#the inx

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I wish Silco was still alive to be visibly awed and simultaneously uncomfortable at his daughter's stan community. Some of them appear to be wearing his colors, like the one on center-right.

Give him a month and he'll have it restructured for real estate fraud and arms-dealing.

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The finale must have seemed like absolute horseshit to the Jinxers. They spent what seemed like several months resisting Piltover's violent occupation of Zaun where they are regularly harassed,

assaulted,

imprisoned,

shot at, and plainly intimidated in their own homes.

All for it to mean nothing, because everything they did had no bearing on Piltover's decision to pull back the occupation. And after what seemed like months of being terrorized they're asked to join a fight of which it's catalyst and driving force is hextech and it's creators. A technology and group of people that have never directly or indirectly benefitted them in any tangible way, and didn't one of those guys kill a kid in Zaun a couple months back!?!?!???

But it's the end of the world so of course they're going to fight, and of course many of them died. Some worse than others, in the uniforms of the forces that beat and imprisoned them.

On the battlefield all the double standards are laid bare for them to see because Piltover has fully weaponized hextech to defend themselves from an aggressor. Meanwhile one of the core reasons their home was gassed and occupied was to rid the place of shimmer. Without it Zaun was easily occupied by Piltover and they died in droves on the battlefield from wounds that it would have easily healed by it.

And after everything that's happened, from the invasion of their home, the violent repression, the deaths of their leaders and their symbol, they gained practically nothing in return. Even the power Sevika gained as a councilmember is completely dependent on when a Piltovan deigns to side with her. What's worse, there's literally nothing stopping from Piltover from doing it all over again. Piltover didn't need hextech to occupy Zaun, without shimmer, all they needed was their guns.

So what happens next?

Obviously, this isn't over. None of what's happened will be forgotten, especially by the faction that appeared to spend the most time fighting the occupation. Even though they've gained nothing of material value from Piltover, the connections and skills they've forged in the conflict are decent substitutes.

Some of these new skills include gunsmithing! An incredible development in Zaun as only Jinx and Piltover had a monopoly on the technology. Add to that the fact that the Jinxers don't just admire Jinx, but likely Silco as well and are even depicted fighting the enforcers alongside Silco's former underlings, there's clearly a new wave of militancy brewing.

This leads me to wonder if over time the Jinxers would morph into something like the Inx. The Inx are of course a noncanon Jinx-aligned faction, but their creation was heavily inspired by Arcane and even included Silco's iconography in their aesthetic.

Now first off, the Inx are dangerous. They're violent, obnoxious in a hooligan kind of way, and they operate kind of like a cult (real estate fraud and all), but they're also the kind of dangerous Silco enabled in Jinx. Leading members like Chadd above are artistically creative, inventive, charismatic, and genuinely well-organized.

The Inx are incredibly capable of amazing feats (and great music), they're just sort of directionless, and the Jinxers have an ideology that's likely to only get more extreme and a real enemy, but little in terms of power. With a foundation like the Jinxers, something like the Inx could form in Zaun, but far more dangerous. Post-finale the Jinxers will likely be the ones to invest their time in making Zaun's next generation both as innovative and dangerous as possible to make Zaun's streets as uncontrollable and terrifying for enforcers as when shimmer was around.

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This is Chadd, he's from the Inx in Conv/rgence, he loves Jinx, and he organizes elaborate acts of terrorism/performance art against Piltover in Jinx's name. And I NEED this strain of Jinx stan to make it into season 2 of Arcane.

Chadd is the best example of the kind Zaunite that takes their admiration of Jinx seriously and let's it influence their own violence and art, because yes, he plays guitar and sings with the Inx's band. Chadd's an obnoxious, in your face, musically-talented (but borderline nerdy), organized weirdo that gathers all the other stans to plan aerial concerts/bombing events on Piltover.

He's such a dedicated stan (in the concept art) that he dresses up like Jinx too, shorts, fishnets, collar and all. Chadd even has his Jinx tattoo drawn in the same placement aswhere Jinx has her own.

Please Arcane, let obsessive freaks like Chadd overwhelm the chembarons next season as Jinx's stans believe the chembarons don't pay her enough proper tribute. Let Jinx be mildly amused at their antics and keep them around for logistics and grunt work.

[mollysunder]

First Convergence created the Inx.

Now Arcane's created the Jinxers.

I say within the period of season 2's time skip, there was one true Jinx stan cult gang thing, and they immediately broke into a schism like a month in based on differing interpretations of Get Jinxed.

The Jinxers are focused on the home base and generally include Silco in their veneration of Jinx. Meanwhile the Inx are more Jinx-centric and are actual terrorists who engage in real estate fraud to fund it. Chadd is once again the leader of the Inx, while the girl with blue locs runs the Jinxers.

Yeah her and Chadd used to date, that's got NOTHING to do with the schism.

[mollysunder]

Oh wow someone dressed like OG!Jinx.

With slightly less detail. I've decided she's the kind of admirer that really bangs on about Jinx's roots and the early stuff.

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Have you ever thought about the dynamics Jinx, Ekko, and Viktor's followers towards each other? They're all in the same city. Some of these people have to be related to eachother, to known each other, even in passing, some may have been friends in the past. Their lives have all diverged so drastically, mostly because of the figures mentioned above, to end up in Zaun's chaotic political schism.

You've got Inx members and Silco loyalists who tacitly agree with Silco/Jinx’s methods, his endgoal, and the material boom it created for them. There's the Gloriously Evolved who's live were destroyed by the shimmer Silco and Jinx brought into the Lanes, but are paradoxically still dependent on it because in order to grow their numbers of the "evolved" you need shimmer to facilitate the transformation. And then there's the Firelights, people who sought to escape the cycle the Inx and the Evolved fall into, but in doing so physically cut themselves off from the rest of Zaun.

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When you remember that in Zaun people are giving fresh eyeballs to a giant turtle with Silco’s tattoo on it's hand, you realize the Inx aren't a huge leap in idol worshippers for next season. Frankly these Jinx stans are downright normal compared to whatever Silco's been encouraging. Sans the elaborate acts of vandalism, terrorism, and real estate theft, they're just well organized, creative, passionate young people that discovered they like pink, blue, crop tops, and fishnets.

The catharsis of revenge brought them together and the power of music/performance art holds them down. They also seem to throw amazing raves.

It's also fun to just think about the immediate ripple effect Jinx's actions have on the zeitgeist Zaun's youth. In Chadd's concept art for Convergence alone it's like the Council bombing changed the trajectory of his life, and Jinx didn't even do that in the game.

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I know Ekko, Jinx, and Viktor won't be bffs by the end of season 2, but I love the idea that while Ekko might be wary of the latter two, Jinx and Viktor remain adamantly friendly to Ekko, and even give him unsolicited unhinged advice.

A running gag between them would be where Viktor and Jinx try to convince Ekko to turn the Firelights into a full-time cult.

Jinx and Viktor will swear up and down that things really turned up when the Inx and the Gloriously Evolved respectively restructured as cults. Morale's been up 35% post-transition, and Singed gets included in your health plan. Ekko's always left mildly disturbed, but it beats Piltover.