Post-war Sketches!

we got the viktor and jinx interaction. the manifesting worked.

on everyone's soul this is what happened

when Isha remembers Jinx, when she thinks about the love that's about to inform her violence and sacrifice, and for brief glimpses we see Powder's blue eyes flicker again

Support course! Deku <3

Just thinking about how Jinx never told Isha to stay back and always let her tag along despite the danger because she never wanted to do the same thing Vi did to her and make Isha feel left out/useless. But now she probably understands in the worst way why Vi did what she did.

I’m totally fine.

During Mel's flashback to her childhood in S1, there's a moment where Ambessa stands alone in the ruined doorway of whatever castle she's just overtaken.

Because Mel never supported her cruelty, she's not standing next to her in this shot. She's standing directly opposite her, out of frame.

Now in S2, we see Caitlyn standing dead center in the destroyed council chamber, with Ambessa off to the side.

Ambessa is replacing Mel with Caitlyn, who's now desperate enough to support violence and weaponry - something Mel repeatedly refused to do.

Caitlyn also isn't just a replacement. She's now the continuation of Ambessa's ideologic lineage: That a wolf has no mercy.

And now Caitlyn is getting a new parental figure after just losing her mom.

Who does that remind you of?

Jayce: omg dude we were so drunk last night! (had 1 mimosa)

Viktor: yeah (was sober)

Cassandra built infrastructure specifically so Zaunites could breathe the air down there??? I didn't know you were chill like that Mrs. Kiramman

So if I were to take away from this moment something deeper than “man Sevika's a freak”, I'd point out that we've seen the same tactic not long before.

What does this say about Caitlyn? She's fighting dirty. She's fighting like a cornered rat. She's fighting like a Zaunite.

And first of all there's hypocrisy. Caitlyn's been calling these people animals and monsters and whatnot but when placed in an identical situation she responds identically. Case in point: getting so mad at Jinx for terrorizing people out of grief that she goes ahead and starts to terrorize people out of grief. Sevika's expression afterwards is mostly “joke's on you I'm into that” but there's some surprise there too — you wouldn't expect that move from a Piltie.

Then there's desperation. Because she needs revenge; she needs it or she'll never ever forgive herself for what happened. So she'll throw away her morals and her dignity and just do whatever it takes to achieve the goal, whether it means chomping on someone like a feral raccoon or becoming a military dictator… which puts her in the same mindset as Zaunites, all of whom are desperate to survive and a lot of whom could never afford morals and dignity in the first place.