#I don't really know any lore outside of the show other than something something Warwick

[lumberwoof]

more thoughts/notes/ideas about this Arcane AU of mine:

-takes place immediately following s1

-Mel and Cassandra (Caitlyn’s mom) survive the explosion, because A) Mel’s a Medarda and no matter how much she believes in peaceful resolutions you can’t tell me she isn’t prepared for assassination attempts and that the gold thing that literally never comes off her body isn’t some kind of protection, B) I refuse to kill Mel for Jayce’s character development, and C) Cassandra can’t die because there’s already too many dead moms in this universe -Mel and Cassandra are both pretty badly injured tho, if only so there’s time for Jayce to be alone and make one or two or twelve bad decisions -Piltover and Zaun are both in bad places. Piltover has a vacuum in leadership both on the council and on the Enforcers. Zaun has a vacuum in leadership and also just got an independence that the people really had no say in, so there’s no structure in place to take over now that they aren’t getting support from Piltover, which is fucked up, to say the least. (again, Piltover making decisions for Zaun without actually consulting the people of Zaun) -god Caitlyn tries to help from topside, but guns and badges weren’t made to heal people, and helping heal is what she vowed? promised? to Ekko that she’d do, so I think she quickly realizes that she can do more good in Zaun

-I think a lot about Viktor’s quote “in the pursuit of great, we failed to do good” and that I think Caitlyn is the kind of person who, maybe somewhat inadvertently, gives up greatness so she can do good, and this AU is kind of an extension of that

-reintegrating into the Undercity/Zaun is going to be hard for Vi, especially considering the whiplash of the last few days. she’s been gone for years, and it’s not Vander’s town anymore. though I think enough of them still respect Vander to not give Vi too much trouble, there’s also a lot of folks who respected Silco and aren’t gonna like her waltzing into town after his death -Caitlyn initially helps out Vi by keeping all the paperwork and bookkeeping for the Last Drop in order while Vi tries to re-establish the Lanes, maybe initially she wants to return them to what they used to be, but eventually makes something new, something beyond what Vander and Silco could imagine -it turns out, when you have political training and you’re in control of the money, you often end up being the one talking during business meetings, and then sometimes you end up being the one placing threats because you control the money so you have the power. sometimes, you do this often enough that you start being considered the boss and sure, these might be Vi’s Lanes now, but everyone knows that if you don’t want to piss off Vi, then you better not piss off Caitlyn, because she’s the one that calls the shots -and so, yeah, ok, there’s no way Caitlyn could’ve forseen this, just a year removed from her parents getting her fired from her Enforcer job and her busting out an Undercity criminal with forged documents, and now she’s a Zaunite mob boss. but these things happen sometimes

-and if a retaliation from Piltover releases a werewolf from Singed’s labs into the streets with an eerily familiar snarl, and a confrontation between Vi and Jinx puts Vi in danger and forces Jinx to work with Caitlyn, well hey, these things also happen

-also Sevika becoming a lieutenant to her third mob boss in 10? 12? years and grumbling about the younger generation because I love her and I want her to be “right in front of my card game?” all the damn time at Vi and Caitlyn

#arcane tag #god I really don't wanna tag this with anything but w/e #I don't really know any lore outside of the show other than something something Warwick #and a little bit of digging into Viktor #so don't @ me about shit