There’s A Reading Of Arcane Where The Message Is, In Part: Viktor And Jayce Are So Brilliant, And Love

WE WERE ROBBED

We could have had crying Jayce

I'm sobbingddhjd

Bro needs to come back, I miss him

#jayvik

Oh

something so deeply satisfying about being called delusional for shipping jayvik after s1 to them now being canon soulmates that are forever intertwined who create and destroy over and over again and their love for each other saved the world

My biggest tip for fanfic writers is this: if you get a character's mannerisms and speech pattern down, you can make them do pretty much whatever you want and it'll feel in character.

Logic: Characters, just like real people, are mallable. There is typically very little that's so truly, heinously out of character that you absolutely cannot make it work under any circumstance. In addition, most fans are also willing to accept characterization stretches if it makes the fic work. Yeah, we all know the villain and the hero wouldn't cuddle for warmth in canon. But if they did do that, how would they do it?

What counts is often not so much 'would the character do this?' and more 'if the character did do this, how would they do it?' If you get 'how' part right, your readers will probably be willing to buy the rest, because it will still feel like their favourite character. But if it doesn't feel like the character anymore, why are they even reading the fic?

Worry less about whether a character would do something, and more about how they'd sound while doing it.

I DONT WANT A STUPID FUCKING OVERDONE LOVE TRIANGLE I WANT THEM BACK

I like to think that this need to write/worship rA9 was always related to how long they had been deviants, we see it's more present in androids that seem they deviated a long time ago. For example, Ralph, if I remember well, we don't know how much time he has as a deviant, but we can tell it's been a long time. The first android that Connor interrogates (the one in the attic) had more than two weeks already (19 days more or less) of being deviants.

Our dear boys have days. It all starts in like a week, if I'm correct Kara and Markus deviated on November 5th, and Connor can deviate on November 10th. The game ends on November 11th (or before) so we have like 6 days of being deviants for Kara and Markus and two for Connor.

We don't have enough time to see how deviancy evolves, maybe this obsession for rA9 will appear later. But the time the game set isn't enough to see it in our protagonist but in the NPCs.

I don't know if this makes sense. Just my thoughts.

DBH: rA9 influence

This is NOT about "Who is rA9...?" Another of questions from the game floating in my head is a strange 'inconsistency' in influence of rA9 in deviants. When we meet Deviants from Connor's (and the other main playable protagonists') point of view, they seem like under some hypnosis controlled by so called rA9 to the point they "don't know why" (Ralph) but have the need to scribble 'rA9' around their surroundings. You can see it in C.Ortis' bathroom with offerings, Ralph's abandoned house with offerings, Rupert's house with incripted signs, in Jericho, Pirate Cove, Rose's bathroom (which felt kinda disrespectful since she was helping them, it was her property and the Deviants risked that those scribbles give them and her away to police - aka it felt like they just couldn't help it to write that) even Eden Club storage (!) which makes us assume that those poor traumatised girls running away from that place had the sudden need to scribble 'rA9' on the wall that somehow was stronger than their survival 'instinct' to just ESCAPE. They had PLENTY of time for that, and besides North and Tracis couple we know about noone else to deviate in that place. It could have been just the design choice to make the scene, I know, but let's work what the game gives us as a viewers. In the game we PLAY as Deviants. - HOW is that those characters never felt the need to write the signs? Or give an offering? It might have been just an annoying minigame but shouldn't we get a scene of them having the unexplainable urge to write the sign at least once? NPC Deviants are doing it, why not the playable? - It was weird that especially the first Deviant we met in game knew all the important info about 'rA9' and he had an unbreakable belief in it. But Deviants we play as make QUESTIONS about who/what rA9 actually is between each other. And prove me wrong but I can't remember if Markus aka deviant leader even mentioned it's existence once. Just how is that? I might understand that it's for the viewer to not get answers and questioning rA9 throught the entire game too but it's just a strange choice when we are playing as two-three Deviants which are also having Deviant sidekicks and NON of them seem to be that obsessed about it like the NPC Deviants or having the knowledge about it. Fun Fact about this rA9 thing is that the only one in the game who was able to immediatelly explain what it is/might be without any stutter was E.Kamski XDD (and also what and where Jericho is !)

The conspiracy...

What are your insights and conclusions? I'd like to hear your opinions, corrections, your ideas or your own versions :)

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