Arcane Episode 9 | Jinx's Tea Party 3/4 | Caitlyn breaks free 

I was afraid they'd ruin Silco's character by have him go "muhahaha it was all an act I never loved you Jinx" in the final episode. It's refreshing that he really did love Jinx and was willing to put everything on the line for her, even comforting her as he died. While I'm sad he's gone, I think this was a fitting ending for his character and will miss him greatly. Silco is the best animated villain to come along in quite a long time.

When her eyes go blank after crying for Silco, I think it's because Silco became another one of the voices in her head. You could theorize that her trauma now also comes from being Jinx and not just when she was Powder.

“You’re perfect….” AN ALLY HAS BEEN SLAIN

Silco picked up the gun to shut Vi up so she would stop giving jinx that ptsd attack. Respect

You know what I really love about this scene, but also really saddens me. Is that it shows how Vi doesn’t understand how Powder is hurt. It really captures how people react to mentally illness in the real world. To me it’s clear that Vi truly loves Powder, and there isn’t anything that Jinx can do that would change that. Vi wants so desperately to have her sister back and thinks she can do it by reminding her about their family, Vi truly thinks she is helping her, but doesn’t understand that those memories are her pain and her trauma. She doesn’t understand that she’s hurting her. Vi doesn’t understand that Powder is hurt in a away that she just can’t help her. She thinks she can still chase the monsters away, but doesn’t understand that those memories she clings too are Powders monsters, her guilt, her pain, her trauma. Vi doesn’t understand that to Jinx, Powder is the monster. That’s why I think Powder, said you’ve changed too. No matter how much Jinx wants Vi back, she thinks she can never have her. Because she knows that Vi doesn’t understand her anymore. She knows that Vi can’t chase her monsters away anymore. And blowing up the capital was her final attempt to sever that connection with her sister, because she feels that if her sister can’t save her then she can save Vi. By forcing Vi to give up on her.

The fact that Silco only shot at Vi because of the pain Vi was causing Jinx by bringing up all those painful memories of the past.

Silco's smile when he says "you're perfect." makes me cry all the time

Theory: The whispers Jinx hears that make her stop crying and go numb are Silco. He’s joined the voices in her head.

Something I noticed was that Vi and Powder/Jinx sees their friends and family differently. When Vi sees vander during her fight, it is as a source of strength pushing her even further, like and anime flashback. For Jinx it is trauma, faces in the dark, her inner demons personified and in her mind they are out for her, to make her pay for what she did. So calling them, trying to make Jinx go back to being powder is not really the best idea.

Vi doesn't understand that "Powder, Milo, Claggo, Vander", all of those names in the past is what hurts Jinx. Jinx has been trying to tell Vi that she has changed and wanted her sister to accept and love her as who she is now, NOT who she was. Silco is the only one who truly gets that. He doesn't want Jinx to be tormented by the past, the childhood trauma or anything that related to Vi's action any more. He wants Jinx to be herself because Jinx is "perfect" in her own way. Vi will never get that, at least not until much later.

When Vi says "it's okay." after Silco dies really cemented Jinx in her point of no return. That little innocent "it's okay" was truly devastating, because although Vi ment it with good intentions as a way to resasure her sister. Jinx could tell it was insincere. Because she knew Vi couldn't care less about Silco, so of course it would be okay to Vi. But for Jinx, she had just killed the one person who loved her the way Vi did when she was Powder, but as Jinx. And also she in that same moment she came to the conclusion that Vi would never be able to love her that same way she used to because all Vi wanted was Powder and all Jinx has to offer is Jinx. To be Powder again she'd have to sacrifice being Jinx all together and that's a pretty big ask.

It's really a brilliant callback to the scene where Vi tells Caitlyn she used to chase the monsters away to protect her sister, and implied Silco was a monster. Now she is the one making the monsters bigger, while Silco is trying to chase them away. If you look at the pacing of the scene, it even seems that Silco is shooting at the monsters, and after he does they disappear forever. It's like he sacrificed himself so his daughter could be free forever from her monsters, and he succeeded.

