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I felt it when Powder screeched, “why did you leave me”?! Phenomenal voice acting. Heartbreaking origin story.

It is SO hard not to tear up when Powder breaks down saying, "I only wanted to help."

Powders panic attack was extremely realistic, as someone who struggled with separation anxiety that set me back to my days as a kid

You mentioning "she had the best of intentions" and the fact "I have the best intentions" is one of Jinx's voice lines in-game is poetic.

The fact that you can analyze this character base on her facial expressions as a real human being is just a testament of how AMAZING of a job the animators did bringing life to this fictional digital beigns.

I’d love to see your take on VI’s arc… she’s just as traumatized as Jinx is… her way of expressing it is through fights and acting impulsively with poor decision making.

The most heartbreaking moments of Arcane are the ones not even spoken of. The ones you have to self realize to understand their impact. 1. Sky is the little girl that watches over Viktor as a child playing with the boat he made in episode 6. She's had an unrequited crush on him pretty much her entire life. Marvelling at his ingenuity. Then she died to save him from the hex core that he created. 2. Vi gave Powder a blue flare saying "Where ever you are. Light this up and I'l find you" Powder has blue clouds tattooed all over her arms and body. She's always been calling out to Vi to come save her.

I will say, Jinx may have clung to random affection over none at all but Silco wasn’t really a toxic choice of affection in this case. He actually cared for her. I think it was nice that the show let us also overthink how Silco actually feels for Jinx with her up until the very end. “They could all burn!” ~ “I was never going to give you to them. You’re my daughter. ” ~ “Don’t cry. You’re perfect.”

Her interaction in-game isn't just random anymore. Arcane literally explains everything.

I find it interesting how much of a influence Mylo had on Jinx's psyche...She has a stuffed versions of both Mylo and Claggor and even though Claggor was clearly the larger of the two, Mylo's doll is bigger.

Vi and Jinx both have the same trauma but different paths. Jinx’s trauma broke her, while VI’s trauma built her. Even literally, jinx uses her bombs and bullets to break things. While Vi is trying to fix things, the undercity, her relationship with her sister. What’s more interesting is the way they go about achieving their goals, which is the complete opposite. Jinx is building things that break stuff. Vi is using her fist to break bones in order to fix her city. These characters are masterfully done and so is the show

"I only wanted to help!" "Please don't leave me..." and she said it so many times... in *some* mental and emotional aspects, i really relate to her.

The storyline of Jinx is made so good. You understand her madness. Her angst, guilt, and defensive behavior. To be a first time writer and be able to construct such a complicated, yet understandable character is amazing. The animation of her is amazing and the voice actors is Oscar worthy.

Worst thing about this, is that even though Powder clung to Silco after ep3, ep6 showed that after all this time, all she really wanted was her sister to find her again.

The way they wrote Jinx character is so complex, beautiful and relatable. Most of the times, villains are written as someone you will really hate the entire time but jinx, I can't find any reasons to hate her. Yeah she is liable of all the crimes she committed but I can't help but still pity her because of her situation. And silco? Like he's the most evil person in the season 1 yet, but he becomes soft and loving whenever it's about jinx. He hated vander for being weak but he ended up like vander also.

The moment Vi said “because your a Jinx!!!” That created the line, and broke powder. After those 4 words she was no longer Powder but a Jinx because her person branded her with that name

It really should be noted that Vi was just a kid here as well, at most in her early teens, and she just lost her father and brothers and discovered her sister was the cause, even if it was not intended. And the fact she just moved around the corner to cool off, that she never planned on actually leaving, really showed that despite everything she still cared about her and her face showed she regretted striking Powder and her words. She looked at her hand after she struck her, saw Powder's blood on the wrapping, the same wrapping with the dried blood of the people Vi had hit. I'm sure that if Silco and Marcus hadn't shown up Vi would have eventually collected Powder and brought her back. Vi was even willing to risk her own life again for Powder when she saw Silco, knowing that she had no chance in her current condition against him.

