Evil Father-Daughter Pairs
One thing I really love about Silco and Jinxās father and daughter relationship, is that it reminds me greatly of The Mayor and Faith Lehaneās relationship from BTVS.
Or I guess, I donāt love Silco and Jinx because they remind me of The Mayor and Faith, but because itās the same relationship in both shows.
The evil, āwholesomeā, but also twisted and yet, still genuinely loving father and daughter villain pair.
Which is greatly underused in my opinion. Iām trying to think of other examples, but I canāt, or at least nothing quite like these two (or four).
You have this evil man, who is presented as just being evil and then he out of blue gets this adopted daughter. You think heās just manipulating her, using this damaged girlās need for love and acceptance ā but it turns out he in fact does love and care for her, as much as she does for him.
They both genuinely see each other as father and daughter.
The villain doesnāt suddenly become a good or kind person, but he becomes more complex to the audience, by the simple fact you can see he is capable of love, kindness and actually cares for someone else.
The villains are made to be as human as possible, they need connection and love as much as anyone else.
Both BTVS and Arcane first present their villain in a way where you canāt even imagine him caring for another, let alone a character that was introduced to us as one of our heroes.
I just remember watching BTVS S3 for the first time (and during my many rewatches) and loving when you see realize The Mayor, this demon who wants world domination and doesnāt care for other people, actually loved Faith. He wasnāt using her (or not JUST using her), but he actually saw her as his daughter.
The Mayor was greatly upset when Faith was injured. When Buffy taunted him in the finale, showing him the knife she used to stab Faith, the knife he gifted to Faith; he got angry enough to blindly chase Buffy into her trap for him.
Then later in the series, we see the Mayor appear in Faithās story. He was someone who mattered to her, she really did see him as her father.
She wasnāt delusional about him being a good man, she knew who and what he was, but she still loved him and believed/knew he loved her.
Itās such an underrated and underused relationship and dynamic in my opinion. I just love these villain father and daughter pairs.
Also, there are a lot of similarities between Jinx and Faith (x)
Co-executive producer and writer Dogue Petrie said -
āSheās totally tragic. The whole key to Faith is that sheās in pain. If you took that away, she would be a monster. But sheās so lonely and so desperate, and all of her toughness comes out of trying to cover that. Thatās what real monsters are made of. No one thinks theyāre really a monster.ā
So sheās always looking for a family and always coming up short and making these horrible choices, and it drove her insane. Plus I think she was missing a couple of screws to begin with. āIf you donāt love me, you will fear me,ā is kind of her MO.Ā Sheās not a stable girl, but a fun one.
Sheās the most faithless character weāve got. She doesnāt trust herself or anyone around her. We try to do that a lot with our monsters. Itās much more fun if you look at it from their point of view.ā
Believed one of the reasons why Faith elicits sympathy from the audience is the father/daughter relationship between her and the Mayor, comparing their affection for one another to that between vampires Spike and Drusilla. The writers wanted to make [them] as human as possible by showing they need connection and love as much as the heroic characters.Ā
Eliza Dushku, the actress who played Faith
Asserts that Faithās bond with the Mayor stems from him being one of the few people in her life who does not put her down, which is something she has battled with her whole life; Dushku goes on to say Faithās misplaced trust in the Mayor āleads her into being more crazyā.
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