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IIRC, Singed said something kinda fitting to that effect is S1: "Love and legacy are the sacrifice(s) we make for progress."

Caitlyn's current progress could be argued to have sacrificed both...
 
Pugman said:
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-The War kicks off in a big way.
-Vi has her downward spiral.
-Jinx becomes a symbol for the Underground (even drawing in some Firelights by the look of it).
-It seems like Ambessa's forces are fighting in the Undercity where Viktor has set up. There's that hole-filled/bubbly organic-like material that looks like the wild runes in the background.
-Vi, Jinx, and 'Vander' are having a family reunion.
 
It's not as compelling a thought as each character suffering through their own personal breaking to face their private darkness but the war has gotten me to revisit the worldbuilding of Piltover and the Undercity's economic entanglements. We know Piltover screws over the Undercity but asides from the almost thematic Grey and brief allusions to mining for raw materials I don't think we've ever really seen how exactly Piltover benefits from all of this.

Piltover wants to keep it's wealth sure but they bother to extend sovereignty over Zaun. There's a bridge, they appear to employ people in Piltover proper. Are those people allowed in only as day laborers under curfew? Are they only kept in Zaun by an unaffordable cost of living in Piltover or internal passports or apartheid? Do Piltover nobles own the slums people in the Undercity have to rent? Are the factories that create the pollution all built in Piltover just pumping pollution down into the Undercity or are they owned by Piltover and put in Zaun so the pollution is away from anyone important?

The way it's been portrayed aside from 'the mines' (whose ores Zaun would presumably still need to trade) maintaining sovereignty over the Undercity seems like an albatross around Piltover's neck without the kind of economic incentives in their dominant position I would imagine. It might be a loaded comparison but if you'll forgive it the dynamic seems more like the US' occupation of Afghanistan when I feel like it should be more reminiscent of the British Empire's occupation of India. The whole operation seems to be a matter of pride for Piltover without real profit for them when it could be so much more compelling if there were powerful interests getting rich off of the Undercity or were at least reliant on strategic control over it to maintain their wealth such as preventing Zaun from building factories to process it's own raw materials.
 
I mean Zaun is shown repeatedly where piltover puts the externalities of its progress. The grey, that hextech core, all that stuff. It's Piltover's dumping ground, and they have to have a dumping ground.
 
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Which makes it extra sad in a way. That system was part of the Kiramman legacy and in her grief and rage, Caitlyn ended up weaponizing it against the very people it was meant to serve.
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On the other hand, the political alternative was storming Zaun with every enforcer they could scrape up and turning the fight into a bloodbath rather than a surgical raid.

Sadly, that seems to be what's going to happen now anyways.
 
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Which seems to be getting somewhat lost in the discourse as a large part of the fandom declares that Caitlyn went straight to Full Hitler.
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Caitlyn is getting played while her emotions are high. Backing away from the edge is probably why she ends up as Piltover's Sheriff rather than its Queen. i.e. Nobody should have that much unrestricted influence.
 
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Triggerhappy said:
Caitlyn is getting played while her emotions are high. Backing away from the edge is probably why she ends up as Piltover's Sheriff rather than its Queen. i.e. Nobody should have that much unrestricted influence.
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Don't be silly, she's revealing her true colours and you should root for her death. Just ignore all the righteous but morally gray but definitely forgiveable excesses of any male heroes with whom you might want to draw a comparison, this is Discourse.
 
New schnee video dropped

's pretty good.

View: https://youtu.be/kzJZPaHItNM?si=ZRP1crRaU7FbUS4P

I didn't make the connection between Sevika's gambling... because I'd forgotten about it, but identifying it as an intentional inclusion by Jinx (and rebuilding Sevika's arm effectively taking a step toward "fixing" a part of her first biggest mistake) is such freaking clever writing.

I love it.
 
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JevvyPython said:
It's not as compelling a thought as each character suffering through their own personal breaking to face their private darkness but the war has gotten me to revisit the worldbuilding of Piltover and the Undercity's economic entanglements.
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Related to this, someone pointed out that the normal path to wealth for narcostates is to export the drugs to wealthier nations. However, the main target for Shimmer seems to be the Undercity. It's Zaun they had rampant Shimmer victims.

Of course Shimmer itself is weird as it's an addictive drug, a mutagen, a power source, a floorwax and a dessert topping. And Shimmer being a multifunction resource, the chembarons come as much as wealthy industrialists as they do narcoterrorists.

For resources, I works think a lot of Zaun's wealth comes from mining, and the rest from dirty unregulated industries that supply Piltover. But between the gates allowing Piltover to easily get trade goods from all over the world, and the Chembarons parasitizing the Undercity, there's probably been an extensive depression.

Also, evil hairless Chihuahua was right. They could have sorry circuited s lot of trouble there...
 
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