One thing I thought of is how much Silco must genuinely HATE Vi with a passion. He took in this super traumatized little girl, whose first interaction with him is to jump at him for comfort because her sister just abandoned her. He sympathizes due to his own relationship with Vander, and eventually grows to love her as his daughter. It is made clear in the show that she's been dealing with her trauma and has been a "problem" for a long time, jinxing their jobs a lot according to Sevika. So Silco has been dealing with her mental health issues for a long time, and knows a big part of it is because of her sister. He has been (admittedly terribly) parenting her to let go of who she was and embrace her anger like he did to grow stronger. He loves her deeply as his own child, and has been ignoring the issues she causes because he values her more than his goal. Then Vi shows up and Jinx gets super confused about her loyalties and who to trust. Silco is probably really afraid of losing her, and just wants Vi gone. And then Jinx almost dies on the bridge. And most importantly, when Silco arrives, Vi is nowhere to be seen, having gone with Caitlyn. His daughter is practically dead, and her sister seemingly has left her to die, again. The next time Silco sees Jinx she knocks him out thinking he will give her up for Zaun, she talks about how he was going to stab her in the back. And he hears Vi tell her that they can leave together and "you will never have to see him again Powder". And Silco's response is "HER NAME IS JINX". He genuinely must absolutely hate Vi, and of course just wants her dead for all that she's done. He tries to convince Jinx that she doesn't have to worry about him betraying her, because she is his daughter and he would never do it. And when Caitlyn gets the gun he is again just super scared she will get hurt. Finally, Vi proceeds to give Jinx a PTSD episode telling her to picture people he KNOWS cause torment her constantly and this is when he just LOSES IT, like manic animal kind of fury towards this chick. And it honestly makes complete sense.

As much as I wanna still hold on to an ounce of hope that Vi can get Powder back, this really was Jinx's point of no return.

Before, we didn't understand the weird relationship between Silco and Jinx and if he was just manipolating her to fight his war, but at the end he showed his true emotions and man, when you feel bad for a villain you know he's been made damn right

It's so interesting to me that the very same people Vi tells Jinx to remember are her triggers but Vi doesn't get it. To Vi, they lift her up (just like when Vander appeared to her in a fight with Sevika), and she so desperately wants Powder back that she doesn't see that it's hurting her.

That moment of Jinx putting her hands up and giving the innocent doe expression and then turning into the sadistic smile was so well done. The expressions in this show are off the charts

I DONT KNOW IF ITS JUST ME, but silco and jinx's relationship creeped me the fuck out at first. but this scene where they have such an intimate father/daughter moment it just made tears run down my face. he actually really did love her, and only her. the voice acting in this was amazing. bravo to silcos voice actor, jinx's voice actor. this whole series is so good. i need a season 2 asap. Edit: holy shit I just wanted to come back to this all of a sudden and I see I have 5k likes on it wtff THANKS YALL

It's weird seeing Caitlyn having Jinx's weapon. But, it suits her apparently.

I do really appreciate how serious Cait was. She didn't let her guard down, she clearly had her priorities: Jinx and Silco are enemies, Vi is an ally. She was fully prepared to shoot both of them, and it was only Jinx's unexpected speed that caught her by surprise.

I like how they had a toxic relationship, but he still loved Jinx. This wasn't a ohh I'm using you all for power, but a situation where he genuinely cared but didn't do what Jinx needed and inadvertently harmed her more. Of course, he was still a villain, but he wasn't the stereotypical loveless monster.

When Jinx kept herself from crying to honor her father's last wish, my freaking god

1:16 this is by far the scariest shot of Jinx in the entire series. You can just feel how disingenuous she is. The audience can just tell that she’s about to snap and do something evil. It’s not whether or not she’s going to do the bad thing that fears us, it’s WHEN.

Let be honest, no one is expecting Silco's death to be this emotional

“I’d never would have given you them… not for anything… don’t cry, you’re perfect”. That hit different af!!! Powder has been through ALOT, and the only person that saw powder for powder was Silco.

The small nod Silco makes after saying “You’re my daughter” as if in confirmation of the truth of his statement. The body language in this show is impeccable!

@1:38 I love this scene. Vi thinks she’s helping by having Jinx remember her past family members but these are also miserable points to Powder’s life that she wants to escapes from.

damn the way she was on edge and shot blindly out of panic is too real.. sometimes trauma/ptsd will make you hurt people in ways you never meant to, you're just acting on pure instinct in the moment :(

What kills me is how young they managed to make jinx look, she really still looks like a kid

Anyone else noticed how when Vi says, "She's my sister" (0:55) Jinx looks over at her and smiles a bit. And then, at 2:43 you can see Jinx has 2 specks of lights in her eyes. But at 2:56, when she opens them again after crying for Silco, her eyes become duller as she loses one of those lights. I thought that these were neat little details.

Silco died the way he lived, no letting no one to talk shit about his daughter. Was quite obvious he was going to die, but man, the way Riot made it... was perfect.

1:15 The innocent look on Jinx's face is perfection, I absolutely love it

I think Silcos reason to try and shoot vi was him trying to stop her from hurting Jinx. Jinx suffers PTSD from hearing powder and her friends names which is clear whenever the names are said and the graphics of monsters start appearing. It never happens when she's called jinx. When Vi is calling her powder and naming off all of the people she inadvertently killed you can see it is doing nothing but harming her making the monsters grow in her head basically feeding her insanity. Vi talks about the symbolism of her chasing away the monsters in a previous episode but this time she's responsible for making them grow whenever she calls out the names and isn't there to chase them away. Silco understood this which makes me think out of the both of them Silco was really the one maintaining what sanity she had left. He specifically wanted powder to be gone because that name did nothing but bring her pain.

