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silcos old self only ever died when he killed vander, that's why the crows flew away jinx's old self only ever died when she killed silco, that's why the crows flew away that day too

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Evil Father-Daughter Pairs

One thing I really love about Silco and Jinx’s father and daughter relationship, is that it reminds me greatly of The Mayor and Faith Lehane’s relationship from BTVS.

Or I guess, I don’t love Silco and Jinx because they remind me of The Mayor and Faith, but because it’s the same relationship in both shows.

The evil, “wholesome”, but also twisted and yet, still genuinely loving father and daughter villain pair.

Which is greatly underused in my opinion. I’m trying to think of other examples, but I can’t, or at least nothing quite like these two (or four).

You have this evil man, who is presented as just being evil and then he out of blue gets this adopted daughter. You think he’s just manipulating her, using this damaged girl’s need for love and acceptance – but it turns out he in fact does love and care for her, as much as she does for him.

They both genuinely see each other as father and daughter.

I just love that.

The villain doesn’t suddenly become a good or kind person, but he becomes more complex to the audience, by the simple fact you can see he is capable of love, kindness and actually cares for someone else.

The villains are made to be as human as possible, they need connection and love as much as anyone else.

Both BTVS and Arcane first present their villain in a way where you can’t even imagine him caring for another, let alone a character that was introduced to us as one of our heroes.

I just remember watching BTVS S3 for the first time (and during my many rewatches) and loving when you see realize The Mayor, this demon who wants world domination and doesn’t care for other people, actually loved Faith. He wasn’t using her (or not JUST using her), but he actually saw her as his daughter.

The Mayor was greatly upset when Faith was injured. When Buffy taunted him in the finale, showing him the knife she used to stab Faith, the knife he gifted to Faith; he got angry enough to blindly chase Buffy into her trap for him.

Then later in the series, we see the Mayor appear in Faith’s story. He was someone who mattered to her, she really did see him as her father.

She wasn’t delusional about him being a good man, she knew who and what he was, but she still loved him and believed/knew he loved her.

It’s such an underrated and underused relationship and dynamic in my opinion. I just love these villain father and daughter pairs.

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Also, there are a lot of similarities between Jinx and Faith (x)

Co-executive producer and writer Dogue Petrie said -

“She’s totally tragic. The whole key to Faith is that she’s in pain. If you took that away, she would be a monster. But she’s so lonely and so desperate, and all of her toughness comes out of trying to cover that. That’s what real monsters are made of. No one thinks they’re really a monster.”

So she’s always looking for a family and always coming up short and making these horrible choices, and it drove her insane. Plus I think she was missing a couple of screws to begin with. ‘If you don’t love me, you will fear me,’ is kind of her MO. She’s not a stable girl, but a fun one.

She’s the most faithless character we’ve got. She doesn’t trust herself or anyone around her. We try to do that a lot with our monsters. It’s much more fun if you look at it from their point of view.”

Writer Jane Espenson

Believed one of the reasons why Faith elicits sympathy from the audience is the father/daughter relationship between her and the Mayor, comparing their affection for one another to that between vampires Spike and Drusilla. The writers wanted to make [them] as human as possible by showing they need connection and love as much as the heroic characters. 

Eliza Dushku, the actress who played Faith

Asserts that Faith’s bond with the Mayor stems from him being one of the few people in her life who does not put her down, which is something she has battled with her whole life; Dushku goes on to say Faith’s misplaced trust in the Mayor “leads her into being more crazy”.

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Silco processing things headcanon

Another strong Silco headcanon I have is that he’s always been the sort of person to shout “I’M FINE” when hurt, even before he’s actually checked. This makes him look tough and has been a good survival strategy in a world where “there was never enough to go around”. So the whole Vander-drowning incident? “I’M FINE, I NO LONGER HATE YOU, YOU MADE ME STRONGER” (and in fairness, he does not appear to have dedicated the years of the first timeskip to trying to destroy Vander, though he takes an opportunity when it is presented to him).  However he has absolutely no idea how to really process any of the significant bad things that have happened to him, so tends to just push them down to remain functional. To be fair, “functional” may be the best state he can hope to achieve and he only has to hold it together until Zaun is free. Once you get to a certain age you have to give up on fixing yourself completely and accept that everyone’s personality is held together with duct tape and staples anyway. …and that’s why I am still sad about him.

