#really don't agree with the take that mylo was right in some way. no he really wasn't

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Mylo took out his own feelings of inadequacy onto Jinx, and exacerbated hers.

I've seen lots of people say that Mylo was right in his belittling of Jinx, that he was only verbalizing a truth that Vi refused to see, or that while he could've been nicer when criticizing Jinx, his claim that she really was a bad luck charm that should be left behind was accurate. I disagree with this.

I can't stress enough that Mylo's constant bullying of Jinx revealed more about him than it did her. Mylo was an extremely insecure teenager who had little confidence in his own place within their group, who felt like he wasn't contributing as much as he would've liked to, and had a need to impress Vi, whom he looked up to. And he dealt with this by doing what a lot of insecure people do - belittle someone else who A) threatens their ego, or B) is an easy target (is weaker than them or has obvious shortcomings). This makes that other person the black sheep of the group, so they don't have to be. And Jinx fit both criteria.

In his very first appearance, you'll notice how often Mylo looks at Vi for approval. He's happy when she acknowledges him after his joke,

and then immediately looks to her when he successfully replicates her leap from one roof to another.

But during the actual job, it's clear that Mylo contributes very little. First, he takes too long to pick the lock on the door, and Vi has to kick it open.

Then, he has trouble distinguishing between valuable items and junk.

But you know who does know how to discern between items that are valuable and ones that aren't? Jinx. And Vi calls this out right in front of Mylo, embarrassing him. Notice how bothered he is by her comment.

Of course, Jinx goes on to make her own blunders during the job, but this just strengthens my point. Jinx fits criteria A) and B). She has valuable skills that Mylo doesn't, and Vi, someone he admires, calls attention to it. And she's accident-prone and screws up in more obvious, explosive ways than he does. Of course he picks on her. It's a good way to draw the group's attention away from his own shortcomings and onto hers.

During the street fight later on (that Mylo carelessly provoked), Vi and Claggor come out on top like badasses. Meanwhile, Mylo struggles and Vi has to save him.

But what happens right after that? Jinx gets cornered and loses their entire haul, except for the crystals. Mylo is (very understandably) frustrated and scolds her for this, but his performance in that fight was second worst after Jinx. His treatment of Jinx is mostly genuine frustration at her mistakes screwing them all over, and partially a way to bolster his own low self esteem. Unfortunately for him, it doesn't quite work. Vi has taken note of all of Mylo's mistakes despite his best efforts to deflect the spotlight onto Jinx's. And she calls him out for them when he, yet again, begins insulting her little sister.

But even after this, he still insults Jinx the very next episode. Right after Claggor teases him about losing to Jinx in a shooting game.

Now, Mylo wasn't a useless screw up with nothing to contribute, and neither was young Jinx. Without Mylo, Vander wouldn't have gotten free of his shackles and been able to protect and save Vi. But to accomplish freeing Vander, he needed encouragement and positive reinforcement to boost his confidence in himself and his abilities (things he denied Jinx).

Mylo wasn't useless, he was just incredibly insecure that he might be viewed that way and desperate to shield himself from being perceived as such. So he ostracized Jinx, a younger, weaker person who made a lot of mistakes he could easily call attention to, who also made him feel a little threatened since she was skilled in ways he wasn't. It's a very human reaction, typical of an immature teenager. He doesn't deserve to be dragged through the mud, but in no way were his "criticisms" wholly true, needed, or helpful. They were the words of an insecure boy, desperate not to be deemed the weak link in the group. And they had a greatly damaging effect on Jinx's self worth and insecurities.

It's cool that Mylo is a character with this much depth considering he dies in the third episode. And this just makes me even sadder to see the effect his bullying had on Jinx, considering they both had very similar insecurities.

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My thoughts on Powder/Jinx transition

So before I saw Arcane, I had no idea about anything from League of Legends. I've never played it before so I had no idea of anything that happened in it or anyone called Jinx. When Arcane came out, I was hesitant to watching it since it was rated TV-14. I grew up in a somewhat firm household but then after a while I got to watching and I loved it.

You all know my favorites are Claggor and Jinx but I wanted to dive in to why I like Jinx. I've seen others dive into an analysis of Jinx and I want to do my take of her. Please if you have your own opinions and analysis on Jinx, please don't hate on me

I'm good with constructive criticism but please don't hate on my analysis, this is just ideas and opinions and I don't hate on others analysis. Even if I don't agree on it, I can see why they think that way even though I don't see it.

Like if someone says Jinx is selfish, I don't really see her that way but I'm not gonna hate on that person for it causes it there opinion so I'm good with that.

Anyway on to my analysis

So when I first saw Powder, I saw some of my self in her, I always wanted to help others and in some way I was behind on some things but I was still included

All she wanted was to feel like a valued member of the family and to be useful and make her family proud. It wasn't easy though since Mylo always called her a Jinx (not trying to make Mylo a bully but he did call her that but I'm not hating Mylo, I think he's a good guy but if you have another opinion that's fine).

So in episode three, I knew that Powder had attachment issues and it broke my heart to see her have her break down and it hurt more seeing how her bomb killed her family. I know how some people said that things would have been different if she had only put one orb in but she didn't know what would've happened. She just wanted to help.

Now I'm not saying that Vi was 100% right with hitting Powder, but I can see why she did it, she had lost more than half her family and she had a lot of emotions going through her and she was going to come to powder if Marcus hadn't arrested her.

So when Powder became Jinx, I was fine with it because she still Powder just different. People change and some changes are more drastic than others but even though she's changed she's still Powder and whether she's Jinx or Powder. She's still the same person