Arcane Alternate Universe Livestream (Mitchell's questions) - Completed & video available

This is what Mitchell would like us to consider:

Ekko/Jinx: Ekko painted OU Vi to show AU powder how badass her sister is in his world (which he discusses as “a dream he had”… this language is heard previously when Ekko first goes to AU Powder’s lair and she tells him about their innovator’s project “you had one of your crazy dreams”). Then when he had the chance to tell her about jinx (you were different in my dream too), he chose to say nothing about jinx or destruction, and only say that she changed the world. Beautiful on its own. But powerful at episode end when AU powder sees the ekkos split, and graffiti ekko stands in the anomaly. She has already been suspecting something has changed based on the montage expressions, but here, the reality hits her, he’s real. His “dreams” are real, somewhere else. Which means… Vi is alive, and kicking ass somewhere else. Vi is protecting powder, somewhere else. Powder changed the world, somewhere else.

He chose to leave her, his perfect life, his love, everyone he cared for and missed, all the things he wanted in his life. He left, keeping the pain of jinx to himself, and leaving powder with only the pride of having a badass sister, and changing his world.

Her realization further confirmed by her putting the gift necklace in Vi’s shrine. Doing this, she acknowledges it is a part of someone she’ll never see again.

Concepts: Relationships heal relationships. But if the relationship that does the healing is with the same person that did the damage, does it stand to become more precarious or volatile, or do the foundational realizations necessary to even initiate a true “second chance” actually enhance stability? Can people change enough to have a truly different relationship with the same person?

Altered or new relationship with a different version of the same person. Is this playing on the idea that sometimes people only want to know the side of a person that they enjoy? And have cognitive dissonance when being confronted by the changing nature of relationships/people?

Putting the aspect of self “in the chair”. Is AU powder really just Ekko speaking to himself about his feelings toward jinx and their history?

Grief for things yet to pass but assured none-the-less, “living grief”.

Is working to leave this world reflective of suicide (being surrounded by support structures and loved ones but feeling disconnected), maybe not complete suicide, but excising a part of the self (allusion to “letting powder die” in the river baptism).

Ekko’s choice to keep jinx’s existence to himself and give AU powder pride in her alternate self. Is this a breakthrough in introspection and self assessment? A Dickensonian “ghost of powder’s present” that alludes to when ekko told Vi in season 1 “powder is gone, there’s only jinx now”, and vi responded “she’s still in there.”

AU powder’s choice to place the necklace in the shrine. Her capacity to understand the situation. Is this reflective of our world’s belief in an afterlife? (Eg. my sister died young, and it is sad for me here on earth, but if I believe in heaven, then she is somewhere else flourishing).

“I used to think the undercity could be like this, but somewhere along the way, I got consumed by all the ways it wasn’t. I gave up on it. Gave up on you.” — is this an allusion to acceptance/commitment? Realizing that though he sees all the bad in his home timeline, the good must still be there, just like powder must still be there? Because for the pain to even exist, the love must still remain in some form too?