probably always been nuts about Vi and Vi is familiar with her reactions and tiptoes around them. Anyone who’s loved someone with BPD knows how fragile they can be and how strongly they react to the slightest threat. So Powder being nuts is not news to Vi. The one time she’s taken aback is when she sees her now grown and empowered sister gunning people down. Indeed, BPD comes to full bloom in the 20s. Powder is now gone from sensitive and stormy to scary dangerous, especially when coupled with her penchant for explosives and poisonous new parent. Vi is not ill like that. When she went home with Cait it’s because Powder had literally just shot at her. Best let someone cool off when they’re in THAT kind of mood, before trying to make up again. When Vi is asked to murder an innocent bystander to prove her devotion to Powder, she doesn’t even hesitate. Sure, Vi loves Cait by then but that’s not even the issue. She’s not going to murder someone in cold blood because her crazy sister is having one of her meltdowns. She remains focused on trying to calm her sister down. In the end, Jinx says i thought you could still love me… you’ve changed too”. Sigh. Disordered thinking continues. Romanticizing how much Vi always loved her before (even though they probably had plenty of fights as kids) and concluding she doesn’t love her now (despite mountains of evidence to the contrary). Powder just feels bad and that’s how she things when she’s in pain, no matter what anyone says. The irony is that Vi has, in fact, been slowly changing sides. Nothing to do with Powder vs Cait. More about Top vs Under, anti-enforcer vs pro-enforcer. Vi is perfectly able to love her sister while growing into a more nuanced view of who the heroes and villains are in her political landscape. But for someone like Powder, Vi shifting at all is too threatening to contemplate. All this to say, Vi never had to make a choice. She was always all about Powder but Powder was straight up triggered by Cait’s very existence and she exploded all by herself. Vi had zero agency in her own “love triangle.”

But true answer is: Nobody can resist a Yordle snap trap with cupcake.

Cait is a protagonist of sorts. She’s not *the* protagonist of the season, but she’ll be a kind of protagonist by the 2 season arc. She’s one of the most popular “champions” in the game, so plenty of attention is paid to her backstory. I agree that Vi is more the narrator of this story (along with Jinx of course) but Cait is the primary love interest and absolutely a Main Character. By the end, this will have been a story about how this ensemble cast got to be where they are.

Listen if I’m straight and still fell for Vi Caitlyn don’t need no explanation

After much analysis and discussion, this is the first time I understood “what about us?”. It’s *out of character*! Which is why it’s been bothering me so much. But rather than trying to fit it into her character or fill in some events that would make it fit, you call it out as out of character and give a reason for out of character behaviour. The reason was pretty much desperation and being far outside her comfort zone. In this scene she’s physically reaching for Vi and Vi keeps creating distance. With Vi out of reach, this was her last ditch effort to connect before Vi slips away. Being under pressure to blurt something out explains why it was so awkwardly phrased. “What about us?” is just not quite the socially astute question for what they’ve had so far. It’s been intense but never overt. It’s a presumptuous question and thus either extremely confident (which I *really* cannot see) or extremely vulnerable, which would be out of character, but now it’s clicked why.

I can't wait for your videos after season 2 lol. I hope we continue to get these intense analysis of Cait/Vi relationship.

Why? She’s hot, Vi said it herself!

this thing about caitlyn's willing to touch people to connect with them is so well said and so precious!! OBSESSED with your analysis. obsessed with caitvi once more

i LOVE this analysis!!!! and, oh, i love them so much... couldnt be more excited for season 2 !!!!

She is an introvert but just not shy. When she deems something important enough she will speak her mind. I'd still consider her an introvert because she almost never shares anything about herself.

Because smol kind puppy butch

Girl you better be analysing Caitlyn in season 2

OK LOL THIS IS SO BLATANT 😂 really just made a whole analysis video on her shower scene

One thing I saw in a video that I found interesting is the mention of the music that plays when we first visit the under city (and more specifically the lanes) before and after the time skip. Before the skip, the song that plays is “Welcome to the Playground” which gives off this vibe that life in Vander’s Undercity, while not necessarily *pleasant* is welcoming, community based, and at the very least *livable.* Things could definitely be better, but it’s not really a bad place. After the time skip, the introductory song is “Dirty Little Animals” which is much more wild and unhinged, Silco’s Undercity is a place of degenerates, indulgence, drugs, alcohol and backstabbing, while it’s definitely survivable, it’s not at all a pleasant place to live

“They are not two different cities” Yet

Love your voice ❤

Too fast?? They didn’t even kiss. This is the perfect build up to a slow burn romance. I just hope it isn’t another queer bait.

I love this video so much, nearing the end I can't help but squee and shake in my seat bc of all the fuzziness ooouaaaghghgahghag 😭😭😭😭💖💖💖💖

TILDA MAKE A ARCANE SEASON 2 TRAILOR REVIEW AND MY LIFE IS YOURS!!!

Heeey are you gonna make a vid on the new official trailer they just dropped? The 1:45 min one on netflix's channel

YOU DON'T GET HOW THIS ANALYSIS HAS NOW BECOME EVERYTHING TO ME. ITS IS EXCELLENT 😭

Caitlyn lived a very strict life that she has tried to rebel for years. First, with being jayce's assistant, then with joining the enforcers. She also wants to make the world better. Enter a woman that, despite being stopped at every turn, breaks through every expectation anyone throws on her. Fights even when she's been beaten down. Someone that no one could ever tell what to do or who to be. Something that caitlyn never had the courage for. Vi is so unapologetically herself while Caitlyn has had to fight for any scrap of identity she has. Of course she fell for her

You can argue it's too fast but not unnatural. Not much of a psychologist but when two people experience intense emotions with each other and situations happening so quickly around them you do tend to form stronger connections faster as a result.

one part of the video: explaining how and why The other part: picture of Vi and Caitlyn almost kissing

I like how at the beginning of the firelight "shelter" scene, ekko and vi are standing together in front of Cait, which could indicate that they have similar ideas, in terms of the conversation they were having, but when Cait demonstrates her point of view, vi starts walking towards her, about to be in the middle of these two (ekko and cait, and also to separete them because they were about to fight haha), which also shows vi's individual internal conflict of zaun and piltover and their beliefs of each other. I hope I made my point clear because I don't speak English, but I wanted to comment this. I really like your videos, I watch them whenever I can, I love your thoughts about Arcane and Vi and Cait's relationship. Greetings from Argentina!

Hey! Have you watched the trailer? Are you going to talk about it? :)

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4:15 you can’t help yourself now can you? 😂

You sound like your voice should be playing on a 1930s British vinyl and it’s messing with me 😂

I've never really thought about it, but Caitlyn gets "left behind" by Vi at least as many times as Jinx does. In episode 5 when she goes after Sevika alone, in episode 7 when the Firelights take her away, in episode 7 again when she goes back for Jinx, and in episode 8 after the meeting with the council. And every time Caitlyn reacts the complete opposite to Jinx. She shows up to save Vi after the first one (with no collateral damage) and then quickly and vocally forgives her for leaving, tries to take responsibility and give herself up to protect Vi after the second, and for the last two she is understanding and doesn't try to stop Vi from going no matter how much she wants her to stay