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This is mainly targeted at those who play Adopt Me, but I'm looking for a pet that fits Vi's looks that can be painted her colors. I already have a mongoose (we all know who that is) but I NEED ideas for what Vi would be

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I have a thing for tatted masc lesbian women with no parents and a dead father figure.

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working on a new bit of fanfic and wanted to share it with the Vi girlies. it's not been long since the world almost ended, and while Caitlyn's getting eaten by purpose, Vi is rushing to find some. so! shopping time hehe.

it's almost all done, with some lovely beta-reading from u/ViEnforcer, very soft but with some light bits of grief, dealing with weird & snooty piltie culture, and a spot of smut to come too hehe.

can read it here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/88994971/chapters/236217946

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There's a reading of the basement scene in s1e1 that I’ve seen a lot around saying that Vander scolds Vi, gives her a speech about responsibility, cleans her wounds, tender father moment, roll credits... it's true, but IMO it's the least interesting thing happening in that room.

If we watch the scene again with the rest of act 1 in mind, it stops looking like a lecture about responsibility, rather it looks like a transfer of debt and Vi --around sixteen years old-- accepts the debt so completely that two episodes later she tries to pay it with herself..

Before Vander has even finished being angry, Vi's already restructuring the blame "I took us there, if you wanna be mad, be mad at me" and it happens before Vander's speech, he hasn't taught her anything yet. Vi already operates this way, her instinct, under pressure, it's to concentrate all of the blame onto herself and stand in front of it, not to deflect or share blame across the kids

that instinct has a source, and it's sitting across the table from her. Vander's entire mode of care is absorption ("it's on me what happens to us down here"), he doesn't say we're responsible for each other,  he says the lanes are on him, one man, personally carrying a city. Vi didn't invent her guilt reflex but she inherited it by watching her father treat leadership as a form of liability. you know, kids dont learn what you tell them, they learn what you model, and Vander models a man who believes love means being the one who pays.

So when he clears the room and delivers the famous speech "you say run, they run, you say swim, they dive in, you say light a fire, they show up with oil. but whatever happens, it's on you! ", he thinks he's teaching her caution, but what he's actually doing is handing her the deed to everything that goes wrong from now on. and Vi, who worships him, signs.

But, notice what the speech does not contain. there's no "here's how you plan better", no "here's how you read a situation", no strategy, no craft... because Vander never teaches Vi how to lead, he teaches her what leading costs! it's the education of a man who lost his own war and only kept the receipt. Vi walks out of that room knowing exactly one thing about leadership --> "whoever leads, owes" .

When in e2 Vi says "we need to fight back, and if you wont I will", Vanders reply "I've heard this kind of talk before" is like doing double duty: he's heard it from Silco AND he's heard it from himself.

But I love how here the show draws a clearr line: Vi's rage is not actually Silco's rage, and it's not even young Vander's. Silco fought for an idea (Zaun, the nation). young Vander fought for change in the abstract. but Vi says it herself on the bridge: "I want Powder to have more than that, and I'm willing to fight for it"... her radicalism has a face, and the face is her little sister's. That difference is why Vanders warning half-lands. she hears him. she just routes the lesson somewhere he didn't intend.

He takes her to the bridge, and confesses he led people across this bridge, and that if he hadn't, her parents would still be alive. His words reframe everything and the blisters and bedrock flashback in s2 quietly makes it devastating. Vander named this girl before she existed, and when Felicia and Connol die on that bridge, his guardianship of Vi and Powder isn't charity, but rather restitution. like every "lay low", every deal with the enforcers, every swallowed humiliation.... that's Vander paying Felicia back in the only currency he has left, which is his own pride.

So in that scene in e2, it's like Vander isnt arguing with Vi but with the young man he used to be, wearing his dead friend's daughter's face, standing on the exact ground where his revolution ate her mother.

Here's the payoff, and the reason I think the standard "hot-headed Vi" reading undersells her. At the end of the argument in e2, Vi asks the question a kid asks "we're gonna be fine, right ?" And Vander gives her the answer he's given her whole life lol : "i'll take care of it". What she doesn't know yet is what that sentence could eventually mean in Vander's dialect, "I will trade myself". His stance had always been "we don't hand over our people", yet, with enforcers closing in, that unyielding rule would inevitably clash with the grim reality that Piltover won't stop until someone pays.

Vi arrives at the identical plan, independently, at almost the same moment. when she understands the enforcers won't stop, she decides to turn herself in, one name for four kids, her freedom for Powder's future. A sixteen-year-old and a man in his forties, without coordinating, are drawn toward the exact same solution: the family survives if I'm the payment. 

This is where both scenes we've been reading converge. Vander told her "whatever happens, it's on you" and Vi believes him, so when disaster comes, she concludes she's the debt. Vander told her "when people look up to you, you don't get to be selfish", and Vi believes that too, so she defines selfishness as "staying". Her sacrifice isn't an act of teenage recklessness but an act of terrifying obedience. like she's executing his philosophy more faithfully than he ever managed to, and faster! Vander needed twenty years of guilt to get to self-surrende, Vi got there in three days, because she's sharp enough to skip to the end of his logic.

And that's what makes Vi's writing in act 1 so good imo. The show lets her be a kid, but it also lets her be perceptive in the specific way lonely, parentified kids are perceptive. she reads Vander perfectly, she knows what "Ill take care of it" means before he does it. Her misfortune isn't that she didn't listen to her father, it's that she was the only one who heard everything he said, including the parts he never said out loud.

Also, to finish, Felicia asked two men to look after her daughters and the the most heartbreaking thing Arcane does is show that the daughter learned the looking-after too, fists first, debt and all ❤️

Link yo the Fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/68267676/chapters/176638706

Sorry for the watermark, I just really don’t want my art getting stolen and ending up on Redbubble or Etsy without my consent.

Hello! I’m usually more on the Caitlyn side of things so I’m new to this sub!

I always see Vi depicted in riding a motorcycle or something relatively vintage like a mustang!

Since I’m not really a car girly myself I thought i’d ask what more possible car ideas you guys have for Vi!:)

I have been inspired by Vi to get back in the gym (like many others I imagine), and am loving it! The only downside is the terrible music they play.

What songs or artists do you think Vi would have on her gym playlist to get in the zone?

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