#like the thing with isha and vander only happens so jinx loses every bit of sanity she had left and Vi goes welp

[ganondoodle]

the closer we get to arcanes finale the more worried i am bc so often .. if not always .. things i like end in a way that i dislike so much it ruins everything else for me

and im so worried they pull a 'this is a multiverse' thing bc then they can say every skin is somehow canon bc its all different universes you seeeeee and jayce went mad bc he lived through all of them or something, or force it to end in a way that makes the champions end up like they are in game- Vi is a shitty cop, Jinx is just heehoo craycray bc xyz etc

[collectivephilosopher]

Some I agree some I disagree.

1. Vi's suffering comes mostly from external while Jinx's from internal. It's subjective which one is worse but if you ask me, I would say Jinx. Not being able to escape from your own mind is pretty terrifying.

The problem with the show is that they're lacking the exploration of Vi's trauma.

With Jinx, it's untreated psychosis that keeps growing severe overtime and we were shown the aftermath of it. We don't need to see every single one of Jinx's breakdown that leads to the fracture of her mind, we just need to see what started it and fill in the blank that things delve from there for years.

With Vi, aside from grief, her trauma also came from stillwater. When we were shown Vi grieving, it was painted in uplifting moment as in her family was a good memory for her. With stillwater, we were only shown the implication of the inmate's treatment. We were not shown young Vi in her lowest like powder in the rubble.

Imo, unlike Jinx, we need a flashback for Vi's prison time or at least we were shown the first time she was in prison and how she eventually lose hope of getting out. The closest we get of this is during tea party but it was told to us not shown.

2. I agree, Sevika isn't motherly but she stopped seeing Jinx as her nemesis before Jinx was useful to her cause (the silco table scene). I think she caved in a bit too fast in S2 but she and jinx was kind of in a "we're in this shit together I guess" kind of situation. She could start caring for Isha but the show decided to give Sevika no line for act 3 so :/

3. Jinx as a symbol worked but I think she has not earned being a hero yet. After the stillwater break, Jinx should've shown more care if the show really want her to be a hero but nope. I love Jinx but the Vander parallel was... kind of insulting lmao? It's also the writter's Bs towards Silco, removing the greyness of his action.

4. I don't think this is an unpopural opinion? Lmao did people really think Vi should've killed Cait???

5. I also agree although maybe she should've clumped powder with ekko who was her age. Again this is an unpopular opinion??

6. I think Vi is a lesser offender in this trope but I also agree. S1 was okay but S2 was like... girl?? Like she had only known this girl and have an active situationship for less than a month. Like calm ur tits down, ure going too fast.

I really don't know what the writter was trying to do with Vi's character in S2, she was just being dragged along not just by Cait but also Jinx.

7. Agree, the show not making Jayce address what he did was Bs. For the second point, I always thought the factory was a collab between Silco and Renni but I dunno.

8. Vi was not in the wrong in S1. Not chosing your mass murder sister is also not wrong lmao. But she does left Jinx once in S1E7 though I get that she was terrified and Jinx was frustrated.

I think there were several things happening at the tea party scene. Jinx was trying to make Vi "chose" her but at the same time Jinx was testing her own hypothesis if Vi really does love her and was genuine about it. Vi wants to love Jinx, to have a relationship again with her sister but she was clearly struggling to accept Jinx as she is now because obviously.

Everything before the tea party though, it's less of Jinx pushing Vi away and more of Jinx wasn't sure if she trusted Vi.

Unpopular arcane opinions I have ( might add more if I think of )

•Vi suffered way more than jinx in the time skip between act 1 and act 2 in S1

•Sevika isn’t motherly and the way people portray her as motherly for jinx and how much she loved her is BS , when she literally hated her in S1 “you’re as good for our cause as you were for your family”

She only started caring for jinx when she was useful for Zaun

Plus she was more than ready to beat up 15 yr old Vi so I can’t see her as someone who cares about children.

•Season 2 having jinx be portrayed as a hero by all of Zaun is Bs along with her parallel with Vander.

When she was Silco’s loose canon for years and killed the firelights and anyone who stood in Silco’s path

Having the firelights forgive her immediately and painting her as a hero , BS.

Zaun isn’t united politically , soo where’s the divide?!

Why isn’t jinx condemned for those actions?

• Vi absolutely should not kill Caitlyn at the end of S1 , Cait was innocent, Vi killing her is supporting jinx extremely Violent behaviour.

•Vi was 100% right on not taking powder for the rescue mission.

•Vi being a lesbian is not solid enough reason for her to go from 0 to 100 with Caitlyn

Vi was reduced to just LESBIAN, no other personality.

•Renni has every right to want to avenge her child

But I condemn her for making her child work in the factory when she’s a chem Barron who has money and power. That little boy doesn’t have to work there.

•Vi CHOSE jinx every single time in S1 and jinx pushed her away ( not on purpose) cause she thought Vi didn’t chose her.