#primarily for vi who is one of the most underwritten main characters ive seen in ages

[higuchisora]

"Mom says it's MY turn with the hallucinations!"

Lmao on one hand, plenty of illnesses (physical and mental) are genetic, including various psychosis-related/adjacent illnesses. On the other, they didn't have to take Jinx's so Vi could have some. They can share symptoms! They arguably already do, since some scenes (seeing baby Powder when she was bleeding from the stab, Vander encouraging her in the fight with Sevika, etc.) could be interpreted as being hallucinations of their own. If anything, it'd be interesting to consider how Vi would handle showing similar symptoms to Jinx, and how her view of the (unidentified) mental illness, Jinx, and herself would all be affected by this connection.

But I also think it would've been just as if not MORE interesting for her to have her own entirely different symptoms of mental illness, because even if two people from the same family suffer all of the same exact traumas (not possible but hypothetically), they'd still be impacted differently and react differently, so it would be more realistic if these things manifested in their own unique way in Vi. I'd also have loved to see how (depending on what these trauma and mental illness symptoms are) Vi and the people around her handle them. She comes across as the "suppress and don't acknowledge it" kinda gal, but if they were the kinds of symptoms you couldn't just "put in a box to deal with never" (like PTSD flasbacks/physically reacting on instinct, intrusive thoughts, etc.), and ESPECIALLY if others noticed and were constantly bringing it up/putting pressure on her to face these issues, I'd be curious to see the outcome of that. Obviously there'd be a lot of self-blame in there regardless, maybe even some internalized ableism (calling herself weak or pathetic, etc). But I'm mainly curious about how this could affect her coping mechanisms, as well as her POV on the situations and people around her, and vice versa.

Would she think herself too "broken" to be of help, of use to others? Would she push them away, would she become distrustful of them, or would she become MORE fixated on the ones she loves, perhaps turning them into makeshift anchors for her mental stability? Would she become similar to or more different from Jinx, and would that help or hinder their understanding of each other? Perhaps where Jinx indulges in and embraces violence, Vi would begin to shy away? Where Jinx staples her wounds and tries to murder-suicide her and her childhood friend, would Vi turn to substance abuse, chasing things that promise to make her feel good- or even feel nothing at all? Where Jinx pushes to become stronger, louder, more dangerous, further and further away from the version of herself she viewed as weak and easy to leave behind- would Vi instead stop pushing at all? Would her skin be unable to bear the sensation of her bandages scratching against her? Would she try to become smaller, harder to see, easier to ignore, to leave behind, as she believes she deserves? Could her hands continue to form fists without trembling? Could she continue to stomach the sight of blood, the sound of bones breaking under her touch?

I'm doing too much but now I can't stop thinking about it. Regardless of how "obvious" her traumas and mental illness(es) are, it's obvious she's got them, but considering the absolute refusal by Overton and Linke to acknowledge this and do anything with it, it's as if she has no problems at all and just walked out of season 1 completely fine. So I'm left to do nothing but speculate and imagine and wish upon stars.

"Hallucinating her loved ones screaming at her"

Jinx handing her psychosis over to Vi like: