#im assuming the abuse you're referring to is Stillwater which is 100 correct

[thewistlingbadger]

Hi.

My initial post was written after my rewatch of season 1 and I was expressing my frustrations not only with Vi but the majority of Vi defense I see online. A vast majority of people say that Vi was a child that did not abandon Jinx. I agree with this statement. VI did not outright, intentionally, abandon her sister. Had she had the choice, she would have gone back for jinx.

I personally am of the full belief that Vi is a teenager in act one. She looks and acts like one, which is why I gave an age range that included only ages that teenagers are. We do not have a canon age for vi in act one, so it's impossible to lie about her age range (unless someone said something completely off the walls like 31, which would be more blatantly incorrect than a lie). So personally I would disagree to the notion that vi is 14 during act one, but that really doesn't matter because it could be true.

Where the frustration lies in me though, is that people will use their defense for act one vi as a catch all for the rest of the show. That frustrates me. Vi isn't this bad person she's a good person at her core, which is why I am aggravated by the fact that she doesn't take accountability or partake in perspective taking later in the show AND her greatest fans also don't seem to hold her accountable for her later actions.

Vi sees Jinx on the bridge and leaves her. Vi tells the council that it's jinx that did the attack (this is the one I'm most angry about because she knew what would happen to jinx. She knew they didn't know it was her. Caitlyn herself was willing to not tell them it was jinx). Vi picks Caitlyn over Jinx at the dinner scene. Vi has no sympathy for Jinx when she kills Silco.

Am I thinking about this too hard? Probably. I'm just a random internet person who thinks about the shows they love too much. All of these actions have defenses, but the diehard vi stans never use them. Vi leaves Jinx to help Cait. Vi tells the council about Jinx because thinks it's going to get Silco in Stillwater. Vi picks Caitlyn over Jinx because Caitlyn makes her feel like a good person, and the last person that did that was Vander. Vi has no sympathy for Jinx post Silco death because she doesn't understand their relationship.

What I want is for fans of ANY work to think critically and to analyze these works with precisions. I like having these discussions and passionate debates because they're fun and deeppen/expand our understanding. So yeah. Vi being a kid when she left jinx, to me, ain't got shit to do for all the other things she does as an adult. It doesn't justify anything, it's just something we have to consider when analyzing her character.

"Vi was a child." Vi was 15 at the youngest 18 at the oldest i don't see how what she did/didn't do as a teenager justifies her actions/inactions as an adult.