#keep punching

[lefthooktothejaw]

[0neforsorrow]

Vi is obviously shown to be hesitant to become an enforcer, a thing she hates, but sees it as potentially the only way to prevent Piltover from essentially invading the lanes in search of her sister. An invasion that certainly would have resulted in innocent casualties. We, the viewer, know that this is still a terrible, unfair idea, but to Vi, who has been taught that war with Piltover can only end with meaningless death - it’s the lesser of two evils.

Her personal feelings of discomfort versus limiting the suffering of her people to only what she can inflict. Paired, of course, with the personal responsibility she feels over her sister and the people she may go on to hurt.

She is also shown to HATE the shimmer industry in the lanes and holds the chem-barons rightly responsible for their part in the suffering and poverty caused. But when she comes across the lackey of one of these chem-barons she is still capable of showing a pity and base level of human decency to a man who is no longer any harm to anyone because, unlike Cait at that moment, she still sees him as a person. One who has made bad choices, yes, but not as one of the ‘animals’ that Cait perceives as violent criminals.

What I’m trying to get across here is I think Vi joins the enforcers with nothing but the best of intentions, not yet realising there is nothing good that could come from working within an inherently broken system that will always prioritise Piltover’s comfort over Zaun’s suffering. Even if they had caught Jinx, I highly doubt Piltover’s retaliation against Zaun would have stopped there, no matter what Cait may have promised. It certainly wouldn’t have led to peace.

I think Vi probably realised this after the kindest person from Piltover she had ever known was still willing to risk the life of a CHILD of Zaun for the revenge of her Piltoven mother.

After doing everything right, playing by their rules, becoming something she loathes, she still inevitably gets tarred as no different from the rest, her exception to the rule revoked, no longer deemed as ‘one of the good ones’ - all for the crime of not wanting to risk the shooting of a CHILD.

And finally, left with nothing but a blow to the stomach for her troubles.

You can argue it’s all much more complicated than this, and it is. Especially for Caitlyn, who very much has personal stakes in the situation. But the ease and speed at which she is willing to see Jinx not just as the woman who killed her mother but as a symbol for everything wrong with Zaun and its people, is frightening. And to Vi, it must be devastating.

I just keep thinking of that Crime and Punishment quote - ‘and your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing. Isn't that fearful? Isn't it fearful that you are living in this filth which you loathe so, and at the same time you know yourself (you've only to open your eyes) that you are not helping any one by it, not saving any one from anything!’

[lecavallette]

The Big Apple Routine from the Movie Keep Punching performed by the Whitey's Lindy Hoppers

[mavenmemnon]

Whatever anyone claims, it’s hard to shake off being run out of town by 3,000 people screaming that you’re a Nazi. It’s the sort of thing that gives everyone but the coldest sociopath at least a little pause, and most of this crew don’t have the gumption or street smarts to function outside of a Reddit forum. They’re not the flint-eyed skinheads that many anti-fascists are used to fighting. I’m not a brawler, but I’d wager that these kids could be knocked down with a well-aimed stack of explanatory pamphlets, thus resolving decades of debate about whether it’s better to punch or to reason with racists.

On the Milo Bus With the Lost Boys of America’s New Right

[sunkentreasurecove]

[chechitout]

“Don’t let ‘em get you down”  4x6 pen & watercolor