It is just my luck that when I was about to go to bed, a new trailer for Arcane Season Two dropped.
So instead of doing the healthy thing and going to sleep, I spent the next hour going frame by frame and trying to guess what was happening.
Now, I am ready to put my thoughts down.
This trailer is great and does an excellent job of making me more excited for Season Two than I already was.
It once again does not reveal the fates of Jayce, Viktor and Mel, whose fates were left uncertain by the first season’s cliffhanger, which I appreciate.
It begins with a voiceover of Vi telling Caitlyn that she was right, and her sister is gone told over shots of Jinx shooting the rocket at the council.
Emerging from the smoke onto a battlefield, Caitlyn says, “I want to tear that laugh from her throat forever.”
This, combined with evidence from the prior teaser trailer, makes me more certain than Caitlyn’s mother was killed in Jinx’s attack.
Vi declares she is ready, but the shots of her looking unsure of herself in an Enforcer uniform and then screaming and crying as she beats a punching bag tells us she is anything but ready.

Next, we see Ambessa telling someone, probably Mel if she survived, that they must declare martial law.
We see the effects of this as Ambessa’s Noxian forces arrive, Enforcers set up barricades, and an Enforcer even beats one of Ekko’s people with a baton.
Since the Firelights are also a target, that means Ekko is probably going to have to reluctantly work with Jinx, since she has become a symbol for Zaun in the wake of the attack.
Sevika herself says this, as we see shots of Vi looking at artwork of Jinx and Vander, and people touching Jinx as they pass her.
These people also seem to have dyed their hair blue to resemble Jinx, showing their devotion to her.
Further proof of Jinx’s revolutionary status is someone, who the trailer implies to be Jinx, holding up a blue flair to which the citizens of Zaun raise their fists.
However, despite what the trailer implies, I do not think it is Jinx holding up this flair.
The hand does not look slender enough to me, and there is no nail polish.
Could it be someone co-opting Jinx’s cause?

The following shots are far from reassuring, as we see Vi reaching out for someone while appearing distraught, and a match falling, after which Jinx says she wants, “to watch it all burn.”
The match hits the ground, and we see a mixture of paint and smoke bombs explode throughout Piltover.
As the trailer declares that “This November every ending has a beginning”, we get more action shots of Theriam/Chuck taking part in the fighting, Ambessa leading her forces, a strange circular structure exploding next to a bell, and Warwick emerging to wreath chaos.
We then get probably the most bizarre shots of the trailer, as we see a group of similarly dressed people.
Their bodies begin to glow, their eyes turn white, and they begin levitating up, while strange patterns emerge on their skin, both natural and metal looking.
These metal looking parts makes me believe Viktor has something to do with this, since his leg looked similar after he messed with the Hex Core last season.
“The Arcane is waking up” an ominous female voice states, while this is happening, only furthering my belief Viktor is involved with whatever is happening here.

Yet more action shots follow, as we see more of Vi’s fight with Jinx, Caitlyn and her squad fighting the Chemtank goons, Ekko and the Firelights taking part in a battle, Jinx shooting something, and Heimerdinger being thrown to the floor by an explosion.
The shot of Jinx shooting is of particular interest because one of her fingers is a prosthetic.
It has been theorized that Caitlyn will shoot it off and, if this does happen, then that only adds fuel to the fire of my theory that the person raising the flair is not Jinx because their finger is perfectly fine.
With these action shots done, Ekko then says, “sometimes taking a leap forward, means leaving a few things behind.”
It would not surprise me if he was talking to Vi about Jinx in this scene.
We then see what I think might be a younger version of him pulling on some kind of chain.
Another shot of Hextech shenanigans follows, before we see Vi decked out like some kind of punk rocker, standing in a ring and raising a fist to a cheering crowd.
This shot is interesting because it makes me believe even more that we are going to get a time skip, most likely after Act One.
There are multiple points in this trailer where characters are sporting different outfits and hairstyles.
Some of them, most notably Vi, even look a little older, making me think at least a few years have passed.

