Arcane's second season is all done, which means an end to the series, too—though there's been a whole heap of winks and nudges that Riot'll be cooking up more seasons of stunning animation with Fortiche in the future.
For now, the current debate is whirring around whether the season happened to be 'rushed', or if certain scenes were cut for time.
While I'm of the opinion that Fortiche is the master of storytelling so dense it gets stuck in your teeth, co-creator Christian Linke hints at the idea that there were, indeed, words left unsaid or cut for time.
That's as per what he says in Arcane's «Afterglow» series, featuring himself and fellow creator Alex Yee, as well as actors Hailee Steinfeld (Vi), Ella Purnell (Jinx), Reed Shannon (Ekko). Spoilers for Season 2 ahead. As a quick recap, Jayce managed to convince his totally-platonic science pal Viktor that his glorious evolution was going a bit overboard, with the two vanishing into the ether.
As Linke reveals, they're probably not coming back: «I would say that they have unfortunately disintegrated.» What's more, Linke would've loved to explore their relationship more, saying that «to me, the Jayce/Viktor ending—to a certain degree it feels unresolved, because even though there is an understanding for them in the end, I just always feel like more should be said, and they should experience more together.