I'm blaming https://archiveofourown.org/users/wildfloripondio/pseuds/wildfloripondio and https://archiveofourown.org/users/Lorenqy78/pseuds/Lorenqy78 for this, SillyBomb crew you got to me.
Ekko and Powder are young when they do music together. Not that Ekko can't do it with anyone else, but Jinx can't do it with anyone but him; no one else gets her style, and they make the perfect beat for each other. They grow up listening to everything, even go together to a Pentakill gig with their adoptive dads and Vi for the big sister's nameday.
Tragedy strikes, Vander, Benzo, Mylo and Claggor all die and they are not the only ones. It's all 13 year old Powder's fault. Vi, in a Girl Punk Rock Band at the time, goes to juvy to cover for her mistake, and Powder takes the name Jinx to do her own music in the underground scene, rejecting everyone, including Ekko. She's couch hoping. Feel like she's living free and for real, but the truth is that she's stuck despite her brillant mind. She only got music.
She pours everything, her rage and her pain into her music, going from punk band to punk band who disband because of real life getting to them all, parties hard, drops school, do drugs, sleeps around, stop slipping around, goes to protests and anti-system events, just to scream in a mic, while Ekko becomes a professional beatmaker. She blames the world for what it's not, he accuse her and her kind to wallow in self pity and not put the work to get the community out of misery. Disstracks start to pile-up. She's provocative, he's innovative. He finally gets his break with True Damage, and she's left behind.
Silco is Eye's of Zaun Label House's director and he makes her a proposition her values should urge her to refuse; clean up your act, put yourself together, stop insulting the whole world and try resembling K/DA a bit more. Streamline yourself. Be more digestible. We'll make a star out of you.
And because of this promess of simplicity, of just becoming a empty canary and be able to live from it, she tosses aside all of her punk entourage and values, and becomes exactly what people want to hear;
Her rage and pain, in a digestable bottle of glass.
And money comes. Oh, it comes. Flowing. With the collabs, the fame.
With the hate of her old crowd.
The unwanted love of the parasocial creeps.
With the rest of the world trying to peel appart her past and her privicy, even to her sexlife, because when you dress like that it must mean you are open season, right?
Celebrity crushes Jinx. Destroys and silences her. Push her to the worst of habits. Push her to get way too close with Silco, who really doesn't know how to handle her, but can't let go of her, be it because she is his golden egg hen, and maybe because she's like a daughter to him now. Even if she clearly didn't get the memo because she'd do anything to be close to someone.
Vi gets out of prison. Tries to contact her again. And the shame and fear of being rejected, by her, asking how could she sing and dance for the opposite of what they stood for, by Silco growing distant so she doesn't do something she'll regret, sends her into a spiral.
One day, she locks herself inside her hotel room and refuses to go out. No more interviews, no more concert, no more TV shows, adds. She doesn't even pick up the phone and she becomes feral when anyone tries to get her out by force. The situation escalades for days.
And Vi has to ask Ekko to help.
Is her friend still in there? Will she listen to a beat? A song? Will she sing with him again?
Did I say I liked Angst?
If you don't want to write original songs, some random associations you might like
Vi > P!NK, greenday
Early Jinx > Tatoo, 2000's Avril Lavigne, Kyo, Nana Osaki (Black Stones)
Pop Star Jinx > Lady Gaga, Serena Carpenter, Shakira
please add more
The EkkoVSJinx diss tracks
Ekko:
Girl y'ain't a real, you dodged bars of beat and steal
Sis' got a bullet for you, and what do you do?
You doll up for pedos to get your shot, think you're hot
Accusing the whole world not to give you a shot
Well you shot down every single opportunity
Guess it's easier than eating the shit that comes with integrity
Jinx:
Girls, the Boy Saviour put me on his diss track
He's distracted by my short skirt and my Leg strap
So brave of you to point at m'y side boob and call me indecent
in a faire world it's the pigs you would ask to act decent
Watch out of the descent, Boy Saviours, my eyes are right here
You can call me deviant, go play the game I fear
I'm not playing for the money, the success or the pride
I sing to own m'y own body and my own mind
The collab to save her life;
Ekko
Old friend, across the river, we passes that bridge long ago
I just don't remember how you sounded like tho
I have to admit, It's my fault too
Can we please start over and build something new?
Jinx
Will you stay when I jinx it again?
Will you stay when I hurt you again
When I loose my mind will you remember for me
Why did we sang that beat? I just miss that beat
Both
Hold me together, we can't erase what we did and we can't start over
I won't rewrite the stars for you, but if you'll have me
We can remix those bad memories into
Something worth building for
Hold me together, can't take back what we said
And I am so afraid you'll be fed up when I do it all again
When I'm crumbling down you're
Someone rebuilding myself for
Singer Jinx headcanon:
Hyperfeminine and dresses purposefully revealing, but is actually very, very peculiar and private about her sexlife. (Aromantic, greysexual, no one knows). Absolutely more confortable with kinky stuff than vanilla sex. Very much a switch who has never found anyone to loose control to safely.
Is supposed to be medicated by doesn't follow her prescriptions. Used to do recreative drugs to self-medicate. Picky eater. Either eat and drink the cheepest fastfood and beer ever with her sister, or refuses to settle for less than gastronomic level of food just to establish dominance.
Uses her days of seclusions to play every solo offline games ever on hardmode. The blue hair is a dye job. She wears pink contacts.
Actually knows how to make bombs and molotov's. Former activist, remember? Silco's personnal PR nightmare, because she's kind of an ex-terrorists in her own right and does have a criminal record that begs to catch back to her and make her fall from fame even more dramatic.
Knows what Evelyn from K/DA does with her disapearing partners and won't tell a soul. Sorority and woman's wrongs in full swing. Always insist about how dreamy she thinks Kayn from Heartsteel is to hide her disinterest in romance. Actually have fun embarrassing him at awkard shows and making him uncomfortable.
She would probably happier if she stopped doing music commecially. Her contract with Silco is not actually hard to break, but she doesn't know what to do with herself if she isn't scheddled by someone else.
True Damage Ekko headcanon
Public image is calm and pure drip, but funny and suave but in private he's kind of a overworked perfectionnist and tries to be careful not to be a tyrant. Tries very hard to play it cool when he collabs with an idol if his, but he's still a curious and amazed boy who can't help to ask questions about everything.
Produce 100 beats, only use one, sells the right for 2, and team up with Akali to help young artist find their voice. Is mad jalous of Yasuo's capacity for a sick beat like it's natural for him. Qiana and Senna are like big sister's to him and their voice are his inspiration for True Damage. He values travelling to listen to traditionnal music and old beat from all around the world, as well as very experimental stuff.
Actualky very wellversed un theory of music and music tech. He's behind the visual identity of most of the video clips, and has a way of directing and pitching ideas by painting scenography and costumes in traditionnal mediums. He often has a whole vision he spends day refining with the other members before preventing it to the label.
Used to bleach his hair. Doesn't hate being a thirst trap, but is weirdly romantic. Kind of had his first heart breaks beside Jinx in engaging in parasocial relationships that backfired at him. Got with Ezreal from Heartsteel at some point, it was fire and didn't work out. They are trying to stay friend, they aren't quite there yet.
He obviously still has feeling for Jinx, but he pushed it down. Would probably crack if she made a move on him, but be very upset if she didn't clarify the fact that she doesn't 'fall in love' exactly. Open to kinky but fairly inexpérimentés and unimpressed by the concept.
