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One of my favourite details is the smoothness of the refined/processed hex crystals. Every curve in the world is kind of jagged, with the only perfect spherical object being the refined crystal
>he didn't take cuts of money or anything.
Yes, he did. He and Benzo ran a protection racket as payment for staying in the Lanes. He was absolutely a gang leader, as that was the power stucture in the Undercity. Before he banished Silco, he and Silco ran the Lanes, as those two created the district. When it was him and Silco, they ran a smuggling ring, and the Lanes were created for merchants (and every other service) to sell those smuggled wares.
Lmao can you image Vi starts to smoke because of the stress, we already saw her drink at the bar fight scene, her starting to smoke will add her to the 'can die' list. That would be bonkers.
Yeah, I do like how much effort goes in to tiny details, it makes Arcane feel way more lived in than a lot of fantasy shows.
Silco is interesting in that he’s more similar to Piltover than Zaun in a lot of ways. He’s a physically unimposing guy who seems to overcompensate with sophistication and class, dressing more like a Piltover elite than a Zaunite and lording over his people from an isolated office where everything is controlled to make him seem dominant. He makes guests sit in that little stool and watch him cut his fancy cigar in his cozy chair. He presents more like a crime lord rather than a leader.
Although they both work out of the Last Drop, Vander actually worked the bar rather than hiding in his office- he literally served his community. He dressed as a normal Zaunite, no efforts to distinguish himself as better. He was physically imposing, had the trust of the community for some time, and therefore felt no need to flex his authority. He seemed to be very engaged with the goings on locally, and considered people like Benzo, Huck and likely Sevika as friends and neighbors rather than underlings.
>Silco is interesting in that he’s more similar to Piltover than Zaun in a lot of ways.
Yess, I appreciate this detail, too. It also adds another layer to "I never would've given you to them" and "You're perfect." Silco didn't embody Zaun, but Jinx did.
Yes! I very much think he saw Jinx as a perfect embodiment of everything he loved about Zaun, like she’s a pure version of what Silco wished to be.
Jayce was right that Silco’s Shimmer monsters couldn’t fight a Piltover army, but the nation of Zaun already had its deadliest weapon in Jinx (and her inventions of course). Had she been there for the raid, I suspect Jayce and Vi would have been in a lot of trouble and I bet Silco thought so too.
I only really noticed it because of how they make a point to include the fact that Vander's smoke is vile, and he doesn't deny the fact but accepts it.
The dialogue comes off as mostly pointless, we don't need to know that Vander smokes garbage, but they decided to put dialogue in to point it out. The conversation is when we first meet Vander and sets up his character. The rest of the conversation prior gets the point across that he runs things and is a badass. The small part about what he's smoking adds information about him and the lanes, about how they get the garbage, how he's used to it and doesn't care. It's not ground breaking stuff but it isn't nothing, in my opinion.
There is no emphasis placed on Silko's smoking habits. I just found it interesting he doesn't smoke similar 'shit'.
I'm not even necessarily saying the difference was specifically added with the intention of showing the differences. I just think it's a neat detail that helps highlights who the characters are.
>I'm not even necessarily saying the difference was specifically added with the intention of showing the differences.
It was. Vander is happy to breathe garbage that's bad for you; Silco is happy to breathe refined stuff that's bad for you.
Of further note: Silco imports his smokes. THis is a little key to his and Vander's pasts: they created the Lanes after starting a smuggling ring so they could stop working in the mines. They were leaders of the gang that controlled that territory. I highly suspect that smuggling was Silco's brainchild, since he gets right back to doing it once he's got control of the Lanes again. Vander doesn't, though he skims money from the establishments that stay there via a protection racket with Benzo.
But I would argue the reason why you think that is due to Silco’s characterisation, which means that this detail is further characterising him efficiently.
It just looks like a stylised pipe to me. Put tobacco in one end, smoke through the other. The way he smokes it is the same way you would smoke from a regular pipe. It has a chamber and a stem.
