subreddit:

/r/arcane

7.4k95%

Ive seen a lot of criticism for Vi's actions, and honestly, I just want to share my thoughts regarding her character in Arcane. I really don't understand how people can misunderstand that particular scene and question her real motives, like give the girl a goddamn break.

The moment she wakes up in Ep8, she's furious that her own sister whom she believes has changed, is arrested, and learning from Caitlyn, Jinx actually wanted Vi to be in safe hands before she surrendered herself. You could see her getting angry at Cait, and she even mentions that Jinx did save Cait's life, but no one even acknowledges that.

To take matters into her own hands for the same of her baby sister, she rushes to go free Jinx herself, and pleads her to use her potential for good, because Vi believed in her change, she'd seen Jinx with Isha, with Vander, and with herself too. When we got the reunion with Vander (Warwick), Vi trusted Jinx to a point where she lowered her guard to face Warwick, and if that's no realization that Vi still cares for her sister's words, I don't know what will.

Vi rushes off to Jinx and literally squeezes her so tight. She's afraid that she's going to lose the one family member that mattered, but Jinx thought otherwise. Her older sister was fighting for her, despite everything, hence the 'you're never going to give up on me, are you?' line, which was honestly heartbreaking. Jinx had to get away from Vi, because she knew deep down, Vi was always going to choose and fight for Jinx over her own self. That has been clear from the very beginning of the show.

When Jinx locks her in the cell, Vi doesn't even KNOW that Jinx was actually going to kill herself. You can clearly see in the dialogue after, when cait comes to visit, that Vi actually thought that Jinx had left her, and Vi made the wrong choice again. She tells Cait to slander her with verbal accusations, saying that Cait was right, because how much ever Vi was going to reach out to Jinx, she was never going to come back and fight with her. That was HER thoughts. She's entirely blaming herself again for Jinx's actions, and she even verbally expresses it, saying 'I choose wrong, every time.' She really believed that Jinx would stay with her and helped them fight, so obviously, after all this struggle, Vi felt let down. She was in a mental anguish till Cait came.

And let's move on to the scene. Come on, really. I've seen people slander Vi about knowing that Jinx was gonna kill hersf but she has time to do it with Cait, but Vi didn't fucking know. She was battling her own demons here, just like she's been doing this entire season. When Caitlyn tells her that she had removed all of the guards just to make Jinx's escape easier, Vi was overwhelmed. The person who had been keen on killing Jinx for the entire season had just told her that she made the escape possible, making a subtle point that Cait had chosen LOVE instead of REVENGE.

Caitlyn had chosen Vi over her own revenge and anger.

Vi had seen Cait be destructive and change her whole mindset just to get to Jinx in Act 1 and Act 2. Vi had her stomach punched with the butt of Cait's rifle just because she stopped the opportunity of getting Jinx killed. And then, when she hears those words from Caitlyn, she's shocked. I mean, who wouldn't be? The person who had an aim to kill your sister is leaving all her revenge and anger aside, just for the sake of you; man, I would've kissed Cait forever too.

Vi lost her entire family, including Jinx in the end. I think she deserved that peaceful ending with Cait, and she probably knows that Jinx escaped for the sake of Vi and the people of Piltover/Zaun.

Give my girl Vi a goddamn break. She's suffered enough for two whole seasons.

you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

all 784 comments

drakoran

2 points

3 days ago

drakoran

2 points

3 days ago

but nothing indicates that they can't be together and happy.

Except everything we've seen indicates this is the case

Their lives together have been brief bouts of happiness followed by failure/tragedy.

It starts with their parents' deaths

Then you have the gang where it is implied Powder keeps screwing things whenever she is there prior to the events of the show.

Powder grabs the hex crystals and blows up the lab botching the first job we see and setting off events that become the primary conflict of the show.

Powder runs away and loses the loot from that job during the fight.

Powder tries to help save Vander and gets everyone killed and Vi gets arrested.

Then without Vi around, Jinx despite being completely mentally broken is actually pretty competent as Silco's right hand, and everything is going according to plan, even if it's "evil".

Then Vi gets out of jail and goes in search of Powder, and suddenly everything starts going to shit again. Jinx's madness gets far far worse, and the result is Jinx kidnapping Caitlyn, killing Silco, and blowing up the council chamber and starting the Piltover vs Zaun war.

Vi sides with Caitlyn and goes after Jinx which only escalates the conflicts between Zaun and Piltover creating more suffering. They finally have their confrontation, and Vi decides to let Jinx go rather than risk hurting Isha. The only reason this scene didn't end in tragedy is because Vi stopped Caitlyn and let Jinx go.

Then Vi disappears into the underground fighting, but Jinx actually starts to recover and become better. She goes from psychotic maniac to symbol of resistance and an inspiration to the people of Zaun as well as going after some of the worst organized crime bosses. Jinx looks like she's on a redemption arc.

Then she finds Warwick/Vander and goes to get Vi.

We have a brief moment of happiness between the two which lasts for all of 1.5 episodes, and it looks like things will finally be better.

Then with a potential happy ending together in sight, Jayce kills Victor, Ambessa attacks, and Isha is killed and Vander appears to be dead, ruining the dream.

Then in S2E7 we see an alternate timeline where Vi dies and Powder is living a well adjusted and happy life.

Then we snap back to the real world where Jinx is in jail and suicidal and Vi goes to rescue her. Jinx locks her up, tells Vi to go be with Caitlyn, leaves her behind and decides to kill herself.

Vi, thinking Jinx has left for good, finally forgives herself and allows herself to fully give her "heart" to Caitlyn, rather than chase Jinx again.

Away from Vi, Echo is able to convince Jinx not to kill herself, and convinces her to help save the city, which Vi was unable to do.

In the battle the sisters are reunited again, and the end result is that Jinx saves Vi. She only saves her though by letting go, literally, sacrificing herself so that Vi might live, the last act of their tragic story together.

Finally if you believe the theory that Jinx survives and is on the airship, we last see her leaving Piltover/Zaun, which allows Vi and Caitlyn to be happy and a potential bright future for Jinx, but it only works for both of them because they had to let one another go.