Arcane Episode 9 | Jinx's Tea Party 4/4 | Jinx starts a war

Peace is no longer an option

family isn’t as important as getting that pentakill

[boofstain]

council: "yea im down for peace"
jinx: "lmao rest in peace then"

[austinj]

Heimerdinger: Thank you sooo much for kicking me from the council everyone 🥺🙂

[theheavenlyfb]

Arcane truly is like a modern Greek tragedy, everyone saying the wrong thing or doing the wrong thing at the wrong time when it could have all been avoided from the very start.

[lunaamaya_]

The last act of Powder is killing Jinx’s father to keep Vi safe.

The first act of Jinx is avenging her father and starting the war.

[anonimfey]

Ok but like can we please talk about how amazing Jinx's voice actor was during these scenes? The absolute defeat and sorrow is so clear.

[mikerules]

Powder protected her sister by killing Jinx’s father, Jinx in response avenged her father by killing whatever remained of Powder.

[modterra]

I liked how Sevika came back to Silco's office. Pure loyalty.

[Cassiopea]

you know what hurts a lot? Vander's last request to Vi was "Take care of Powder" and thats exactly what Vi failed to do. This scene is the exact moment Powder "dies". Now it's only Jinx, there's no Powder left. Vi failed Vander's dying wish

[FoxHound-uthu]

We not gonna talk about how Jinx clearly built Fishbones to mirror Silco, its built to resemble the ocean creatures he loved and has a scarred left eye.

[arthurantonio-nguyen]

Man the chair scene is cool. No more powder, just Jinx.

[MiaTheSpinoQueen]

This scene is insanely impactful. Vi tries to stop her by reminding her of her family- because she sees them as support, and a reason to keep going. But Jinx sees them as nothing but reminders that she killed them, she did something wrong, and that it's all her fault. So, indirectly, Vi makes Jinx break faster

[sophieamandaleitontoomey]

It’s tragically ironic that this was the most sane and calm decision Jinx made in the entire series…

No cackling…no tricks…no shaking of the voice…no fighting with the voices of Milo...or explosive mockery…

Just calmly and quietly walking up to the roof to fire the weapon with decision of violence and war...just as she was the only one between her and her sister to accept the reality that Powder is gone.

[wesley]

I think Silko's last words are what convinced Jinx to give up on Vi.
She tried to kill him as a child. She screwed up his plans. She disobeyed orders. And finally, she killed him. But he still loved her even more than himself. He didn't just believe she had good inside her; he believed her messy, chaotic self was already perfect.

Vi wasn't able to do that.

[river]

One things that amaze me, that Jinx learn by herself how using runes. If the accident in Act1 didn’t happened, she would have been one of the greatest inventor of Zaun.

[Joseph-mwrl]

Jinx genius in engineering is so underrated. With no formal education she built a multistage rocket launcher that can harness hextech gemstone energy

[Mersterr]

I can't help but feel that the one blue tear jinx cries right before firing the rocket is symbolism of the last shred of powder being blown away. A single blue tear that get vaporized as she fires the rocket.

[LaSangriaSolitaria]

The beauty of this series is that you can't really blame anyone for acting the way they act.

Jinx was forged into what she is through trauma and lies. And now Powder is too far gone and she can't go back. Even if she tried, what kind of sister would she be? She is insane, and if she wasn't insane before Singed got to her, she is now. All she wants is people to accept her as she is, and you can't blame her for that.

Vi loves Powder, she doesn't love the maniacal mess that is Jinx. She always had Powder's back, but the simple reality is that Vi is sane, and Jinx is not, and even if they left together, Vi's entire life would revolve around taking care of Jinx and her mental instability. How can you blame someone who had an outburst at the worst moment of her life and when she tried to make up for it, got kidnapped, and then spent years in prison for a crime she did not commit, idealizing the moment she would get to see her sister back only to find out Powder was not there anymore? Not only that, the demand of killing Cait to get Powder back was just insane. So how can you blame her for acting the way she acted?

And Silco himself never lied to Jinx, he truly believed Vi was dead and when she came back, only saw her as a threat to his daughter, Jinx. His main fault was being an enabler, but Silco himself as an extremist did not see Jinx's knack for destruction and hatred for the topside as something bad. If anything, she was valuable yet a bit unreliable. In the end of the day, he loved Jinx as a daughter, and not Powder. Jinx had everything Powder did not, she was efficient, strong and really cared about destroying topside. So you can't really blame him for fostering the part of Powder (Jinx) that he thought was the most valuable.

And Cait, well, she is just fighting for her life. And you can't blame her for that.

[ruicastro]

“I am the monster you created”
“I hope you know we had everything, but you broke me and left these pieces”
“I want you to hurt like you hurt me”
“Why dont you love who I am, what we could have been?”
“In order to live I have to kill the part of me that needed you more…”

I’m fucking devastated, I feel so much for Jinx. I can’t cope with the fact that all her life is a tragedy and she can’t have back the piece that would ultimately fix her: her sister.

[equinoxXIII]

You can't blame Jinx for the start of the war because it was coming. The council was just too late with their decision for peace, they had years to do something but they only thought about themselves. Jinx shot first but Piltover loaded the gun...

[RedBalloonSky]

Gut punch realization: the soft look on her face at 0:52

It’s a goodbye. Goodbye to any hope she had of her sister accepting her as she is. Goodbye to Vi seeing her as her little sister and not a terrorist. She knows what she’s about to do and knows that it’s going to change everything for their relationship. She looked so stoic and almost cold when she made her choice, but for one last second we see that softness. It’s a killer last look, this show missed NO detail I swear.

She knows her sister loves her, but she can’t accept Jinx. So Jinx decided to let go of trying to make her. Hope season 2 expands on Vi understanding that if she wants her sister, she’s gotta accept that Powder is gone and Jinx is who she is.