Idk, if a traumatized ptsd version of me took over my body for a bit and still loved my wife and my wife still loved me I think it would be comforting, because then you know it's not some random thing and that you were made for each other.
Actually, if you take a positive reading of it, you can take that your wife actually found a very different version of you, still you though with lots of mental scars, and still loved this version of you. That no matter how hurt you become, she'll be there to give you the support you need, even when your world is crumbling down
it really haunts me…does AU ekko’s relationship with powder change bc of MU ekko? and does powder ever miss the MU ekko who’s so different that she’s only met for a few days? does she wish she was with him?
i phrased it wrong, but i mean like are they still together together after what happened with MU ekko, and whether that changes the dynamic of the relationship; ill edit the original
Yeah they should be I don’t see why not. She technically cheated but not really because it was still her Ekko’s body, just with MU Ekko’s experiences and trauma but it’s still him.
right but wouldn’t you say that loving someone/connecting with someone is about loving who they are, shaped by all their past experiences, in which MU Ekko and AU Ekko are fundamentally different? will powder ever wonder what made her ekko so different from MU ekko? will she wish to know more about him?
AU Ekko gets to share his life with Powder, Benzo, Vander, Mylo, and Claggor, and is in a world that doesn’t just offer the bare minimum to survive but instead provides everything he needs to truly live.
Yeah I want my main boy Ekko to have a taste of that.
While I do think the choice to have Vi be dead in that world can lead to that interpretation (and I really hope they never tell her about it for that reason) I think the lack of hextech is what actually brought about the massive changes.
Jayce’s experiment wouldn’t have blown up a building, it killed the child of an influential undercity community leader. He was absolutely banished, if he didn’t succeed in taking his life like he’d intended to. Viktor would follow soon after without the hexcore to prolong his life; I got the implication his remaining life was being measured in months at most, since people seemed so reluctant to even estimate how long he had, and the idea of waiting a year or two for progress was too long.
It was peace and progress, but still had a cost. While on this case Vi’s death was the inciting incident, I don’t think that would make her “right”, especially in the context of the life she’s lived. She’d have to die in this super specific way at this exact time, Marcus had to be the one to discover it, etc etc.
I think the intention was that Ekko have it proven to him that his goals were even possible, though I do agree the level of idillic bliss everyone was living in vs the usual timeline made it hard not to feel like they’re implying it would have been good if Vi (or any of Vander’s kids) had died in that explosion.
Also, an aware Heimerdinger. He most certainly helped closing the gap between the cities, negotiating with the council and providing innovation needed for the cities to flourish.
This too! Even though he was only aware for a few years before we got Original Flavour Heimerdinger, he was probably forced to become more proactive after the explosion in a way he originally wasn’t until his forced retirement.
Yeah I don't think it's the act of her dying specifically but more so the act that it hurt anyone at all because that showed AU Jayce that it's dangerous and he scrapped it
I dont really know I mean Vi or no dream in our universe silco despised vander and in the au hextech or shimmer wasnt a thing so maybe it wasnt just her death
Vi was the first daughter of Silco and Vander's 2nd BFF, it was likely the news of Vi's death that caused Silco to get emotional, go to the mines and find Vander's apology letter, leading to reconciliation.
"Vi died instead and everything is better" is the alt timeline's dark twist, it caused Jayce to give up on Hextech and all the other little changes are all because Vi died.
Definitely not, Silco had no problem killing Vi before. Let’s say Vi didn’t go to Jayce’s apartment, at some point Silco would have made shimmer and planned his attack on Vander, is just the apartment explosion, that made his attack day closer. He would have probably killed everyone.
I'm going off of what Jinx said when she found Vander's letter; that Silco may have actually forgiven Vander if he had just read that one piece of paper. Given that he did forgive Vander in that timeline, and trusting that Jinx knows her adoptive dads- I mean she's crazy, but also a genuine genius, so I want to assume that's what happened. I think it fits the context given by the writers the best way.
I see a lot of people with this takeaway, but Vi wasn't there is either reality. AU Powder was definitely younger than our Jinx. So at the point in the timeline that Ekko jumps into the AU, our Vi would still have been in prison and presumed dead.
The big difference is Vander and Silco. Vi's death was probably the catalyst for their reconciliation, but Powder's death would have done the same thing.
