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#i can imagine silco thought jinx didn't need the academy becuz he believed zaunites don't need piltover
mollysunder · 6 months
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Another thread that was never addressed in Arcane, and I hope it will be next season is how admissions works in Piltover Academy. The writers confirmed that they wanted to include a flashback where Viktor's parents help Viktor sneak into the Academy by giving him a secondhand uniform. Viktor is inevitably clocked as out of place, but he's promising enough that he can officially enroll. The writers also confirmed that Sky was admitted into Piltover based on merit. Sky and Viktor are both Zaunites, but Sky has the more straightforward story of how she got into the Academy.
Did admissions exclude the disabled? Was Sky from a slightly more well to do Zaunite family, and the Academy has an unofficial floor for how poor Zaunites can be to be admitted? Maybe Sky's family previously came from Piltover but couldn't keep up with the lifestyle? Why the extra hoops? Kids like Ekko and Jinx didn't even have the Academy in their vocabulary but they were incredibly academically talented and affiliated with prominent Zaunites, both could have taken a swing at admissions with ease.
I want Arcane to show me what kind of Zaunites are allowed to have the Academy as a pathway for social mobility, as limited as it could be anyway.
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