Silco was a beautifully executed villain. His motivations and actions are consistently understandable even in his darkest moments, his personality reinforces what he does, and he's able to remain a sympathetic person even til the end. He really loved her, and that's why the character works. He's not a monster, he's a scared, lonely man who built up an entire identity around himself as armor. Jinx was the one crack he allowed, and its the one that killed him. Poetic

I’m sick of people villainizing Vi. Yes, she didn’t accept that Jinx had changed and she put her in a triggering situation. But y’all gotta remember that Vi is in a huge amount of denial. This poor woman has been through a lot of shit too. She’s trying to keep the one person she has left in her life and try to bring her back. Vi lost everyone, and at the end of the day she’s a girl who wants her sister back. Jinx is like that too.

Silco really did love her and he knew vi was the source of her pain in that moment

"In their last moments they show you who they are" - Heath Ledger's Joker

0:46 You can barely hear this but the subtitle confirm that Jinx hears her inner voices saying "It's time to leave them". So she raises her gun and yells with no intent of firing in the hopes of provoking Caitlyn to end it all.

Then: “I only wanted to help!” Now: Vi only wanted to help Things come full circle.

Everyone always says that this Powder protecting Vi or Jinx choosing Vi over Silco, but I always just saw this as her reacting to the sound of a gun and firing on instinct. And that’s why she looks so shocked after she realized what she did.

As Joker once said "All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man or woman alive, to lunacy."

The symbolism of how Silco finally understood what Vander had been experiencing when he gave himself up; he had everything he wanted on the table. The Nation of Zaun, reign over topside, control of majority trade, and most of all…. Power. But in order to have it, he had to trade in one thing; Jinx. The source of a majority of his problems that had been preventing true control; and even then, he couldn’t do it. All in all, the character arc of Silco, from a cold, ruthless man with a momentous dream, to a father that would give up his dreams to keep his daughter safe. In the end, Silco went from my least favorite character, to top three.

It's the mental conflict for me, Jinx loves Silco, but Powder loves Vi, but as soon as Silco tries to kill Vi, the pan balance tipped, that wasn't supposed to happen. When one threatens the other, the need to protect the defenseless one sparks, causing Powder to kill Silco. Perhaps if Silco didn't reach for the gun, but instead kept yelling with Vi, the conflict between Powder and Jinx would continue. Though, it would be likely that Jinx would win, killing Caitlyn in the process. Or, what if Vi had the gun instead, would Jinx kill Vi? That's a rather tricky one. Well, no matter which path she travels, regret will follow all of them. Losing Silco, or Vi, or fully becoming the jinx Vi saw her as in their childhood if she killed Caitlyn.

"You're my daughter, I'll never forsake you" Did I cry or did I cry 🥲

Powder killed Silco. But in return, Jinx killed Powder.

Silco was trying to protect Jinx from Vi. What Vi said did hurt Jinx, she was suffering. That ist why Silco was raging that much.

Its crazy and sad that Vi said things are fine and that they'll be okay after jinx just killed someone that was close to her. Vi never understood how much silco meant to jinx

Something that always touches me is how Silco’s last words are reaffirming to Jinx that he loves her no matter what, and that he would have never betrayed her. Their father-daughter bond was the best part of an already-perfect show for me, and the fact that the villain’s death made me cry more than any other on the show is a testament to the quality of writing. Thank you to everyone involved in this masterpiece, this show is truly lightning in a bottle and I hope season 2 continues with this level of quality.

Vi didn't even realize it, but she was inducing trauma into Jinx. All those names she was forced to remember were just her worst moments, and it didn't let her think clearly. Vi is a primary source of Jinx's trauma, and here she was making it worse for Jinx again

I was really hoping Silco wouldn’t die, I loved his character and relationship with jinx, he gave her a home and purpose, he really did love her, but schizophrenia can be a harmful, powerful thing, I ended up wanting the villains to win. Honestly, arcane is so amazing.

Man, the voice actors in this show is INCREDIBLE!

I've always wondered why they framed the scene like this 2:47 and I realized it shows that all through out the show jinx was lost (thus showing a dark path behind her symbolizing a struggle of her identity and worth) and after hearing silco's last words it came down to self acceptance flaws and all (thus showing light behind silco and framing jinx's sit). after that realization the voices 2:53 didnt made her anxious like before, instead she had a calm expression like everything is clear. so SHE CHOSE jinx.

Jinx has accidentally killed every person she's ever loved except for her sister, who wouldn't be crazy after that?