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Soft Silco - Part II

As promised, here comes the second part. I have to admit that a few of the screenshots were just lucky shots, gaps between the actual emotions. But fuck it, it’s Silco and I can’t get enough,

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Happy Valentines Day!!!! Have a mediocre comic that I spent way too much time on😂

I hope you guys are having a wonderful day!!! Spread the love❤️❤️❤️🤗🤗🤗

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[Jinx creeps up on Silco, who’s asleep, to try to give him a scare]  Jinx, leaning closer to Silco: [screams]  Silco, waking up calmly: [blinks twice] [pats Jinx on the head] [goes back to sleep]

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one thing that's been on my mind lately. about all those people who keep saying that silco was using jinx (in the context of every “jinx will take care of it” and her working for him). has anyone even for a split second considered that maybe, just maybe, she agrees with him and/or wants to be doing these things? that she believes what he's fighting for?

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silco gifs but just his eyes bc micro expressions guys (end me) Part One

(dunno how tumblr works in terms of gifs but all of the gifs here were made by me so I haven’t used other peoples and not given credit!)

a personal fave. sassy asshole, so much head sway and for what. be less dramatic and also stop terrorising children. 9/10

tiny smirk!! and the lil head nod at the end! barely there but it adds ✨flavour✨ just like yes Jayce these are the things I want thank u for reading them out. 12/10

Keep reading

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Something I don't think people remember about Silco telling Jinx that Vi left her is that to his knowledge

She did willingly leave Jinx behind

Silco doesn't know Vi's in prison

For all Silco knows she's up partying in piltover or that she straight up left the whole country

Because all he did was see her leave

And if he had known she was alive, why wouldn't he just kill her/make her join him? If he was manipulating Jinx, then wouldn't it make sense for him to get rid of her with no chance of her coming back? Just to make sure nothing gets in the way of his lies and deceit?

Istg some people don't understand morally grey characters and will just slap abusive onto any dad with a daughter who's trying his best to help her

Yeah the thing is Silco literally thought Vi was dead because Marcus TOLD him she was. He had no idea Margus lied until the end of episode 5. That's why he subtley threatened him and his daughter at his house.

When he told Jinx Vi was dead he wasn't lying because he genuinely thought she was. And the thing is, Marcus saved Vi's life when he arrested her because Silco 100% would have killed her. He was planning on killing Powder but then he saw how she was "abandoned" and sympathized with her because he related to her.

And yeah when he finds out that Vi's alive he wants her dead because he knows she's the only person who could take his daughter away from him and he's seeing her as Vander and therefore dangerous. He thinks she's just going to hurt Jinx again like before.

He's projecting so much of his own trauma onto Jinx as well as hitching his mental wellbeing to hers.

Honestly I think Silco and Jinx are the best representation of generational trauma that I've seen in awhile tbh. And honestly yeah Ly you're right. People just don't wanna understand morally gray characters.

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“We can excuse pedophilia but we draw the line at gay men” I hate the Arcane fandom right now so much

LIKE SERIOUSLY WTF IS THEIR LOGIC IN THIS SITUATION????!!!!

Jayce and Vikyor are both adults and have been throughout they're entire relationship/partnership and I think they're pretty close in age. Sure there may be some toxic elements in their friendship as there are in EVERY relationship and those are things they need to work out. But it's not even remotely comparable.

Seriously fuck this fandom.

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Silco: Hey, it's your turn to wash dishes.

Jinx: I'LL WASH THE WALLS RED WITH YOUR BLOOD.

Silco: 'Kay, but before that, wash the dishes, also use soap this time?

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Powder/little jinx really leaped at the evilest person in proximity and basically screamed "PLEASE LOVE ME PLEASE LOVE ME I NEED SOMEONE TO LOVE ME PLEASE PLEASE LOVE ME" and silco really just said "ok"

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Ooop papa’s gonna be mad

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she stole the FLUFFY BOI

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am I saying he got it tattooed in secret? well, i’m not NOT saying that

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Jinx jinx jinx