A nice little detail I noticed tonight.
They bar the door with Viktor’s cane, so when the Enforcers break in, the cane breaks too.
And then the next thing we see is Viktor floating, with his amazed smile, his childlike wonder.
There’s this sweet, almost bittersweet implication that he’s transcended his body, just for a moment.
He won’t feel so free in his body again for years, until he drops his crutch and runs on the docks.
The ways that their partnership is imprinted on his body, and the stages of it reflected through his body—how he finds freedom and joy that first night; how he’s wasting away during the period when Jayce’s attention was elsewhere; how Jayce reconstructs him through love and it’s too much for him to take; how Jayce’s body comes to mirror his; how they’re both bodiless in the end, and free, like it’s taken them years of suffering to reach the purity of that first free moment again—will always be so moving to me.
Arcane is a story written on Viktor’s body.