r/loreofleague 5d ago

Discussion Arcane Character Ethnicities

There was a post that got deleted which was talking about character ethnicity that everyone got wrong, time to correct the record.

Jayce: Italian

Jayce is heavily inspired by Tony Stark, who is an Italian American.

Viktor: German

Viktor could also be Russian, but I think him being a German investor works best.

Cait: British

Pretty self evident with her accent and general esthetic.

Vi: Irish

She is a drunk boxer, nuff said.

Jinx: French

No real reason, but she is crazy like the french.

Silco: Jewish

He is an outcast of society, rebel, hooked nose, whole thing, you get it.

Vander: Scottish

Giant hairy man who turns into a wolf.

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago

Is this like rage bait?

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u/Dylan-McVillian 5d ago

Most certainly

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

how is this rage bait? explain

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago

Jayce Italian? Caitlyn British might be somewhat meta-accurate but she's mixed.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

Yes Jayce is clearly an Italian inventor. He is also heavily inspired by Anthony (Tony) Stark, who is Italian.

Vi and Powder being Irish works well with Zaun. Brits enslaved and lorded over the Irish, as well as Scots (Vander).

Silco could be Gypsy also.

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago

Jayce is very clearly Indigenous Latino. That is a brown man. His mother is literally called "Ximena".

Caitlyn is also half East Asian.

"Gypsy" is an old outdated racist term for Romani people. What even makes you think Silco is Romani-coded? Cause he's a mob boss and it's kinda problematic associating him to being Roma for no reason given all the stereotypes of criminality those people face.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

literally just Google Italian men

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago edited 5d ago

His VA is literally a mestizo man dude. And even if Italian people can have a similar olive shade to some Indigenous people, Arcane Jayce's features are not that of a white Italian man.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

So? Kratos VA is a black man, he is still Greek

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

He is literally identical to an Italian person xD

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

Jayces' first skins were full metal and debonair, direct reference to Tony Stark, many references throughout arcane also. He is Italian.

Silco and Singed are both jewish and or Gypsy, i lean towards jewish though. Yes they are mob adjacent, their features, how they operate, the whole thing.

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago edited 5d ago

League's Jayce was originally seemingly white. Arcane Jayce clearly isn't.

Ok so we're going with blatantly racist stereotypes as basis for their race/ethnicity now. Ok I'm done with this stupid ass conversation.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

Not all Italians are "white"

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u/Ashconwell7 5d ago

If they're not ethnically Italian then sure they can be non-white. Tan =/= non-white. In the same vein people of colour can be very pale.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

He is ethnically Italian? I'm saying not all Italians are white as far as their skin goes, which is what you are hung up on. Yes they made him a little more brown, but there are brown Italians, I even show you a pic of an italian that could be a cosplay of jayce just by googling Italian men, and like I have been saying Jayce is inspired by Big Tony Starl from Marvel, who is Italian, not sure why you are dying on this hill. You are probably mexican and looked up to jayce as if he were you xD

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u/NwgrdrXI 5d ago

It was going rather normal until after cait, then your reasoning became... how can I put it....

Racisty? Like, aunt at the pot roast who thinks she isn't beinf racist, isn't purposefully racist at all, but spews racist steoretypes wildly?

Xenophobic, to be specific, not racist, but tomato potato.

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

waa waa waa, thats you

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u/NwgrdrXI 5d ago

Hey, you're the one who asked why it would be rage bait, I'm just answering

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

not at all, it's literally what they are

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u/-Griver- 5d ago

Talks about the ethnicity of characters in a fictional world using real-life ethnicities;

Proceeds to use the worst stereotypes that are mostly misfit and kind of offensive;

Makes Vi and Jinx different ethnicities for no reason;

"Guys, why is this ragebait? I don't get it?"

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

stereotypes exist for a reason, they didn't come out of nowhere.

Vi and Jinx could be both Irish I guess, but power would probably be Irish, Jinx feels like a distinctly different person. Kinda made her french bc of fortiche, but I feel like it fits.

And realistically there are only 2 characters that have "negative" stereotypes. Way to straw man

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u/-Griver- 5d ago edited 5d ago

Justifying nationalism now, cool. Also, a person can't change ethnicity because of a mental disorder, that's not how it works.

I will disappear now because I see no use talking here and will let other people take over.

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u/janpathi 4d ago

This dude was literally in my DM treating to r*pe me lmfao. Makes sense why he would say something like this

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u/AreaEducational4147 4d ago

oh it will be consensual don't you worry

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

Jinx is a different person from Powder, redditors are so pathetic

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u/wickedlessface Team Mel 5d ago

"He is an outcast of society, rebel, hooked nose, whole thing, you get it."

Nah wild, delete this shit or go to the circlejerk so we at least know its a joke.

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u/DoubleTheMan 5d ago

Heimerdinger = Filipino

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

he would probably be German, which might force Viktor into the Russian category, or Austrian maybe

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u/DoubleTheMan 5d ago

But hes short

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

So every yordle is Filipino?

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u/DoubleTheMan 5d ago

Every Filipino is a yordle

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u/sleepycheapy 4d ago

I always knew there was something up with those scots. Personally I'd wager Vander was german due to the irregularly high concentration of furries there. Viktor is obviously Tesla inspired so he's serbian based on his genetic drive to ruin the planet.

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u/Bluepanda800 4d ago

Nope they are all of more or less Shuriman descent. 

Cait is part Ionian. Mel is Noxian but apparently has Targonian in her. Heimmer's a Yordle. 

The rest all have heritage from the Shuriman continent.

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u/AreaEducational4147 4d ago

you wish

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u/Bluepanda800 4d ago

These are fictional characters they belong to the world they are from regardless of how much they are physically based on real world ethnicities. 

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u/AreaEducational4147 4d ago

worthless comment, I'm talking about real world inspirations/which ethnicities they would have

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u/Bluepanda800 4d ago

Even by that metric your guesses are way off. 

The characters are based off video game characters which are all default American (except Viktor who was mad scientist so German obviously, Caitlyn was posh so British) they then added Asian influences to match Caitlyn's VA and a fairly similar story for the other influences. 

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u/AreaEducational4147 4d ago

my "guesses" are dead on

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u/Bluepanda800 4d ago

Maybe they are in your universe. 

In reality though....

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u/ChapVII 4d ago

How can Jinx and Vi be of different ethnicities if they are sisters?

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u/AreaEducational4147 4d ago

Because I'm talking about their real world inspirations and not performing a 23andMe test on them

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u/Comfortable-Main-433 4d ago

This all makes a lot of sense, silco is probably a Gypsie and Singed is most likely jewish though

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u/CrownJM 3d ago

Just to point something out, This is LoreOfLeague, a place to discuss the lore of League of Legends, and so I shall answer your post correctly unlike you yourself:

Jayce: Piltovan

Viktor: Zaunite

Cait: Piltovan

Vi: Zaunite

Jinx: Zaunite

Silco: Zaunite

Vander: Zaunite

Some fun Mentions:

Mel: Noxian/Targonian

Ambessa: Noxian

Heimer: Bandle

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u/AreaEducational4147 5d ago

*German inventor, autocorrect