Arcane - Silco talks to Jinx about the betrayal | scene

Arcane - episode 5

[eatandrun]

Keep in mind that at this moment, Silco truly thought that Vi is dead. Him "baptizing" Jinx here is genuinely trying to help Jinx conquer her deepest fears and be herself.

[BeepBoop-zv]

I love this father daughter thing, like he's a bad influence but also kinda helping her and I love it

[nolanrudolph]

"Betrayal, that pain feels like it’ll eat you from the inside out. It can either break you or forge you into something greater."
Just brilliant.

[plasticmans]

The scene is so artistic that it seems Silco is doing baptism on Jinx

[Mote_Plox]

That day... I let a weak man die.

That is the most motivational thing I've ever heard for anything.

[hazelnutshell]

I'm actually surprised to see how Silco, who I thought gonna be "the obvious baddie bad guy", is so tender and caring toward Jinx. When I saw third episode I expected him turn out to be manipulative and abusive toward his adoptive daughter, like Mother Gothel toward Rapunzel, but no. He is patient with her, cares about her inner peace, stands up for her when this woman with robot arm(don't remember her name) tells she's useless, and forgives Jinx's vagary. He wants what's best for her, what he consideres could be best for her based on his own experience, tho objectively speaking it might be destructive (Silco is not a therapist after all to know perfectly what's right). I hope further in show they would not turn him into "I was actually always abusive and never really cared about Jinx" kind of guy, cause he's my favourite character so far

[a_confused_spoon]

I love how this scene perfectly depicts their relationship: genuine but problematic.

Silco's ways of raising Powder are a big part of the problem, as in why her mental illness is in such an advance stage. He loves Jinx so much, but his own philosophy blinds him: he doesn't help her overcome her trauma, but rather tells her to accept it, internalize it, drown her old weaker more sensitive self in it because that's how things worked out for him. He mistakes his situation with Powder's for how similar they are, yet you can tell that in his own eyes he's convinced he's actually helping.

He didn't make Jinx, but he did shape her

[easternlights]

Kudos to the writers, storyboarders and animators, because if they wanted to achieve this brilliant mix of weirdly heartwarming and deeply unsettling, they succeeded on all fronts.
It really looked like he was about to kiss her, and paired with the previous scenes of Jinx straddling him and sitting on his lap, this would have shocked everybody but surprised nobody. But when he doesn't do that and gently lays her into the water instead, we all feel silly for thinking he'd have done something so base.

[smithie]

I get such a chill when Silco says “Jinx is Perfect”. I don’t know if it’s the voice acting story telling or both but it is so satisfying just hearing and watching that sentence being said.

[pastelguts]

Someone pointed out that he wears makeup over his eye and you can actually see it get washed off in this scene and now I cant unsee it

[warningdeadinside]

I never thought that they were gonna kiss honestly, I just thought that they were gonna touch foreheads for a moment before he submerged her underwater. Am I the only one who thought that?

[lilovs]

0:41 Silco’s make up gets washed by the water. What a cool detail

[Vampluvver]

WHY WHY WHY DO I FALL IN LOVE WITH THE BAD GUY?! THEN WHOOSH..HE IS GONE! This scene cemented my love for SILCO, I am going to miss him too and so much!

[obbieee]

At first I def thought their relationship was sus but as I watch more I understood n IT WAS RLLY PAINFUL TO SEE SILCO DIE N STILL TOLD JINX THAT SHES PERfect :(

[WofnsheepsSkin]

The full circle of Jinx 'burying' silco in the same waters.

[AshweezCosplay]

That little amused chuckle at 0:15 gives me life

[lunathewildcrafter]

1:13 This moment. *This moment.* It scared the *crap* out of me. I genuinely got nervous and thought about what type of relationship they have

[john_]

This scene is beautiful. Everything from what's being said, the music, the lighting, and the soft sounds of the water. Everything about this scene is perfect to me.

[kikithepupper]

You're strong now.. Just like you were always meant to be.. Jinx is perfect

[BlossomOfFlowers]

I saw a lot of people giving Silco shit for this scene and I really don't understand why. Of course, Jinx isn't simply healed by accepting her past and moving on from it. Our mind is much more complex than that. But still, Silco's principle is a very important one. There are things both in the past and present that haunt us. Things we can't change no matter what we do. However, what you can do is accept these facts, learn from them, and try your best to move on (Of course, that's easier said than done and requires professional help in a lot of cases).
This is something I learned in the recent years. There are both past experiences that haunt me and present facts like people suffering all over the world. I can't change these things when they're out of my reach. Accepting that I don't have the power to change these "problems" helped me tremendously to be happier in daily life. Of course, sometimes they come back in my mind and it bothers me. Yet, I can calmly think about these sort of things and figure them out in my head.
And seriously, the only possible way for Jinx to recover was to go to a therapist, which don't exist in their fictional world. I think Silco, as a father, tried his best and did a good job with Jinx in this scene. Because he alone could never fully heal Jinx, especially without professional knowledge. And we know it helped, even if it was only a little bit.