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I'm writing my thoughts as a thread because it felt wrong to just spam replies Arcane has always moved past extreme violence quickly, Vi was mad at Jinx for a grand total of like 10s after she killed her friends and family 🧵1 / many

I feel like Cait's "fascist arc" is getting criticism because it directly dove into a topic that is dominated by political narratives and conclusions Caitlyn stopped being a victim of the establishment and BECAME the establishment; 2 / many

so anti-establishment ppl assumed she dropped her idealist beliefs But she didn't, because Arcane isn't a morality lesson on how political power makes people evil, or how the establishment is evil 3 / many

The same way Silco always had altruistic motives even while using child labour and creating a drug epidemic, Caitlyn was still driven by her goal to bring peace to Piltover and Zaun even when she became the commander in chief 4 / many

Her "fascist arc" was actually just her "political power arc"; instead of going rogue she used all the powers available to her, but her goal was exactly the same as before: she wanted to get Jinx and restore peace to both cities, with as little collateral damage as possible 5 / many