I Can't Believe We Could've Had Hoverboard Sevika :'0 (link: Https://x.com/chenalii/status/1861945995220951479/photo/1)

i am unwell 🫠

JINX IN ARCANE SEASON 2

But I got something going now. A friend. And I don't wanna mess it up. Maybe that's what I was like for you.

is it a hot take to say that i never really felt like caitvi worked all that well even back in season 1 as a romantic pairing and vastly preferred it as a platonic relationship? it worked so much better as a begrudging, transactional deal between her and vi, and its quick advancement to romantic feelings between the two was always one of S1's weaker elements. and then S2 happened. the scene being a good representation piece aside (which is a MASSIVE win, in case anyone misunderstands me) the issues i have with the pairing only grew ten times worse. even putting aside the gross implications of the social dynamics at play, it all just feels so... rushed. i'm supposed to believe that vi would leave her sister to run off with very clear signs of suicidal behaviour in order to get down and dirty with this topsider she's known for... what, a few days? with a six month gap between their last meeting which ended with caitlyn assaulting her and saying she's just like her sister, just like the "animals" in the undercity? the same sister who, in season 1, was vi's explicit motivator for surviving seven hellish years of prison when her life fell apart all around her?

what was once an uninteresting pairing to me has now become one i outright dislike, because it wasn't given anywhere near enough time to be properly developed, leading to horrendously out of character actions from vi and taking focus away from her and jinx, the fucking PROTAGONISTS of the show.

vi got colonised tbh. it gives me that feeling when a rich white old man gets with a young SEA lady, brings her to britain and she only gets to see her family through facetime, and that's also the only time she speaks her native language because her man refuses to learn it

cait basically erased vi's identity as a zaunite. she loved vi in spite of that, instead of as a part of her. like how she told vi that she's not like the other zaunites, and saying 'i thought you were one of us' fully expecting her to step away from her people.

vi's been assimilated into piltover, even going against her own ideals by becoming part of the people (enforcers) who killed her parents, who were responsible for executing the systematic oppression of zaun. yet caitlyn's never assimilated into zaun, never even stepping foot into zaun beyond the first caitvi meeting and later when she was gassing the citizens. the show ended with vi living with caitlyn in the top 1% of piltover; no mutual exchange of culture. caitlyn never had to change her mind about zaun the way vi changed her mind about piltover, and remained oblivious to her own privilege and her family's legacy on zaun.

it's just that the sacrifices vi has made for cait, on her identity and on a moral level, has been completely one-sided. this, the imbalanced power dynamic and caitlyn's subtle prejudice against zaun (*) have never been acknowledged in the show. so for them to get back together and have their happy ending without some sort of introspective reflection feels. very uncomfortable. feels like cognitive dissonance.

(*) i say subtle because other than the warcrimes moment, cait often voices her opposition to extreme measures against zaun. however, she supports 'no extreme measures' and 'they are people too' as normative ideas, not really having the ability to recognise the violation of these ideas when it's in front of her and especially not when she's the one violating them. there's constantly an undercurrent of subconscious prejudice in her attitude towards zaunites, and just, a real lack of understanding

gotta catch 'em all 🚗

Jinx Leading the People

Inspired by Liberty Leading the People (La Liberté guidant le peuple), a painting by Eugène Delacroix, commemorates the July Revolution of 1830, which deposed King Charles X of France.

Digitally painted on CLIP Studio Paint

hi tumblr this is my first time here i kind of just used to lurk and look at other people's vijinx posts cause i was scared people will bash my little fishy head in for how my art looks but here's a doodle i did yesterday teje

Jinx || Arcane

Here I am! Your Big Fat Hero.