#Isha is desperately trying to get Jinx to be the heroic figure everyone wants her to be and Jinx is NOT interested | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

pagesofkenna · 1 month ago

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thing that makes me feral is its everyone else telling Jinx who she is

her friends end up dead and she's still got their voices in her head telling her who and what she is. Silco spends the rest of his life telling her who she is to him. one city is telling her shes a terrorist and the other that she's a savior. even Isha is the one who 'adopted' Jinx, deciding that they would have a relationship—Jinx just go to decide what that looks like

I don't even have a point to this, just. the relationship with Isha and the touching her shoulders scene could both be seen as moments of growth for Jinx—people rely on her, they trust her, they believe in her, and she seems to believe it for the first time since Vi returned—but they're also just more instances of other people telling her who she should be

#arcane #idk i kind of love that all those people touch her shoulders and walk away... and jinx immediately goes and does something else #like i'd have to analyze the visual language of that scene a lot more to know how the animators wanted that to read #but it was such a... everyone acknowledging you're just a figurehead #like good job. we appreciate you. we're moving forward #and Jinx definitely is hit by the gravity of the situation as well... and then leaves to go find Vi and deal with the Vander situation #of course thats because the big monster fight happens right after the shoulder touch scene and she IS fighting to defend the people #but theres two episodes where shes like alright. well. nevermind im slinking back into the shadows to deal with my family stuff now #and everything with Isha too!!#Isha is desperately trying to get Jinx to be the heroic figure everyone wants her to be and Jinx is NOT interested #and I can totally see Isha's death spurring Jinx on to let herself be this thing she didn't want to be #and I don't even know if that's necessarily bad it's just again other people telling her who she is!!#let Ekko be the figurehead leader of the rebellion where the hell is Ekko! he's in the opening credits so he can't possibly be dead so soon

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