Keep in mind that at this moment, Silco truly thought that Vi is dead. Him "baptizing" Jinx here is genuinely trying to help Jinx conquer her deepest fears and be herself.
@Aaron Snow Yeah absolutely! Even in earlier scene that lead to this, when Jinx said she kept seeing "them" and couldn't continue the work, Silco wasn't angary or impatient. He listened and felt for her, then said: Fear haunts us all, child. Absolutely amazing portrayal of his character!
I love how this scene perfectly depicts their relationship: genuine but problematic. Silco's ways of raising Powder are a big part of the problem, as in why her mental illness is in such an advance stage. He loves Jinx so much, but his own philosophy blinds him: he doesn't help her overcome her trauma, but rather tells her to accept it, internalize it, drown her old weaker more sensitive self in it because that's how things worked out for him. He mistakes his situation with Powder's for how similar they are, yet you can tell that in his own eyes he's convinced he's actually helping. He didn't make Jinx, but he did shape her
Thats why i dont understand how people can simply just call him abusive or say he only manipulated Jinx. Silco had his own trauma, as you said he saw himself in Powder and just assumed she would be able to move on the way he did, that this is healthy and i think it's also thats's just how things were in the undercity, you grow a thicker skin and try to bury your hurt deep before someone can use it against you. It's such a tragic situation this is not a man manipulating a little girl into trusting just so he can use her, it's not even him playing house with this little girl to compensate for something, they love each other and are unable to show it in healthy ways. Arcane is such a tragedy, there isn't a person who didnt suffer in some way.
@@JenniferHales yes he is toxic But i wouldnt call what he does abuse More like overindulgence He never willingly hurt Jinx not even when she ruined all his plans
@user-pi3hd2bt3f Yup, he wouldn't willingly hurt her. But he did. A lot. Abusive and toxic relationships work that way in real life too. You think you know what is best but you keep hurting the person.
I get such a chill when Silco says “Jinx is Perfect”. I don’t know if it’s the voice acting story telling or both but it is so satisfying just hearing and watching that sentence being said.
I'm actually surprised to see how Silco, who I thought gonna be "the obvious baddie bad guy", is so tender and caring toward Jinx. When I saw third episode I expected him turn out to be manipulative and abusive toward his adoptive daughter, like Mother Gothel toward Rapunzel, but no. He is patient with her, cares about her inner peace, stands up for her when this woman with robot arm(don't remember her name) tells she's useless, and forgives Jinx's vagary. He wants what's best for her, what he consideres could be best for her based on his own experience, tho objectively speaking it might be destructive (Silco is not a therapist after all to know perfectly what's right). I hope further in show they would not turn him into "I was actually always abusive and never really cared about Jinx" kind of guy, cause he's my favourite character so far
Silco is in the same position Vander was in act 1 with Vi, his gang is starting to see weakness in him and his daughter just turned the alarms on Piltover who are seeking for the culprit. Can already see Jinx losing it for real if he dies.
So after act3 how was your view about Silco? For me, Jinx and Silco are my farovite characters, But Silco just stole season 1, such good character damn
@@FiveAlive95 it did help her here though. The next time we see her she's rocking out, thinking clearly, her delusions aren't haunting her, she can work undisturbed. He raised her for 7 years, I'm sure he has by now learned ways to help her cope with her issues that actually work. He knows her.
What i love about them both is that their stories are similar, The people they trusted and loved hurted them. Vander to Silco and Vi to Jinx. At the same time they all had good intentions. Vander wanted to protect his children, Silco wanted independence of Zaun. Vi Wanted to save Vander but wanted powder to stay bc she cant risk losing her, but Powder wanted to help because shes afraid of being abandoned and she wanted to be useful, she wanted to make Vi proud of her, to make her see that she can be strong just like her. And also for Silco to choose Jinx over everything he has been workung hard for his whole life litterally shows how much he loves and cares for Jinx. I dont think theres a true villain in this story THIS IS ALL JUST A COMPLETE MISUNDERSTANDIIING😭😭😭
I saw a lot of people giving Silco shit for this scene and I really don't understand why. Of course, Jinx isn't simply healed by accepting her past and moving on from it. Our mind is much more complex than that. But still, Silco's principle is a very important one. There are things both in the past and present that haunt us. Things we can't change no matter what we do. However, what you can do is accept these facts, learn from them, and try your best to move on (Of course, that's easier said than done and requires professional help in a lot of cases). This is something I learned in the recent years. There are both past experiences that haunt me and present facts like people suffering all over the world. I can't change these things when they're out of my reach. Accepting that I don't have the power to change these "problems" helped me tremendously to be happier in daily life. Of course, sometimes they come back in my mind and it bothers me. Yet, I can calmly think about these sort of things and figure them out in my head. And seriously, the only possible way for Jinx to recover was to go to a therapist, which don't exist in their fictional world. I think Silco, as a father, tried his best and did a good job with Jinx in this scene. Because he alone could never fully heal Jinx, especially without professional knowledge. And we know it helped, even if it was only a little bit.
i thought he was going to kiss her at 1:13 and 1:19 bro the authors are really playing with our emotions. i was weirded 2 times out in the span of 6 seconds lol
Silco really helped her . Before that she couldnt work with the crystal because it reminded her of her family. After that scene she was fine until Vi came.
