ViJinx Week, (very Belated) Day 3: Tattoos + Nostalgia

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

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it's INSANE to me how s1 was praised for its portrayal of mental illness and then s2 did a COMPLETE 180 and validated (the season itself but also the 'I like Jinx better now' fandom reaction) all the most vile notions about mental illnesses and society.

s1 felt like Jinx could never fit this unfair society and so her acting out against Piltover in the end was karma, it didn't feel like the narrative was putting the blame on her for being ill and raised in a violent environment but on Piltover, she was the monster they created, her illnesses didn't make her a monster inherently it was how others treated her that did that. but s2 narrative does seem to think exactly that, that it's all Jinx's fault for not being able to fit society's standards.

s2 goes the route of unrealistically healing her so that the narrative/characters/fandom can go 'I like her better now' 🤮 but ultimately she STILL has to exit society cos even after being unrealistically healed of her worst symptoms she's still not palatable enough and needs to make room for others to lead a happy life without her.

this validates the most toxic notions ppl have about how society treats/should treat ppl with mental illnesses. that they are indeed inherently unlovable (so much for 'don't cry, you're perfect') and ppl would be better off without them cos they'll never fit into society and that's their fault, society is correct for finding these ppl undesirable, as the writers' attitude and fandom reaction proves ig.

Jinx has "red violet" eyes and vi has "powder blue" eyes. And I'm supposed to believe that they're NOT in love with eachother ???

This is their dynamic in s2.

Jinx || Arcane

Here I am! Your Big Fat Hero.

I love the sibling relationship Vi has (with Ekko) and the romantic relationship Vi has (with Jinx) ((delusional))

ViJinx Week, day 4: Tied Up

I've Heard This Story Before

The little blue-haired girl with magic stones...

...and that invention that HAD to work...

...to save her big sister...

But they had such different endings...

...and I can't, for the life of me, figure which ending was the happy one...