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arcane: so all these characters are complicated in their own ways they can’t really be defined into archetypes because of the nature of what’s taking place around them and the complexity of what they see as right or wrong due to where they come from and their backgrounds

fandom: okay so this one’s the hero and this one’s the villain and if the hero does something bad they are now a villain :)))

and if i say season 2 not letting their characters be gritty and questionable for more than one episode is being reflected into the fandom and how they perceive characters that they can’t check off boxes neatly for. then what

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and if i say season 2 not letting their characters be gritty and questionable for more than one episode is being reflected into the fandom and how they perceive characters that they can’t check off boxes neatly for. then what

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I really appreciate how Silco's design in Episode 5 leans more heavily into his concept art compared to his appearance in season 1.

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well yes fork found in kitchen

*grips your shoulders* i need you to realize silcos manipulation of jinx wasn’t because he wanted her as a weapon but stemmed from his own trauma of being abandoned. we hear him say things like “everyone abandons US, i’m all you have i was there when no one else was” he’s projecting jinx is all HE has the only person in years he genuinely let get close to him he wants to be the rock he never had and he’s not doing good but he thinks he is because what he’s telling jinx is what he told himself is needed to survive. yes having jinx on the other side wouldn’t be great for work purposes but that’s not his priority with her. he takes advantage of jinxs fear of being replaced by caitlyn because HES afraid he’ll be replaced by vi. he’s enabling jinx in a way that’s detrimental to her but he thinks it’s necessary because he thinks turning himself into the way he is was crucial to his survival. we as the audience know he’s doing a bad job raising jinx but that’s bc we live in a different world in different circumstances and have the full perspective of everyone else’s stories while silco genuinely thinks he’s doing what’s right for jinx. i need. i need you all to understand that.

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jesus okay i’m trying not to make silco meta posts every hour but i feel like im being driven insane. when i and others say we want him to be acknowledged as jinx’s father it’s not because we think he’s the prime example for a dad and did everything right (the amount of silco fans that genuinely think he did no wrong are far and few they’re just really loud so you think everyone’s like that but that’s really not it) no we want an acknowledgment because, like it or not, he was a father to her and the writers have said as such

jinx saw him as a father, he saw her as a daughter. he had an impact on her development due to taking her in during such fundamental years and that cannot be erased. JINX doesn’t want it to be erased. she misses him she’s disassociated herself from the action of killing him (“someone put those holes in you”, “then he shouldn’t have died”) she talks about him like he’s still alive and talks TO HIM like he’s still alive. she wishes things came out differently (vanders letter)

i’m posting this before act 3 so if the writers pull some shit saying she doesn’t care keep that in mind but as of this moment she does care. you cannot denounce her as his daughter.

jinx is trying to figure out her identity. she’s not powder, hasn’t been for years, but also says that ‘jinx’ is gone. a big part in her crafting a new identity for herself will be acknowledging everything that’s happened to her, good and bad, and silco falls into both. he was a bad father figure, he took advantage of her in a vulnerable state, but he gave her a home he gave her purpose and was there. he cannot be written out of her narrative

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*grips your shoulders* i need you to realize silcos manipulation of jinx wasn’t because he wanted her as a weapon but stemmed from his own trauma of being abandoned. we hear him say things like “everyone abandons US, i’m all you have i was there when no one else was” he’s projecting jinx is all HE has the only person in years he genuinely let get close to him he wants to be the rock he never had and he’s not doing good but he thinks he is because what he’s telling jinx is what he told himself is needed to survive. yes having jinx on the other side wouldn’t be great for work purposes but that’s not his priority with her. he takes advantage of jinxs fear of being replaced by caitlyn because HES afraid he’ll be replaced by vi. he’s enabling jinx in a way that’s detrimental to her but he thinks it’s necessary because he thinks turning himself into the way he is was crucial to his survival. we as the audience know he’s doing a bad job raising jinx but that’s bc we live in a different world in different circumstances and have the full perspective of everyone else’s stories while silco genuinely thinks he’s doing what’s right for jinx. i need. i need you all to understand that.

