ARCANE fan reacts to 'Varus: As We Fall | League of Legends'

[@Gandorhar]

Very cool that u also checked out the comics, I mean the Music Video on its own is already stunning and the music is great, but with the comics combiened its just perfect.

[@georgieegames]

Oh thank you! I am so glad I did as having the whole story really made the video even better as I knew who they were and what was happening :) definitely worth it!tysm for watching :)

[@DlGNO20]

Is sad that they didn't update varus lore in years, I hope he gets an ASU or Rework so we can heard the two lovers inside varus in game

[@georgieegames]

That would be amazing I hope so too :) ty for watching 😁

[@93Crash101]

I would have said that that would never happen. RIOT's biggest market is China, a country that is not especially kind to LGBT. But this year's pride month symbol features Graves and Twisted Fate, so who knows.

[@nateperkins9860]

Varus, the Darkin is the character, the lovers don't matter in game.

[@luk4s56]

valmar "So kai, we finaly became one huh" Kai "i suppose we did huh" Varus "For F*** sake get a room you two."

[@payforoxygen]

@@93Crash101 they could make two website lore versions one where they are represented as lgtb and another one where they go "ha yes woman, we sure do like them in a romantic sense and totally say no homo whenever we start thinking how we are 3 males inside each other"

[@Usagi33353]

Aatrox: We had a memo Varus! The double "A" thing, Varus! The double "A" thing! Varus: Oooh! I thought you said "double gays!"

[@starstorm7868]

Ahh. Darkins. My favorite part about League's lore. And the saddest, in my eyes. From mortals to God-warriors, fighting-off the Void in ancient war. And from God-warriors, to scarred by that same war - darkins. They've lost their home, their purpose, everything. Even with immortal bodies, they still had minds of mortals, and mortal minds are so easy to corrupt with power. Their era of tyranny has ended pretty sad. Almost all of them wiped out. Those who were not killed - got sealed in their own weapon for millenia. And they were conscious all this time. Being trapped in darkness, without ability to move, with only your own thoughts as a company. Its fate worse than death. Tbh, I feel bad for Varus and dont blame him for this obsession with revenge. Same goes for other darkins, too...

[@georgieegames]

Varus is definitely a very sad and tragic character and I can also see why they act the way they do for revenge but also I can see from valmar and kai's pov that they dont want to be a part of his revenge. Definitely makes varus a very interesting and tragic figure! Thanks for watching :)

[@akashsandhu2931]

so that makes varus a double tragedy

[@kaijingarou6526]

"He's gonna save him". Haven't you learnt anything from Arcane? 😂😂

[@georgieegames]

HAHAHA I KNOW *sobs* I am so sad for them :(

[@kaijingarou6526]

@@georgieegames Riot likes to hurt people. They're like psychowriters.

[@Alcyone_FGC]

@@kaijingarou6526 let me introduce to you our pain and suffering: YOKO TARO

[@WhoEustace]

2:53 that was probably the fastest rollercoaster of emotions i have ever seen 🤣

[@hellfrozenphoenix13]

So to explain Varus, Varus is a Darkin, which are failed and corrupt Ascended (if you think of the crocodile man and the anubis looking dude from Shurima, those are Acended). Varus can se seen as akin to a demon. When the couple got in the waters, Varus took the chance to get a new body and the whole "As We Fall" Cinematic was about him breaking their bodies and minds to get his own body. He fused their bodies to contain his own spirit, so its actually Valmar. Kai, AND Varus. Varus feeds off of Vengeance and the hate one feels for his lost love is great indeed. I love this story, it's well done and quite a romantic tragedy with just enough hope and despair after to imagine how it can be moving forward. Love Varus a lot.

[@duquebetomix]

la mejor reaccion de todas, tomaste el tiempo para leer el comic y lograr el mejor contexto posible! sigue asi, excelente contenido!

[@georgieegames]

Oh tysm :) really appeciate that 😁 and ty for watching :D

[@kaijingarou6526]

La gente que contesta en español en vídeos en inglés me confunde. Sabes inglés o no?

