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WHY ARE PEOPLE ON TWITTER CLAIMING “ZAUNITE” IS A SLUR??

I REPEAT, ITS NOT A SLUR!!

Piltover call them “trenchers” as the derogatory word used toward the people from Zaun! They only call it the Undercity and nothing more. The whole point of Silco’s rise to power in Season One is to get Piltover to recognize the nation as “Zaun” and make it independent. Please arcane fans, watch the damn show, I’m actually baffled!

S2 arcane spoilers!!

Anyone else notice how dim viktors eyes look in the new season like

And it's like this for nearly every other shot

Compared to his eyes in s1

And he's rlly out of character too

And sure that could be the trauma of EVERYTHING that's happened

But I feel like it's more than that

The hexcore is controlling him obviously so maybe we'll see him try to fight against it??

I really hope he does bc I don't think the whole magic arcane Jesus thing is really working for me tbh

OR if he doesn't manage to get free of the hexcore maybe he decides to lean into it by baking himself even more robotic buy powered by hextech or whatever the new equivalent would be

I've also been thinking maybe he'll start upsetting the chem barrens?? But it seems kinda unlikely

I can't do this anymore I miss them all so muchhhhhhh

Complete word vomit but like what if viktor decides that whatever the 'arcane' is too dangerous or comes at too high a cost and starts The Glorious Evolution from there?

Maybe he feels responsible for whatever the weird magic orb thingys are and decides that all of this mess (not just with the hex core but also with zaun and piltover) was due to human error so now he thinks he has to help people by getting rid of their 'flaws' like they're ability to make the kinds of mistakes he made in s1.

We know he already doesn't want the hex core to be around anymore so why would he suddenly become infatuated with it?? Like sure maybe it has an influence over him, but I seriously doubt it would last all season

Plus viktors whole Thing is helping people why would he stick with the hex core and all it's bs if it means either vaporising people or shimmer? Viktor is smart that's like the first thing we know about him I feel like he'd find a way out of the hex core's thrall

Idk I just don't really want to watch hex core bs for like a quarter of next season, I'll still probably like it tho

Do y'all think the early progression of Viktor's sickness could be seen in Jayce's sketches? A bit deeper eyebags, sharper edges on his cheeks, slightly more sunken in expressions, barely even noticeable if you don't know, but visible in hindsight through all these little sketches spread across Jayce's journal, unknowingly documenting the process

spoilers for arcane act 3

guys, we should have know jinx was gonna die

Hear me out

so yk the perfect universe the Ekko is in for ep7??? Weeeeellllll

literally every one he interacts with in that universe is dead

Silco, Vander, Milo, Clager(Idk how to spell his name), even Benso showed up. What do they all have in common?

they dead.

our final clue is when Himerdinger (no way in hell I spelled that right) dies doing science shit right before Ekko leaves. He is the only other person in that universe that isn’t dead in the main one, but arcane writers made sure to clear that up.