Mother and daughter portrait!

Now, do I believe that Ambessa would be nice of a mom enough to let baby Mel sleep on her shoulder while holding her? eeehhhhhhhh…….. but a person can dream!

Surprisingly my first fanart of Arcane and it isn’t about my wife Sevika

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Mother and daughter portrait!

Now, do I believe that Ambessa would be nice of a mom enough to let baby Mel sleep on her shoulder while holding her? eeehhhhhhhh…….. but a person can dream!

Surprisingly my first fanart of Arcane and it isn’t about my wife Sevika

The sharp tang of metal and gold

Miss MAAM Ambessa for y’all!!

Colored one of my studies of ambessa in that training outfit

so glad theyre all happily together and off adventuring and kissing am i right

Don’t look down wearing a crown

y'all piss me off. "i love mel but" "mel is beautiful but" and then they rehash the basics of her character without a modicum of time spent actually thinking about her actions or having a degree of empathy for her in the way they seem to for other characters.

i'll explode every one w my mind who dares utter the idea that mel didn't care for or love jayce. and here i naively thought that we love ship dynamics where one person gets involved for personal gain only to actually fall for them.

yes, mel uses jayce. yes, mel also loved jayce. that becomes very evident when she confronts her mother in his defence, or when she takes of her family insignia to support him, when she attempts to keep hextech out of the zaun invasion for his sake. she is immediately concerned over him despite her own circumstances when returning to piltover after being magically kidnapped by mages. what is she gaining here other than merely showing jayce she supports him, even when it DOESN'T benefit her.

ambessa medarda would upend the world for her children, and i stand on that. imperfect as she is, she loves her kids. she uses mel. she uses her politically, and she clearly had full intent to use her as a weapon. mel has been primed her entire adolescence to be "the fox" and she does it WELL. to the point it is inherent to her arcane persuasion.

mel is living under insurmountable expectation. the only kind word that we see her mother speak to her aside from "you're alive!" is literally said after mel has killed her.

and this fandom waters her down to jezebel, temptress, "i love her but-" ENOUGH. you're weak. i love mel because she manipulated jayce, what now? i loved mel before she had the cognizance that she was mistreating jayce. AND WHAT?

jinx gets to do terrorism and viktor gets to do cosmic eugenics and it's aaall okay but let my beautiful black queen model the behaviours of those who raised her and suddenly it's a problem.