How Does TRAUMA Affect IMMORTAL Characters? (HEIMERDINGER Analysis) | ARCANE

#LeagueOfLegends #Netflix Magic changes the course of Heimerdinger’s life, and changes the course of Runeterra’s history as well by leading to the founding of Piltover. But his extreme views on safety, his lack of concern for the lives of his own citizens (including his own friend Viktor), and his fearful sheltered upper class lifestyle all raise concern that maybe Heimerdinger didn’t deal with his trauma in the healthiest way. Immortality causes character traits to reach extremes they ordinarily wouldn’t be able to for lack of time. With Heimerdinger, all the rules of writing immortality come into play in balancing the two sides of his central dilemma: is this a wise leader or a frightened trauma victim? 0:00 - PTSD 2:41 - Mental illness in fiction 5:48 - Immortality = Over-development 8:08 - Heimerdinger’s Solution 9:35 - doggy 12:13 - Immortality Rules #1-7 15:21 - The Parallel 17:57 - Immortality Rule #8 19:52 - 30k! (& plan) Heimerdinger’s BROKEN Characterization -    • Heimerdinger's BROKEN Characterization | 1...   VIKTOR Video -    • Why ARCANE's Characters are LONELY | (Char...   MARCUS Video -    • How a GREAT Show Uses a BAD Character | AR...   JINX Hero/Villain -    • Is Jinx a HERO or a VILLAIN?  (Arcane THEORY)   Support me on Patreon:   / schnee1   Read my comic Minor Champion! NEW Chapter here: https://www.webtoons.com/en/challenge... Follow me on Twitter!   / jd_schnee