Obsessed With The Tone Shift Here

In the midst of our green kiss celebrations, let’s not forget to thank the mastermind who set the stage for this watershed event!

This is what Caitlyn normally looks like when she's aiming her gun

Now here's what she looks like aiming at Jinx in s2e3

She is incredibly distorted. She looks unhinged (because she is). Not only is her eye enlarged, it's also segmented into pieces, fractured. It's illustrating her mental state. And it's so notably different from fall the other times we've seen her take aim.

For all the characters in Arcane, their weapons are part of their personalities. Caitlyn being a sniper is an illustrtion of her clear-sightedness. She notices details, she's deductive, she can use reason to figure things out.

In this shot, that's all gone. Her vision, normally so clear, is all fucked up. Not only is she in a bad state emotionally, she's also not processing things rationally.

I think it's a really cool shot that makes great use not only of the props in the scene, but also of visual language that the show has built up with Caitlyn.

“You could’ve picked me”

I AM STRAIGHT UP NOT OK OH MY GOD

if being an awkward loser lesbian was illegal id be in prison

i am finally healed, prepare to be sick of me for the following days

I’M SO FED UP WITH THIS SICKNESS BROOOOOOO CAN I GET BETTER ALREADY I CANNOT EMBRACE MY FULL POTENTIAL AS A RAGING FEMME LESBIAN 🔥🔥🔥🔥

are you kidding me. it hasn’t been that long yet since my freedom (yes, i woke up feeling sick again)

I’M SO FED UP WITH THIS SICKNESS BROOOOOOO CAN I GET BETTER ALREADY I CANNOT EMBRACE MY FULL POTENTIAL AS A RAGING FEMME LESBIAN 🔥🔥🔥🔥

THEY HIT THE SECOND TOWER

Please take note of Nero making such a big deal out of Urizen being Dante's brother. "Your own flesh and blood." THIS IS A BIG DEAL TO NERO. The blood relation is PARAMOUNT in his mind. Keep this in mind.

V admits in this scene that the one thing he and Urizen have in common is their hatred of Dante. That is the one defining foundational trait that makes him Vergil, whether whole or in pieces.

He's always defined himself as "Dante's older brother." He felt that that's how the world and his parents defined him. He saw Dante as the favorite, as the one who never had to struggle, who could be irresponsible and get away with it because HE as the older brother always needed to be held to a higher standard. To Vergil, brotherly love is irreparably entangled with his feelings of resentment.

That's why V says "you've lost me, and I've lost you." This is not a simple "my good half and my evil half" kind of thing. Urizen is all of Vergil's selfishness and pride and power incarnate. And those things are part of Vergil just as much as his humanity, his empathy and his eccentricities. He can no more give up that demonic pride and still be himself than he could his love for William Blake poems. They are all essential ingredients that make him Vergil. All this experience has taught him is that he was out of balance before, and that is why he lost to Dante at the Temen-ni-gru, because he was willing to suppress the things that truly mattered and were important to him in that blind quest for power. Just as Urizen lost to Dante here and now.

Now that he's learned his lesson. Now that he's remember what truly was important about being human. NOW that he is whole again, he can finally truly defeat Dante once and for all. Or so V is thinking in this moment.

When he does recombine with Urizen, I wonder. Does the memory of Dante telling Urizen that Eva died trying to find and save Vergil remain for him? Would that knowledge make a difference to him now? Given how Vergil acts from here on out... maybe I'd like to think so.

God this moment was so fucking hype when it happened back when the game came out. "The alpha and the omega Vergil." holy shit this game kicks so much ass.

I guess the awkwardness of a first time is true even in a world with magic and talking beasts huh

the!! hand holding!!