#i am talking about the choices i think the WRITERS made and silco as a narrative

[heraldofcrow]

1, 25 about... Her!

MY GIRLL 🥹

Thanks Jara!!! <3

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Why do you like or dislike this character?

With MY taste in blorbos?? What’s not to like tbh.

Just her design alone is soooooo perfect for my tastes. I fucking love her long-ass hair because I love….characters with really long hair in general, I guess? My own hair is almost at my knees now, so I have something to relate to when I see characters like this lol. They also give me hair inspo and style ideas bfdnsbdhnj.

Also, her badass punk rock aesthetic, her chemically enhanced eyes, her WEAPONS, her gunslinging swagger….that not-so-subtle crow symbolism they were giving her? Yeah, she’s right up my alley design-wise ALONE!

And her character hhhhhhh. She made me cry so hard…like more than a character had in years. My brain broke watching her because she was so believable and realistic. I love this about her. She is woefully human all while fearing that she is a monster, a curse, a jinx…desperately longing for her sister to prove this harmful idea wrong, and when THAT all goes in the drain, her severe abandonment issues along with her guilt and insecurity drive her to gain support from a father figure who is so equally traumatized that he encourages them both to “embrace their inner monsters” in order to be strong and fight back against the people that “betrayed” them like….THAT IS ALSO SO MY TYPE OF STORYTELLING AND CHARACTERIZATION!!

It’s them against the world, and I LOVE this tragedy so much. I love Jinx’s relationship with Silco and her excellent representation of severe mental illnesses like psychosis and mania. I love the daddy issues and the sister issues. I love how much she tugs at the heart-strings and is sympathetic while also becoming such a terrifying villain and force of nature.

I love how she is purposefully shown to be an incredibly sweet and caring kid before she began her descent into madness. I love how the writers clearly showed that it wasn’t her mental illness that made her go evil, but it was the choices she made in reaction to her horrible life circumstances, with the mental illnesses simply making things worse by creating intense delusions and paranoia inside her broken psyche.

I love her drama with Vi, I love her story in general. She just….AGH. I am obsessed, you don’t understand lol.

Also she is funny and has a great smirk and great bangs xD

What was your first impression of this character? How about now?

This happens so often where the characters I start off by misjudging or not liking become my absolute favs of all time and I don’t know why, but it’s a very funny trend tbh. I used to see Jinx in LOL previews and when some friends would play the game and though I always liked her hair…I didn’t like her? I found her voice annoying and I was always like…”Does she do anything actually villainous besides just shoot that mini gun and talk trash in a squeaky voice?” 💀

Tbh, I also just didn’t like LOL in general and I also misjudged Jinx’s original game look as being one of those unfair game dev choices for female outfits. It didn’t have to be practical! Just sexy!

However, I think the show kinda fixed this and obviously now, I would die for my tiny murder daughter. Give her a hug and some hot chocolate and therapy <3

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Thanks again, Jara!!

#ask game #love my crazy blorbos #jinx #arcane #mutuals #asks

[jazuthevulcanprincess]

Silco thought he could do literally anything to achieve power, and use that power to make Zaun a sovereign nation. But, the moment Jinx tackled him in a hug and basically asked him to care for her, he lost.

We see him look shocked, and then look up at Vander. Likely, he was empathizing with Powder saying "she is not my sister" and applying it to Vander's betrayal and his own feelings about him after. He chose to accept this child who was like him and decided to give her what he had needed when he was in her shoes. "We will show them all" being his promise; that they both will abandon fear and become strong enough to achieve their dreams.

We see it in Jinx's eye when she looks up from his arm, determination to prove that she is better than Milo said, that she can be strong, she wants to be useful and "ready" so no one will leave her behind like Vi did.

Yet, she also has the weight of her entire murdered family. She internalized from Vi's words and abandonment that she truly is a jinx, and therefore she must be bad. Which I think is why she allies with Silco and his gang, because she basically already worked for him by killing Milo and Claggor, and preventing Vander's successful escape. They all would have left and been fine had she not interfered and she knows that. Just like she never forgot what Silco had done. But, they were the same and she chose him as a father figure.

