#and sevika to a lesser extent

[starlooove]

Anyways nothing in the show made me cry till seeing ekko and Mel sitting there alone and it doesn’t even have to do with powder and Jayce it’s the fact that they have to get up the next day its exhausting like there’s so much work to do.

[angelinthefire]

you might have already talked about this but I can’t find it in the tags so forgive me if I’m just asking you to repeat yourself but what are your opinions on jinx becoming zaun’s symbol/hero in season 2? It’s quite divisive as many ppl think that it destroyed her chaos-agent/villainous status and turned her into a boring hero and others think it deserved a lot more screen time and was supposed to be the main focus of her arc? I love reading your thoughts, hope I’m not annoying you

I love getting questions, so thanks for asking! I don't think I've posted about this per se.

I will admit that when I watched the season the first time, I was a little surprised that the show moved on so soon from Jinx's relationship with the rebellion. But I just accepted that they were going somewhere else with the character, and once I saw what they were doing with her, it made sense to me.

Jinx becoming a hero/symbol is almost entirely about the psychological impact the experience has on her, imo.

Jinx's relationship with the rebellion is not about politics. She says outright that winning independence for Zaun was Silco's thing, it wasn't what she actually cared about. She cared about Silco, not Silco's politics. That's made very clear. If her arc was going to focus on politics, then her journey would need to involve starting to care about the struggle. But that's an entirely different journey than the one that she has been on.

Jinx's core trauma is accidentally killing the people she cares about. More broadly, it's the feeling that she's doomed to always screw up and hurt the people around her. Her journey is about dealing with that.

In s2e5, Jinx tells Vi that she sees helping Vander as a kind of do-over. But I think the idea that she could successfully have a do-over started with s2e4, and that was fundamental to her deciding to try to keep up with the do-overs.

Becoming a symbol for Zaun is meaningless to Jinx, because it happened accidentally. But what's not accidental is when she breaks everyone out of Stillwater.

In s2e4 people are in trouble, including someone she cares about. She makes a plan, and successfully executes it. No one is accidentally killed due to her actions. In that way, the experience is a step towards her overcoming her trauma.

At the beginning of season 2, Jinx thinks of herself as a curse. When Sevika tells Jinx that Isha was arrested, Jinx has an episode, again feeling like she jinxes everyone she's close to.

But then when she rescues everyone from Stillwater, there's this moment where everyone looks at her. Jinx is used to putting on a persona, and she tries to do so in this instance as well. "Here I am, your big fat hero." But then everyone looks at her like they really see her. They acknowledge her not as a symbol or persona, but as a person.

She did a good thing. She did a massively good thing. And she was acknowledged for it.

And you can see the impact it has on her. When Gert first puts her hand on Jinx's shoulder, she starts breathing heavily like she's about to panic. She looks both confused and emotional. Like she's never felt something like this before.

(I had to include Jinx's face journey here, it makes me cry).

So yeah, I think the point of Jinx becoming a symbol for Zaun and a hero was to give her that experience. So that she's able to approach Vi again, but this time with a stronger sense of herself, with a greater confidence. So that she and Vi can rebuild their relationship on a new foundation, one where Jinx doesn't invest everything in Vi.

And to a lesser extent, I think Vi seeing other people see Jinx as a hero was important too. And that the chaotic destruction that Jinx tends to bring with her isn't alway a bad thing. When Vi sees that mural of Jinx, placed next to Vander as a hero, that causes a huge amount of dissonance for her, which then pushes her into a confrontation with Jinx, as she struggles to understand who Jinx even is as a person.

Jinx becoming a hero/symbol was not an arc, and it would have never fit organically within what she already had going on. It was a moment in Jinx's ongoing struggle with her identity and trauma. It would not have made sense for it to get more screen time after it had served its purpose for Jinx's character development.

Regarding the notion that Jinx becoming a hero/symbol ruined her chaos agent/villain status, I have very little respect for that opinion, frankly. First of all, Zaun itself is a certain embodiment of chaos, Jinx becoming the hero of Zaun in no way undermines her chaoticness. Second of all, and more importantly, the opinion that Jinx should have been more of a villain, or more chaotic, seems to be based on the expectation that she was going to be a re-skinned version of Harley Quinn (as one semi-popular critical video essay explicitly said). An absolutely MCU-poisoned opinion. A take fit only for babies and philistines. Wild to be mad that Jinx is a complex and layered character.

Jinx's story was always about dealing with her trauma. Both the opinion that she should have been a revolutionary leader, and that she should have gone full-villain, ignore the substance of her story. Jinx being seen as a hero gave her the opportunity to see *herself* in a different light, so that she would have the ability to start making amends with Vi. It was always in service of her personal, individual story.

And like I mentioned above, it makes me cry, so I love it.

Thanks again for the question, I enjoyed answering it!

[lady-inkyrius]

Rewatching Arcane S1 before I watch S2 and its got me thinking about the relationships from a more personal perspective. Cait and Vi are both great characters individually, and narratively their relationship is pretty good, but it really doesn't interest me that much personally. Jinx's relationships are just significantly more interesting to my taste in fiction. Her interactions with Vi and with Silco are the most fun, but to a lesser extent with Sevika and Cait as well.