I like how when silco dumbs himself in the water his "fixed" eye gets damaged again with the same kinda scars he had before he started using shimmer to fix it. cool detail that im sure alot of people missed.
@@XxTeFixXP And the end of episode 5. When Sevika tells Silco that Vi's back, you can see Silco applying the makeup. It does a great job at showing how much more important Silco's appearance is to him now that he has a daughter and is somewhat of a public figure in the undercity/Zaun.
Found it! It's 'A Story of Opposites' from the Arcane Original Score Act 1. Y'all can find it here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-xu23Y-4nnN8.html
That's interesting how Silco wanted Powder to disappear so only Jinx remains. But she can't just copy his way, can't just drown in this water: they are similiar, but not the same. But at the end Silco has done what he wanted to do: by killing Silco Powder protects her sister, but Jinx avenge him by killing Powder. At the end of the day even his death has purpose - Jinx became stronger.
False powder didn't do shit. Jinx reacted to hearing the gun and with instinct she shot in a direction only seeing who was on the other side after the deed. As the show clearly showed
Thank you Silco for ur advice, My boyfriend who I loved more than anything, Abandoned and betrayed me just like Vi. I guess i really was nothing to him, and all those goddamn lies he spewed to me.
1:13 first time I watched this scene, I thought they were gonna kiss. Looking back at it now, that would be extremely weird. Considering Silco sees Jinx as his daughter, and the age gap.
Look, he's not her adopted father. He killed her adopted father. He's her weird uncle, at best. The creators put all this tension in deliberately so we'd be disturbed by it and talk about it. That said, this scene is really well done and beautifully made.
Yes. It is supposed tobe disturbing. But they also made sure is kinda wholesome. Weird, creepy and twisted love. What else would you expect from villains and psychos?
Jinx is an unreliable narrator her word is not to be taken as gospel. You could argue that Piltover's opression of Zaun is what made Jinx (her and vi being orphaned, vander and silco's falling out and so much more) but in the end Jinx made Jinx she is her own independent person, she made her own choices.
@@whatever5180 but you’re building yourself on the experiences you live and interactions you have with each other So ok Jinx is violent because she grew up in Zaun, where all is violence but she became what she is also because of what she perceived at an age when it’s difficult to make a mature and rational choice
@@aramintanavi you could say vi was the foundation of jinx, but we can see the progression of her transformation was through her hallucinations and constant overwhelming experiences
No, no please don't ship them.. or else people will gonna judged you by this.. thus, why do you even ship Silco and Jinx?... They're like a father-daughter relationship despite the Harley Quinn and Joker "vibes" given from them..
@@AliceJem In fact, I interpret the relationship differently from the start. For me, the relationship has never had father-daughter vibes. That will probably be because Jinx youth and the relationship with Silco was skipped. For me it also fits because both are a bit psyco, especially jinx. So it wouldn't be surprising if she also developed a sick love relationship with Silco, who for years was the only one who made her feel wanted. Well it's only fiction, so I don't think it's bad to ship these characters. But opinions are different :) PS: sorry for the grammar, my english is not that good.
Kudos to the writers, storyboarders and animators, because if they wanted to achieve this brilliant mix of weirdly heartwarming and deeply unsettling, they succeeded on all fronts. It really looked like he was about to kiss her, and paired with the previous scenes of Jinx straddling him and sitting on his lap, this would have shocked everybody but surprised nobody. But when he doesn't do that and gently lays her into the water instead, we all feel silly for thinking he'd have done something so base.
I never thought that they were gonna kiss honestly, I just thought that they were gonna touch foreheads for a moment before he submerged her underwater. Am I the only one who thought that?
@@koubiki9176 Speaking for the people who thought they were gonna kiss (as one of them myself) we _obviously_ knew that they didnt have a romantic relationship ('cause Jinx is around a teen here) however, it was the way Silico kinda leaned towards her is what made it _seem_ like he was going to kiss her which is what led up to the confusion
@@bootylicker32 I think its because Jinx never really grew up. Some parts of her brain is still stuck in the young child she was and she sees affection like a child.
WHY WHY WHY DO I FALL IN LOVE WITH THE BAD GUY?! THEN WHOOSH..HE IS GONE! This scene cemented my love for SILCO, I am going to miss him too and so much!
While I'm sure you love him in a much different way than I do, I agree. He is the most captivating character in the show. Not by far, mind you, but still.
