If the memory loss thing happens, I can't see Caitlyn keeping things from Vi out of her own self interest. But I can see her possibly doing so to kinda protect Vi from guilt and painful memories. I hope they don't do an amnesia thing though, it smacks of daytime soap operas.

"No. *I* am your sister!" "No. No! That's not true! That's IMPAUUGHSSIBLE!" "Search your feelings. You know it to be true!" "N-NOOOOOOOO! NOOOOAUUGHHOOOOO"

Vi's amnesia from the LOL lore is such a rich topic to me. And if there are things about Vi's character in LOL that I want to see happening/treated on Arcane, those are Vi's amnesia and the theory that in later incarnations of the game Vi seems to mostly use an exoskeleton-like armor, an exo-suit(?) because of the excessive use of the Atlas Gauntlets. Long ago I was reading stuff on the LOL wiki page about the gauntlets' lore and I remember it said that the constant use of these can damage the user's spine/skeleton. So it made sense that Vi was most commonly seen wearing that armor. Personally, I spent part of my childhood watching soap operas, and while I understand how cliche and cheesy the trope is and sounds, it's been literal ages since I've seen a case of amnesia in something that I watch, amd I think the Arcane writers could do an interesting job about this matter. Now that Jinx is too far gone maybe finding out that Vi has amnesia and doesn't remember anything will give her the excuse to continue to seek out Vi's fraternal love again. Maybe she'll even think there will be more chances of Vi turning against Caitlyn as well. But I get the impression that even amnesiac Vi will still fall for Caitlyn's tremendous good heart (and looks) and at least the part of Vi turning against Caitlyn won't work. Vi and Caitlyn will be partners after all. But that won't stop Jinx from trying to have her sister loving her back. Or at least this is the scenario that has played in my mind with only the idea of Vi getting amnesia on Arcane. I think there's also the possibility that Caitlyn will be told (or she'll know) that sometimes it is recommended to not info-dump on amnesiac people as to not worsen their condition. That would be a valid excuse (and possible conflict) for Caitlyn to keep certain things from Vi. Caitlyn will be trying to preserve Vi's mental health as much as possible. Again, this is just the scenario that plays in my mind whenever the idea of Vi getting amnesia on Arcane pops into my mind. I fully trust Amanda Overton with her writing on Caitlyn and Vi's relationship. So I'm not really worried about the part we are going to hate xD And even if they "break them up", I think anyone that knows and supports this couple will know the two will go back together eventually. These two are endgame for sure. Great video about a very interesting topic👍👏👏👏👏👏

My heart is pumping can't wait for season 2

It hurts me to know that Vi will give up on Jinx or that Vi will just forget about her. Jinx and Vi is my favorite relationship and if it breaks and doesn't come back, it will break me too. I hope the second season doesn't end as badly as it seems 😢😢.

I would be surprised if Arcane didn't have Cait and Vi get together due to the Chinese market, mainly because the GAME and the show are separate entities, and frankly LGBT themes land differently in the western world. I can see scenes being cut/altered slightly but I would honestly be surprised if concern about the Chinese market changed things-Season 1 made no secret of where the story was headed with the two of them, and I feel like the writers DO care about believable arcs. One can only hope, I guess!

Personally I tend to always hate amnesia arcs, although if anybody on the planet could write one I liked it would be the writers of Arcane. However, I feel like because the story of Arcane is already pretty much past the point in League lore where Vi's amnesia would have entered into it (by my limited understanding at least) it's unlikely that she'll lose her memory in the show. Still an interesting idea though!

In lore Vi remember her past, read Vi's lore story "Child of Zaun". She grew up in the orphanage and know nothing about her parents or siblings.