One of the biggest tragedies of this show is that I understand the characters so well. I understand why Powder was reckless and tried to help; I understand why Vi lost her temper, slapped, and yelled at her sister. Both of them made terrible mistakes, both were thrust into situations nobody should be in, let alone children and teenagers. But the world doesn't care; the tragedy of that night tore the two sisters apart, and the ramifications were felt throughout the rest of Season 1 and beyond.

the way silco not only hugs her but shelters her and moves his leg around her as well will always get me. that little movement will forever be in my mind

What messed me up was that Vi never actually abandoned Power. She just needed to take a breath and went around a corner but kept Powder in line of sight. But even knowing this she still blames herself and makes herself believe that she really did abandon the most precious thing in the world to her.

I feel like everyone misses the one crucial reason why Powder breaks down when she cant come with to save Vander. It's not just a potential abandonment - the last of her family might actually die while she's not with them. Idk if anybody else experienced death anxiety as a kid, but I a 100% read her panic attack scene as that. As death anxiety

What I found interesting, is that both Jinx and Ekko would've done well at the academy. Had their talents been properly encouraged and nurtured, their future might not have been so bleak. You Don't see much of echo, but the only two people to have been seen to encourage jinxes creativity was silco and vi.

4:24 this scene was like a punch to the gut. I didn't see it coming and it's probably the best depiction of an anxiety attack I've ever seen in an animated show.

As someone with BPD I relate to Jinx a lot, like her sensitivity to rejection, her obsessive tendencies, the feeling of wanting to be good enough for someone and lashing out when you feel like someone will hurt or abandon you.

As someone diagnosed with BPD and PTSD and having an uncle with paranoid schizophrenia, it was so refreshing (albeit exhausting if you’re an empath) to see these disorders portrayed so WELL in Jinx. She definitely shows signs of schizoaffective disorder as an adult and the moments of PTSD flashbacks/triggers were portrayed so well. No silly full scenery transitions or typical Hollywood theatrics.

Powder/Jinx clearly has Borderline Personality Disorder. And the trauma that brought it about was losing her parents and seeing their dead bodies. This instilled that heavy fear of abandonment, both real or percieved. Vi is her FP, her Favorite Person. And then we see her Split on Vi. That cycle of idealization and devaluation. You see that Powder/Jinx has no emotional skin, she feels EVERYTHING dialed up to 11. Later. as Jinx you can see her HEAVILY disassociating. Then theres the engaging in risky behavior, having unhealthy and unstable relationships, immediately latching onto the first person to show her kindness after Vi abandons her(Silco) and then later Splitting on him the moment he let's her down once. She has literally every symptom of BPD. As someone who struggles with BPD myself, I can definitely say this is the most accurate representation of it that I've seen in any media. My poor sweet baby powder, it breaks my heart to see her journey.

Us with BPD took a hard hit with Arcane. We had a person who was completely and utterly relatable in the forefront. A villian at that but one that was finally understandable.

I'm so glad you dipped into Vi's actions toward Powder too. So many people view her so harshly and I have to keep repeating myself that Vi is also still a kid at this point and they don't have the emotional capacity to process the sheer intensity of what happens in these scenes. Being able to realize she needed to walk away for a moment to process the trauma and grief was incredibly mature. Great video, thanks for sharing!

I really hope they take their time with season 2. As much as I can’t wait for it, I want them to put their hearts and souls into it like they did this season. This show is a beautiful work of art. Powder/Jinx is one of my new all time favorite characters.

A little thing I love about her gadgets is that they show two worlds colliding, one of her innocence as a child that wants to play with toys and dolls and the other of a harsh world, where she needs to be able to protect herself and not being a burden to her family. Her later weapons shows that she didn't transition from this stage in a healthy way, each weapon has faces, ears and eyes, even names.

The fact that you recognized Vi's parenting techniques on Powder is pretty amazing and its also heartbreaking because Vi isn't very much older than Powder, but she's already mature enough to understand and identify problematic behaviours in herself.