[@capitanwilson6315]

@@kaijingarou6526 Jajaja dejalo, asi al menos los que no son hispanohablantes se toman el tiempo de aprender un poco español, que no hace mal :)

[@kaijingarou6526]

@@capitanwilson6315 No sé. Eso es verdad pero me parece un poco falta de respeto. Si vas a un vídeo en inglés y le contestas en español sobre el contenido del vídeo es que claramente sabes inglés y no hacía falta que el youtuber tuviera que estar usando google translator para contestarte jaja.

[@dovlok4816]

@@kaijingarou6526 quien dice que ver videos en inglés es porque sabes inglés? algunos solo quieren entrenar el oído y otros ni siquiera eso, usan los subtítulos.

[@MARTINREN1231]

this is one of those moments when you realize that the lore of this game goes DEEP. In one way or another, its connected to a lore for someone in this case, its both connected to the Ionian lore, The darkin lore and the Noxian invasion lore (maybe more i didnt recognize)

[@greenin5537]

now you have to check out Jinx's comic The Darkin were shurima ascended (like Azir) that were touched by the void in an ancient war. The void started to speak to them and corrupted them. Soon they discovered blood magic and started the great Darkin war. With help of the celestials the humans managed to seal the darkins in their own weapons. The bow that contained Varus was sealed in that fountain. Aatrox is one of the darkins that recently escaped from their prison. there's also Rhaast, that currently is fighting against Kayn for his body. You can see Kayn in the Zed comic

[@georgieegames]

Ohhhhhhh that makes sense! Good to have a bit more background on the darkin! Thanks for the knowledge and for watching 😁

[@Ajin173]

Btw. They learned forbidden sorceries along with it are primal magics that they've mastered so, basically they learned everything of Runeterra.

[@roxas1740]

First person I see reads the comic before the vd subscribing now.

[@georgieegames]

AWWW tysm! I am so glad I read the comics because the context is so important for the MV :)

[@toamszkozak8822]

03:38 there is also Neeko (that chameleon girl that you saw in star Guardian video) who was actually the first confirmed lesbian character (Vi, Caitlyn, Diana and Leona were realesed earlier but their sexuality was confirmed not that long ago) in league, there is also Rell that is bisexual, this is not confirmed but Miss Fortune flirts a lot with both genders so she can be also bisexual, and in this month it was confirmed that Garves and Twisted Fate (these two merceneries, one is using magic card and the other is using double canon) are a couple

[@toamszkozak8822]

Oh and Nami is bisexual and is in a Polyamorous relationship with male and female (loto and tama, and loto and tama are not champions if you ask)

[@georgieegames]

Oh wow so there is quite a few! Thats great 😁😁

[@tofferooni4972]

Add Seraphine to the list. There is implied there is something between her and the Zaun Diva, her dad comments on it too

[@kallistikaleid]

I never finished the comic. Wonderful. Also, Varus is kind of a damn blast to play as!

[@GCWeber]

Other rep: Neeko (haven't met her yet) is a lesbian (source: voice lines status: confirmed) Rell (I don't think you've met her yet either) is heavily implied to be a bi disaster (source: voice lines status: implied) TF and Graves (the cowboy pirates from Tales of Runeterra) were originally pitched as a married couple (this was shot down at the time) and have been a popular fan pairing ever since, and then this year they were confirmed by being placed at the center of this year's pride emotes and art (as in one of this year's pride emotes literally has the two of them in a pose taken directly from Brokeback Mountain lol and if you equip a pride 2022 emote you get a special pride background that... please just look up League of Legends Pride 2022 profile background, you need to see it, it might be the most beautiful thing I've ever seen) (source: literally everything they've ever been in together status: confirmed) I forgot about these two but someone else mentioned them in a comment so I will as well: Nami (mermaid lady): In a bisexual polyamorous relationship (source: Legends of Runeterra interactions status: confirmed) Miss/Captain Fortune (badass pirate lady from Double Double Cross): Implied to be bi or pan, flirts with everyone, including Vi (source: Legends of Runeterra status: implied). Also, if you and your opponent both play MF in LoR... she flirts with herself lol.

[@kaijingarou6526]

Yeah and I saw a journalist say that Arcane probably won't take further Vi and Cait's relationship because Riot is afraid to make gay couples official 😂😂😂. Where did that guy take this information?

