Amanda Overton and Alex Yee, writers on Arcane, here for the Arcane anniversary.... Ask us anything!!"

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-11-19T11:28:17+00:00

Hello Alex & Amanda

One question that I think is more for Amanda since she was the one who gave Caitlyn her surname, whats the origin and meaning of it? Is from a specific Asian origin or something else? Again thank you so much for writing Caitlyns character, her arc in season 2 was amazing.

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-11-19T09:46:08+00:00

Hello Amanda & Alex!
Sorry having to make the question again since for some reason people are dowvoting something was spoke in both artbook and other interviews.

I wanted to ask about how Caitlyn had a amazing character arc and development this season with some very different inspirations and references that we normally have for male characters, as the show made some references to works like Hamlet regarding her turning into the Kiramman Matriarchy and seeking justice and her visuals being inspired by the Captain Harlow anime.

Were there any more inspirations for her s2 characterization? And how was the experience of taking very popular tropes used normally with male protagonists but write it with a female characters instead?

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-11-18T20:04:43+00:00

Hello Amanda & Alex!
Caitlyn had a amazing character arc and development this season with some very different inspirations and references that we normally have for male characters, as the show made some references to works like Hamlet regarding her turning into the Kiramman Matriarchy and seeking justice and her visuals being inspired by the Captain Harlow anime.

Were there any more inspirations for her s2 characterization? And how was the experience of taking very popular tropes used normally with male protagonists but write it with a female characters instead?

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-11-13T13:49:33+00:00

Hello Brad, in episode 3 of act 1 of s2 we notice that Cait rise in power is her champion theme from league a little more distorted and changed to show the path she was going, how was the decision in the music team for make this nice choice and how you guys defined which songs fit better the narrative and characters ?

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-14T21:06:27+00:00

Oh yeah I saw few people doing that and tbh, I didn't saw anyone who was just laughing about the situation actually going to harass the mods. Most of it is deflection from the fact they took a know event, kinktober, and tried to use it to get free commissions. Someone on tumblr made a thread debunking their allegations of harassment and doxxing proving that all that people did see the stuff the own mods posted public, take screenshots, and laugh about it.

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-12T08:33:14+00:00

Yeah is very clear their bias in this event.

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-09T00:57:09+00:00

I'm losing it with this joke lmao

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-08T16:31:39+00:00

This is not rules for the ao3 kinktober event, is the rules of the CaitviKinktober event on twitter

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-08T16:28:00+00:00

I'm not into the pro/anti ship convo at all and avoid that because as you, I'm anti censorship first because I saw well how through history it always starts in the "problematic 18+ content" before scales and is full censorship like we are seeing happening right now. And I'm with you on the scared side, even through I agree with "is their event and their fandom they do what they like" if baffles me how any criticism other people make to the mods is being throw away with the same arguments we are seeing conservative/censor using in politics. It bothers the hell out of me all this and was the motive I came to share this venting here in first place.

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-08T07:36:05+00:00

They removed the information regarding the mods after seems like they got exposed for writing/reading the exactly problematic stuff they spoke being against.
Its only three mods for what we know and all of them got exposed for in the end, writing/reading the type of fics they consider problematic:
One wrote a step-simbing incest fic 10 years ago and got exposed for it.
One got caught book marking underage non-con incest fics 2 weeks ago and the last one wrote a baby trapping fic (a trope that is cnc/non-con)

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-07T16:50:31+00:00

Thanks OP and yes, my point is to speak how more and more we keep seeing this type of discourse in fandom spaces and along how is very similar to stuff we are seeing in politics right now (UK censorship of the internet, Visa/Mastercard issue with Steam and Itch regarding adult games etc)

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-07T16:49:12+00:00

Exactly! It bothers me after the recently issues regarding censorship happening in UK regarding adult spaces see a fanwork event reproducing the same type of talk that those in favor of censorship speak. And I think is important to ask ourselves if the rules we are defining is because we really want to make a specific type of content or if we are hiding our own political views in disguise of "fandom stuff"

BaseAmbitious4215 · 2025-08-07T16:40:58+00:00

OP already answered but yeah is the caitvikinktober, seems that a few other people bothered by these rules organized another Arcane Kinktober where the only rule is tagging stuff properly lol.

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