Piltover's Finest

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Pairing
Pairing: Piltover's Finest
Alternative name(s): CaitVi, Violyn
Gender category: femslash, f/f
Fandom: Arcane, League of Legends
Canonical?: Canon in the Arcaneverse. Their in-game interactions suggest they're more than work partners.
Prevalence: common
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Piltover's Finest, also known as CaitVi or Violyn, is the main ship in the animated series Arcane composed of Vi and Caitlyn Kiramman. It is also one of the biggest pairings in the extended League of Legends universe.

As of April 2022, there are 3279 works in their AO3 tag, comprising 39% of the Arcane works in the archive [1]. In the League Extended universe, they represent 31,5% of the works in AO3.

Creators are mostly active on Tumblr [1][2][3] Twitter and AO3[4].

Fandom

Pre-Arcane

Speculating about Vi and Caitlyn's relationship began as soon as Vi was released as a champion in December of 2012, nearly two years after Caitlyn was initially released. Their shared backstory of becoming work partners as well as certain in-game voice lines that hinted at a romantic connection between the pair lead many to consider them all but confirmed as canon. They have sometimes been compared to Poison Ivy/Harley Quinn as they too went through an infamous period of subtext only readings before becoming canon many years after the fact.

Their ship names comes from a buff they gain when allied with each other, "On The Case: Piltover's Finest".

Post-Arcane

Vi wearing a bright light blue armor that recalls the style of the Heartbreaker Vi skin splash art. She's kneeling in front of Caitlyn who's wearing a deep dark blue dress. Caitlyn is holding a red rose and one of her hands is touching Vi's.
Piltover's Finest fanart by art-of-urbanstar

Following the release of Arcane's first season in late 2021 the ship grew rapidly in popularity thanks to broader audience the show reached. Arcane was recommended throughout various sapphic fandoms based on the strength of writing for Vi and Caitlyn's relationship.

By January they began appearing regularly in Tumblr's top 20 ships for Week in Review, first under then Violyn tag and later as Caitvi.[2][3] In Tumblr's Year in Review 2022 they placed 10th in the top 100 ships, this time under Piltover’s Finest. Additionally, they also appeared in the top 100 of centrumlumina's AO3 Ship Stats 2022.

Fans who had only watched Arcane still took inspiration from some of Vi and Caitlyn's cosmetics skin designs available in League of Legends when creating their own AUs. Heartbreaker Vi, Debonair V, Demon Vi,[4] and Sheriff Caitlyn[5] all fuelled fics and fanart of medieval, mobster, daemon and western AUs receptively. There was also a lot of excitement around their matching valentines day skins that were shown in 2023, titled Heartache Vi and Heartthrob Caitlyn, with much fanart being drawn using the new designs.

Tropes and Fanon

  • Reluctant partners to lovers.
  • Reversed roles
  • Different League lore
  • Trans headcanons
  • AUs are very popular in this side of the fandom.

Fanworks

Fanfic

  • Off Duty. The first fic posted to AO3 under the Caitlyn/Vi tag. Posted on December 13, 2014
  • Blood of the Covenant. First multichapter fic in their AO3 tag. First published on November 17, 2015. Last updated on December 6, 2015.
  • Piltaunean Wilds. Longest fic in their tag, clocking at 721k words. First published on January 13, 2022. Completed on April 3, 2022.

Fanart

Fanvids

Zines

Events

Meta

Archives & Fannish Links

Twitter

Tumblr

References

  1. ^ "Works tagged as Caitlyn/Vi (League of Legends) in AO3". Archive of Our Own. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28.
  2. ^ Ships - Week Ending January 10th, 2022 Week in Review. Tumblr. Jan 10th, 2022.
  3. ^ Ships - Week Ending February 14th, 2022 Week in Review. Tumblr. Feb 14th, 2022.
  4. ^ Vi/LoL/Cosmetics
  5. ^ Caitlyn/LoL/Cosmetics
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