I Bring You Crona Once Again

Hylic the Speed Demon!

Healing magic - the ability to stitch yours or someone else's wounds together with a touch - spreads, ironically, like a disease. Get healed by someone, there's a small chance you'll become a healer yourself. Perhaps this was intended by a higher power to be a nice gesture. Someone helps you, and then gives you the power to pay it forward.

For Singed, this was an exploitable loophole.

OR: Viktor finds another way to live.

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The moral of the arcane season two act three is that if you're suicidal you should just go ahead and kill yourself

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Gay ships even straight men seem to be into

The visuals of Arcane are amazing, but the one personal nitpick I have of them is that they seem to play by the opposite of anime rules. You know how in any screenshot of an anime (not all of them, but a lot of them), you can immediately tell who the main character is because they have the lost interesting (or at least weirdest) character design, like this?

In Arcane, it's the opposite. The most interesting designs are often reserved for characters who never have speaking lines, exist for one scene, or who have a short arc and then end up dying. It's like the further away you get from main character status, the more interesting your character design gets. It's not like the designs of the main characters are BAD, mind you, I think not every character design has to be elaborate to be good and I love several of them, but it's always kind of a pity when an amazing character design appears and you know you're only going to see them for five seconds.

Particularly I'm thinking of the councillors and the chembarons, that guy with the gold jaw, transgender cat lady, fish guy, and probably some others I forgot. I hope in future arcane shows the character designs get weirder, because if they pushed it enough I think we could end up with the wildest cast of characters of all time.

but the fire is so delightening.

the implications of this are frightening.

Tbf Viktor did actually meet Jinx in the show and he was remarkably forgiving considering the circumstances. I think he would act pretty normal about it most of the time except occasionally jinx would say something like 'yeah that song really blew up' and viktor would be like 'yeah. just like you blew me up.' and jinx would be like um. sorry haha. And then every time Viktor wanted something from jinx afterwards like help with a project she'd be like but I don't wanna and he'd be like 'remember that time you killed me?' and she'd be like ok fine. He also does this to Jayce on several occasions

i love the arcane cute fan scenarios of ships going on a double date but I just can't take them seriously considering jinx and ekko hate caitlyn's guts, jinx and ekko have both actually killed viktor at different points and a caitvi jayvik double date would end up with the restaurant exploding and at least one child dead by the pure fact of jayce and vi being on the same space together

Can't stop thinking about iterators as horrible little baby birds

I also wonder if he helped him with certain things that would have been difficult for him as a Yordle. It's not exactly a disability in the traditional sense, but there's got to be a lot of things heimerdinger can't do as a (very!) small person in a world of much larger people, and I think the idea of Viktor, a disabled man himself, helping him out with that kind of thing is... Kind of nice? Like, I imagine he gets a little sick of having to be helped, so getting to do that for someone else makes him feel a little more independent. Viktor, dean's assistant and official getter-of-things-on-high-shelves.

An interesting aspect of Viktor's character I haven't seen anyone talk about is that he was the Dean's assistant for awhile. That's, like, a big job. If you're the assistant of The Man in charge, you're doing a lot; scheduling, mediating, doing the mundane work that's necessary but not something Heimterdinger would do. We see this in the way that Heimerdinger sends Viktor to collect Jayce and all of his illegal science stuff.

A job like that requires a lot. Communication skills, a willngness to do the uncomfortable work (confront people, deal with misshaps, etc so Heimerdinger didn't have to), organizational skills, etc. And a lot of being on the move; running errands, following Heimerdinger around, stuff like that.

I assume people would have known about Viktor because it's likely many of them would have gone through him to communicate with Heimerdinger (and vice versa).

The fact that Viktor is relatively introverted while still doing all of this is so impressive and a testament to both his abilities and the intensity of passion that motivated him.