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It will never stop being funny to me that Vi and Caitlyn talking about how bad Silco is probably actually worked out as a glowing endorsement of how zomg powerful he is and as such likely directly led to Jayce even considering trying to make Silco the leader of Zaun.
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Like before they didn’t even know that there is somebody they can negotiate with. And because Caitlyn and Vi take Silco so seriously they now think of Silco as the man who can fix their problems and keep the Undercity away from them.
Silco: It ain’t much, but it’s honest work.
Silco to Jinx: Guess what, Daddy got a Promotion! We are having ice-cream for dinner today!
Revisiting Arcane, I suddenly wondered what could have driven Vi so mad that she was willing to abandon her people to war with Piltover. The Council’s refusal to help (to help in the way she had hoped)? Certainly. But is there more behind it? And if you think back to the very beginning, yes, perhaps there is…
When Vi comes to the Council, she already knows what to expect from them and so do we. Do you remember the beginning?
When they wanted to get the culprit in that explosion, The Council was determined, it literally demanded that Grayson shake the Undercity from top to bottom, shaking people until they gave up the culprit.
That determination was what Vi had been waiting for, but…
This time the rules had changed somewhat and the Council was suddenly not so determined. And we also know the reason: Silco.
This is already something Vi didn’t know.
In Vandr’s time you can see how the enforcers came to the Undercity without any problem when they needed something (even Jace went there without any problem). That’s what caused some people, and Sevika, to leave for Silco, because they couldn’t stand the attitude.
Is it possible to imagine something like that in Zauna under Silco?
What do we see in Zaun at the moment? Not a trace of enforcers there, they are simply afraid to go there, knowing that now their presence there will not be tolerated, as it was before. Even knowing that there is a crystal on the line, they still do not risk going into Zaun.
So the Council has become more cautious about Zaun.
I think that’s one of the reasons why Vi is so angry. Because now what she herself wanted from the beginning, what she wanted from Vander, is happening. The Council is finally showing the respect she desired for her people. Instead of acting as they usually do, they suddenly decide to negotiate.
But the wicked irony is that it was not Vander who achieved this, but her enemy, Silco…
I think at that moment, she was hurt like hell as a daughter. The Council had no regard for her father, and suddenly showed more respect for her enemy. And her attack on the heart of Silco’s empire alone only confirms it.
She’s mad as hell… so much so that this attack even seems desperate. Especially that scream after the fight with Sevika… always gives me the creeps.
In part, it reminds me a bit of what Jinx does in the finale. She also beats at the heart of Piltover, the Council.
It’s a desperate cry, a protest of disagreement with what happened… They’re both single-handedly going up against everyone else.
In Vi’s case, she’s against all of Zaun, Jinx is against Piltover… and in both cases it’s revenge for lost father.
What does Silco say when someone asks him what his daughter is up to and she immediately walks in the room? Hijinks.
THE JOKE HIT ME LIKE TEN MINUTES AFTER YOU SENT THIS ASK LMAOOOOOOOOOOO
ohhhh why did i find a recording of silco's VA singing dear friend across the river. my little heart cannot survive this. it exploded after he ended it with “good night, jinx”. ohhh i need to lay down.
Jinxs little fangs my beloveds
Silco has them too
ohhhh why did i find a recording of silco's VA singing dear friend across the river. my little heart cannot survive this. it exploded after he ended it with “good night, jinx”. ohhh i need to lay down.
enjoy your meal.
That kinda aligns well with the theory that Vi was talking about herself as the monster. As others pointed out the line ‘when a real monster showed up I ran away’ doesn’t fit Silco cos she was ready to rush towards Powder/him when she noticed him but was kidnapped, so the exact opposite of running away. However if the monster is Vi’s rage then it fits cos she did run away from the situation when her rage surfaced.