While I love all the theories of when jinxes face goes blank in 2:59 it’s Silco joining the voices in her head I had a different/second half part to the theory. Putting mental health on the table you can see the exact moments almost frame by frame how her sorrow vanishes because she’s dissociating. Her eyebrows soften, her lip drops, her entire face just relaxes and her eyes are just a void because she isn’t there. Her emotions, reactions, trauma, triggers, her entire subconscious has taken over (which had already been the case from the start so this is it being a breaking point intensity) and she’s no longer here, hiding somewhere safe in her brain while this part of her she’s created through all her pain to front instead, because this version of her is ruthless, murderous, and it’s all to protect “powder” but this new side of jinx that Vi views as powder is just the humane side to jinx many don’t believe exist.

I didn’t even notice Silco trying to shoot Vi in this scene, the only thing that stood out to me was how she remembered her family: as monsters in her head

All of these characters are simultaneously multiple things at once, and all the characters contribute to the tragedy at the end while never being ENTIRELY responsible. That’s what makes the story amazing. Silco loved Jinx but he was also toxic, incredibly possessive, a liar, tried to kill Jinx’s family multiple times, and pushed Jinx to continue making Hextech even as it traumatized her. He was a good father who loved her as murdering maniac, but he was a terrible father who could ONLY love her as a murdering maniac. He both protected and enabled the worst in Jinx/Powder. Vi was a good, very protective sister. But she also got Jinx in the whole mess by taking her on these heists that Vander warned her about, convinced Powder to hide the Hextech gemstones from Vander, punched her in frustration, and then unfortunately abandoned Powder in her greatest time of need, which of course Marcus really made worse. (Although you could even argue Marcus was just doing it to protect Vi from getting murdered by Silco. On the other hand, Marcus could’ve also just gone after Silco himself, but this is what makes Marcus a flawed character). Ultimately Vi also helped create the monster too. Not out of entirely bad intentions, but, just like Silco, out of flawed parenting. And also just like Silco, she could only love a PART of Jinx/Powder. She had the SAME parenting flaw as Silco, and this conflict broke something in Jinx. Finally, Jinx/Powder is responsible for her own creation too. They allude to her unstable mental state as a child when she’s freaking out after she’s told she can’t go help save Vander. She jumps to conclusions about everyone. She’s shown mercy by Ekko but still (possibly suicidally?) tries to blow everyone up. This physical trauma leads to her chemtech treatment that further maddens her. She’s very much a victim throughout her story, especially when you consider how much she’s gone through at a young age, but she also isn’t absolved of responsibility. What makes this story great, a tragedy, and a GREAT tragedy, is not that some sad stuff happened that we can all finally understand by debating it until we arrive at its one true interpretation. It’s a great tragedy because some sad stuff happened that was both inevitable and INTENTIONALLY endlessly debatable. Everyone in this comment thread is 100% RIGHT in their character interpretations and 100% WRONG in presenting their interpretations as authoritative. Good stories are ambiguous. Life is ambiguous. Yeesh.