I prefer Schnee for the narrative analysis but I love the prediction format, with behind the scene, lore and arcane based arguments

I hope they don't do the memory thing.. it's so hackneyed and honestly Vi spends effectively no time even acknowledging her own trauma and issues in S1 as shes so focused on finding Powder. The character spent nearly a decade being brutally beaten, starved and abused in a corrupt prison and the only acknowledgement of that is a single line of dialogue thats easily missed. There's so much there to explore and If S2 came along and just memory wiped her.. on the surface that really feels like it would be a waste. Worse if they do go with that I could see Riot using that as a cheap way to skirt the lesbian relationship issue and cut down its screen presence. A few episodes of queerbaiting ending with them reset to 0 and many subsequent hours of show with nothing but the same brief, easily glossed over/edited out significant looks or half second touches they had S1.. it's the kind of halfstep representation I was afraid of when S1 first released given where their funding comes from. Also I have to admit, much as I enjoy a good slowburn, I'm kinda over the whole "you only get to see a fully realized gay relationship in the last few minutes of the last episode of the series" trope. i could see a story where Vi or Cait die and I'd be alright with it even if its a little close to burry-your-gays territory. If this was n original ip with original characters I'd be almost positive that Powder is on track to die somehow as the inevitable end to the self destructive spiral SIlco's abuse put her on and I could see her taking one of them as well. It''d be crushing but could be a good end to their story. But a half hearted "Vi just forgot it all and now conveniently we don't really have to address her and Cait in an overt way" would rub me the wrong way.

I think Vi having amnesia is a reach. Sure it was mentioned in her bio that she remembers little of her childhood. But for me it make sense? I mean we all remember little of our childhood even without trauma. It was also mentioned that "some" that she remembers she wish she didn't. With the fact that Jinx/Powder was never mentioned in her bio. You have to consider the fact that League is a live server game and both of these characters was released a year apart. Vi was released first and from her concept Jinx/Powder probably wasn't even in the picture yet. Add to the fact that League has a lot of writers and from what I remember both of these characters are not written by the same person in the canon universe. Additionally what baffles me is the fact that League doesn't have a dedicated lore team yet. So most of the times these writers keep retconing each other from the canon lore. As a League player and a lore fan I was actually mad how they even retcon again characters like Jayce and Viktor but then again was pleased that they made them better but still make the core of the characters intact. I do believe that League universe is one of the most interesting universe in gaming but it's hard to call it great because it's all over the place with all the changes they do over the years. Some characters don't even exist in the lore yet but have already been in the game for years. So what I do to enjoy the world is I just take whatever is good and can relate and ignore the rest. I think if you like Arcane I don't recommend reading the canon lore as it doesn't matter anyway. With how good arcane writers are, you will not miss anything anyway. Ps. Even if it's for the sake of writing I would fng hate it if they kill any human characters. And wouldn't have a back up plan to revive them in any way possible. For me if you kill any human characters in Arcane that would just ruin my experience in game. Because if they're dead in arcane then they're dead in game. If they decide to do that then they better remove these characters in my game. It ruins the immersion I have for the universe. The only characters they can kill in my opinion are characters that needs transformation and Yordles(as they don't die anyway). So No, killing characters for the sake of "shock value" is a no no. Other series can do that but not in Arcane because they're based on a universe that is pretty much alive and changing. But that's just me.

schnee and stop me oh uploading in one day?? arcane content?? this is a beautiful day for the arcane fandom i feel blessed

Arcane not holding true to League lore is good. Its super convoluted and honestly full of holes with next to no proper continuity as its constantly changing.

I'm honored that you made a video based on my theory. It actually gave me some really bad thoughts going through my head because of what I came up with. But Vi lossing her memory would definetly be a thing that really would give me a hard gut punch.