Jezz, the “bad guy” didn’t seem all that bad when he was around Jinx/Powder especially at the end. The series really made them feel like they needed each other even if it wasn’t the healthiest relationship.

i gotta give full credit for actually making a real life version of jinx's one huge bang lol

I really hope you do another vid breaking down her character as an adult, and also of Silco's attachment to her. He's the the badguy in the show but I don't think he's evil and he definitely does love and care about her probably more than he does anyone else and I think he saw and empathised with how Vi leaving her hurt so much, because of how Vander was once a brother to him but then turned against him and actually tried to kill him. Even when her erratic chaotic behavior starts causing problems for his business and wears away the loyalty of his followers, he never even considers turning against her or cutting her loose.

9:05 As someone who struggled with anger issues myself I can vouch for leaving to cool off when your brain is in fight or flight mode being crucial to avoid doing something you'll regret. Unfortunately in this case, leaving her alone turned out to *be* what she would regret the most.

The scene when powder scream and cry after being abandoned, hurt me so much, it honestly made me break down crying as i felt like i saw my self as a kid in my room. It was a heavy scene, but the whole story of Powder/Jinx is heavy, and so well written!

I actually don’t think Powder really knew who Silco was when he first spoke to her. When Mylo and Clagger ask who took Vander, Vi doesn’t know either, and neither did Ekko. None of the kids were familiar with him, they just knew where they went because Ekko, true to form, followed them. I don’t think Powder’s brief glimpse into the chaos of the fighting gave her a sight of Silco either. She was focused on Vi and those threatening her directly. So from her perspective it’s just a stranger, a man with what we perceive as a threatening voice asking where her sister is, but that Powder may have interpreted as genuine concern from an adult. She is not choosing an enemy over no one, she is choosing a “kind and concerned” stranger over being alone. She is already familiar with adopted father figures in Vander and even Benzo as an uncle. Obviously she figured out who he was later, but by then not only had he accepted her but she likely felt she deserved to be with “the bad guys” because she caused the death of most of her family and was tormented by guilt.

Thank you for explaining Vi outburst, a lot of people didn't like how she reacted but i think it's perfectly in line with her personality, as you said she grow up in a violent environment so she acted out of her instinct

7:26 this one made me shiver. There's a voice line in LoL of Jinx where she's saying "I have the best of intentions..." Concidering how much the voice lines in LoL are fitting to the plot of Arcane, I am starting to think this origin story was thought out years before Arcane was even planned.

I love how u also explained what vi was going through to get to the point of hitting Jinx when we know she loves her so much and would never normally do that and that she just needed a moment to regroup and control her emotions so she wouldn’t do anything further to hurt Powder

Powder actually doesnt really know that Silco IS the bad guy at that moment, as she wasnt present at the Attack at Benzos or at Silcos Talk right before Vi's fighting scene in the Warehouse. So its not even a tradeoff for "affection even if its from the bad guy" because for her he has less the image of the Bad Guy than the one of a random Guy.

10:29 I don't think Powder knew Silco was the "bad guy". He likely was never in her field of view through the narrow window to the wharehouse, and she had no knowledge of him prior to that. So from her PoV at this moment, he was just a kind stranger. This makes it more understandable when she clings to him.

I really appreciate how the sound team portrayed the scene of Powder's panic attack. It represents very well how loud your head gets, how overwhelming everything seems and then... silence, once you can grasp and control a single train of thought.

I didn’t notice the first time I watched Arcane, and was initially somewhat surprised due to my lack of the aforementioned with how Silco actually took to Jinx as a daughter (or any real closeness), but the look on Silco’s face around 9:50 or so when Powder/Jinx’s confesses her “abandonment” to him and he just looks like he’s reliving through his own trauma, it’s really the first time we get to see his empathy and any sort of tenderness from him. That him hugging her was actually a real move of true empathy, comfort, and reassurance that he maybe wish he could of had, rather than full blown manipulation on his part. He truly loved and cared for Jinx in his own messed up way (not saying this at all makes him a good parent or that anything he did is made ok, just that he really did care and empathised with her, thus leading him to project his own trauma, feeding both of their abandonment issues).