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Arcane: League of Legends (Cartoon 2021) Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Summary:
Jinx would not have called herself college material. But when she finds herself forced to navigate the halls of the Academy of Piltover, she realizes just how different she is, and just how hard college can be. Until a boy who’s all sharp edges and soft hair helps her get a book off a shelf she can’t reach. Until that boy introduces her to his friend, who acts like he can’t stand her but really would do anything to make her happy. Until she realizes that friendship can be born out of the most peculiar places – even the trenches of the Academy.
Thus begins a tale where plankton are the topic of discussion more than once, Heimerdinger’s good name is disrespected, a criminal partnership is formed, and a glitter bomb is slowly but steadily constructed.
As I finished watching Arcane once again, I once again broke my heart over Silco's death scene... How did they achieve that, that every time is like the first time? Bloody sadists... love them.
Okay. This is going to be a lot of letters...
This scene... It's beautiful from the beginning.
When I watched it the first time and when I heard Jinx's words to Vi, I even believed that she was saying it sincerely, which surprised me...
I was surprised at the spontaneity of her feelings for her sister. I thought to myself, "Why are you saying this? After all, she left you, and not once, Silco was the one who was always there for you, always believed in you. Why?" and only then did I begin to realize that it was a performance for Vi, to make her believe that her beloved Powder had shown herself into the light after all, as she had wanted.
That it was only a performance was hinted at by Jinx's abrupt change in behavior, as if a switch had been tripped.
"Are we still sisters?"
"Nothing will ever change that."
And it's time to put those words to the test....
And then there's the dish scene. At first this scene seems humorous, but in fact, it's a test for Vi, which she unfortunately (luckily?) failed.
She really expected to see Caitlyn's head there, she expected this kind of atrocity from her sister.... As if from a mad monster.
"I'm not that crazy ..." but Vi thinks she's crazy enough to do something like that.
"You'll be with her a day before she realizes you aren't that girl anymore and turns her back on you.
Silco's words could easily be seen by many as a simple attempt to manipulate Jinx's feelings, and besides, he's already so conveniently labeled as an "Evil Manipulator". But I don't think so...
Over the course of the series, we've been shown more than once that Vi... is not very reliable, to say the least.
"You're aren't lying? You wouldn't lie to me. Not again."
It's been there somewhere... right?
"She wouldn't do that. Not again."
And we all remember what happened then...
"I'm not lying. I'm on your side. I promise."
And that's why she gave her name to the Council without delay, hoping for.... what? That they'd get rid of Silco and they'd let her have Jinx in peace? How stupid is that.
Is that why she left her on the bridge to die?
That's why she lies about sitting in jail dreaming of going back to her, even though she told Caitlyn earlier in episode 6 that she was sure Powder was dead. Who did you want to go back to, then? Okay, maybe it's just an irrational desire to go back...
Unlike Silco, who, for the entire show, has exhibited exactly the opposite behavior one would expect from him.
And the beauty of that behavior is that it's not thrown in the viewer's face, it's barely noticeable in most moments, but it's there... Just notice how twitchy he gets when someone speaks bad of Jinx. It's barely noticeable on his face, but it's there. (That's something I'd give a separate post to.)
I believe Silco's words are based on what he saw and what he felt himself. He saw how, because of Vi, Jinx almost died in his arms, and he knows the pain of being rejected.
Vander.
Recalls the scene at the end of episode 3.
"I knew you still had it in you."
This is a phrase that can be understood in two ways and the first time I misunderstood it. At first I thought the phrase meant that Vander was still willing to fight, but then...
I realized that the phrase was more about Vander not changing in a good way, but he stayed the same... He grabbed Silco again and started choking him again.
It was a refusal. Vander refused to understand Silco, just as he had on the day of the betrayal.
Remember Silco's face when Vander grabbed him. Amazement, maybe even fear... again? In spite of his words that Vander was not forgive himself for what he did to Silco... he does it again.
Only when Vander's fingers clench, does Silco grin angrily. Yes, it happens again, and Silco kills Vander, there could be no other outcome, the other outcome has been rejected.
Now the phrase "I knew you still had it in you" has taken on a different color, after realizing that...