[@GCWeber]

@@kaijingarou6526 They have been extremely hesitant to further gay relationships. Vi/Caitlyn, Diana/Leona, and Graves/TF were pairings that were not only popular with fans but, at least for the latter two, were part of their original concept and were repeatedly shut down by the higher-ups for *years* before they were able to do anything. And they still have to be extremely careful about implementing lgbt characters especially since Riot's parent company, Tencent, is Chinese, and China is also League's largest market. Just because they have a few gay characters now doesn't necessarily mean this representation is on solid ground.

[@kaijingarou6526]

@@GCWeber I hope they don't play coward with Vi and Caitlyn. I like that couple.

[@GCWeber]

@@kaijingarou6526 Yeah, me too. For now I'm cautiously optimistic.

[@kaijingarou6526]

@@GCWeber Well, they said fans of Violyn would be happy with season 2. We know there is only one thing that would make us happy. I don't think they would say that if planning to do otherwise xD so let's be optimistic.

[@sebastianburdilesflores9240]

Varus is 3 in one body, the 2 boys and the darkin, good video btw.

[@georgieegames]

Varus makes me angst so hard! Ahhh, thanks for watching :)

[@jeffkoenig7402]

Varus is all three of them

[@motorez1]

i was just bindge watching ur league reactions and just finished. I wondered, "are there rly no more videos?" And saw that this just uploaded xD Bidge continues.

[@georgieegames]

Tysm for watching I appeciate you hehe :) hope you enjoy! :D

[@jaimecolon1876]

Best reaction to this video ❤

[@charlyjordan3545]

My fave part of this whole thing is that the Darkin thought it would be an easy host, but they apparently jostle control from him and irritiate him daily.

[@Iamthecrazyone]

There’s also Tobias “Twisted” Fate and Malcom Graves, as far as representation goes. I believe you’ve seen the Double Doublecross and Don’t Mess With Yordles videos that have them.

[@ninjatoriumnova2483]

Plus, Neeko is a lesbian, Rell is bi, and Nami is in a poly relationship with a male and a female marai. I think that's about it as far as the canon goes.

[@Iamthecrazyone]

@@ninjatoriumnova2483 Yup. I was just thinking of couples.

[@georgieegames]

I have and I did not know at the time :)ty for telling me and for watching! Much appeciated 😁

[@nathanielhollas8471]

Sometimes death is a mercy.

[@IllegalHelios]

Varus is the darkin, not the combination of the three. The darkin are my favourite lore, unfortunately Shaco doesn't have lore otherwise his would probably be my favourite.....

[@tofferooni4972]

Shaco should become a demon or a darkij

[@monster9392]

As soon as you said "He's gonna save him"........I choked on my food LOL

[@sakutaro3musik486]

i´m also always happy when we have some LGBTQ+ reps since 10% of Humanity is not straight it just makes sense to have close to 10% LGBTQ+ rep in media, we are far away from that number, but every new rep is a big win. I don´t even want more then 10% lgbtq+ reps, but 10% is the sweet spot here. We have some more then those you came across so far, I don´t want to spoil you but you actually saw a cinematic of 1 pair tho they need time to aknowledge their love for each other ^^

[@tomi5217]

The Voice imitation was so cute

[@timobehnke8267]

Around 3 min in you realized that they are lovers... Your reaction was: NO WAIT!!

[@doragonsureia7288]

Northern british accents are epic for storytelling. That's why i enjoyed GoT so much

[@PoisonJoshy]

Hiya! New Sub here! Just watched a bunch if your league videos. It is now 1:30 am lol. I'd really like to see your reaction to the Ruination story line. There are a BUNCH of videos revolving around it, all around 3 minutes each. Yasuo and Ahri get swept into it when they go to Bilgewater, as well as Miss Fortune and Braum. The Ruination events are also part of why Thresh was able to escape the Shadow Isles. ALSO there is a game for it that would be cool to see you stream or something.

[@georgieegames]

AWWWW thank you so much

[@grommy511]

As far as LGBT pairing goes there are 2 more. Official is Neeko and Nidalee and unofficial is Graves and Twisted Fate,there is no confirmation in their story but riot agrees with community so they even got together on new set of pride emotes ;)

[@toamszkozak8822]

We don't know if Neeko and Nidalee are a thing, as far as lore goes we know that these two are Best friends and Neeko have a crush on Nidalee but we don't know if Nidalee also likes Neeko that way

[@georgieegames]

Interesting :D there are so many characters to learn about in this game :) tysm for letting me know and for watching!