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jinx saying “i gotta go bother someone” before talking to silcos chair isn’t being acknowledged enough i think

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atp silcos ghost needs to pick up a ukulele and drop an “apology” video i can’t keep explaining the basis of his character in the narrative

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ha ha. Short.

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He ended up looking fabulous, not cool and bloodied

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i’m not making a side blog for arcane nor will i apologize for it my bio has always been “autism corner” and the current inhabitant of that corner is this

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how people look at this man and think he is straight

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I find it so funny when arcanetwt says things like “silco likers been real quiet lately” no dear you are just not looking in our corner of the fandom

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I don't think the vander/silco fall out was solely because of Felicia's death. I think it was more about their attitudes towards her death.

In the scene where Felicia reveals to them that she's pregnant, she says that she can't try to be a parent for the first time and protect her child from the dangers of Zaun all at once.

"But then I realized I don't have to. Because the second I told you, I put you on the hook. You two are going to figure this Zaun thing out. I don't care if you have to carve it out of the bedrock covered in blisters. You're not allowed to fail anymore. For her. For me."

Except they did fail. The demonstration on the bridge was a massive loss for Zaun. They lost tons of people, including Felicia. This is where the brothers diverged. I believe that Felicia's death made Vander prioritize safety where her death made Silco realize the importance of sacrifice. In the game Jinx Fixes Everything, we find the journal that we saw Silco writing in in the flashback. We don't know when his specific words were written, but what we know that he wrote about Felicia's courage and how much he admired her. At the bottom of the page, he wrote "Blisters and Bedrock", clearly calling back to the night she revealed her pregnancy's.

It seems that this idea of doing whatever it takes to make Zaun happen originally came from her. Or at the very least she's who inspired this idea. Silco saw Felicia's death as a testament to the type of zaunite and woman she was. She died fighting for what she believed in. She risked EVERYTHING because she wanted a better tomorrow. The bravery he saw in her before increased by tenfold when she laid down her life for the cause. This is why Silco is so upset at Vander in S1 E3.

"So you'll die for a cause, but not fight for one?"

Vander saw her a death as a sign that the concept of the Nation of Zaun itself was a failure, that it couldn't be done. His job as her friend was to protect her, and he failed to do that. He saw the direct consequences of her death, and he feels the need to take responsibility and clean up his mess. Especially since he knows how much Felicia wanted to protect her kids, especially since he's been around her kids. The bridge made him realize that there's nothing more important than the community they have. Without the ones they love, they are nothing. So Vander gave up the cause to look after everyone else. Which is probably why he felt the need to kill Silco when Silco insisted on pursuing the Nation of Zaun even after Felicia died due to their failure. They already lost their best friend, and for what? For a dream that didn't and can't work? But Silco would be DAMNED if he gave up on the very thing Felicia believed in, her death would not be in vain.

And so they betrayed each other. And their makeshift family was broken.

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tags!!

the point of the baptism scene was silco trying to get jinx to leave powder behind because it was the very same waters that he left the man he was behind and became Silco (tm) arcane isn’t subtle with its themes and a big theme with jinx and silco is their past selves and whether to let go or not. silco let go to be what he thought was best for zaun and also in an attempt to protect himself. jinx was his undoing because she pulled some of the old silco back and he understood that, doing the very thing he condemned vander for all for of her

“if silco knew felicia how could he do what we see him do!” idk if you guys grasp how severely fucked up the bridge incident and nearly being killed by his closest companion was to him like it changed more than his appearance. family turned their back on him he turned his back on family and became completely radicalized in the cause above everything else. jinx throwing herself at him when she was a kid was literally Forced him to acknowledge all the pain he’d been pushing down he couldn’t ignore it because she launched right into him and she reminded him of himself too strongly in a way to ignore it