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Get Jinxed: A Tale of Mental Instability and Poor Decisions (Arcane/League of Legends)

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Jayce and Viktor selection certainly keeps us more connected to Zaun then going with max level high society Kiramman's. Both Jayce and Victor have chosen to enter the Undercity, while such is less likely they at least choose to experience and interact in that zone. the Kiramman's for the most part ignore the undercity as frankly most Council members do.

I do not believe either group is going to necessarily look favorably on reminding us about Zaun, but the Kiramman's I suspect are more likely to convince us to try and forget about that pain, and covering it up with luxuries. Neither will be the end of the world, neither is going to fix Jinx, but Viktor is more likely to understand even if he's probably not going to be the best at actually helping.

Also I feel techie focused Jinx is more interesting than further reinforcing gun Jinx. A gun is designed for the purposes of killing, given what our bombs did maybe not trying to reinforce that coping mechanism as heavily is the wisest. However shooting things will likely feel great for Jinx to do.
 
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I mean, Powder is gonna get that drama either way. It'll be a bit more impactful as a parent, but it's not like any of those deaths are guaranteed. Afterall, Vander is dead ahead of Silco and Benzo may yet live.

For the fifth time, we'll be interacting with Jayce and Victor regardless. Ekko may get in touch, and there is Seraphina, another Zaunite kid her age. We aren't going to be isolated and forever cut off from our Zaunite heritage.
ComiTurtle said:
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This feels reaching given the one scene we had showed the Kiramman's all relatively uncomfortable with formal dining and the following morning, Caitlyn's dad introduced us to Omurice while encouraging us to do away with decorum. The dad and Caitlyn at least, have a core of normality, even if the rich person mask is comfortable after so many years.
 
GrayGriffin said:
They chose to escalate to violent beatings over one of them getting punched in the nose by a distressed teen. It is absolutely their fault for escalating instead of realizing they'd upset a teenager and trying to deescalate in a way that even nursery school teachers are better at doing than cops are.
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They already tried to de-escalate the first time. When she stomped on their show. Then an officer told a dad joke got his nose broken for nothing. If a teenager went up to and assaulted the police why wouldn't the cops restrain and cuff them? This isn't a hostage negotiation.

Chengar Qordath said:
Hold!" The same guy who'd shouted at us before said. Nobody else attacked me, so I assumed he was talking to his own people. A few moments later the lights dimmed enough so I could actually see what was going on around me and a single Enforcer with a big bushy mustache approached, his hands held up. "Are you Violet? Powder's sister? Sheriff Grayson's been looking for you."
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Darkcore41 said:
They already tried to de-escalate the first time. When she stomped on their show. Then an officer told a dad joke got his nose broken for nothing. If a teenager went up to and assaulted the police why wouldn't the cops restrain and cuff them? This isn't a hostage negotiation.
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Oh yeah, it totally takes three grown men to restrain a teenage girl. And hitting her with steel batons and boots was totally necessary for that.
 
GrayGriffin said:
Oh yeah, it totally takes three grown men to restrain a teenage girl. And hitting her with steel batons and boots was totally necessary for that.
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She layed out an enforcer with a punch. Then proceeded to 1 v 1 the next enforcer.

She is so a defenseless little girl when we've seen her defeat grown men.

Edit: If you wanted unnecessary force they could have pulled a gun.

Now was the Jab on Mylo necessary would have been a better argument.

If a high schooler went and fought the police do you think the other men are going to stand by while one of them fights them 1v1?

Edit2: Also making it sound like they beat her up more then necessary when all they did was hit her with a baton we don't know if it's steel and put their boot so she wouldn't get up.

The way your putting it is they kept hitting her while she's down and did so multiple times.
 
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Does this mean that Marcus won't be a crooked cop in this timeline and be coerced by Silco to work under him due to bad impressions?
 
The best way to beat Silco is to improve the quality of life in both Zaun and Piltover, get the two cities to think in a less tribal manner, and for Jinx to do that, she has to see Piltover as worth helping, and the enforcers that died alongside her brothers as a tragic lost along Grayson as not deserving of death, in other words, if she wants Piltians to give a damned about Zaunites, she should practice what she preached, and acknowledfe Grayson and the enforcers that for all their faults they alongside her family didn't deserve to die as a result of Jinx decision to invent a bomb.

I'm sure the act 1 tragedy was inevitable, but Powder could have easily mitigate the worst of it by not making the bomb too desructive and lethal or even not making it at all, sure there was a lack of luck involve in making the worst of the situations and every bad decisions each character made aligned to create the most tragic incident, but this mess at least on Powder's end could have mitigated,.

Powder at the least has probably learn that her inventions could mean the difference between life and death, and she should take responsibility for how she makes or allow her inventions to be used, since this tragic event is only Mylo making a accident, but it would be so much worse if people like Silco used her bombs on purpose to actually kill people.

Grayson's death maybe could have been prevented if Powder told her where the bomb came from, or told Vander that the bomb was caused by her siblings and not used by the enforcers in cold blood to kill childfen, but I suppose Powder was in shock and Vander killed her too quickly for Powder to react.
So Powder or Jinx should be able to learn from her mistakes to minimize tragedies on her end,.
Although since this is Arcane, and Murphy's law, stupidity and bad decisions of other characters will always be present to screw people over, its unlikely that she could prevent bad stuff from happenning.
 
natruska said:
Yeah I don't really want to wade into the debate here but I'm skeptical of the argument that the Kiramman family is 'better equipped' to look after Jinx. They have a big house and lots of money, sure, but they're not therapists. Caitlyn seems to have developed a whole host of issues due to her mother's mix of distant and yet also controlling, and Jinx would probably get an even worse case of that sort of "rich important busy parents disease" as the adopted and somewhat out of place kid.

It's a valid choice - the alternative obviously wouldn't be perfect guardians either - but I think it makes more sense to vote based on what narrative you want to see than what you think will fix Jinx's issues because neither of these options are gonna fix Jinx's issues, IMO.
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I mean, Kirammans are "better equipped". Not "perfectly equipped", just "equipped better than two students".

And while Caitlyn has some problems, I feel like people tend to overestimate them. Caitlyn became pretty good person, all things consider.
 
Ferdiad said:
[X] The Kirammans

I'm interested in what a Jinx raised by the bluest of bloods looks like.
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Very emotionally conficted I imagine.
birdmaster01 said:
Cassandra:Now look,Powder.People of the underground deserve to breathe.
Jinx:Not for looong
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I said, very emotionally conflicted.

Yeah, she wouldn't do that, not after the stink she gave Vi for not caring about Zaun in her hunt for her in S2E3.

Piltover Batwoman Jinx is gonna be a possiblity though. God, it's gonna be Piltover Batwoman. She'll have it all, the Blue Blood wealth, the weapons, the equipment, asskicking, Vi as her Alice and Silco as the Mad Hatter, the queerness, even the red wig might happen to throw people off her secret identity.

We're gonna turn this into a superhero quest.
 
I agree with QMs decision to nix the idea of enforcer Jinx since it would not really work for her character. I did find Enforcer Jinx art though. Now Lord of War Jinx designing and selling hex tech weapons to Noxus, Zaun, and anyone willing to pay sounds rad as hell.

 
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