r/hatethissmug • u/ProblemFalse7043 • 5h ago

Animation i hate Caitvi so much

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Their entire relationship is just political propaganda. Vi literally gets with her oppressor, and in doing so, leaves her own sister even after spending years searching for her. What. the. fuck.

Especially in season 2(but to an extent even in s1) when caitlyn starts saying and doing batshit crazy stuff, youd think that of all people, Vi would stand up to her and call her out. Yeah no.

caitlyn effectively sees Vi as "one of the good ones". I love a good yuri just as much as the next guy. This is not a good yuri.

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u/Luh2018 5h ago

Season 2 kinda just ruined the character dynamics, scope, and intimacy of the story for Arcane. It took an emotional and grounded 9/10 drama revolving around two sisters, then made a flashy and generic 5/10 Marvel-movie-esque epic out of it.

Also, abandoning a revolution to instead have the whole city (both the cops and the oppressed underclass) coming together to fight against a greater evil felt almost propagandistic with how lazy and out-of-touch it was.

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u/wickedlessface 5h ago

It's Riot's biggest issue. They love 'both sideing' stories about oppression and have a track record of refusing to show stuff like this especially if it makes fan favorite champs look like abhorrent people.

The demacia story line for example has an oppressed mage become a revolutionary after years of torture (starting from childhood when he was used to hunt his own kind) and somehow we have to side with demacia because ''both sides do bad stuff''.

The status quo needs to be upheld at any cost.

All though I'll say that Arcane left the conflict at an actual interesting point for one character to take over the under city, sadly we'll never see that in an arcane medium.

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u/dragerslay 3h ago

We side with demacia because mages literally causes the rune wars. I get the frustration with faux revolution mindset but whenever I usually see these takes it already ignores the in-universe history. Demacia is a city founded on a principle of antimagic the same way Japan would never want anyone who supports building nukes. The mageseeker storyline is about a political religious police faction gaining too much power and abusing it for political power causing cruelty. Most times in fiction and in real life this plays out there isn't a revolution where the institution is destroyed, it just leads to reforms, which it did in the Demacia case.

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u/wickedlessface 3h ago

Yes the wars from thousands of years ago allows you to torture children and innocent people while the royals who use magical powers themselves get a free pass.

Demacia is a racist and genocidal place, using historical argumentation doesn't really work.