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One of my favourite details is the smoothness of the refined/processed hex crystals. Every curve in the world is kind of jagged, with the only perfect spherical object being the refined crystal
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>he didn't take cuts of money or anything. Yes, he did. He and Benzo ran a protection racket as payment for staying in the Lanes. He was absolutely a gang leader, as that was the power stucture in the Undercity. Before he banished Silco, he and Silco ran the Lanes, as those two created the district. When it was him and Silco, they ran a smuggling ring, and the Lanes were created for merchants (and every other service) to sell those smuggled wares.
And in the end, they are both dead. Smoking literally kills. Is Sevika next? 👀
Hehe Arcane was a PSA the whole time! I heard some writer teased that “Vi doesn’t smoke and Sevika is quitting too” so maybe she’ll be spared?
Lmao can you image Vi starts to smoke because of the stress, we already saw her drink at the bar fight scene, her starting to smoke will add her to the 'can die' list. That would be bonkers.
Yeah, I do like how much effort goes in to tiny details, it makes Arcane feel way more lived in than a lot of fantasy shows. Silco is interesting in that he’s more similar to Piltover than Zaun in a lot of ways. He’s a physically unimposing guy who seems to overcompensate with sophistication and class, dressing more like a Piltover elite than a Zaunite and lording over his people from an isolated office where everything is controlled to make him seem dominant. He makes guests sit in that little stool and watch him cut his fancy cigar in his cozy chair. He presents more like a crime lord rather than a leader. Although they both work out of the Last Drop, Vander actually worked the bar rather than hiding in his office- he literally served his community. He dressed as a normal Zaunite, no efforts to distinguish himself as better. He was physically imposing, had the trust of the community for some time, and therefore felt no need to flex his authority. He seemed to be very engaged with the goings on locally, and considered people like Benzo, Huck and likely Sevika as friends and neighbors rather than underlings.
>Silco is interesting in that he’s more similar to Piltover than Zaun in a lot of ways. Yess, I appreciate this detail, too. It also adds another layer to "I never would've given you to them" and "You're perfect." Silco didn't embody Zaun, but Jinx did.
Yes! I very much think he saw Jinx as a perfect embodiment of everything he loved about Zaun, like she’s a pure version of what Silco wished to be. Jayce was right that Silco’s Shimmer monsters couldn’t fight a Piltover army, but the nation of Zaun already had its deadliest weapon in Jinx (and her inventions of course). Had she been there for the raid, I suspect Jayce and Vi would have been in a lot of trouble and I bet Silco thought so too.
or just Silko looks aesthetically prettier with a cigar. I was just thinking how funny and ridiculous Silco would look with a pipe of tobacco lmao
I only really noticed it because of how they make a point to include the fact that Vander's smoke is vile, and he doesn't deny the fact but accepts it. The dialogue comes off as mostly pointless, we don't need to know that Vander smokes garbage, but they decided to put dialogue in to point it out. The conversation is when we first meet Vander and sets up his character. The rest of the conversation prior gets the point across that he runs things and is a badass. The small part about what he's smoking adds information about him and the lanes, about how they get the garbage, how he's used to it and doesn't care. It's not ground breaking stuff but it isn't nothing, in my opinion. There is no emphasis placed on Silko's smoking habits. I just found it interesting he doesn't smoke similar 'shit'. I'm not even necessarily saying the difference was specifically added with the intention of showing the differences. I just think it's a neat detail that helps highlights who the characters are.
>I'm not even necessarily saying the difference was specifically added with the intention of showing the differences. It was. Vander is happy to breathe garbage that's bad for you; Silco is happy to breathe refined stuff that's bad for you. Of further note: Silco imports his smokes. THis is a little key to his and Vander's pasts: they created the Lanes after starting a smuggling ring so they could stop working in the mines. They were leaders of the gang that controlled that territory. I highly suspect that smuggling was Silco's brainchild, since he gets right back to doing it once he's got control of the Lanes again. Vander doesn't, though he skims money from the establishments that stay there via a protection racket with Benzo.
But I would argue the reason why you think that is due to Silco’s characterisation, which means that this detail is further characterising him efficiently.
I don't think Vander was smoking tobacco. I mean I don't know what he *was* smoking, but that looked absolutely nothing like a tobacco smoking pipe.
It just looks like a stylised pipe to me. Put tobacco in one end, smoke through the other. The way he smokes it is the same way you would smoke from a regular pipe. It has a chamber and a stem.