Okay, I rewatched Arcane enough times to be able to write my little essay about Jinx and Silco's relationship. I was watching videos about Arcane after I completed the series and in the comments there were so many people thinking that Silco just used Jinx and even in his death he still tried to manipulate her. While I can understand where they're coming from, I believe that they didn't took his character development into consideration. He started off as a general EVIL, doing everything he can to achieve his goals, no matter the cost. Then he met this little girl who accidentaly killed her family and her sister abandoned her (in Powder's POV). He felt a connection to her, shared her feeling of betrayal and decided to take her in. Maybe it really was for to use her as an asset, we don't know for sure. But he took her in. Then we skip a few years and while we still saw the same Silco, he's completely different with Jinx. The first scene they shared he asked her point of view on the cargo incident instead of punishing her outright. Sevika made it clear that she was a liability, that she caused more problems than she solved, but Silco defended her. If he really was using her, why defend her when she clearly just destroyed a part of his crime net? He was patient with her, never raising his voice to reprimand her, instead he kept his cool and even asked her to take some time off to organise her thoughts, since he understood why she had snapped in the first place. When she went off to do her own thing and killed those enforcers, he clearly was angry, but I never had the feeling that he would hit her, no matter how enraged he would get. We saw later on that when Vi managed to escape that he killed his subordinates without a second thought, he was screaming with rage, but with Jinx he never even made a move towards her (notice how he turned off her music and took her pen away when she was ignoring him instead of touching her shoulder or her head to keep her attention on him. He clearly was careful with her, even when he was angry.) Then she had problems with the Gemstone. She went to him and told him what was troubling her and Silco took his time to take her to the waters where he almost drowned to explain his opinion on the matter, instead of just telling her in his office. He showed that whatever Jinx had problems with mattered to him and he didn't just shrugged them off as so many parents do. Yes, he clearly projected his own feelings onto her, but I don't think he did it just to destabilize her further. He felt that this method he'd gone through worked on him, so he believed that it would help her too. But as it's said, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Then he got the intel that Vi is back. I don't know why people think that he lied to her that Vi was dead when it was clear that he also believed that to be true. And then he went to Marcus to tell him that he knows he lied to him and that he won't tolerate it the next time. Yes, he then kept this from Jinx and tried to kill Vi before she could meet with her sister, but I think this was a response coming from fear. Don't forget that he also had experience with betrayal and probably had abandonment issues like Jinx. I think it wasn't that he could lose a valuable asset (and she wasn't even that helpful since she usually screwed up), but that he could lose his daughter. He saw Vi as a threat which could take Jinx away from him (probably the only person who could take her away from him) and he lashed out without thinking, trying to deal with the problem as soon as he could. When Jinx reappeared and was obviously pissed, he didn't try to fight her off. He tried to explain his POV to her and of course he didn't know that Vi had no idea about the Gemstone, but at that point he, once again, was responding from fear and projected his issues onto Jinx and Vi's relationship. Again, to keep his daughter by his side and not to be left alone all over again. Up until this point, I can understand why people think he was manipulating her. Hell, even I had doubts. But the bridge scene showed to me that he really cared. Jinx wasn't conscious, so she couldn't see his worry and only his gorillas were there, but he still hugged her close to him and appeared completely vulnerable. What kind of mob boss does that in front of his employees? There was nothing for him to gain at that moment, yet he still showed his worry and fear for Jinx's life. Then he rushed to Singed, silently begging him to save her and I really loved the question "Are you prepared to lose her?" and Silco's response to that. It completely caught him off-guard and the look on his face made it evident that no, he wasn't ready to lose her. I think until that moment, even he himself didn't realise how much Jinx really means to him. (And Singed had to sedate him, because he knew no father could see his child in pain and even he thought that Silco 100% would've tried to stop the procedure.) Then, of course, the scene with Jayce. He got offered everything he ever wanted, everything he fought, the people he killed, it would've all been worth it - but he had to give up Jinx for it. He literally faced the dilemma we, the viewers wanted him to face: Zaun or Jinx? Which one is more important to him? I believe that the broken and defeated look he gave when Jayce left wasn't like "Oh fuck, what am I going to do?", it was more like "Oh fuck, I'm really going to cause a war." He wasn't struggling with the decision: by the time Jayce left him, he already made his decision, he was just coping with what it will cause. (Also, the moment Jayce asked for Jinx, Silco immediately threw himself under the bus for her, just like Vander did for his kids.) That monologue by Vander's statue was also about him coping, not about his struggle to make the decision. Of course, Jinx had no idea, so she also lashed out to protect herself from another betrayal. She wanted to hurt Silco before he could hurt her. And finally, the tea party. Many thinks he tried to save his life, so he told Jinx that he would never give her up, but we already saw him taking responsibility for her actions in front of Jayce, ready to go to Stillwater for her, so I believe he was telling the truth. And also, him trying to shoot Vi. I don't think it was because of his fear that with bringing up Mylo, Clagger and Vander, Jinx would side with Vi, but because he probably knew that reminding her to them wasn't reassuring, but traumatising. We saw Jinx telling him that she keeps seeing them that day and it was clear that it wasn't a happy vision, like Vi's with Vander. I think his struggle there was about making Vi shut up because he could see that she was hurting Jinx (not her intention, clearly, but she just didn't know, again proving that she didn't know her sister that well anymore) and he wanted this to stop. Like any father, he wanted to protect his daughter and even in death, he tried to soothe her, so in her mind he wouldn't become another Mylo or Claggor. And the line, "You're perfect." Before, he declared that Powder was weak and Jinx was perfect, further fueling the manipulative trope. But here, he said "You're perfect." I think that in his final moments, he wanted to reassure her that no matter who she chooses to become, what she does in the future, she would always be perfect for him. He made the mistake many parents do, thinking that their child is perfect and can do no wrong, but I think here he just wanted Jinx to know that he loves her unconditionally, giving her the type of trust and belief no one, not even Vi had given her before ("You're not ready", when they left her behind to save Vander and it triggered a mental breakdown for her.) Silco wasn't a perfect father, that I agree with. But he truly loved Jinx as his own and did his best to guide her and he made mistakes in the parenting, but every parent makes mistakes (his caused people to die). I think I could summarise this little essay with this: he's the type of villain who doesn't care about anything or anyone beside his goal in life, but try to touch his daughter and he will burn down the world, even destroy the very thing he was fighting for before. Because in the end, she's the one who matters the most.

