"Maybe" 😠

Caitlyn! she is a very serious person you see

The Black Rose is so much more powerful and influential than I realized. They have control over so many families, have mages, rune soldiers, and demons at their disposal. Good luck to Mel; she's gonna need it.

I also think Mel lovers need to mentally prepare themselves for the tough choices she's gonna have to make and the grim situations she'll find herself in. I know we all want her to be happy, especially after everything that happened, but I don't think she's gonna find that happiness anytime soon. I think she's gonna go through some serious shit.

Her whole family is dead, and her family has fallen from high places; Mel is smart and knows she's gonna need allies, and many would need something from her in exchange. A lot also have secret motives and agenda.

Rell is a sure ally for her, is what I know. But still, it's gonna be hard...

girls night out 📸

modern Melsky

melora aesthetics because i was bored 💕

so… yeah. Sevika thirst trap that I forgot to post here.

Arcane’s race blindness is a curse honestly. The Piltover cast (counsel and enforcers) are mostly characters of color, while the main characters from Zaun are mostly white (except Ekko and Sevika).

That leads to takes that Mel is racist towards Viktor (or any other white Zaunite character). Which is wack

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Some thoughts on Mel and Ambessa from Arcane :)

Anon this one's for you (I was originally going to put this in my answer to your ask but it got longer than I expected so here we are lol)!!

I LOVE Mel. And not just because I'm a raging lesbian ☝ She's genuinely a really well written character. She's so intelligent, not to mention manipulative (especially in s1), and it's so impressive how she utilizes that to get what she wants. I didn't really care for Jayce very much in s1 either, so whenever Mel convinced him to do what she wanted I was just sitting there like "yes queen play him like a fiddle. 😍" That aside, she genuinely has a good heart, and I appreciate that the writers let those two facets of her character coexist without defining her by one or the other. I also really enjoyed her getting more agency in s2 (or at least in act 3, I suppose, since she was effectively taken out of the game so to speak for the first couple acts)—and her actions/success became less dependent on Jayce as well which was nice. Her fighting with Cait against Ambessa was SO good omg

Speaking of Ambessa...she's also such a cool character. I can't say I like her as much specifically bc of how she took advantage of Caitlyn and her grief + status in s2, but at the same time, it makes total sense for her character and that doesn't make her any less of a great villain. In fact, that's a large part of WHY she's such a good villain. But her extremely tactical and planned takeover of Piltover aside—she's a cunning warlord and just as manipulative as Mel, but she's also a MOTHER, and words cannot express how much I enjoy the fact that that's treated as an integral part of her character instead of an afterthought. She isn't depicted as weak because she's a mother, and while she personally does feel weakened by her children (particularly Mel), it's only out of her love for them. Plus, at the end of the day, the final battle showed us that even her love for Mel wouldn't impede her lust for power, so her role as a mother doesn't cheapen her ruthlessness either. FANTASTIC stuff. Side note, but I also loved her bond with Rictus.

Ambessa's also honestly really similar to Mel. If you switched out Mel's softness/morals for an extremely strong love of family, you basically get Ambessa, and I think that's part of why they clashed the way they did. They're both incredibly intelligent, and so so skilled at manipulating any situation in their favor, influencing others, and taking power, and I imagine those are shared qualities that Ambessa loved and Mel loathed for a long time. Meanwhile, Ambessa's unshakable principles (eg. Fox vs. Wolf mentality) simply didn't allow her to fully accept Mel's empathy, just as Mel's empathy for others made Ambessa's cruelty seem intolerable to her. But they still loved each other to the end, and I adore that. Mel holding her mother as she died because of her, Ambessa finally recognizing Mel as what she deems to be the perfect leader in her dying moments....ohhhh they're so complicated.

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