#it was abt ethics and shared dreams abt someone you deeply know and respect and love and then having them stab you in the back

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A little rant abt Zaundads S2

Below bc there's spoilers

The whole "I just lost my head when she died" begin the reason as to why Vander wanted to drown Silco bothers me to no end, because Im sorry but drowning someone its NOT a 'heat of the moment' thing, Silco was fighting for his life, he stabbed him on the side and arm but even then, after checking his arm's injury, Vander still looked around for him, he was SET TO KILL Silco, he had made up his mind to kill him.

On season 1, it was clear that Vander and Silco initial conflict came down to a very much ethical ideological disagreement that spiraled out into Vander trying to kill Silco, because even Silco says hit wasn't fully about the drowning but mostly about Vander aligning with the enforcers, he gave up, it means that his attempt at Silco life meant nothing at the end.

I always theorized that the disagreement came as to how they we're getting the nation of Zaun with Vander begin more aggressive while Silco went about things in a more cunning way bc both represent the sides of a revolution, Vander IS the people while Silco IS the ideas and both also get "corrupted" in their own way with Vander caging his rage away because it might hurt his children, which although noble, it also hurts him and his own!!! Lets be honest what else are the kids to do apart from "jobs"? They don't have education, they have to live in a bar and while he's really really trying, he could absolutely do more to get them a better life but at the same time he can't because if something happens to him, that's it, the kids are now completely alone.

Then we have Silco from revolutionary man to cut-throat capitalist/industrialist, he uses the same people he claims to help in order to do his schemes, he doesn't mind kids are working on Shimmer production, he understands that in-order to gain independence Zaun as to let itself be equal power with Piltover, which he doesnt care who he hurts, he's going to get that state, but is he really a revolutionary anymore? He has to pull what would be the "ruling" class of Zaun in check to go with his schemes, he even reminds Finn of their "beginnings", showing that some of the chembarons inherited the business AND didn't even lived in the same precarious situations as Silco once did, he's going to make a piltover 2.0 but with different people and place, after all, how can we call a revolution a "success" if you just go and use the exact same system that made people rise up on at the start?

Both, Silco and Vander are very tragic characters on their own right and I love how deeply ingrained they are on both Jinx and Vi's story, but making them besties with their mother felt a bit unnecessary but I didn't particularly minded much, I actually liked it, like a little "destiny thing going on for them" but then they made Vander's entire reason to try to kill Silco. (Without mentioning how they absolutely didn't had this one prepared, seeing how Vander on the river is WAY younger while Vander on the bridge its WAYYY older.)