This scence is such a tragedy. On one hand, Silco was a father to Jinx but he also ennabled her worst tendecies in a misguided way to make tought enought to survive Zaun, driving her further into maddness. He conffussed helping Jinx with projecting his own traumas into Jinx, literally molding her into an insane version of himself. His love was genuine and equally toxic Vi, on the other hand, clearly loves her sister back, but is equally affraid and disturbed of Jinx. She cant accept what "Powder" to Jinx is emotional pain. Just like in real life, reminding traumatissed people of theor past is emotional painfull and traumatising. Vi is trying to put Jinx in a mold what she no longer fits. Both Vi and Silco, were the greatest and worst thing to ever happen to Jinx

Okay here's another reason for you to cry for Silco's death. In earlier episodes, when Sevika was making her choice about betraying Silco or not, we saw that Silco is actually afraid of death! It just makes this scene much more meaningful because he didn't show any sign of fear or anger to Jinx in his final moments. He choose to comfort her because he didn't want to be one of the whispers that are torturing her.

Silco's final lines really show just how much he genuinely loves and understands Jinx and how he wants to reassure her so he can pass away without worry. _"I never would have given you to them, not for anything."_ He understood that Jinx felt betrayed and confused and wanted to correct her misunderstanding and reassure her of just how much she meant to him. He would've given up his entire dream and everything he built for her sake, and that nothing he ever said to her was a lie. _"Don't cry."_ He understood that Jinx would've blamed herself once more and that no one would be able to comfort and console her, he didn't want Jinx to burden herself with his death because he understood her confusion and impulsive actions and that it was an accident. He knew she didn't mean it and he wanted her to know he still forgives her. _"You're perfect."_ Finally, he wants Jinx to know that regardless of what happens after, he will always accept and love her regardless. That no matter what she feels, what she does, and what she burns, she will always be Jinx, and that she never needed her to be anything more or less than herself.

This animation is truly showing us how human is. Everyone just wants what they want and they're all made a mistake and regret it. Just like others and that's so amazing. I love them so much TT

fucking hell the way Silco's trying to break free from the ropes when he realized what Vi's words were doing to Jinx. He was ready to pounce and kill for his daughter.

Was interesting to see the passives from game in the show , we saw vi passsive save her vs sevika and jinx 'Got excited' to take back her gun.

I really feel like Vi made Jinx's mental state so much worse in this whole scene. She really empowered her PTSD and the voices in her sister's head.

"Don't cry you're perfect" ~Silco

I like to believe it’s this moment that Vi finally understands why powder sided with Silco, not because of any brainwashing but genuine care. For the first time, Vi probably sees Silco in a different light as a person with a gentler side

One small detail that people don’t notice that I love that they put in is right after Silco says you’re perfect, if you watch his bad eye, the burning yellow color starts fade away as he dies

2:54 I’m surprised no one has theorized that Silco joined Jinx in her head, like Mylo and Claggor, after his death by her hand. There’s a brief moment where she loses her expression and you hear subtle whispering before she decided to fully embrace herself as Jinx.

Craziest thing is that Silco legitimately even until his dying breath loved Jinx as his daughter

Something I really appreciate in this show is how well it portraits emotions. I watched the scenes with Jinx and Vi so many times now and realized things that went over my head the first time I watched it. Like I first thought that Vi abandoned Powder because that's how Powder interpreted it since she's so scared of being left behind for being a jinx. But Vi actually just wanted a break to calm down and collect her thoughts, since she was in a upset state where she couldn't control herself and her emotions properly and therefore lashed out on Powder. And when Vi tried to reach out to Powder thinking that the thoughts of their family where pleasant memories for both but for Powder those memories where her demons, her guilt, her trauma. She didn't meant to hurt her sister, only to help but she didn't understand Powder's feelings, which I didn't understood the first time either. Hollywood usually makes us believe that emotions are visible, anything you can see on the screen is what's actually going on in their heads but that's so far from the reality. Everybody interprets things differently, have different feelings about things and sometimes actions comes from a different place than what it looks like it does. And I just feel like this show really showed that, especially with the sisters

I like how the voices in her head are fading away as she mourns her father’s death. Like they don’t have control over her anymore.

The fact that Silco put up with Jinx being like that tells me that he really did love her. I think he didn't originally plan to take her in, but when she clung to him like he was the only thing she had left, he accepted her, but ended up genuinely developing an attachment to her.

Man, I’m practically dry when it comes to crying over movies or tv shows but Arcane really had me in tears. when Silco used his last moments to tell her he loved her and she was perfect I just started bawling like a baby

The way she says stop in 1:42 breaks my heart

Even when Jinx would mess up almost every one of Silcos plans, he still never gave up on Jinx. Even after Jayne gives him the future he always wanted and after Jinx accidently kills him, he still reassures her that theres nothing wrong with her.... Say what you want about Silco but at the end of the day, he truly loved Jinx as his own daughter! He loved Jinx for who she is now. Not what she used to be like Vi does.....