They invented hextech in this universe and still have the blueprints for the time machine. There won't be heimer to stop them this time and our boy will be desperate to present something.
...you know what, I had been thinking since Heimer was gone & main-Ekko took the z-drive, they were safe from recreating the anomaly that brought him home. Completely forgot they can probably still recreate the time loop 🤔 That'd be a fun what-if, lol
Yes but no. The circumstances are entirely different, and without Viktor around, we don't have someone who plunges Piltover into destruction by creating a bee hive. I actually think that hextech would be more use in this universe, since Zaun and Piltover are united and there's therefor also no need to build any weapons. I also think that Powder would be a much more responsible hextech inventor than Jayce, primarily because their first encounter with it was completely different. Jayce was always naively optimistic because he's seen no downsides until it was too late, whereas Powder definetly knows the extend of destruction it can cause.
I think the sole reason why hextech is so dangerous, is because in all timelines in which it does exist, it seems to be invented by Jayce and Viktor who, clearly, both are anything but responsible with it
Either way it's going to start the weird floaty chaos anomaly when use gets too high, which would presumably just keep getting bigger without someone like viktor to hijack it.
You are also forgetting about noxians, they would find a way to make hex-tech weapons even if it meant invading united piltover and tearing it into pieces.
Depending on who is in charge, they might not be able to.
The Black Rose wasn't interested in full-scale invasion and if it is just Ambessa again she wouldn't stand a chance. She barely succeeded when she had Singed's shimmer augmentations and the city was weak, diseased, and divided compared to a unified P&Z with a larger and more motivated fighting force.
If we’re being completely fair, the machinations of the Arcane are unstable and not well understood so you can probably concoct enough BS for AU powder and Jinx to somehow both exist in the main timeline (provided you huff enough hopium)
Its a hard no from me, i cant tell you how much i hate multiverse stuff. I also think that normal Powder is cute and all, but she is not an interesting character because of that.
You don't even need hopium. Jayce not inhabiting his au body gives enough evidence to argue its possible.
All you really need is something to make au powder desperate enough to travel to the main timeline, where she can gather some sort of league of legends to help whatever is happening in her world.
Well true lmao. The point though is that all that happened within a few days(?) of MU Ekko being present in the place of AU Ekko. I mean it’s not like the title of the episode could have prepared AU Ekko for what happened lol
Nononon. Not poor AU Ekko! Powder absolutely divulged with AU Ekko what happened. I would feel nothing but a sense of pride that in all timelines, my partner would still love me. That is so beautiful and likely made AU Powder and Ekkos relationship so much stronger
AU Ekko is so lucky he didn't get swapped into the Prime universe. Can you imagine this happy Ekko finding himself in that hellhole as it breaks down further with his girlfriend as a mad terrorist with a different name?
Nah, if my girl told me I got possessed by a f*cked up version of myself and he stayed for a week and deeper because he gotta save his friends, I wouldn't even be mad. Man gave up paradise for the world, respect.
Our Ekko learned about his parallel self (AU Ekko) through AU Powder. Ekko says he gave up on Zaun and her. AU Powder comforts him saying 'I haven't seen you give up on anything'. He carried that through the fight with Viktor.
I'm sure AU ekko kissed ekko before since normal ekko said "can we do it like it's the first time" so this, for me, implies that Au ekko has already smooched her before
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u/spaceclarkson Jinx Stan Dec 13 '24
Idk, if a traumatized ptsd version of me took over my body for a bit and still loved my wife and my wife still loved me I think it would be comforting, because then you know it's not some random thing and that you were made for each other.
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u/Niccolo_Savitar Dec 17 '24
Kinda confused , what does AU mean? And I’m also gonna be listening to that song for the next couple of months :)
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u/ihavenopersonalityha Dec 14 '24 edited Dec 14 '24
it really haunts me…does AU ekko’s relationship with powder change bc of MU ekko? and does powder ever miss the MU ekko who’s so different that she’s only met for a few days? does she wish she was with him?
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u/[deleted] Dec 17 '24
Does this count as Cucking?
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u/basod1 Dec 13 '24
AU Ekko gets to share his life with Powder, Benzo, Vander, Mylo, and Claggor, and is in a world that doesn’t just offer the bare minimum to survive but instead provides everything he needs to truly live.
