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Hear me out. The Control/Arcane crossover is actually way more real than I thought initially.
You have:
- Siblings with a rough childhood, separated early on, with one taken captive (Vi/Dylan). Later on both Vi/Dylan end up having punching/heavy contact fighting styles while Jesse/Jinx use guns. They are almost never reunited properly
- Crazy gun/service weapon
- Scientists with shady ethical boundaries (Pope, Underhill/Jayce, Viktor) and the no lows too low for my research cuckoos (Darling/Singed)
- Incidentally: child abuse and human experiments
- Leaders who end up shot with guns (Silco/Trench) and both literally go on to haunt the narrative
- Entity/product that turns people into distorted, powerful monsters (Hiss/Shimmer)
- One of the siblings is affected by it (Dylan/Jinx) and takes an antagonist role, while the other sibling struggles with the reality of the situation
- Higher political entity that can't be overthrown and affects the entire plot (Council/Board)
- Timeline shenanigans
- Astral planes!
- Werewolf/weredog characters
It's a lot, isn't it?