#Jinx is just older Powder! i am shaking Vi by the damn shoulders!!

[sage-nebula]

She still doesn't get it. She just doesn't get it!

Vi. Sweetheart. Bruiser with a head as thick as her fists. Your sister is not "gone." Your sister grew up. And, as all people do when they grow up, she changed. This is something she told you when you first reunited with her:

"Things changed when you left. I changed."

Of course, you dismissed her, saying she just did what she had to in order to survive. Which, yes, but also no. Six years passed between when you were taken from her and when you saw her next, and those were her formative years. Formative, meaning forming who she is as a person, a growing and grown person, because time moves ever forward and no one stays a little girl forever.

Now, does this mean you have to like the person your sister changed into? No. Certainly, your sister doesn't like you putting on an enforcer uniform to help oppress the people of Zaun so you can live a cushy life in Piltover with your new girlfriend. But she still IS your sister. Yes, she changed her name to one that lets her reclaim something traumatic from her past. Yes, she's decided to fully move on and look toward the future now. But her past is still part of her. She doesn't have dissociative identity disorder. "Powder" and "Jinx" were never two separate people. She's the same person, and always has been. She was only ever torn between trying to go back to her past life with you, or accepting her present and future — and she has chosen the latter.

But she is still, and always will be, your sister. Something she knows ("Finally got the name right, sister"), even if you, for some reason, have a very hard time understanding this very simple concept.

Get it together.

[queenofthursday6599-blog]

Well a big issue with Vi, Jinx, and Ekko is that who they are now will never be able to measure up to who they remember each other to be.

Because humans alter their memories the more the revisit them, with the memory warping either into something worse, or something better depending on how you felt about that person. Both as a whole and the last time you saw them.

Vi admits that she hardly did anything in prison beyond think about Powder, but we already know from one of her first conversations with Caitlyn that doing so has warped her memories and perception of Powder.

During the parkour scene where Vi tells Cait that "Her little sister could do this at age 7," when the topside girl is struggling with the jumps and to balance up on high beams.

Even though we the audience all know that Powder would have struggled with a number of those jumps and maneuvers. Because we saw the fact that she struggled to keep up with Vi, Mylo and Claggor on the way to Jayce's apartment. And the jump we see Powder almost fall on, was no where near as complicated or as big as some of the stuff Vi was doing and expecting Caitlyn to follow her on.

Vi can't accept Jinx is who Powder grew up to be, because Vi can't even clearly remember who Powder actually was. Beyond being her small, cute, helpless, little sister who she has to protect, and would never hurt anyone.

Even though Powder's primary interest in building stuff was already centered around bombs. One of which I'm pretty sure was a literal nail bomb if I'm remembering it right. Like little Powder was pretty okay with the idea of maiming her enemies.

Sure they never worked. But that doesn't change the fact that Powder was trying to build weapons with some serious potential to harm people, or even kill them, long before she could have ever been influenced by Silco.

And it's somewhat the same issue with Ekko though to a different degree.

Ekko is still Little Man to Vi, to the point she can't take him seriously when he, who's been in the Underground this whole time, tells her that Jinx is who Powder is now.

Sure he sees it in a, she's a hopeless lost cause, sort of way, and he's definitely romanticized his memories of Powder just like how Vi has, but definitely not to the extent that Vi has.

And he tends to view Jinx and Powder as different people as a way of emotionally distance himself from her in order to be able to face her in battle.

Which is fine. We see that Jinx is fully willing and able to kill any Firelight that gets in her way, and Ekko was actively opposing SIlco. Being unable to bring himself to face her seriously on the battlefield would have gotten him killed.

And on the bridge it very nearly does.

Getting a glimpse of Powder in Jinx's face on the bridge nearly lands him in just as worse of a state as Jinx. And Jinx only survives due to a shitton of Shimmer and luck.

And it's the same with Jinx about her memories of Vi.

Over the years aspects of Vi's personality had gotten magnified in Jinx's memories of her.

And unlike Ekko or Vi's memories of who Powder used to be, where they tend to just outright ignore or forget about whatever negative traits she might have had, because she was literally just too weak to actually manage to harm someone else, a good number of those traits weren't all sunshine and roses.

No matter how much she loved, and still loves, Vi, Jinx's last memory of Vi before they're separated is getting screamed at, called a jinx, being slapped, and then abandoned by her. And those actions definitely tempered Jinx's generally rose tinted memories of Vi.

This isn't even bringing in the fact that before Vi's big talk with Vander at the bridge just before she tried to turn herself over to the enforcers.

Vi was a budding revolutionary.

Vi wanted to fight topside.

In the same physical way she fights every other opponent.

And that's who she was the majority of the time Powder knew her.

She didn't make the heal turn of the price of revolution isn't worth it, until literally like the day their family situation went to hell.

And Powder definitely didn't even know that Vi had had that change of heart. She didn't even know that Vi had tried to hand herself over to the enforcers to take the fall for the explosion.

So I don't know why people always act like Jinx is misremembering who Vi was when she was completely bewildered by Vi working with an enforcer, because as far as Jinx remembers, Vi hated the enforcers just as much as the rest of the Underground, and possibly more.

She still doesn't get it. She just doesn't get it!

Vi. Sweetheart. Bruiser with a head as thick as her fists. Your sister is not "gone." Your sister grew up. And, as all people do when they grow up, she changed. This is something she told you when you first reunited with her:

"Things changed when you left. I changed."

Of course, you dismissed her, saying she just did what she had to in order to survive. Which, yes, but also no. Six years passed between when you were taken from her and when you saw her next, and those were her formative years. Formative, meaning forming who she is as a person, a growing and grown person, because time moves ever forward and no one stays a little girl forever.

Now, does this mean you have to like the person your sister changed into? No. Certainly, your sister doesn't like you putting on an enforcer uniform to help oppress the people of Zaun so you can live a cushy life in Piltover with your new girlfriend. But she still IS your sister. Yes, she changed her name to one that lets her reclaim something traumatic from her past. Yes, she's decided to fully move on and look toward the future now. But her past is still part of her. She doesn't have dissociative identity disorder. "Powder" and "Jinx" were never two separate people. She's the same person, and always has been. She was only ever torn between trying to go back to her past life with you, or accepting her present and future — and she has chosen the latter.

But she is still, and always will be, your sister. Something she knows ("Finally got the name right, sister"), even if you, for some reason, have a very hard time understanding this very simple concept.

Get it together.