I can't ignore the fact that when Vi was shouting names and Jinx was having a "breakdown", Silco lost his mind and tried to protect is daughter

I feel like other people are supporting Vi, as well as hating on Jinx & Silco, but I have my own take on it. Vi & Jinx/Powder: It's pretty obvious throughout the series that Powder was always a bit unstable. She has a good mind and good intentions but she's quite clusmy so her inventions almost never work. Also seeing Mylo badmouthing her and taking things wrongly like leaving at the wrong time when Vi 'agrees' with Milo before she tells him off shows that although she has a good mind, she doesn't really try to see the full picture when it comes to emotions. Vi was always telling Powder 'You're ready' and stuff like 'You can do it, Powder' but that one time, she didn't. Again, going back to how Powder was unstable, and the fact that kids are generally scared of being alone (even teenagers like I am), and the fact that she's unstable as a sort of amplifier, it's obvious why she broke down. When you're in a shaken up state, you often assume the worst thoughts. Powder probably thought 'Vi abandoned me! They think I'm weak' especially considering that Mylo was badmouthing her when he was alone with Vi, and even when he was with her. When Powder wants to prove herself to her family, she ends up ruining it all. This time, the bomb actually works. Mylo and Claggor suffer instant but horrible deaths, and Vander has to sacrifice his life for Vi. Now, Powder can't see any of this going on, so she thinks that it worked, she proved herself and her family is going to be proud of her and actually see her as a hero, instead of a 'Jinx'. So when she comes to Vi saying how it worked, and she's proud of it. She's shocked to see that it KILLED her family instead of HELPED them. Vi literally lashed out everything on Powder, which is understandable. But when she realizes what she's done and goes to cool off. Powder thinks she's abandoning her, and she's scared to follow her because she thinks Vi might attack her again. The sad thing is, that since she's in a shaken-up state. She's assuming the worse and thinks Vi is going to leave her for a 'better life' because she's a 'Jinx'. Then Silco comes and helps her. Silco & Jinx I see a lot of people saying Silco 'created' Jinx. but Jinx states that Jinx was created by Vi. After she slapped Powder, that was her last chance before Jinx began to take over. And yes, I'm not saying Silco is a good person. He's horrible actually, and he did manipulate Jinx to a certain extent. BUT I see people saying he manipulated Jinx that Vi was dead, and that Vi doesn't care about her anymore. This is because this is what he actually thinks. Silco was abandoned and betrayed by Vander, but this is because they had different ideals for Zaun. And Silco is pushing that onto Jinx because he thinks that Vi left her for a better life, just like Powder. That's why when Sevika reports that Vi is back, he says "From the dead?" He knows just as little as Jinx, but people are claiming that he has some insider information. Silco is also abusive, but not to the extent that people think. What I envision the relationship between Silco and Powder/Jinx, is that he took care of a bird with a broken wing. He didn't heal it, but he did try his best to get Jinx through what he thought she was going through, the exact same thing as he did. Silco was giving Jinx the advice his past self would have needed, he didn't know that Marcus arrested Vi, he thought that she died after trying to leave Powder. Now when Jayce offers peace for Zaun in exchange for Jinx and others, Silco immediately offers himself. The feeling of being abandoned by family again is the worst. When they say they're only taking Jinx, Silco deeply considers it, and ultimately comes up with the conclusion that no, Zaun is not worth Jinx. Silco is visibly worried when Jinx is dying from fighting Ekko, he knows Jinx is tough and can go through anything, so he tries to drug her with Shimmer so he can survive, however this was actually a bad option. After the tea party is at its climax, when Vi is trying to run away with Powder/Jinx, Silco is saying NO. I won't offer my daughter for Zaun's independence, why would I offer it for free? Vi hates Silco, but Silco has respect for Vi because she's Vander's daughter and is Jinx's most loved one, she loves her even more than Silco himself. Vi starts to hurt Powder/Jinx again. Whenever Vi tries to do something good, her instinct is to just take it out by force, kind of like pulling out a tooth without a napkin or ANYTHING, and the gum starts bleeding. When Vi tries to tell her that they can start over, Jinx considers, however Caitlyn interrupts. Then Vi butts in again by telling her to envision her dead family, which are the voices that haunt her. As you can see, Silco picks up the gun. However, he doesn't even intend to shoot Vi. You see smoke out of his gun, which means he already fired. There are also bullets NEXT to Vi's head instead of in them. He was just trying to tell her, "Hey, stop trying to hurt my daughter". However Powder thinks that he's trying to hurt Vi, so Powder comes out and shoots him. Then she instantly regrets it. Not just Jinx loves Silco, Powder does too. After Silco says 'You're perfect' it's obvious which is the better person for this damaged Powder/Jinx. Vi is a good person, but she keeps accidentally hurting Powder. She still envisions her as the little girl she was 6 years ago, and chooses Caitlyn over her twice. However Silco prefers Jinx, although he'll still accept Powder as long as she doesn't abandon him. Vi only accepts Powder, while Silco accepts both with open arms, not even giving her for what he's been chasing for all his life. Jinx/Powder is perfect for Silco, but only Powder is perfect for Vi. Anyway that's both of my take, if they all decided to live as a happy family, Caitly, Silco, Vi, and Jinx/Powder, that would be the best outcome, but I think it's too late for Jinx. Thanks for reading THIS REALLY LONG COMMENT, and Sorry for wasting your time.

the moment i saw jinx move like that, I immediately got Harley Quin & Juri Vibes 😅 They all must be related!