[shimmerbeasts]

So, I gave this situation a lot of thought and given that it is the end of the year, that marks the ideal time frame to basically reshape the way, I wanna handle the blog and my muses, going forward. These changes include how my roster functions, certain limitations I am going to give myself, concerning the amount of drafts I have, and changes in verses and some alterations on the ask box. Basically, quality instead of quantity is going to be the name of the game, so hopefully, I can better organise my hobbies and interests and hopefully also my eventual career as an author.

That means first of all: Every single thread I have is dropped. I want a completely clean slate thread-wise, however, dynamics, which we established, can absolutely carry over. I am not gonna flush all the hard work, I did with so many of you (you are all amazing) down the drain.

Now, onto what changes. Let's start with the formal bullshit. I am going to limit myself to twenty drafts and try to adhere to this limit. Those drafts will preferably be plotted. That way, I hopefully can avoid getting overwhelmed, but also really dig into the meat of our threads.

That does not mean casual stuff or crack does not happen. It can still happen, but it will occur with less frequency and those things likely won't carry over much. If I happen to send you an rp related meme, then please just have fun with the drabble. I will try to limit how much I continue those threads.

When it comes to my ask box, I will prioritise unprompted asks and scenarios over rp memes. However, I will always accept headcanon-related memes or memes for me the writer. Again, all these changes will be done to limit the effects of being overwhelmed and to keep my rps at a manageable medium.

When it comes to my verses, I am going to do a massive cut in what types of verses I have. Specifically, I am going to stick to the verses, which basically form a narrative throughline. For most verses, this will basically be the pre-canon, the default and the post-canon verse. Ergo the past, present and future of a muse. This is done so I can focus on what I wanna explore instead of spreading myself too thin. After all, it is better to explore an idea and its ramifications in detail as opposed to expanding and adding five half-baked ideas at once.

My muse roster will have a bit of an update on its purpose. Because of the fact that I will lean even more into the concept of storytelling and character development, the split between primary, secondary and tertiary muses still exists. Except, there is going to be a crucial change now. The tertiary muses will now be rebranded as supports and are not technically muses on the blog. Let me explain what I mean.

Because of my desire to be more story-driven, certain characters will serve as the supporting cast for other muses. These characters help propel the plot forward but also give your muse a different perspective on the muse they roleplay with. They might also reveal information, you would not get otherwise. Think of them a bit like NPCs but due to the big role, they play in the muse's life or what they represent for the muse, they have a bigger chance of emerging. Your muses might even meet them before they meet the actual muse. There will also be other classical NPCs, which your muse might meet under very specific circumstances.

Now onto the actual muse roster:

My primary muses (who will be focussed on the whole Zaunite lore and story) are going to be Silco, Jinx and Vi. They are the ones, whose plotting will come the most naturally and easiest for me. Their supports are Sevika and Warwick/Vander.

My secondary muses (who have different thematic stories and lore as they occur outside of Zaun/Piltover) will be Naafiri and Ahri. Writing them might potentially require a bit more plotting and forethought. Naafiri's supporting characters will be Nasus and Rek'Sai. Ahri's supporting characters will be Yasuo, Evelynn and to a lesser extent Vayne.

I hope that these changes I am making will lessen some self-made stressors. Again, I do apologise for basically dropping everything right now. I promise, I still want to write with everybody here. I just need to sort out how I wanna make things work. So please, everybody do not be intimidated by those changes. I promise, that my enthusiasm for writing and roleplaying remains unbroken.

[thelittlepalmtree]

So firstly look at my icon. I am not a silco simp, silco is not even my favorite character. Secondly I actually wrote a very long post explaining why Silco can't be shoved into the villain role.

My point is not that Silco did no wrong. I just think that if you are focusing on Silco as toxic or evil you are missing the point of the show. Silco isn't the antagonist, in fact he's much more of an antihero. The antagonist is class oppression. How is Silco significantly different from Mel and Jayce other than their wealth and class? In fact the whole point of his relationship with Jinx and sevika to a lesser extent is that he does care about people. He, like everyone else in the show, is trying to navigate circumstances that are impossible. And unlike Vi and Jayce and Viktor he actually does make change. His methods work to some extent the undercity has a lot more money, and the air is literally cleaner. The people that were sacrificed along the way? Well how many of them would have been sacrificed to the status quo anyway?

I mean the second you examine Silco's ethics and actions you see that he has the same morality as any twitter or tumblr leftist you can find. And THAT is the fucking point. That change costs something. Silco is what happens when you're willing to sacrifice almost anything to make it. But in the end even he couldn't sacrifice everything. And so the dream of autonomy for the undercity was destroyed.

This is why if your only analysis of media is to pass moral judgments on the characters you are losing so much. Imagine the complexities of Silco's relationships and going "well I wouldn't want to be his friend and that's all I need to know" you lose so much!

"Silco is toxic" "Silco is evil" "Silco corrupted powder"

tell me you didn't understand arcane without telling me you didn't understand arcane.