The Psychology of Arcane: Vi and Caitlyn — Therapist Reacts!

🎉 My Full Arcane Reaction Series: youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3I0HsOf9M_S0HzHJKjhVws…

Before even watching I gotta say that the light cosplays you do every episode are a very nice touch.

I love this and the relationship. As a lesbian I find most lesbian relationships in TV boring and to perfect. Or oversexualized. Vi and Caitlin are realistic, complex and entertaining. I love it.

See that the Vi/Caitlyn Video is finally out: EXCITEMENT! Sees that the video is 26 minutes long: YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAS!!!!

You should have brought up Cailtyn´s flashback with Enforcer Grayson where she asks "What are you shooting for?" and next time Caitlyn shot her gun it was to protect Vi. Not only she saved Vi but she also learned what being an Enforcer means to her.

You came from “her good friend Caitlyn” to “her girlfriend” that, my friends, is character development at it’s finest

As a lesbian i find vi and caitlyn one of the best female/female love stories i've seen in tv. It's so good

Something that goes overlooked by most because we're spending so much time with Vi trying to save powder from silco and we see Jinx struggling with her trauma. No one talks about how Vi was literally saved from her hell, which was a horrendous situation of being in a prison for years, were she was beaten "countless" times by the guards.

I think you missed something deep about the shower scene... Yes you are absolutely right that Caitlyn was replaying that moment in the rain inside her head for the different outcome, but you did not notice the outcome she was trying to wordlessly say in that scene. That scene the animators made it so that her leg wound was bleeding into the water, mixing with the water, and at the last moments you see Caitlyn bite her lip and shaking her head "no". The meaning behind the lip bite and the head shake is something like "No Vi, I will not just forget you" and that blood mixing with water scene is Caitlyn's wordless response to Vi saying "we can be blood and water, not oil and water, different but meant to be (meant to mix together)"

If the creators of this show have a Fan event or Comic Con event for Season 2, they should invite you as a speical guest because you are so enthusiastic with your video reactions and you also explain the characters in such an interesting way :D Great channel, keep it up! Edit: 16:10 is basically gonna be all Caitlyn & Vi fans during Season 2 ;D

I always thought VI was sorta smiling after seeing Cait with that girl because earlier, VI asks Cait "So, Girl or Boy?" and we see that Cait chose girl. So VI knows that Cait is into girls and now VI knows she can continue to hit on her and stuff without making her uncomfortable.

I'm surprised you didn't mention how Caitlin readily gave up her gun, her greatest asset and valued skill, in order to save Vi

In the scene at 16:07 I love how just for half a second, Caitlyn's eyes dart from Vi's eyes to her lips. A very subtle hit about wanting to do more to provide comfort.

I would love to see a video on Heimerdinger. Heimerdinger is a character who, is a genuinely good person, but who I think lacks empathy for humans, a species who lives so much shorter than he does. If I'm correct Heimerdingers species lives for hundreds of years while we barely live to 90 if were lucky. What proves this (or what I believe is proof) is that he has essentially been ruling all of Piltover, including the lanes, for I believe 200 years and has done little to nothing to help the people of the lower city. I think when we see him go to the lanes its the first time he has actually seen the state of things. And I think that he realizes that he's at fault.

I liked that their relationship wasnt screaming " I am gay" their relationship was sooo natural and human , I really cant believe that for the first time I understand every character in the show....seriously Arcane was amazing, you cant really blame anyone for actiong the way they do and I love how complex and human every character in the show was , the fact that you as a therpaist can explain every character shows how well the show was done :)

I think one of the best scenes that I loved between the two that you didn't include in the video is when Caitlyn is convincing Ekko to let her take the gem back and Vi's expressions when she realises just how much Caitlyn actually cares about people and how not everyone from Piltover just doesn't care about the undercity at all. It was one of the moments that showed how the attraction between the two was growing even more, and to me it jumped out as how you look at someone when you really admit to yourself just how much you like someone.

I love how Georgia makes fan girl noises when Vi and Caitlyn's bonds start to heat up.

I believe it's important to note that Caitlyn is something of a pacifist. She's the first to call for an end to the violence. Did everything she could to get Vi heard on the council. She could have easily taken out Sevika at any moment she wanted. Instead choosing to wait for a shot at Sevika's shimmer pump. A much smaller and harder to hit target. But the best way to nullify her as a threat without killing her. And after the pump, all her subsequent shots struck only armord metal pieces of Sevika's prosthetic arm. But.. That hesitation of waiting for the pump shot allowed Vi to get stabbed. I think Caitlyn felt responsible for that. This is why she braved going out into the fissures, looking for help, finding Huck. And had no hesitation to trade her gun for the potion to heal Vi. And the way she so sincerely hugged Huck showed me that to Caitlyn, getting that help was in her mind an act of redemption for unintentionally causing Vi pain.

As someone with avoidant attachment, when I see Vi and the way she is with Cait as their relationship develops, even before they met she must have been desperate for someone to be vulnerable with, despite it being a near impossibility. Obviously they have natural chemistry, but the fact that Caitlyn gives her a safe space to let herself be taken care of by another person is one of the single most important things Caitlyn could have done. Avoidants WANT to be vulnerable. But finding someone to do that with is incredibly difficult. Cait being that for her is a huge reason why Vi bonds with her. She just lucked out on Cait being a genuinely good person who wouldn’t try to play her for personal gain.

Another thing with the scene where Caitlyn attempts to clean Vi up with a clothe, if I remember correctly, the last time an enforcer approached Vi with a clothe towards her face was when Marcus used a clothe to knock her out and drag her away from her sister. This is probably another reason why she deflected the clothe!