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ARCANE LEAGUE OF LEGENDS: 2x08 - “Killing is a Cycle”

with arcane’s focus on visual elements, something that’s been nagging on me lately is mel medarda’s final design and why it compounds the tragedy of her story:

firstly, when we see mel in her flashback, she’s already wearing her significant white/gold, but tempered with blue—noticeably missing her mother’s greys and reds, even then, showing her idealogical differences

then in piltover, we see mel as her own self-actualization—all white and gold and black, colors connected to power, and with an elegant cut that still places her slightly apart from piltover fashion. it shows her place as a non-combatant (long skirt) and someone privileged (the pure white) and wealthy (the gold. so much gold.). this is mel medarda at the pinnacle she’s worked so hard to achieve—it’s elegant because she is elegant

which of course becomes subverted when we do see the gold accessories taken away and the white dirtied when she’s kidnapped by the black rose—this is the first and only time we see mel in actual disarray, and it shows how vulnerable she is when she’s outside the political sphere

and after her transformation, we have this costume change, where aside from the increased gold (now representing magical ability instead of just wealth), we have mel in a a skin-tight catsuit style getup, allowing for greater movement, and her hair done in micro-braids in a style that won’t affect her center of gravity. at first, when i was watching, i was confused (especially about the hair), but then i realized—

this isn’t mel dressing herself to reflect a change, this is leblanc’s vision of mel, where power is swiftness and she is markedly different than others in a way that is now impossible to ignore

and she tries to return to her previous sense of self with the white hood, going back to a trademark of her style, but notably this is an outfit worn to conceal, not reveal and show off like her previous iconic dress, and her change is visibly with even just the hood off

and when mel accepts black rose’s help and betrays them and her mother dies, the white hood disappears—try as she might, she cannot go back to who she was, and she stands before noxians as a mage and mother-killer and a wolf, something dangerous

and then, when we see mel leaving piltover, she’s wearing nothing of her original self, but a combination of black rose’s getup and her mother’s colors. there is almost nothing of “mel” in this outfit, as if she’s been subsumed by these two identities—noxian and mage

even her makeup has shifted, with the red line under her eyes and the gold in her lower lip directly copying her mother

this isn’t a mel who’s realized herself in a new identity. this is a mel who, when faced with the enormous loss of her brother, mother, lover and former identity, has fallen into the definitions and roles that were presented to her, and who is now primed to continue the cycles started by her predecessors

and moving on from arcane, i think it would be fascinating to see mel in one of the newer shows to see how she grapples with this and if she either falls back into tradition and dooms herself, or if she’s able to break free and reforge her identity on her own terms

the record at the beginning of episode 7 😭

Started thinking about how Jayce is gonna discover that Mel is missing, and I just genuinely started crying in the coffee shop.

arcane s2 act 3 feelings

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lowkey highkey actually kind of hated how it ended LOLLLLL

but there were some good things i guess

like mel being badass with her cool new powers (called ittttt)

oh and cait and mel working together to fight ambessa? HELL YEAH. SWAG.

vi and cait being horny in a jail cell was cool and all but also they deserve to do alla that in a king sized bed. just saying.

the reveal that maddie worked for ambessa the whole time was so funny to me like… gasp….. i am so Shocked and Surprised…….

tbh it kind of just annoyed me cuz i was like. ok duh can we move on.

not a single mention of isha: fucking hate it

jinx’s whole self sacrificing bullshit: fucking HATE. IT. actually fucking hate it so much. not fucking epic! not cute! not funny! i fucking hate it here! seriously FUCK THIS!!!

ekko saving the day: called it but also reeeeaally wishing we could’ve had some sort of z drive action right at the end of act 2. maybe prevent the whole like. ya know. the whole Thing

act 1 annoyed me lowkey because girl we do not have time for this. how are we gonna resolve all the things if this whole episode is spent doing fuck all

like yes it was important or whatever but jesus fucking christ man. can we pls.

the robots were stupid and i hated that whole thing. like first of all where did they come from. who made them and WHENNN??? EVEN????? WERE THEY MADE??????? makes no sense. annoying and dumb. cringe and fail

sevika joining the council was. alright i guess.

not a fan of mel going back to noxus to be the new leader or whatever. i hate that shit idc

are jayce and viktor like alive or…… like what even happened lol

where??? is ekko?????? in the final scenes????????

like we see vi and cait and mel and like uhhh sevika or whatever and we know that viktor and jayce are like. dead or in the void or something. but we get zero closure for ekko????? please where is he.

brain too tired to list all the things but basically in summary im feeling Annoyed by the way arcane ended. annoyed. very very annoyed.

I can't unsee this...

he’s got rejection sensitivity

not friends not lovers but a secret third thing