An Arcane theory about the Firelights, Hextec, and Shimmer which is probably over thinking things
Okokokok Soooooo I feel like in Arcane there are three main groups of living (I can’t find the right word). And they each have colors attached to them.
1. The Firelight Rebels - green (firelights, the bugs, are green)
2. Zaun - purple (shimmer)
3. Piltover - blue (hextech)
So something I noticed was that these color all have one thing in common, the color blue.
Green is made of yellow and blue
Purple is made of red and blue
And blue is uh, just blue
And Zaun and the Firelights stem from Piltover. They wouldn’t exist if there wasn’t the rich people in Piltover leaving the poor to fend for themselves. This is kinda like how green and purple wouldn’t exist if there was no blue.
Though the Firelight rebels and Zaun have blue in common (or that they came to be because of Piltover) they also have their differences.
Zaun has red (purple = red + blue). What I think this means if that Zaun is taking the separation from Piltover and using it for harm and over all just has bad motives. Because usually humans in general think red = bad. And Silco doesn’t care that people are become harmed because of shimmer he just wants power and money.
The Firelights have the color yellow (green = yellow + blue). This shows that they are trying to aim for happiness. Echo himself said “it isn’t enough to survive, you need to let people live” (not exactly that quote, more like a gist of it). Over all yellow is a happy free color, which is the exact goal of the Rebels. So the goal that they have in response to being split from Piltover was good and yellow. Also just their overall color green is associated with good. Yellow = happy. Green = good.
And Piltover you ask? Well it is blue. Which is a bit troubling because blue is associated with sad. Which if you think about it, Piltover causes a lot of suffering for a lot of people. Think of everyone in Zaun and in the Firelights they were all suffering, because of piltover.
I guess the main thing that comes out of this is was what suffering and power can become in different hands. If the person who is gaining power from the suffering is bad, it can lead to things like Shimmer and more people suffering. Or if the person is good, there can be significant improvement in the quality of life for a lot of people.
So yeah!! That was a fun connection that I made about the groups of living in Arcane :)
Also I know that I colored the word yellow with orange, but I couldn’t find yellow. So I had to settle with orange. 😬