[@k-sanend6474]

If you want to read more comics, my recommendation is Ashe Warmother it's my favorite and if you like that then continue to Shen and Zed comics it's the longest one by far.

[@georgieegames]

Thank you for the recommend :) I will check them out :D

[@basicsimp8798]

I knew both of them got inside eachother at times, but this is just another thing. I heard about the "Bury your gays trope" but this is just "Merge your gays"

[@bretwaldafps6724]

Can we get your "Scraaa" as an alert plleesaasseeee 😂

[@georgieegames]

only if you make it ahahaha

[@bretwaldafps6724]

@@georgieegames leave it to me 😤

[@nicogallagheralvarado6464]

First of all, I love your content and reactions of all kinds, I'm a big fan. and second, varus is a "darkin" the darkin were very powerful creatures in the ancient times of runeterra and the celestial aspects like: zoe, taric, diana, leona, etc. They gave humans the ability to "enclose" these powerful entities in weapons, there are other darkin like Aatrox (sword), Rhaast (scythe) who are also darkins and these are released and occupy the body of the person who released them to be themselves again, so what we see in the video of varus, is the representation of how the demon does a deal with two people at the same time and destroys and merges their bodies to create 1, in short, varus is a darkin and is the Combination of a "demon" and two more men, the lore of the darkin is too interesting if this story calls your attention a little. sorry for my english is not my mother tongue ajajajajaj

[@hellfrozenphoenix13]

I love when they do representation in an organic, natural way. While Neeko kind of over does it and goes out of her way to let out know she likes girls, I think they do it very well with most others. Rell hints at it indirectly, Miss Fortune flirts with literally everyone and thus is implied (which also plays into her natural charismatic, charming captain leader personality smoothly), but my FAVORITE couple by far is Twisted Fate and Graves. The reason being that you could tell from years ago that their bickering is slightly more than just friends ribbing eachother. But just enough to get the connection, and without them screaming about it. They feel super natural, organic, and honestly just human in how they treat eachother. Those two were only recently confirmed thanks to Pride Month emotes, but they were even pitched as an old bickering couple and they kept that feel. Hope they keep doing high quality, subtle but realistic inserts like that.

[@martin_bey569]

Nice video! Thank U :3

[@kuchi2373]

i love you reaction ty for this video insta suscribe !! ♥♥

[@georgieegames]

Omg tysm 😍😍

[@bigbywolf5031]

If u think this has happy ending, u havent been paying attention

[@charlesanderson7313]

Still waiting for you to watch Annie's origin.

[@georgieegames]

This one? :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIfZdaeAZdFlndU

[@charlesanderson7313]

@@georgieegames o did not scroll down far enough

[@juliozapata1140]

varus son los 3 no solo 2

[@zdaimyo5082]

Your British accent makes me dance 💃 😍

[@ernestorodriguez791]

Awesome

[@teradul2480]

They're getting better at representation (namely, the corporate side of things is less likely to sensor things and more likely to market them at Pride month). So Twisted Fate and Graves were always supposed to be a bickering married couple, though they only made it official this year, after a decade. Rell's voice lines are a delight, though.

[@toamszkozak8822]

Also Nami is bi and is in a Polyamorous relationship with male and female from her Tribe, that girl knows how to get it done

[@teradul2480]

@@toamszkozak8822 yes, but that's only in LoR to be found. In LoR MF is also bery flertatious with every woman she sees, so there's that.

[@georgieegames]

Oh wow thats awesome, am glad to hear it :D thanks for watching 😁

[@jolupakagames6977]

hello :D

[@georgieegames]

hiiii :D

[@HorrorGeek9]

With this, the characters you mentioned (Plus Neeko and maybe Irelia), and now Graves and Twisted Fate I'm happy to see League of Legends have more LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈 💙 representation.

[@wilsonmiranne214]

Very much an unpopular opinion but this iteration of Varus' story is at best a side-grade. A downgrade in my opinion. His original lore, while not as specifically detailed, was much more compelling.