We don't see Silco be physically affectionate or let his guard down with anyone but Jinx later on, which makes me believe more that him allowing Powder to hug him and holding her isn't normal for him. He could have killed her instead like he planned.

Instead, he fully brings her into his confidence and makes her his family, a daughter to replace the brother he lost perhaps. Every human being needs companionship and Silco is not different just because he does horrible shit. He's human and has human psychology. Them showing Silco has Jinx help *stab him in the eye* regularly shows that she is uniquely close, no one did that before, and he has a hard time without her help.

When Jinx is triggered by her experiment with the hex gemstone, where does she go? To Silco's office. He tells her he can't trust anyone else with building the weapon that will win the war and make their future better. She is his #1, Sevika his #2 as the brothel madam says to Vi. But, she is special.

When Sevika fails, she gets a professional reprimand, and when Jinx hits Piltover he confronts her like an enraged parent. He doesn't hit her like you would expect from someone so regularly violent. And she doesn't seem bothered at all. I think she doesn't regularly get consequences, citing Sevika, Finn, and Rennie's criticism of Silco and how he can't control Jinx, and how that has made him weak and unfit to lead.

Sevika says she is bad for their cause and she is right. Silco ignores or shuts down these criticisms and its unusual because he's is a cutthroat man with a one track mind: to defeat Piltover.

If he was using Jinx for that end, manipulating her as is so often said, he isn't doing a good job. If he was using her and shaping her, she would be his ace, the linchpin in his plan to rule Zaun. She would be his perfect soldier.

But she isn't. She's a liability. All we see is him encourage her, remind her that Vi is gone and can no longer control her or hurt her, he is there to help her, and he thinks she's perfect. That's a father.

Granted, he isn't well versed in mental health so his solution to Jinx's triggers is to give her a baptism so "fear of pain" won't control her; that was his solution so he think it will work for her..

He doesn't know what we know, that PTSD can't be solved by a dip in polluted waters. It's all he can do, however. And protecting Jinx from further trauma by eliminating her sister before she finds out she's back isn't something any of us would do, but it makes sense for his character. He kills problems. He's not gonna set up family counseling for them.

He believes Vi can only hurt Jinx, like Vander hurt him, and Jinx is currently unstable so she can't handle the stress of it. It's not healthy, but that's Zaun.

He also raised her and encouraged her "gadgetry", pushes her to relax with her hobbies and take some time when stressed. He raised her to be strong and raised her to survive in Zaun, so explosives and guns are part of that. She was working on them with Vander and Vi too, and Milo thought she should brawl with them.

The only extra violence he allows Jinx is the same coping mechanism he has of brutalizing people to feel good. If he does it, you expect him to teach her differently? Which is why he isn't an ideal father figure. But, he is the best father he knew how to be.

This is shown to us in the little details of the mug and ashtray we see that Jinx made for him, being on display at all times. He is saying he is proud of her. Even though it doesn't fit his kingpin persona. It's shown in how Jinx goes to him for support, how she wants to make him proud, and how she challenges him like when she mocks his drowning story and his "rants and hard earned lessons". Jinx is comfortable and safe with him, and has agency in their relationship. She disobeys when she deems necessary, like children do.

When we see Silco find Jinx on the bridge, he is stunned and horrified by her injury. When he sees the gemstone in her hand, he has a peculiar blank expression I didn't know how to read at first. But, I think it is the beginning of his realization that he can't sacrifice her for the cause. He thought he could lose /anything/ for power. But, he sees the gemstone, and at the same time the voice over has Cait saying "so it was all for nothing" and I think that's on purpose. If he gains the gemstone at the price of his daughter's life, well its worth nothing to him. And I think that feeling does scare him.

Singed later asks if he is willing to lose her and he can't answer, just says with determination that she can't die, like he won't let her by sheer force of will. Him giving her a forehead kiss, and only on the strap no less, his supposed to show he cares for her, even when he has nothing to gain but her life. Singed sees his love and has to sedate him because he understands.

Silcos character arc wraps up in the dinner scene where he reassures her that she is his daughter and he could never forsake her, which he knows to be true now that he couldn't give her up for Zaun. He isn't mad he's tied up, and he isn't angry when she shoots him. His last words are an affirmation of love, and a plea to be strong.