Back to the trailer itself, we then see Sevika potentially about to kill Caitlyn, before an explosion blows them apart.
As Vi declares, “this has to end”, we see Jinx crouched down with a bloody nose.
This shot may not seem important at first glance, but I would argue it is because of the environment.
Earlier in the trailer, we saw Ambessa looking threatening against an orange backdrop.
The shot of Jinx having a bloody nose has an extremely similar looking background.
This makes me believe we will get a fight between Jinx and Ambessa.
Ambessa certainly has plenty of reason to want Jinx dead, considering she attacked her daughter with the rocket and may have even killed her.

Ambessa will have to get in line to take a shot at Jinx though because we see Caitlyn apparently attempting to do just that, as she powers up her Hextech rifle.
We then get another shot of Ambessa fighting but this time she curiously seems to be battling Enforcers, unless my eyes are deceiving me.
Maybe it is just a training session for the coming fight against Zaun but those weapons she wields look plenty deadly for this to be just practice.
The next shot sees Vi carrying an unconscious person out of a building, as the top of it explodes behind her.
The trailer does a good job of obscuring the person’s face so I cannot tell who Vi is rescuing.
They do appear to be wearing an Enforcer uniform though, so it is probably Caitlyn.

Speaking of Caitlyn, we see her glaring up at a hooded Jinx, who may be post time skip due to how different she looks, although it could just be an outfit change.
The shots are probably not connected though because it looks like Jinx is piloting an airship here, something which she said she wanted to do all the way back in Episode One.
It would be a good way to bookend the series.
Arcane begins with Jinx saying she wants to fly an airship, and it ends with her in an airship.
Jinx is also wearing a hood, possibly meaning that she is the hooded figure we see earlier in the trailer, but her hood has a different pattern, so I doubt this.
Following Jinx’s declaration of, “Then stop me”, we see Ekko giving Vi a ride on his hoverboard.
Ekko also has Jinx graffiti on his chest, possibly signifying they are fighting her.
The two shoot up into the sky, ending with Vi leaping off to fight.

The trailer then ends with a series of quick shots which I had to go frame by frame to see what was happening.
The first shot shows a mysterious figure holding a ball of energy similar to ones seen earlier in the trailer.
The figure reminds me a lot of the man who saved Jayce when he was a kid so maybe that is connected?
We then see someone carrying a much younger Jinx away.
This probably takes place at the bridge where she and Vi lost their parents, before Vander adopted them.
Following this, we get a shot of Ekko pulling a cord on some device, causing it to light up.
Next, we see Caitlyn struggling against a Chemtank.
The subsequent shot possibly shows us Viktor, as we see a figure with a cane and Hextech emerging from their wrist.
Then we see a shadowy figure resembling Silco.
This shot most likely confirms that Jinx is going to be hallucinating Silco this season.
In one of the most epic shots of the trailer, we then very briefly see Vi facing off against Warwick.
She is also wearing the jacket I think older Vi is wearing, so this confrontation will likely take place post time skip.

The final shots show Heimerdinger pressing a button, followed by an explosion during the Jinx and Vi fight, though the two are probably unrelated.
And, with that, the trailer comes to an end, hyping me up even more for November.
That being said, it will not be easy for a lot of people to go into the Second Season blind, what with it leaking and certain people just loving to ruin things.
I have also probably been spoiled, unfortunately.
Right after the leaks came out, I saw a post spoiling the fates of a few important characters before I could look away.
I have no idea if what I saw was a legitimate leak or just somebody trolling (I sincerely hope the latter), but, either way, I am still excited for the season.
Hopefully, it can be just as fantastic as the first and, if the trailers and brief scenes we have been shown so far are any indication, it certainly will be.
I shall be counting down the days until the Second Season airs in November.





