#ask syn

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Can you explain what happened to the kinktober drama? I’m kinda scared to look it up i saw some posts referring it

I don't wanna get involved in the mess and I'm not active on twit so I don't know the people behind this event and I'll try to keep it short.

The drama from the last few days was over the rules of the Caitvi Kinktober event that were restrictive and looked more like a legal document with lots of stipulations for what is allowed and even had a template for how certain things should be written. The themes were rather tame and yet some of them also conflicted with their own rules. They did this instead of saying 'XYZ is banned cause we don't like it, so if you do write XYZ we won't promote it', and had an overall puritan/fandom policing/corporate vibe that just doesn't match with an event that's supposed to celebrate kink, and for that they got criticized.

Unfortunately it breached containment so non-Arcane/Caitvi people started clowning on them. I wish I could say they were listening to actual criticism before that happened about the rules, but from what I've heard the account was blocking a lot of Caitvi writers who write kink (I believe they even blocked people who write kink without interactions/reason given).

I read the rules a few weeks ago and decided the vibes were off, especially with the creatively limiting scene requirements where you would break the rules if you came up with a more elegant way of including consent. I do feel bad for the people behind it for being clowned on en masse cause I don't think anyone deserves that (and also that it's unhelpful and inflammatory with one side (fandom outsiders) saying 'this is why F/F fic isn't popular', and the people defending the rules going 'sorry you freaks can't disguise rape kink behind CNC'). But I don't understand how they didn't realize ahead of time or during the creation of the event that they weren't the right people to run it, or realized their version would work better as a private event ran on a discord server rather than a public event.

Anyway, tldr is some people made a fandom specific prompt list and hashtag for an already established yearly Kinktober event, and then used that as a way to try to control what other people create.

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synn. synnie. synn whats your favorite sasi ship and why

Zee. Zeevi. Zee!!! It’s intrulogical! It’s because in real life the type I’m attracted to is smart guys who make dumb decisions and they’re like both sides of that coin!! Also sadist Logan x masochist Remus nfkemdmgjieldmfjeiejwjdhu

I kin Logan on a spiritual level and I project how I feel onto him a lot and Remus also just has a special place in my heart. I think if I were to selfship I would selfship with Remus haha. He’s gross. Kinda like it tho

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Incredibly romantic ? The fact that Caitlyn accepted to be second after Jinx in Vi's life ? And what Vi did for Caitlyn in return ? Strictly nothing, she just break Caitlyn trust again and again. That's not romance for me, just someone who is fine to put herself second in the relationship  

Sigh... you've been sending me asks for months now with the fucking wildest interpretations of these characters. If you dislike them so much, just stop engaging with it!

In season 1, Jinx asked Vi to choose between her and Caitlyn. In season 2, Caitlyn asked Vi to choose between her and Jinx. Both of them were wrong to ask this of Vi. Caitlyn doesn't put herself second, she stops asking Vi to choose.

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Top 5 fave details in Arcane? (Besides the shower reflection lmao 👀)

1 Caitlyn folding over her handkerchief to hide the Kiramman crest on it from Vi before trying to clean up Vi's face in ep 6

Directly related to that:

2 Caitlyn telling Vi and Ekko about her friend on the council instead of revealing she's a councilor's daughter.

She's so desperate to just be Caitlyn to Vi, not a Kiramman like she is to everyone else 😭

3 Vi using Caitlyn's 90-caliber net ability by punching it 🥵

4 Vi's eye color being pantone Powder Blue and Jinx' eye color post shimmer resurrection being pantone Red Violet.

5 Little details like references to jungle monsters and stuff like the gentleman Cho'gath painting on a wall in ep 1

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« There is a definitive tragedy in Arcane where healing is only possible by letting something go, even if it’s a person you've spent your entire life trying to save. Vi not being able to accept parts of who she is or be with the woman she loves without such a sacrifice is heartbreaking in itself, but the circumstances behind the ending we received make sense, whether Jinx survived in that explosion and escaped on an airship or not. »

this is something Amada herself said about CaitVi, and it’s clear, like I said for her Jinx needed to leave in ordre for Vi to move on and be with Caitlyn and move in with her. This is one of the many things that is shitty regarding them. And this is my last message. I will leave you here meditating on this.

I don't need to meditate on this because Caitlyn, Jinx and VI broke the cycle in episode 8. Vi did not go after Jinx, she also broke the cycle, and then Vi and Cait fucked about it.

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In this case tell me why Jinx pretended to be dead at the end ? But here's the thing you can't no arguments for that because they made it clear that Jinx has to pretend she died for Vi to accept to be with Caitlyn and to move on This means that if Jinx had stayed, Vi wouldn't be able to stay with Caitlyn and move in with her. That's the whole point so Jinx is still first

'you can't, no arguments for that'. Pretty clear you're not open to actually listening to any arguments, so why even ask? You're so determined to ignore every one of these characters arcs and growth.

Jinx fakes her death and flees because she's still Piltover's most wanted. What we know is that Caitlyn is aware of this or at the very least thinks it's possible. We also know there are no secrets between Vi and Caitlyn. So Vi knows Jinx probably escaped death and left Piltover. Jinx also knows Vi and Caitlyn are smart, and that they would figure that out.

The show makes it abundantly clear that neither Caitlyn not Jinx should ask Vi to choose, and yet you ignore all of that and you still want Vi to choose.

'Jinx has to pretend she died for Vi to accept to be with Caitlyn and to move on. This means that if Jinx had stayed, Vi wouldn't be able to stay with Caitlyn and move in with her.' Literally based on what? How about you actually argue how Vi's sister being alive would mean Vi can't be with Caitlyn? Jinx took away Vi's agency by locking her in the cell in s2e8, but once Vi was free she stayed. Jinx stans are mad at Vi for staying instead of going after Jinx, you're mad at Vi for what, not breaking the 4th wall by looking into the camera and say 'I choose Caitlyn'?

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Sorry about the dumb asks you're getting. Here's one that doesn't suck.

What are your top 3 fave CaitVi moments?

If you could have added one missing scene or extended one we already got, what would it have been?

Thanks friend :) I'm just confused why this person has picked me 😂 I barely get asks beside these. There's a bunch I've deleted and a few are still sitting in my inbox that make me want to sleep when I read them. I'm gonna be so predictable probably, but nr 1 for me is their first kiss. It's perfect and perfectly mistimed and I will never get tired of rewatching it. Nr 2 is obviously Caitvi horny jail. 8 months later and I still can't believe we got all that!!! Nr 3 is difficult. I think I'm gonna pick the hug on the bridge today. Tomorrow it might be the bed scene, this weekend I might say it's the rainy soft breakup+shower pining.

One missing scene I would add is Vi making her way down in the finale and seeing Caitlyn being tended to by Mel and Steb and her reaction to Cait's injuries.