Let's go back to the table.
Silco knew the pain of betrayal, knew the pain of rejection, and tried with all his might to spare Jinx that pain. He knew that Vi would reject her just as Vander rejected Silco. That's why he was telling Jinx all this, he didn't want her to go through the same thing he did.
Did Jinx believe him? Did she understand him? I think she did, because in the next scene, when Caitlin gets up and points her gun at Jinx, she steps back to Silco and puts her gun down next to him. Why would she do that? She could have put it exactly where she stood. Maybe she was giving him a chance to grab it if something went wrong... and unfortunately, it went wrong...
Now let's move on to the moment when this awful Jinx nightmare scene begins.
The scene itself and what's going on perfectly demonstrates Vi's attitude toward her sister and the fact that Jinx and Powder are two different people to her, not realizing that by doing so, she's ruining her sister's life.
She shouts the words to make Jinx remember, but unfortunately, Jinx didn't forget, just started to, but Vi didn't let that happen.
She is surrounded by monsters again. She asks Vi to stop, but she just ignores her and keeps going. Even as Jinx literally breaks down and falls to the floor huddled like a child in a corner, Vi continues to scream.
She could see visually that what was happening to her sister was not normal, that she was in pain. But somehow Vi doesn't let that stop her.... She will bring Powder back, even if it means completely destroying her sister's already sick mind.
I understand that Vi is just clinging to the past, but that in no way justifies her in this scene.
It's like taking a grown man, breaking all his bones and expecting them to heal the way you want them to, but in reality you just end up with an disabled. Vi is essentially doing the same thing just on a psychological level.
I can only imagine how unbearable it was for Silco to watch what was happening to Jinx, all the things he was trying to save her from....
It's important to note that in this scene Silco is not trying to get Jinx on his side, he just asked her not to listen, knowing that his daughter would be hurt. He didn't yell, knowing that it wouldn't help Jinx, he tried to get out and protect her.
The look in his eyes as he gripped the weapon was full of desperate madness, an almost animalistic desperation to protect what he loved.
The actual scene of the gunshot, which finally silenced Vi.
Many people say it was Powder who fired the shot, though I don't agree with that at all, nor do I agree with the way people like Vi share Jinx and Powder as two different people.
Powder is thought to have shot Silco to protect her sister, but I insisted and will insist that Jinx did it instinctively reacting to the sound, we are, after all, accentuated visually and audibly by the way the gun in Silco's hand is triggered for a reason.
She was in a completely inadequate state, surrounded by her own horrors, and reacted instinctively to possible danger. After all, if she had deliberately shot at Silco, why didn't she realize at once who she had hit, even though she was looking directly in his direction?
Only when the glimmer of light fades in her eyes, then, does she realize what she has done. There is no Powder, it is always one person.
And finally that scene...
Silco's death is probably one of the strongest moments in the series, at least for me. The final scene kills me every time I rewatch Arcane, but especially... Jinx kills me. Her face and eyes at the moment of Silco's death, it's something devastatingly beautiful.
That brief moment when she holds his face in her hands, hears one last tender goodbye and pleads not to cry, for she is beautiful... his eyes close. And then his head begins to slowly bow down under the weight of the shadow of death...
And at that moment Jinx tilts her head toward him, her eyes expectant, even childlike disbelief that all this is really happening, it can't be true, can it? He will never leave her...
This gesture on her part looks so natural, as if they had already done it so many times, touched each other's foreheads to make sure that all is well with them...
But then she touches him and realizes that it's over... In that moment, the childish naive hope shatters in her eyes, giving way to pain and the realization that she has lost him forever. No more kind words, no more gentle touches. The end.
This simple and obvious gesture, which, for some reason, I didn't immediately notice, it just shatters me... there's too much in it, it doesn't even need words. That's why I love Arcane so much...
I hope Vi realizes that she deprived Jinx of her future because she so stubbornly and selfishly clung to the past...