Tbf amnesia tropes are not well done very often, mostly because they tend to be used as a way to lazily avoid having to go through character development, by giving them a clean slate, no previous alliances. If Vi were to lose her memory, she'd have no conflict between being with caitlyn and staying in the undercity, trying to be there forher sister and ekko, in the event that both caitlyn and vi finds herself caught in a war between both cities. However. Arcane writers have never been lazy in character development. They've given all main characters a flashback. They've dedicated 3 episodes to powders fall, and should they go with a vi Amnesia plotline, i know they're not just gonna throw all that character work down the drain, rather i think they'd have her regain those connections that she lost again. I do have worries that if they're doing this there's a chance they're trying to do a little too much. Around Vi, we have the following plotlines S2 lined up: Warwick/vander, romantic development with caitlyn, becoming an enforcer, working professionally with caitlyn, trying to protect her sister when Piltover wants her head, keeping contact with Ekko/firelights, and amnesia/reconnection. That's a LOT. Granted they've shown they're really good at weaving all plotlines together, creating infinite amounts of depth with limited screentime, and creating many parallels so i have no doubt that they could do it. Funny coincidence, in the part where you're at now with LoK, as seen at the end of S2E6, Korra suffers from amnesia ("who's avatar Korra?"). I actually think that wasn't badly done at all. It's not used as circumventing character development but rather an opportunity for loredrop. Are those reactions coming out soon by the way?

If Vi suddenly forgets everything that happened in season one--and perhaps more before that--then the entirety of season one effectively didn't happen for her and all the drama we witnessed was for nothing. All the consequences of season one cease to shape Vi as a character. I'm confident that the Arcane writers understand that undoing all the hard work they put into building the relationships and emotional ties between the two sisters in season one would be the worst kind of creative betrayal, not just to viewers but to themselves as well. I just don't see it happening. The Arcane writers are exceptionally good writers. Exceptionally good writers don't do what is being theorized/proposed here.

its the sister reflect the cities relationship with the older taking the relationship for grant not realizing the younger one is fed up being burned endlessly. Vi getting memory loss gives both her and the city a clean slate without having to learn where they went wrong. Largely think a plan through start middle to finish and realize you can't have everything there are costs involved to actually fix things. think the part we hate is Vi betrays or intentionally cuts off her relationship with Caitlyn to show her sister she is serious in wanting to fix their relationship vs right now where to just offers empty promises. the part we'll kinda like is it'll leave it open ended Vi joins the enforcers at the end implying the relationship will work out over the long term.

The idea of Vi's memory loss reminds my of the words in the song Goodbye, which is at the end of the 3rd episode. "Where is my home? I don't recognize the faces anymore. Where is my friend? The one I've known since when I was only just a kid." For me this song is Vi's song as The monster you created is Jinx's song. I'm horror struck at the idea of Vi's memory loss, but it will make the plot very interesting. P.s. In the 2nd season teaser, however, we hear "if i go after YOUR SISTER alone..."

Makes sense as a way of throwing a spanner in the works. Lots of emotional drama if Cait remembers what they had and Vi doesn't. Ouch but hey that's Ar-Pain, right?

Imagine: Cait telling Vi that Jinx killed her beloved sister Powder. 😨 That would be messed up!

I love your Arcane shorts and predictions! I actually hope the memory loss thing is true, as I'm worried they'll do the obvious thing and split Violet & Caitlyn up. They did seem a bit defensive, didn't they?

Personally, I don't see Caitlyn manipulating Vi into keeping from her (if Vi will suffer from amnesia) that Jinx is her sister. Caitlyn had been stated multiple times throughout Arcane that she's a terrible liar and that she's uncomfortable to lie to anyone, yes she keep to herself the gemstone stuff, but it's more keeping informations about an ongoing investigation rather than malice on Caitlyn's part (for Vi to keep to herself that Powder and Jinx are the same person is more Vi not trusting Sevika's word on Powder calling herself Jinx now until she gets confirmation of that before the FireLight attack in my opinion). Maybe Caitlyn would want to wait the right moment to drop the information on amnesiac Vi but she gets anticipated from someone else (and I can totally see Sevika doing that just to hurt Vi as always) and it can bring to that part we will hate. It might depend on the type of amnesia Vi will get (there are different type of amnesia and those play out in different ways, I have researched the topic for something I am writing so that's how I know a bit about this subject), because she might remember at some extent Powder and Ekko but as children or not remember them at all, and it all comes down on bad her amnesia would be. I've also read that people that undergo huge trauma sometimes have amnesia as a form of protection from said trauma being it physical or psychological trauma, still I can't see Caitlyn acting out of malice or self interest even if she goes after Jinx and wants amnesiac Vi to do the same. What I can picture, if the writers will go that route, is possibly Caitlyn letting Vi deciding what she wants to do by telling her the truth very carefully about who Jinx is and then go after her together. Vi wants to protect people, Jinx is hurting people and someone she loves (Caitlyn and her family in this case) and I think this will come down to that. To wanting to protect Caitlyn (whom she cares about, no matter what the developing of their relationship will be, Vi cares about Caitlyn, there's no doubt about that) and innocents in Piltover from Jinx, rather than manipulation that is totally out of character for Caitlyn. Starting from what happen in the season 1 finale to whatever will happen during season 2 with Jinx, I fear there will be plenty of motives for which Vi would want to go after her sister, amnesiac or not. Maybe even closer to home ( I mean something happening to Ekko because of Jinx, with this statement). I apologize for the long comment, I wanted to say something else about this, but I will be at disposal for further discussing this topic (as soon as I will be at home from work in the next days). Thank you for sharing this with us!