I would love to see VI, who was made a parent and experienced the same trauamatic event if not worse + being in prison. Alot of people seem to ignore that VI is also not ok

The writing is simply incredible. During the second Act, when Jinx finds out Vi is alive and believes that Silco betrayed her the very first thing she does is go looking for that old connection. The takes the signal flare she was given 10 years ago (roughly the amount of time passed in the time skip) and lights it for the first time in the one in a million chance her sister will find her like she promised. Arcane is heartbreakingly real.

I thought powder had borderline personality disorder (BPD), and then when we see her as jinx she has what seems to be paranoid schizophrenia in addition to BPD. Another thing I noticed during the scene where Vi was packing her bag to go fight, powder was in the background hyper aware of every movement/body language that Vi does and was able to predict her next move. With trauma victims who’ve had to learn to adapt by attaching themselves to the person they depend on for survival (BPD, Stockholm syndrome, growing up with an abusive parent), they’re highly perceptive of “their person’s” moods and very in-tune with that person’s body language bc they’ve essentially merged into that person, they often have no sense of self unless they are attached to someone.

One of my favourite characters, super complex yet also direct... really enjoy these breakdowns.

When the audience first sees Vi and Powder, it was the scene on the bridge. Powder was holding Vi’s hand as she sang a song/nursery rhyme. She had her hands covering her eyes. When she removes her hands from her eyes, the first thing she does is look up to her sister. The camera switched to a point-of-view shot for that scene. The first thing the audience sees is the bond between the two sisters and the dependency Powder has on Vi, and this theme runs throughout the entire show.

just a small addendum: Powder didn't see silco on the attack and was to far away to really hear him. So I think it is implied that she doesn't know he was the bad guy. The series was very careful to never show or tell her about silco before.

Riot really nailed it with the traumatic experience Powder had gone through as a child due to how accurate the situation is to some people in real life.

Anothering interesting fact is that her demons show more Mylo than both him and Clogger. He’s seen in that sneak peek, the playground music videos and even as a dummy. His drawing looks more terrifying like an actual demon when he’s really a kid killed by his friend accidentally. Back at episode 1, Mylo is talking to Vi about Powder, how she pulls everyone back and lost everything because of she’s a young child. Vi defends her for that, calling out Mylo’s flaws, but it shifted to the end of ep 3 where she hurt her sister and says that Mylo is actually right. Powder, when hearing that, then sees Mylo as a demon because she has a fear that he’s right, that she is a problem to everyone. She’s a jinx.

The animation is masterful. When Powder is saying she only wanted to help, I love the touch that she avoids eye contact with Vi. She feels shame and shock and doesn't want her big sister's disapproval, like you said.

I was really impressed overall with how this show managed to portray the mental issues and motivations for the characters in ways that overall made sense to me. And I love that you noted that the first thing Powder said after being hit wasn’t about being hit or shock or anything like that. It was about being abandoned.

I’m surprised no motion capture was used at all for the animation, only Keyframes. The characters look so alive and full of personality. The artist and animation team did an amazing job

I will never get over how well they portrayed Jinx's trauma and mental and emotional instability. In the game we just knew she was unhinged, but they show her descent SO WELL, and her struggles and triggers that set her off. We see her constantly fighting the voices in her head and trying to reach out for her sister to be Powder again...until eventually she makes the CHOICE to be Jinx. The raw emotions are just so well done. I'm so happy they did such an amazing job with one of my all time favorite League champs!

Great analysis. I think one thing nobody is talking about is the power behind vi telling powder she isnt ready. Those exact words trigger powder into her first glimpse of distrust because just a day or so earlier on the roof vi said she was ready. And to immediately have that confidence stripped from you when it matters made her really distrustful of peoples words which ties into her constant theme of calling people liars and not believing anything vi says.

People said Jinx is Harley Quinn of league, but in here the show managed to show her depth with just litlte original material to work on thats an impresive work

Seeing Powder loose control when being abandoned broke me. The emotions is how we all can relate to. The first time I watched that scene, It did make me tear up. Cause seeing her, I wanted to hug her and comfort her. Overall I loved this series. Looking forward to Season 2. I can admit Jinx is my favorite. She has so many layers to her character.