His character arc culminates in him thinking about protecting someone more than accomplishing his dream. Which is what he hated Vander for. He was undone by having a daughter, like Vander was. He dies a father doing what was best for his daughter. Like Vander did. He finally understands why Vander did what he did, and that family, that Jinx, is worth more than anything.

#silco #silco arcane #jinx #jinx arcane #arcane meta #silco and jinx #jinx and silco #thanks for coming to my TED talk #i was posessed to write this in one sitting so its not entirely coherent but i hope someone out there understands what i saw #i am talking about the choices i think the WRITERS made and silco as a narrative #not how people would look at silco irl and see whatever they think #i think this is what the writers intented for his character and this is how i interpret him

[lovesomehate]

Finished Arcane. Now I am not saying that I personally am emotionally invested in this pairing but I am saying that I am like 90% sure that Silco and Jinx fucked.

Also Silco is such a kind of guy in general tbh. Like on one hand he's a crimelord who profits off exploitation of the citizens, he's invested in getting everyone addicted to his fucked up drug, his factories are full of child labour, he killed his friend and stole his daughter (whom he originally wanted to just kill). On the other hand he doesn't betray without being betrayed first, he genuinely cares for Jinx and tried to be a good...uh...father? to her in his own weird and fucked up way, he comes to a statue built in honour of the friend he killed to drink and to tell the statue about his problems as if they were on good terms. A kind of guy for sure.

Also I loved everything around his reaction to Piltower wanting him to give them Jinx. Like the moment he heard that, his expression just changed, like good on the writers for making him not even consider it for five seconds because it would have been weird of him to do so. And what I didn't expect but was absolutely delighted by was how he IMMEDIATELY basically told Jayce to just punish him instead. The classical "They are innocent in this, I organised everything and I led it all, they were just carrying out my orders" move is usually reserved only for the good guys. Villains never do this, and if they do, definitely not at first. So I was absolutely shocked by this but I loved it. And the way they really offered him everything he fought for all his life, possibly his only chance at it, and he really didn't even consider it for a millisecond the moment he heard he'd have to give them Jinx for it. The way he went to Vander's statue to vent about it. The way he tried to convince Jinx that he never even thought about betraying her up until the very end. Fucked up. Phenomenal. 10/10. Inflicted great emotional pain upon me.

And one final thing before I shut up I swear, I love/hate how if he hadn't tried to shoot Vi, Jinx would have chosen him anyway. Like the way he made his own grave because she would not have shot him, the way it wasn't a conscious choice of hers but a reflex, an automatic reaction to sensing ANYONE trying to hurt her sister (also pretty interesting to think about tbh) the same way you'd automatically punch someone jumpscaring you (like, even if it was your pal doing a joke on you, in the first few milliseconds before realising you'd just punch. Automatically and without caring who or what. This was the same kind of reaction), and how it was clear in her conscious behaviour after that she would have chosen him I-. It's just so fucked up like he tried to kill Vi because idk either he thought that would make it over with faster, because he genuinely thought that he had to or Jinx would choose her, either as long as she was physically there or while she was talking, but exactly that made her automatically kill him. It's all just- *incoherent screaming*

I love how ranty you became so don’t worry about it 😂

Okay let’s go by parts…

Jilco is so good help (also the animators we’re doing them as romantic and riot told them no so that’s why there’s such a ✨vibe✨ in their scenes 😳)

Silco was so good and bad and the perfect grey sided character. He did a lot of shady things but literally it was all for Zaun’s freedom. And the way he was going to say “nah Zaun can fuck off” the moment it became clear that to get its freedom he would have to sacrifice Jinx?

Also my take in his choice of trying to shoot Vi was that he panicked at seeing Jinx in so much pain and distress that his first instinct was to eliminate the source of it. So I don’t think he was actually using his brain at all and just reacting to someone he saw as a threat to Jinx… and he paid the price for it 🥲

#his love for her was his downfall 🥲 #I’m not fine #also if you wanna rant and scream im here #I’ve got so many feelings about Silco and him and Jinx #help #💣🦈 #ask #feathery-dickmuffins