Like I said, I understand why this is happening, but it doesn't excuse her. Breaking her sister's life twice.... is too much.
Jinx: Silco, why do good people have to die young?
Silco: well, when you are in a garden full of flowers, which one do you pick?
Jinx: the ugly ones
Silco: exac– wait, what? Why?
Jinx: ugly bitches don't belong in my goddamn garden
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I'm always crying like a child on this scene...
Silco's voice, absolutely crushed, broken, trying to convince himself that he has to do what he has to do, that he will lose only problems. But... feelings break his voice.
No, he will lose more than he wants to...
His look, always proud, confident, has become so depressed...
And it always destroys me to realize that Jinx has been there since the beginning of the scene, hearing everything... and doesn't hear what she's supposed to hear.
It makes me want to howl, "God, listen to him, he loves you more than anything in the world!"
And what gets to me about this scene is how it's worked out even on a level that you can't see, but hear...
Yes, yes, now I'm talking about the soundtrack. Not only is it beautiful, there's another thing...
Remember Silco's line:
"Is there anything so undoing as a daughter? "
The funny thing is that the soundtrack to this scene is called exactly the same, but with only one small difference....
"Is there anything so ENDEARING as a daughter? "
God...how I love that the soundtrack acts as a second bottom to Silco's words and to the whole scene in general.
The detailing of this show is amazing....
By the way, in the end credits of episode 9, this soundtrack also plays... So you'll feel more painful if you decide to finish the credits :D
jinx kidnapping and tying silco up but also drawing a crown over his head appreciation
Every time I listen to "Guns for Hire" I now involuntarily remember the scene from Arcane in which she plays...
And I begin to think of Silco's self-control, how imperturbable and at the same time incredibly fragile he is.
As we know, total self-control is almost primary in Silco's life, and for good reason. He has to be in control all the time, because he has to work with mad dogs that can get off the leash if he shows weakness.
Such moments do happen, however, either on his own initiative (like the scenes in episodes 4, 5 and 6, when Silco and Jinx are together) or against his will and barely noticeable... so barely that you really don't notice it. It seems that even Silco himself doesn't realize that he's giving himself away.
One of the first moments when Silco's equanimity falters is the finale of episode 3, when Powder throws herself at his chest, and by the wicked irony of fate, she will be the one reason Silco's self-control will falter throughout the series...
The moment when Sevika says Jinx is the problem.
Silco becomes more aggressive, not in the usual sense of the word, but I think you can see and feel it. He even turns around after these words to make eye contact with Sevika and combining this with his words, he clearly wants to put her in her place.
" We? Who's we?"
The most interesting thing about this scene is that Sevika understands everything, she understands why Silco is behaving this way. And that makes her even angrier.
But moving on...
Then it happens in the scene with Marcus, when he demands that Jinx be given up.
This is also where the non-verbal treatment that Silco shows by gesture and tone of voice (not words) enters into the conversation, forcing Marcus to tone down his ardor...
" Arresting her would be doing you a favor. "
" I don't need favor. "
Silco's words indicate that Marcus' words have hurt his pride, but Silco's behavior demonstrates that he is pissed off by disdain (Marcus thinks, like everyone else, that Jinx is the problem) and an attempt to encroach on Jinx. And the further along the series goes, the more obvious it becomes...
Next thing you know, the end of episode 5. I think it's pretty obvious, so let's move on.
" She's back. "
" From the dead? "
The scene where Silco talks about Jinx with Vi.
The facial expression and tone of voice at the mention of Jinx give away Silco quite eloquently.
"...but... Jinx... Oh. She is more than I ever imagined. "
And it seems to me that he's doing it involuntarily, unnoticed even by himself.
Then there's this scene in episode 6, which to me is just the incredible scene.
That anger, that rage... it's beautiful. How can rage be beautiful? Probably not until you think about who it comes from and for what reason.
Silco's rage scene is one of his first most vivid expressions, and not just rage... but fear that he might lose Jinx.
He tries to pull himself together, but instead falls into an even greater rage. Everything is out of control, and even himself.
