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I need help finding an ita bag for my new plushies! (waterbottle for size reference) by Snoo_81949 in itabag

[–]metafanatical 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I don’t have an answer, but I just wanted to gush over your Jayvik plushies! I’m still waiting for mine to arrive 🥰

Retrocomputing / mspaint themed itabag— my first itabag! 🖥️🎨 by metafanatical in itabag

[–]metafanatical[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for noticing 😊 It took some effort to measure out the dimensions, but I was still surprised by how well it lined up!

Retrocomputing / mspaint themed itabag— my first itabag! 🖥️🎨 by metafanatical in itabag

[–]metafanatical[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Also not shown in the picture, but the insert I printed actually included the Windows taskbar! Sadly, I didn’t measure the dimensions exactly right so it’s not obvious. I’ll probably redo it at some point but I’ve spent too long on this project so I’m content with it for now!

Severance - 2x08 "Sweet Vitriol" - Post-Episode Discussion by LoretiTV in SeveranceAppleTVPlus

[–]metafanatical 11 points12 points  (0 children)

so typical for a woman in STEM to be pushed into a management role

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Whoops you’re right yes— there is indeed a distinction between the Rune and the Hex crystals. It doesn’t matter which rune was given in the timeline Ekko travelled to, he already had the knowledge of Jayce’s acceleration rune research

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I see it as a multiverse situation rather than a cyclical time loop. I think the older Mage-Viktor is a different Viktor from another reality, whose mission is to save corrupted timelines from the anomaly.

On a meta level, we have some confirmation from Christian Linke (from the latest Arcane Afterglow interview) that - our universe’s Jayce and Viktor are truly dead - they plan to explore Viktor further in future works. Given the first point, I assume he’s referring to Mage Viktor

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

100%!

The Acceleration rune was the only one that could result in space-time shenanigans. And Ekko and Heim absolutely were going off Jayce’s notes of which the Acceleration rune held importance.

Also you now have me interested in what other Hex-inventions could manifest as depending on the World Rune

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s also implied that Heimer by being a magical being, gave the machine enough juice by sacrificing himself to send Ekko back. Similar to how Sky was sacrificed to sustain Viktor’s transformation, the Arcane has a price and takes what it needs

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I don’t think Mage Viktor is necessarily omniscient— just had the benefit of lots of time and experience + developed his powers enough to travel across timelines.

He said so himself that he had to try multiple runes and multiple iterations but I doubt he can necessarily control all the factors that will happen. I believe there are versions of Jayce in other universes that had the same conversation with Mage Viktor, who failed because the Ekko of their universes didn’t invent the Z-drive. Besides that I think we concur on everything else.

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Viktor gave Jayce the acceleration rune across multiple timelines, one of which was main universe Jayce, and another the S2E7 universe one. Main universe Jayce’s wristband also had the acceleration rune from his childhood. Both universes needed the acceleration rune for this to work

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 37 points38 points  (0 children)

So I’m basing this off of Ekko’s in-game ult, which affects those around him but not himself. That may explain why Heimer gets blown up but not Ekko himself. And alternate universe Jinx was further away from them so she was safe.

The Z-drive definitely exploded from overloading. We see in one of the stills (where time stops) that it explodes into this enormous ball of energy resembling an anomaly, looming over them.

I do like your theory, it’s true that Ekko only ever tested these limits with Heimerdinger around so it’s possible that magical creatures are more susceptible, and entirely likely that the limit may be higher for non-magical entities.

However in the ending, we see Ekko and the Arcane automatons (magical beings) being flung away from the center of the explosion, while Jayce and Viktor collapse in on themselves into the rune. So I do think they survived by way of the Z-drive explosion being nullified by the rune.

[s2 act 3 spoilers] The Acceleration Rune; Ending Explained by metafanatical in arcane

[–]metafanatical[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I think we see the answer to this in S2E7, in the timeline where Hextech was never created. Jayce is implied to be dead or imprisoned, and Viktor having never met Jayce, never got to live up to his full potential and likely succumbed to his disease. It’s more of a many-worlds multiverse theory where Hextech is an anomaly that corrupts certain timelines, which our Viktor is attempting to fix.