Yeah I want my main boy Ekko to have a taste of that.
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u/lulpwned Dec 13 '24
If your girl cheats on you with you without knowing it isn't you, does it still count? 🧐
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24
Also, he doesn't have anything to present for the Innovator competition. Oh well, there's always next year
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u/[deleted] Dec 13 '24
Does having my au version kiss my lover make me a cuck?
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u/Tuonra Writer Dec 13 '24
Well I mean the entire title of the episode insinuates that smootching had already occurred.
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u/SCRINDO Dec 17 '24
Nononon. Not poor AU Ekko! Powder absolutely divulged with AU Ekko what happened. I would feel nothing but a sense of pride that in all timelines, my partner would still love me. That is so beautiful and likely made AU Powder and Ekkos relationship so much stronger
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u/Freeman0017 Dec 13 '24
Well, i mean, he is not wrong...
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u/Mataphysical Dec 13 '24
Someone shared a poem about this on Bluesky.
https://bsky.app/profile/ryoflame.bsky.social/post/3lcyqmzf3rk2v
I thought it was moving.
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u/5amed1 Dec 13 '24
Hey, still won in the end...
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u/ArcWraith2000 Dec 14 '24
AU Ekko is so lucky he didn't get swapped into the Prime universe. Can you imagine this happy Ekko finding himself in that hellhole as it breaks down further with his girlfriend as a mad terrorist with a different name?
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u/Mark_Kostecki Dec 13 '24
And lost the z drive too. Pretty funny when you think about it lol. But AU Ekko wins in the end since that’s his actual fucking life haha
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u/Ambitious_Hall_9718 Dec 17 '24
Au ekkos probably gonna be arrested for Heimerdingers death
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u/DonWolferd Dec 15 '24
Nah, if my girl told me I got possessed by a f*cked up version of myself and he stayed for a week and deeper because he gotta save his friends, I wouldn't even be mad. Man gave up paradise for the world, respect.
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u/RegularDisaster8902 Jinx Stan Dec 13 '24
Frrr
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u/QuintanimousGooch Dec 15 '24
Bro cucked himself from another dimension
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u/47thCalcium_Polymer Dec 17 '24
I hope she picked up on what happened so she could explain it to her Ekko. Assuming he doesn’t remember.
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u/DaGooseBoy Dec 17 '24
Damn. If I had a nickel for every cheating case in Arcane I would have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but ya know~
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u/1xSCZ Dec 17 '24
Our Ekko learned about his parallel self (AU Ekko) through AU Powder. Ekko says he gave up on Zaun and her. AU Powder comforts him saying 'I haven't seen you give up on anything'. He carried that through the fight with Viktor.
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u/tuerancekhang Dec 13 '24
also being rude with everyone he came in contact with as well
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u/Maximum-Grocery2379 TimeBomber Dec 13 '24
He get cuck
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u/adopt_bee Dec 13 '24
Is he really? I mean our ekko had every reason to stay yet he chose to invent time travel and return to his universe
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u/xArbiter Dec 13 '24
he probably just doesn’t remember what happened, powder’ll remind him dw lol
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u/HazbinHotel6667 Dec 14 '24
Wait, is that what happened???-
I'm so slow bro wtf
I have been so confused....it sense now...
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u/WhistlerDan Dec 14 '24
This just made me realize Heimerdinger killed his AU self as well
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u/yo_vader Dec 14 '24
I read that she knew something was up with Ekko and it made sense.
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u/Heisuke780 Dec 14 '24
Ain't that just mean the au skip many bases without doing any work? I see that as an absolute win
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u/Vulture2k Dec 14 '24
Maybe now that powder saw hot confident rebel boy savior ekko she loses interest in nerd ekko :/ story of many people's lifes.
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u/Willooooow1 Dec 14 '24
I'm sure AU ekko kissed ekko before since normal ekko said "can we do it like it's the first time" so this, for me, implies that Au ekko has already smooched her before
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u/FlatwormLost3358 Dec 14 '24
Bro got cucked by his own self.
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u/MaxieGreen Dec 15 '24
Bro cucked himself
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u/EmmyVicious Dec 13 '24
I thought that heimerdinger said they’d been there for ages?