Silco's whole life is a total control of everything, and he somehow miraculously has the strength to do it.
And knowing this, this scene begins to fascinate.... How strong are his feelings now that even Silco can't contain them?
Also quite interesting are a couple of moments...
The scene in episode 7 , the end of the dialogue with Finn when he calls Jinx a dog. At the end of his speech, Silco's eye barely twitches and he hums.
You'd think Silco had been hurt by Finn's doubts about his powers... But then we come to the second such similar scene, which shows that such a reaction was precisely to Jinx's insult.
It's almost the end, episode 9, the very beginning. The scene where Silco is in the broken Shemmer factory, talking to Renni.
First should note, however, his dialogue with Sevika, before that.
In this dialogue, Silco sounds completely calm, one might say indifferent, even his body language says so, as if he is completely unconcerned that his empire has just been damaged.
" Say what you want about the late Sheriff. He had his uses. "
That is, until Sevika mentions Jinx.
" Too bad Jinx didn't think so. "
Silco immediately grimmer and defends Jinx.
" We'll buy another. "
Sevika's reaction - she only grinned. What else could he say? She understands everything.
Finally a conversation with Renni. We are interested in the end of the dialogue.
It is important to note that this woman has just lost a child, which makes her last question take on a double meaning.
" You're one to talk about sacrificing for the cause. Where is Jinx anyhow? "
Her words could also be interpreted as:
"Where is Jinx? Why don't you make the same sacrifices that we do?"
And Silco picks up on this, to which there is an immediate reaction. His eye twitches again, but this time it's much more noticeable, giving away his annoyance (anxiety?)... Renni's words prick him.
He can't make that sacrifice...
She bluntly accused Silco of being a hypocrite.
Snippet - Jinx gets no dates. Ever - Forward, but Never Forget/XOXO
Silco doesn’t take kindly to Jinx’s ‘admirers.’
tw: possessive behavior, codependency and violence
Forward, but Never Forget on AO3
Snippet:
By nature, Silco is possessive. With Jinx, the possessiveness grew teeth. Biting whoever came close, and biting hard. By Jinx’s thirteenth year, the punters were already lining up. Street toughs with seedy swaggers. Chem-barons licking their dirty lips. Hustlers holding their crotches as if caging their erections. All of them wanting a taste of Silco’s shiniest prodigy.
His child.
The Lanes have a hierarchy. So does Nature. What sucker paws a predator’s pup and expects to survive?
At the Drop, Silco routinely kept to the VIP lounge, while Jinx pinballed gleefully across the dancefloor. He’d watch, cloaked in shadow, for any fool who gravitated too close. Their shock at getting snapped up—then snapped in half—by his crew was a rousing aperitif. But the real feasting came afterward. He’d ordered one chem-punk’s hands chopped off after he’d copped a feel. He’d had a peeping-tom’s eyeballs plucked from his skull after he’d ‘accidentally’ stumbled on Jinx in the private bath-house at Entresol. Another bitch got embers crammed down her shrieking mouth after she’d tried kissing Jinx—intercepted only after Sevika shot her elbow up and her lips smashed into the knob.
Teaching the uncouth a lesson in respect. Tops the list of Best Fatherly Experiences.
The river full of ragdolling bodies afterward.
Jinx didn’t need his cosseting. The girl was deadly as dynamite. He remembers how he’d given her a somber, discursive lecture on safe sex—and its thousand unsafe parallels. She’d guffawed, then asked to learn bare-handed combat. Trapped alone with a stranger, she’d know exactly how to disarm him. How to dislocate his kneecaps. How to crack his spine.
Overkill? Silco begs to differ. The Undercity’s streets weren’t kind. And pretty girls were perennial prey for Enforcers. Jinx needed to protect herself—not just against the usual scum but from predators higher up the food chain. It was Silco’s responsibility to show her how.
Fatherhood is like warfare. One’s territory must be defended in blood.
Then. Now. Always.