I honestly think they are going in the amnesia direction too. Been pretty convinced of it for a while. Just a feeling.

Amazing video as always Ola💞Thanks so much! Hope you are having a wonderful day😊

Not doing the amnesia route is just as lazy as doing amnesia badly, at least if they stick to it and continue to the amnesia route they have the chance to do some good writing. And then maybe in the future we can get a Vi slowly recovering her memories story going on. Vi not losing her memories and being in a happy crime fighting enforcer duo relationship where nothing goes wrong is way sappier than the tragedy of her losing her memories of everything.

I think they'll just do a course correction on the lore. I don't think we should resort to something like this just because of a few lines between the characters over the years. I'd rather they just change the context of the previous lines slightly and move forward with this story. Especially since the majority of this lore didn't even technically exist till recently. We got snippets of it and knew the major events but none of the context A lot of Vi's lines in game could be just her essentially disowning Jinx after everything she does. Zaun is seemingly much more developed as an independent state by the current time of League of Legends and it could just be that they've been distanced from each other. Piltover also goes through a lot of change or seemingly should go through a lot of change with Zaun essentially seceding from their joined state. Getting much more in the nitty gritty of this should be the goal of a season 2 of arcane imo. They've always played loose with whether Zaun and Piltover were joined or separated in LoL and loR. Now arcane essentially cements their seperation. Which will allow both states to develop independently of each other Which this leads to getting into how Zaun is developed enough for religions surrounding Janna to thrive and characters like Renata Glasc. Which they essentially teased what is gonna be going on in season two with that character cause she has to be Sevika. They've essentially shown Sevika takes the role of Silco while Silco presumable becomes Zaun defacto president.

O wow! You really did it! 😮😃👍Praise goes out to Pjotr for bringing up this theory. I could really imagine they will bring this up in a kinda way. However, I think this theory has one flaw. It would mean that Caitlyn would willingly put this huge lie on Vi. For season 1 Caitlyn this would be out of character imo. But who knows what is about to happen in season 2? In the end there are not many non-grey characters in this show. Caitlyn is one of them. So giving her a "dark secret" would fit. And giving us a CaitVi relationship and poisoning it with basing it on a lie would be really Arcane-like. What a connection to your community Ola, to make a video based on some comments! Love it! 😍❤️

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Uhm, in universe Vi can't remember Poweder/Jinx being her sister because Jinx got released about a year later ^^; (Vi got playble 2012, Jinx 2013)

There’s a Necrit Video about comparing Arcane and the Canon, have you watched it? If not, i recommend Reacting to it at some point.

wait... this was originally my theory! xD

I think what they've already done and will continue to do so is censor anything too egregeous for the seperate Chinese version of the story. This is basically the same but without any of the explicitly gay scenes. This way, the regular version doesn't have to hold back in any way.

