#hes really projecting his own dead kid onto jinx pnce she proclaims powder as dead

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Another Arcane AU so soon after my last one? Yeah i have poor impulse control and an obsession with Arcane/LoL rn

Tentatively titled: The Ethics of Experimentation

[Part 1] | Part 2

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Kk so like after the whole cannery explosion and Vi stumbling off, Powder cries herself unconscious before Silco can arrive, changing things.

Silco still saunters up, but upon seeing an unconscious blue haired child, he just shakes his head, spares one last glance at the dead Vander, and walks off with his men.

He still informs Singed of where Vander's body is, figuring the child was either dead or run off by that time.

Only, when Singed arrives to collect Vander's corpse, Powder is still there, sitting up against Vander's body. Waiting for Vi to come back. Because Vi wouldn't just leave her here, right? She's going to come back. She has to.

Singed stalks up, fairly intimidatingly because that's just how he is, but Powder doesn't flinch back - much like another undercity orphan had, years ago.

Anyway, cue Powder being raised by Singed instead of Silco - switching one unstable father figure for another, much worse, one.

Powder, like before, doesn't heal properly from her entire family's deaths and Vi's betrayal, and still grows into the intelligent yet unstable Jinx but with even less morals than before.

Because let's be honest, Singed is not a man of morals and he would not be able to instill such things into a child that he's essentially raising into another him.

Also because Jinx is literally watching him mutate animals and people and Vander pretty much every day. Slowly watching what was once your father figure turn into a monstrosity would only send her spiralling further into madness, faster.

Silco, of course, recognizes who the kid Singed adopted right away, but he doesn't do anything because Singed is like the only competent doctor down in the undercity, and who cares if the man adopts a kid that once belonged to Vander? The man is still as ruthless as before - if not moreso.

Plus, Singed having a protégé means the man has a weakness to be exploited, and that there's going to be a competent replacement should the doctor die.

Jinx still has her bombs and whatnot but like she also has extensive knowledge on chemistry and human/mutant/most animals bodies.

She's a little murder meow meow ok and Singed is so proud

(also Singed does know it was Powder's fault for the explosion that caused his most extensive scarring, but in Jinx's own words: Powder's dead. And Jinx isn't Powder.

he's honestly just relieved that the kid doesn't mind his unethical experiments and is in fact quite happy to participate in a few herself)