#silco is my dad

[unofficial-crow]

“-is my dad”, “-is my dad”, where’s your real dad, huh?

[wishfulsketching]

He ended up looking fabulous, not cool and bloodied

[kissentz]

i miss silco

[shahs1221]

I miss tired bastard single dad and his hyperactive little gremlin child 😭

[aestheticsicrushon]

S I L C O AU — ARCANE 2

[thenationofzaun]

Another thing I hated in Season 2 is how often and explicity they call Vander "father". Sometimes it's more powerful to leave things unsaid, especially when they are perfectly understandable already. We know already that Vander (and Silco) were surrogate fathers to Vi and Jinx. You don't have to beat us over the head with it by having them call him father every time and even DAD💀

They did it very sparingly in Season 1 ("he's our father too" and "you're my daughter, I'll never forsake you"). The rest of the time it's left unsaid and packs much more of a punch because of it! Vi and Jinx also never directly refer to the men as "dad" or "father", they only ever call them their names. It's just another way that Season 1 was much more mature than Season 2. It had restraint that Season 2 didn't.

[constantfragmentation]

IDC, Young Silco was a big-nosed, hottie nerd rebel.

Look at that super thick, luscious hair. Chiseled features. Deep-set, bedroom eyes. Graceful in every movement. Yet bandaged up, so you know he got up close and personal with shit.

There's no way in hell he wasn't gett'n it.

[sage-nebula]

It blows my mind that in 2024 there are still people who want to be like "it is 100% all Vi's fault that Jinx is the way she is" or "Jinx is 100% just an ax-crazy hell monster that Vi needs to be saved from" when the entire point of the show is that, yes, both sisters are flawed human beings who have made mistakes, but the true failure lies not with them, but with the overall system that was destined to fail them at every step.

This is most obvious with Powder, who shows signs of her psychosis within the first opening beats of the show, the little scribble hallucinations popping up between her fingers. Powder's mental illness is genetic. Trauma exacerbated her symptoms, but the illness was always there. And there are absolutely no resources in Zaun to give her the care she needed to healthily manage that illness. And the solution isn't "make her a Piltie instead," because Powder wasn't the only Zaunite with mental illness. The problem was that Zaun was in that state of poverty, police brutality, and systemic oppression at all. Powder was failed by by the social structure that killed her parents, that parentified her sister, that ensured she went hungry, was constantly at risk of police brutality, and had no means of accessing adequate mental health care. All of THAT is what led to Jinx.

Oh, and speaking of parentifying her sister — this system failed Vi, too. Not only does Vi also have hallucinations, but Vi never got to be a child from the moment her parents died. She had to be BOTH sister AND surrogate mother to Powder. No, Vander never told her to, but he also does spell it out. Powder, Claggor, and Mylo follow her every word as the oldest. She was their leader. And for Powder especially, she was all they had left of their biological family. Vi stepped into the role willingly, but at an age so young she had no idea what it was she was sacrificing. What she HAD to sacrifice, after her parents were killed, after she and Powder were, yes, rescued by Vander, but Vander could only do so much and had two other kids besides. Vi was only 15 when Powder accidentally killed Vander, Mylo, and Claggor; despite having to sacrifice her childhood, she was still a traumatized adolescent. She should have been allowed to act like it. But the systemic oppression and structure of the Piltover - Zaun setup didn't allow for that. It certainly didn't do her any favors when an enforcer's idea of saving her life was to leave her to rot in a cell indefinitely. The system failed Vi, too. Just like it failed Powder.

Arcane is a tragedy. It's a tragedy in all aspects, but it is primarily a tragedy about two sisters. And the fact that some people want to wholly blame one sister is just beyond me. They've both made mistakes. But they also both had the decks stacked entirely against them from the beginning. That's what makes it a tragedy. It didn't have to be this way. And yet, there's no other way it could have ended.

[revelisms]

Something something belated Father's Day mayhem. (She made him a bomb, of course.)

[candysdoodles]

[r0semaryt3a]

The urge to write Silco content is growing…man’s dead and still the poster child for my Ao3 and now possibly my tumblr.

So if anyone has any ideas to sway me either way I’m all ears

[wishfulsketching]

We got a minute of him in S2. Its not enough, but it's something

[dankzombiereviews]

seen these floating around and wanted to post one of my own because this trope fucks, especially with these people in particular

[itsvioletevergarden29]

I absolutely love the little head touch that Silco and Jinx do in the first scene after the time-skip where Jinx is apologizing for messing up on the mission. It's such a sweet, subtle way to show their genuine affection for one another and it reminds me of my relationship with my own father.

[aestheticsicrushon]

Never thought I'd catch you blubbering. Wonder if Silco even saw that.

[roemantics]

girl you are so off-putting and strange