#generally its weird how arcane season 2 had like. 5 characters kill themselves and only some had a reason

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if i could make any one change to arcane s2 it would be this scene

not because it's a horrible scene, i'm a big fan of the whole jayce murdering children thing, but because i think it should've been jinx!

hear me out. jayce just got out of the anomaly and is absolutely reeling, barely able to walk and glitching out of reality so bad he has no clue what's real and what isn't. then, he sees jinx, who he's been having stress nightmares about since she kidnapped cait in season 1 and who is responsible for basically half of the tragedies in his life

so logically, when he sees jinx, he loads the hammer for a sec before thinking "wait. why tf would she be here? i'm prolly hallucinating."

so he walks away to go shoot his ex boyfriend or whatever. and jinx, who just got her life spared by a guy who should have every reason imaginable to kill her, takes this whole encounter like an epiphany and realizes that even if the guy she's so very thoroughly traumatized can forgive her, then maybe she really does deserve to try and live despite her mistakes. then she doesn't kill herself in the end

meanwhile jayce 100% would've shot her if he knew she was real