There's a very powerful safety fantasy in someone who does terrible things without prejudice, treating another person with kindness and empathy just because they love you
Me and my friends watching this: _Wait dude wtf are you gonna kiss her???_ Silco: _what?? No, what the fuck, I am gonna drown her_ My friends and I: _Ooh okay that makes a lot more sense, keep up_
This scene is beautiful. Everything from what's being said, the music, the lighting, and the soft sounds of the water. Everything about this scene is perfect to me.
I was like awww how sweet I love how cuddly she is she's crazy and chaotic but also very cuddly and cute I love Jinx she's adorable and gorgeous and perfect
@@connorhart1363 nah it's not cute, if you analyze it, it's disturbing, silco thinks he's helping her by making her to ignore/forget her trauma, that's not healthy, she is not "cuddly", she's literally being manipulated by silco, the person who made her thinks he is the only one who will ever love and understand her :( the scene is so good, the writers made a great work showing us how unhealthy their relationship is, and I feel so bad for jinx, she's so broken
@@sashrawr I'm right your wrong slico is a nice person he's just overly protective but he's just comforting Jinx because he felt sorry for her it's very nice scene and just shows that he's not the bad guy it sucks that people don't see him that way
At first I def thought their relationship was sus but as I watch more I understood n IT WAS RLLY PAINFUL TO SEE SILCO DIE N STILL TOLD JINX THAT SHES PERfect aaaaa :( painnnnnn
You know what, as another person said in the comments here, I think this baptism did help Jinx a bit, at the end of this ep she seems in a much happier mood and even manages to get the hex tech going. It’s when Vi resurfaces that causes her setback. Obv she still had many problems and needs therapy but it seemed she was at least starting to feel a bit better. Probably wouldn’t have worked in the long run though I guess. 🤷♀️
the people who thought they were gonna kiss completely missed the point of this scene… their dynamic is nothing near that. the impact this scene has on the outcome of this show is massive and people are just trying to make it weird. it’s a shame really.
Speaking for the people who thought they were gonna kiss (as one of them myself) we _obviously_ know that they didn't have a romantic relationship ('cause Jinx is around a teen here and that would be pedophilia) however, it was the way Silico holds her head to push her into the water is what made it _seem_ like he was going to kiss her which is what led up to the confusion. And the collective fear that they were going to kiss.
we’re not tryna make it weird it’s already weird on its own, they’re not normal people and they’re way too touchy and have boundary issues, every interaction is just creepy and predatory and off to me
This whole series I thought silco was playing on jinxs emotions, maybe being a little sincere but ready to throw her away when it was convenient. I'm so use to the apathetic mob boss stereotype that I was shocked when I started to see he was more then a 1 dimensional obstacle for the heros to overcome. Nothings better than a villain the audience wants to see win
@@giuliaprimucci7603 Nothing is weird in this scene, just great acting. I don't know why most people who thinks like this miss important details. Silco is a bad FATHER figure of Jinx so it's kinda fucked up how people thought they were gonna kiss.
@@itgetsdarkinthemind it is not fucked up to think they were gonna kiss if their faces were so fucking close and he literally leaned on. So, a FIRST impact i was creeped out, but NOW I'm trying to understand these character and I like their father/daughter dynamic. Don't say that people are sus just because they were scared sometimes weird was going to happen.
Let your servant Jinx be reborn from the sea as you were.Bless her with salt, bless her with stone, bless her with steel. What is dead may never die, but rises again,harder and stronger.
Silco may have cared for Jinx, but we shouldn't see their relationship as precious. Instead of truly desiring her healing, he projected his way of thinking onto young Powder and forged some kind of trauma bond that may have been comforting to Powder, but it sure wasn't healthy. Silco was fully ready to kill a child, the only thing that stopped him was when she hugged him and he was reminded of HIMSELF. He nurtures her, because he sees what he was in her. Silco couldn't properly process and move on healthily from his own betrayal, and raised (or should I say groomed Jinx) in that regard all the same. He wanted her to think only he could love her and keep her safe. That she could never trust anyone but him and herself. Which is screwed up considering it was technically his fault she was separated from her family.
One of the best scenes in this arc. Silco's love and patience for Jinx is heartwarming, but it also feels very gross. Especially when he grasps her and puts her in the water...
@@TheAbsoluteCYNical May I point you to the EFAP coverage of Arcane? (EFAP is a podcast on youtube that covers stuff like Marvel, Star Wars, etc.) There was one guy on there insisting that Silco kisses Jinx on the lips in this scene for... over half an hour, I think. It was hilarious, because they actually went over the whole scene right there and he still kept insisting it must have happened at some point. :D
I thought this was a deleted scene for a second and I kinda didn’t get what this was about except for the part you need to let powder die so jinx can become stronger
