schnee | A Unique Theory About SKY #Arcane | 1min Analysis #shorts @schnee1 | Uploaded 2 years ago | Updated 12 hours ago
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Addendum to my “How Arcane Writes Women” video. A commenter named ProphetIsaiah08 left a brilliant comment with a theory about Sky’s death. Big thanks to him for letting me make a video about his theory. Here’s his comment in full
"prophetisaiah08
I do have a comment on the fridging of Sky. The scene where Viktor spreads her ashes over the Undercity adds a different element to her death that we don't see with most other examples of fridging (and I do absolutely think that Sky was fridged). Viktor says that he doesn't know where she would have wanted her ashes spread, and that changes things. Sky wasn't just killed without character development to further Viktor's character development from the audience's perspective; Sky died without character development to further Viktor's character development from Viktor's perspective too. Viktor feels the same injustice for Sky that we do; he's torn up that he never really got to know her, and she still sacrificed herself for him - so much so that he is willing to attempt suicide presumably out of some sense of giving Sky her due. Most fridgings are purely non-diegetic - we, as the audience know that the character died only to advance another character's story, but the characters in-universe treat the dead character as if there was much more to them. This fridging is both non-diegetic, and diegetic. Sky's death isn't just needless and tragic because we as the audience didn't get to see her as a person in her own right, it's needless and tragic because Viktor didn't get to see her as a person in her own right either... and he's devastated by that fact. Yes, Sky was fridged, but Viktor, the man she was fridged for, KNOWS that this is the case, and his actions for the rest of his arc are coloured by this knowledge. Viktor spends the rest of the show basing his decisions on the fact that a woman he barely knew died so that he could continue living and become a "better?" person. This meta-fridging gives a very different reading to the event.
In that way, even Benzo is a clearer example of straight fridging than Sky is."
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#Netflix #LeagueOfLegends #Viktor
Addendum to my “How Arcane Writes Women” video. A commenter named ProphetIsaiah08 left a brilliant comment with a theory about Sky’s death. Big thanks to him for letting me make a video about his theory. Here’s his comment in full
"prophetisaiah08
I do have a comment on the fridging of Sky. The scene where Viktor spreads her ashes over the Undercity adds a different element to her death that we don't see with most other examples of fridging (and I do absolutely think that Sky was fridged). Viktor says that he doesn't know where she would have wanted her ashes spread, and that changes things. Sky wasn't just killed without character development to further Viktor's character development from the audience's perspective; Sky died without character development to further Viktor's character development from Viktor's perspective too. Viktor feels the same injustice for Sky that we do; he's torn up that he never really got to know her, and she still sacrificed herself for him - so much so that he is willing to attempt suicide presumably out of some sense of giving Sky her due. Most fridgings are purely non-diegetic - we, as the audience know that the character died only to advance another character's story, but the characters in-universe treat the dead character as if there was much more to them. This fridging is both non-diegetic, and diegetic. Sky's death isn't just needless and tragic because we as the audience didn't get to see her as a person in her own right, it's needless and tragic because Viktor didn't get to see her as a person in her own right either... and he's devastated by that fact. Yes, Sky was fridged, but Viktor, the man she was fridged for, KNOWS that this is the case, and his actions for the rest of his arc are coloured by this knowledge. Viktor spends the rest of the show basing his decisions on the fact that a woman he barely knew died so that he could continue living and become a "better?" person. This meta-fridging gives a very different reading to the event.
In that way, even Benzo is a clearer example of straight fridging than Sky is."
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patreon.com/schnee1
Read my comic Minor Champion! NEW Chapter here:
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