The scene with ekko and jinx fighting was really good, it hit on a really deep level when watching through the series. Love to hear your thoughts!

Powder's desire to belong -- her need for connection and purpose -- was communicated so well in the first three episodes. I can't overstate how much it struck a chord with me. Even though the episode 3 finale was so very powerful, I think some of my favorite scenes came later when we see the emotional dynamics between her and Silco. There's a lot of places where the nuance of their expressions and body language tell a lot about their unconventional relationship. I can't wait to hear your thoughts on the other 6 episodes!

The character breakdown of Powder/Jinx, explains why a lot of people end up in toxic relationships.

I realized this by a comment in another video. When Vi stands up to go to cool-down, Powder actually covers her face thinking she's gonna hit her again (damn sad), but then when she sees that Vi is actually leaving, she goes back to desperate mode, no relief from not-being-hit. The body language of the characters is insane well done.

"I was saving you..." god this makes me cry everytime

Great work! I always get confused by people who wonder why VI hit her or walked away, It is the most human thing to 1 react and instantly regret something you say or do, and 2 have to walk away to calm down... Everything in these first 3 episodes was insanely believable.

"Even though she had the best of intensions" funny choice of words there as one of Jinx's ingame lines is "I have the best intensiooons".

I’m diagnosed with BPD and honestly I really connect with Jinx so much. The desperation of not wanting to be abandoned resulting sometimes in disastrous affects for myself or others. I’ve been preyed upon by bad toxic people who knew how to Lovebomb me just enough that I’d stay with them, it can be a hard cycle to break out of. I was pleasantly surprised by Silco seeming to develop a true bond with Jinx, though I feel he fell victim to heavily projecting his issues and own trauma onto her..which a lot of parents unfortunately can do.

I'm diagnosed with BPD, PTSD, and previously DMDD. I can really see myself in some parts of Jinx, that heavy fear of abandonment, anxious attachments, clinging onto a person, extremely impulsive decisions. I've never clicked with a character like this since Catra from my time watching She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. The story of Jinx is amazing and I can't wait to see what happens in season 2.

Every time I watch the Powder scenes there's a 100% chance of rain from the eyes. This time was no different. Vi didn't even leave her with an adult when she goes off to save Vander and maybe never come back. I remember the terror of losing my parents in the Supermarket as a kid. I can only imagine the panic attack I would have had in Powder's situation.

Thank you for this. Jinx is such a tragic and complex constructed character, getting insight from a professional like you is great.

Fun sad fact. There was an animated music video made years ago, back when Jinx first debuted. It's a lot of madness and chaos and speed, a really great song, but one detail I find infinitely interesting is that song gives her minigun a name. You know what it is? Pow Pow. It's her venting and spreading her childhood pain, literally weaponizing it onto others. It's her defense and her enacting power onto others.

as someone whos been in therapy before its so nice to see an empathetic girl like you being nice to people when my only therapists have been incredibly degrading and always called me delusional

I watched this to learn more about jinx. Did not expect for me to learn more about me. Thank you for this. Subbed, will be looking forward to your future videos.

I think it's a testament to the show's quality and writing that you can do these deep dives.

this is genuinely such a unique character. i don’t think i have seen a show that portrays a character like her. i have studied psychology and body language analytics for about 2 years now, i know it’s not the longest time but when you can analyze these things just kind of subconsciously while watching a show it gives a very different perspective on characters within a show. this show in particular is just so excellently wrote.

I still can't watch the scene where Powder cries that "she was only trying to help" to Vi after the explosion without choking up and crying a little, and I've seen it at least half a dozen times. I feel so much for that poor child. If you haven't done one already, I'd like to see a professional breakdown of Silcro's evolved relationship and feelings toward Jinx, juxtaposed against how we see his personality manifested in his actions and interactions with the rest of the cast.

