Im Gunna Need Like A Year To Recover From This Show.

I’m gunna need like a year to recover from this show.

It’s only us. You are my daughter.

👍

Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?

Also, I think Vi kinda shot herself in the foot a little bit by being dismissive of Jinx’s relationship with Silco. Not that I blame her - imagine getting out of prison and finding out your only blood sister has been adopted by the drug lord who’s been terrorizing your city for years, I think anyone would be extremely skeptical of their relationship.

Even though Sevika told her that Jinx is like a daughter to Silco, I don’t think Vi ever... took it seriously? Which ended up working against her during the tea party as well, to some extent. Jinx was furious with Silco and feeling betrayed, but she obviously still cared for him, which Vi undermined with telling her how she’d never have to see him again (not to mention, Jinx was never really forced to see him in the first place, the way Vi talks about these two plays on the assumption that there was coercion involved when there wasn’t). The bond between these two runs deep.

Also, I am a huge fan of the interpretation that Silco was aiming at Vi because she was unintentionally triggering Jinx’s psychosis by bringing up their dead family - Silco clearly knows Jinx well, and she was in a lot of distress. Likewise, I think Jinx didn’t realize she shot at Silco (and protected her sister, meanwhile) because she was in the middle of an episode, hence her reaction after she realizes what she did. Not the face of someone who meant to shoot someone else, imo

(Bursts into Arcane fandom 2384893 years late)

How I’m talking about how monumentally important and emotionally poignant and powerful it is that Silco went from “Jinx is perfect” to “you’re perfect” when Jinx was going through her biggest identity crisis, torn between “Powder” and “Jinx” - it’s all about the unconditional love, about being loved and accepted and embraced wholly not despite your flaws and fucked up parts, but including them; she’s perfect, whoever she is right then and there - not who she was or could have been, but who she chooses to be right now!!!! This line deserves every single ounce of hype it generated MY GOD!!!!!!!!

Listen, I will not hear any slander about this line. Based on what she says to Vi right after - “I thought you could love me the way you used to, even though I’m different” - what Silco says to her is exactly what she has been yearning to hear: it doesn’t matter whether she is “Powder” or “Jinx”, she wanted someone to love her without constraints, full and unconditional love and acceptance. Vi obviously loves her very much but her major blunder here is that she couldn’t let go of that image of “Powder” from before, when her sister has made it pretty clear that she is no longer the Powder she remembers (but that she still yearns for her unconditional love, none-the-less). That is where Vi lost her, and where Silco demonstrated a trope that works best with villains, especially this kind: “I love you, all the beautiful and ugly and broken parts.” Idk about y’all but there is something healing about this notion - in a world that often tells us we need to love ourselves before anyone else can love us… to hear that you’re perfect, you, right now, including all of your flaws, is cathartic.

I best save the rest of my thoughts for after my rewatch, though.