I noticed your outro song is credited as 'poetic words' by against the system, but the song used in the video is 'The Improv' by DJ Quads. So I did a quick search on 'poetic words', and I found that someone uploaded a song called 'poetic words' and credited it to 'against the system'. Whoever you found this song from "stole" very large portions of 'The Improv' and added unrelated rap sections from (who I assume is from the real 'against the system) in-between samples from 'The improv'. The real 'poetic words' is a two minute demo uploaded to the 'against the system' topic channel in 2020, a year after the version with the 'The Improv' samples and rap verses, and another two years before 'The Improv' was released. Now technically its not 'stolen' from Dj Quads, since 'The Improv' is copyright free, but 'poetic words' isn't the song your using. I don't know your stance on these copyright issues (or lack thereof) but I think you should credit the original song, not a potentially stolen version of it. Sorry for bringing up something unrelated to the video (and something of a stressing topic on top of that), but as a musician myself, mis-crediting music is something that very much annoys me

Hm, interesting Theory, I wonder how that would take place?

praying they do not kill Jinx in season 2

Memory loss plot points a ton of the time feel quite lazy and like a shortcut to have the character do something they wouldn't otherwise. However, if anyone is gonna be able to make a memory loss thing work, it's the Arcane writers. That said though, I hope this is one of the things the adaptation changes from the lore. I think it's something that even the main lore might eventually want to get rid of.

I really really really hope they don't go with amnesia. What's the point of spending so much time on making us feel Vi's love for Powder to destroy it after? Pointless, in my opinion. Plus, Jinx gave up on her sister at the end of S1. So if none of them try to reunite with the other one, what is the core emotion/motivation leading the characters (and the viewers)? We need a minimum of hope. Amanda Overton said that the relationship between the sisters and how they dont repeat their fathers' sin is pretty much at the center of the story. I don't see how amnesia serves that. Anyway. I would be pretty disappointed.

The show is canon, league isn’t.

i think another point worth making is eye colour, which sounds unrelated, but hear me out. arcane groups characters together based on eye colour, and with vi’s greyer eyes, it might insinuate she’s unsure of which side to pick. jayce and vi parallels are made consistently. strong emotions, reckless behaviour. they care deeply about those they love, but their respective resentment of piltover/zaun can get in the way. the two people they care about the most have similar eye colours, reinforcing their bond. jayce cares most about mel and viktor. all three have yellow/hazel eyes. vi cares most about cait and jinx. all three have blue eyes. viktor and jinx both use shimmer. already, jinx’s purple eyes insinuate a severed bond. likely, viktor will end up the same. jayce, in league - his end point - has VIBRANT blue eyes. i’ve heard some people mention it’s because of hextech poisoning; some characters who heavily utilise hextech are similar. (even in season 1, his eyes flash blue when usin the weird laser thing on his hammer.. ykno the scene?? with vi??? /lh /gen) this might lead him to working more with cait and vi. next season is about war, reinforced by the arcane ama mentioned. this war will likely be between piltover and zaun. because mel is one of the only council member incessant on not going to war (she built a life in piltover against it; how her mother is violent by comparison, etc.), she’ll also likely die. she was one of the driving forces of jayce making the peace treaty with zaun (along with viktor, ofc), and the golden plates on her back are also emphasised in the last scene. people have theories on what that could be insinuating - possibly she’s a solarian, or her armour has magical properties (idk much about league LMAO i couldn’t tell you), but i think it might just be insinuating she’s in the crossfire. as in, she’s about to die. this would eliminate yellow. and season 2 would be about choosing sides, as a result, especially due to the war theme. purple vs blue. vi will be an enforcer, with cait. they’ll be with piltover. i think the old league lore even mentioned jayce use to work closely with them specifically - all of them having blue eyes. jayce’s are most vibrant. it’d make sense to insinuate he’d be so closely interconnected with piltover. BUT, vi’s eyes are virtually grey. yes, blue - but incredibly desaturated. perhaps this could insinuate she’s unsure of which side to pick. that she’s misinformed in some way, or conflicted. this could maybe link to her amnesia? it’s a stretch, and amnesia is a VERY hard trope to handle, but i did think it was interesting.

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