Arcane truly is a masterclass in dramatic/poetic storytelling. I would love to see your reaction to act 2 (episodes 4-6) and act 3 (episodes 7-9) of this series, especialy the last 5 minutes of this season. SPOILERTALK below: . . . I think there are two options to interpret Powders/Jinxs behaviour in the last minutes of the season. 1) she realy blames her sister for what she has become, and that she got "replaced" by Caitlyn, which would go along with Stings fantastic "What could have been"/the song in the background OR: 2) After Silcos death, Powder made the choice to embrace Jinx to push her sister away, to protect Vi from the monster she thinks she has become/the "Jinx" she has always been. Killing yet another father figure/Silco has cemented that notion even deeper in her mind, even if she was acting on impulse to save her sister. In this case, that "I thought that maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though i am ... different." wasnt so much a "Why?!" directed towards Vi (which just told her that it will be OK), but an admission to herself. Like: "I see it now - i see that you cant/shouldnt love me." Thats also why she didnt kill Caitlyn - because she recognized how much she ment to Vi and that Cait, not her, should be with her sister. If you take a look at "Jinx" when shes walking up the ramp with the RPG, facing the council-tower (head down, arms/shoulders hanging): she isnt driven by anger or hate. She seems sad but she knows what she HAS (not wants) to do. Still, after she gets up there, she is struggling hard to fire that RPG. Because she knows that that will be the point of no return, finaly parting from her sister ... but with it, saving her from Jinx. Cinematography sidenote: its not her pulling the trigger that gets the RPG going, but her screaming in emotional agony, which is morphing into the roar(same pitch as her scream) of the rocket shooting out of the launcher. Having a younger sibling, i got to admit that this final minutes broke me, especialy in combination with the song...

My favorite scenes from arcane are definitely Jinx's and her inner monologues. You can see her fragility as a child and when you are re-introduced to her as an adult she has completely cracked. Her grasp on reality is so tenuous, it's very powerful to watch a character written so well

Star Wars: "It's about family." Me: ...meh... Arcane: "It's about family." Me: .·´¯`(>▂

I love how good the animation is so even a therapist can easily read her. I mean, everyone feels it even if we don't get an explanation

This is why I got really upset when seeing some reactioners being pissed off and cursing Powder for not staying home as she was told, and keep blaming her for her mistake. I was like Jesus Christ it must be suck to be a friend of theirs, or even worst, their kids. Cuz they showed zero empathy and compassionate to an orphan girl who is the youngest in the group. They all probably had a wonderful childhood I guess.

I was waiting for someone breaking down the psychological issues of the main characters (which are insanely godlike depicted) leading into certain relationships and actions. I hope you also cover adult Jinx, Silco and Vi (young and adult). Also please talk about the final and what kind of solution would have been the best - many people were lashing at Caitlyn for breaking free and pointing a gun at Jinx. But how would you react in such a situation? Honestly, I couldn't imagine to react any different being in the same life threatening situation with someone obviously gone crazy and having a gun + having issues of extreme jealousy pointed at you. Jinx could have easily shot Caitlyn (also tried to shoot her in ep7 on the bridge)-also Vi triggering (I think unconciously because the doesn't understand the extent of her sisters mental issues) her severe PTSD - do you think it helped in that situation or made it worse? Storywise the outcome was "ok" or better said reasonable considering the understanding of the characters about each other and only Sico was shot but what would you think would have been better here? I also think a main problem in the frst season is, that Vi lives in the past regarding her sister and wants her child sister back which obviously can not happen (maybe she is so drawn to that image because she took on the role of a mother to Powder early on and as we know for a mother her child is always her child and it is very difficult to let go of that image even for a normal mother-child relationship). I think she lacks the understanding that this is not possible and she needs to accept Jinx as a part of her sister (also mass murderer...). They both experienced a lot in their time apart (see episode 6 when Vi said at the reunion that she also had to do things to survive ... we can only imangine what she went through in prison because nothing is told about that excerpt the regular beating indicated by the prison guard) and Jinx on the other hand stresses the fact that both changed which is really true. Also a lot of perople hate Vi for lashing out on Powder in that situation in episode 3. I am glad you gave a few words on Vi in this video even it is for Powder/Jinx but I think people don't understand that Vi also has her demons/trauma and was also a child at that time- I think such situations are still hard for adults to handle -nevertheless a teenager(from the archives in the game we could read that she must be around 17 years old at that time) who was 2 episodes before told by here guardian that she is responsible not only for there sisters actions but also for the safety of the group ("Whatever happens this is on YOU". She tried to do the best she could - leaving Powder out of the fight but she didn't listen and blew everyone up just when they were about to be ready to escape. This tragedy and the guilt and the heavy responsibility that Vi was feeling in that moment that was taught by Vander(which was the right parental thing to do because the relationship of Vi and Vander was healthy- instead of Jinx and Silco) let to her loosing control there - and yes you can not take back what she did/said, but she had to be like 8 years in prison for that - enduring hell there - that doesn't erase the pain of Powder, but at some point there needs to come in some acceptance and forgiveness on both sides in order to eventually patch up the relationship again. I don't say it was good what Vi did but I think the reaction was understandable, for some people even relatable. On an outlook, do you think the sisters can come to terms with each other and patch it up ?

