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any pronouns, 25 thoroughly enamored & hoping to create

I really am chatty tonight huh. listen. I was never one to voice my opinion on the internet. I was what they call a lurker. But. Coming away from deep repeated intentional jayvik character analysis did change me. I cannot unsee how wrong I was during my initial Arcane watches. I feel I must speak

LIKE. FUCK. tfem Jayce Talis & she’s exactly the same except she’s on estrogen & grows her hair out kinda like s2 Jayce & removes her facial hair w laser or electrolysis. & wears more femme clothes sometimes if what she’s doing doesn’t call for the practicality her old masc clothes afforded her.

Genuinely every time somebody calls Jayce a jock or himbo or playboy or happy-go-lucky goofy golden retriever or implies that the Man of Progress thing was nice for him and gratifying and what he wanted and was indicative of him like. Thriving and being affirmed. I die a little more inside.

you cant say an assumed cismale character is a trans woman because "its bad representation for femboys" and you can never ever even imagine an assumed cisfemale character is a trans man under penalty of death. and when you make your own trans characters theyll say its forced woke

I am ALSO a fan of tfem Jayce, I find the idea of Jayce struggling to fit within the 'Ideal of Piltover' all VERY interesting, I love it a lot and I think it just works so well with transgenderism in anyway and configuration!!

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its just bad writing. centrism wins and "ultimately neither side can be said to be bad or good" but we're going to kill most of the poors and the only character from topside who's flayed alive like a war prisioner is the guy who wanted to eliminate corruption among the cops and politicians ok

i have to joke about the eating dead lizard thing like i dont care for it but whenever i remember arcane writers decided jayce was the character who needed to be tortured to pay for all of piltover's crimes like his suffering is meant to launder their reputation i get so fucking mad

okay one more thought & then I’ll shut up for the night. but. Jayce subverts & fails at & ultimately refuses to align with/bend to the masculine archetypes/roles his world & the narrative constantly try to force him into. & I think there just might be something there, my dear colleagues.

Ugh I really do think Jayce Talis is transfeminine! I do! Whether woman or nb, certainly femme! And I think there’s SO much in both the narrative AND meta to support that interpretation! But I don’t see many people who feel the same!!! The most tfem Jayce I’ve seen has been in lesbian jayvik aus but

jayce is who he is at the end of arcane bc even when he tried to fix things or salvage this dogshit fake idea of a city it could only do what it was designed to do (orphan crushing machine) his defender of tomorrow title comes from the fact he'd leave this place in the past if thats what it takes

not sure how popular of a take this is nowadays but to me jayce talis is a character defined by his willingness to point out how piltover failed catastrophically in every way it could possibly fail and realizing that knowing the truth changes nothing + they feed on well meaning ppl exactly like him