For once it feels like everyone is in agreement with how good of a character Silco was. He cared about her so much. He wanted to shoot Vi to shut her up. Silco isn't a good person, he's not even a good father, but he cared about Jinx. He only thought of shooting Vi in that moment as a way of helping her... which is absolutely wrong and we all know that but damn was his heart in the right place... for Jinx. I love characters like this. Perfect villains and perfect heroes are boring. Watching Silco struggle to be Zaun's shady leader but also protect Jinx was amazing.

I genuinely believe silco breaking free wasn't so he can keep jinx (someone who he came to love as family) as a possession, but instead so he could stop her pain as he could clearly see how much she was hurting when Vi was bringing up her memories

This moment made me realize that no matter how much Silco wanted Zaun, he really came to see Jinx as his own daughter. He spent years raising her. He may have used her to get his own ends, but he was willing to sacrifice nearly everything to keep her.

Silco's final act was to comfort the scared little girl that came into his life.

A small detail but I love the wariness in Vi's voice after Silco dies and she says "...Powder?" before trying to comfort Jinx. Kinda highlights more how Vi is still afraid of her unpredictability. I swear my heart was pounding the whole time, not sure what Jinx was going to do next. Simply amazing.

I feel like a lot of people don't understand; there's no going back for Jinx because there was never something to go back to. Jinx *is* Powder. They're just different names for the same person. A girl who grew up in a very violent place and suffered a lot of traumas, who is constantly tormented by the guilt of her greatest mistake. But also a girl who likes the fighting and the violence, who relishes in the chaos and destruction. Jinx's only conflicts were in her love for Vi and her guilt for Mylo and Claggor, but we've never once seen a hint that she doesn't like the person she's become, that there's some facet of Powder trapped inside that can be brought back. For better or worse, this is the person Powder has grown to be.

I love how a lot of the people who say Jinx is too far gone hesitate to kill her when she gives the puppy eyes XD

The absolute PAIN in jinx’s voice in the “I’m sorry’s” is killing me

When she looks back up after Silco dies, her eyes are totally dead. Like all the light is gone. Damn.

"I never would have given you to them, not for anything" "Don't cry, you're perfect" I think that these two lines were some of the most emotional lines throughout the whole show. Silco did love Jinx, not like some other shows where the father figure was just using the daughter/son and had no love. I was genuinely so scared that this would happen, but when it didn't, it added a whole other aspect to the show.

they gave silco the perfect expression and dying lines, goddamn such a good character man

1:15 i dont care what anyone says. She is just so darn adorable with her hands up

This hits hard..when I was in my teens I had mental problems and was literally going to lose my mind. Sometimes I didn’t know what was real and what wasn’t. How Jinx’s mental state looks so violent, it was so same to me too. I never was a violent person but my visions and sounds I heard felt so as it is seen here too, all the same feels it’s scary. I got better though thank God.

Just as Vander taught Vi to master herself and her skills, so did Silco to Jinx by allowing her to accept herself and be at peace with her inner voices (we even hear them going away near the end as she becomes more serious after his death) I can’t wait for season 2

It’s makes me cry every time I see the relationship between jinx and Silco. He always cared for her like a true father figure. It was so sad.

Who else just loved the animation when jinx took the gun from Caitlyn? Went from the soft scared powder, to the resolved calculated confident jinx. And then just this animalistic takeover move ♥️😍 it is pure awesomeness 🎉❤

1:20 i love the light trails they add whenever someone takes shimmer, it makes the speed feel almost alien to the speed of everything else

Something I just realized is that, when Vi was listing off all the names of people Jinx killed, Silco knew that what she was was only hurting and scaring her. Which is why he was fighting so hard to shoot Vi rather than convince Jinx to be on his side

Arcane won 9 nominations and its so fucking deserved.

All Jinx wanted was Vi to accept her as she was now. And then maybe the healing could begin. But it was Silco, the show’s main antagonist, who said those words, “You’re perfect…” , not her sister. And she killed him.

Love how Silco was ok giving you everything, even his own life, for Jinx, someone he cared about…just like he got mad and Vander for at the beginning. Absolutely superb writing!!❤️

It’s actually pretty meet that Silvio wasn’t trying to kill Vi because she was bringing Powder back, but because she was unintentionally causing more pain to his daughter and he couldn’t stand it.