Arcane Salon (Snowflake Challenge 13)

This is actually a timely challenge, because I've been thinking I wanted to make a post that's just, "Everyone talk about Arcane with me, please, I beg you." The post I've been envisioning started out a little more whiny, because I just don't know where to nerd out about things with other people anymore. But I'm going to bite my tongue with my complaints about social media platforms these days and instead invite anyone who's interested to give me their Arcane takes/feels.

Got recs for fic or artists? Got a character you want to talk more about? Want to link some meta you or someone else has written? Want to list out some headcanons? Just have a topic you want to chatter about? Want to talk about what did and didn't work for you S2? Please go nuts!

Here are some prompts, but no one has to stick to these. Anything goes if it's Arcane or LoL lore related here.

• What sort of "missing scenes" do you wish we had gotten?
• What did you come away shipping, if anything, and what attracted you to the ship?
• If you are a Jayvik fan, were you a day one truther? Did you come in from the old LoL pairing? Was it S2 that convinced you? How much of the old Vikjayce characterization do you like to see in fanworks if at all?
• What are your thoughts on Maddie and Caitlyn? I kind of love them as a pairing? I think Maddie alone is an extremely interesting character. She was a double agent the whole time but her loyalty to Noxus is sexy, and I'm intrigued by the scene in which she's encouraging Caitlyn to end the lockdown of the undercity, or at least reminding her that the option is there. I wonder what her angle was there. And Cait could not have more clearly been using Maddie as a rebound, but if Vi had somehow been permanently off the table, say in the AU where she was dead, would she have maybe taken the relationship more seriously?

I keep saying to myself I need to make some Arcane icons so I should get to that...