The scene when Powder is abandoned by Vi is jaw-droppingly good! I didn't even realise that I had tears in my eyes till it was over. What fabulous, visceral voice acting

i feel as if her looking down at her hands after punching Powder was a reminder of what Vander said to her.. something along the lines of “These won’t get you anywhere” as he points to her hands basically saying the punches she throws doesn’t actually change anything, nor fixes anything. Her looking back at her hands was her realization that putting her anger in the power of her fists wasn’t going to change the situation she was in but moreover complicate it.

This is such a well written, well acted series! That animation goes a long way of showing the temperament of these two characters from the first scene of them together without saying a word about them.

I like that she went the extra mile and did mild cosplay for this video. Respect.

Recently I noticed something, when Powder showed the gems to Vi in the first episode, she was very happy when asking if she should show them to Vander, but Vi replied "no" and Powder was disappointed. Later, in episode 4, when she stole the new gem and she showed it to Silco, she was really happy :)

Jinx reminds a lot of somebody who has borderline personality disorder, she has deep trauma surrounding abandonment and consequently sees it everywhere, even when it doesn't really exist, she idealizes Vi to the point that she's devastated when she doesn't live up to those idealized expectations, , she has a fractured sense of self, she does things for the validation of others because she doesn't know how to create it within herself

Such an incredible breakdown of Powder and I see you're going for the Jinx hairstyle a bit. :) Thank you for making this.

The facial expressions were amazing in Arcane. Such a good job to the animators

Episode three was absolutely heartbreaking for me. I couldn't stop but bring myself to tears. Powder's cry resulted me piercing and so relatable. The innocence in her eyes, the fall, the pain. Thank you so much for analyzing!

The sad part about it when I was younger I use to be EXACTLY- I mean EXACTLY like powder/jinx. I have a sister I look up to 24/7 because she was the only person in my life as a kid that actually PAYED ATTENTION TO ME unlike the rest of my family. But then one day she wanted to move in with our mom (our mom living alone, we have no dad, and are living with our 2 grandmas) and that meant...that she had to leave me, alone, in a place where people ignore me. I cried, feels like almost exactly like powder/jinx in that video EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, I would rip up drawings and cry and cry almost screaming like. And all my grandmas would do is come in the room and say "SHUT UP, SHES GONE NOW" I cried until I just couldnt cry anymore, to the point i when I cried it just to pure sadness from the inside with no tears coming out, OR turn into pure anger

Perfectly explained! I would like to see you doing this for the other two arcs. And also i would like to see your perspective on Vi traumas, because many forget that Vi here it's only 16-17 years old, and the first enormous trauma she had to face when their parents were killed.

This show is just an absolute masterpiece! incredible animations and truly amazing story telling and perfect use of music sets the tone for every scene so well. and the characters are so well written and well executed that i forgot I was watching an animation and not live action video, I've never seen anything like Arcane before, i really loved it!

This was a great analysis of Powder and of the anxious attachment style as a whole, but I just needed to say, I love that you did your hair like Jinx. Such a creative touch and it looks good on you!

I empthatize so much with Jinx that i'm almost crying everytime i see a clip staring her.

the scary part is that i can see myself back when i was a child in young jinx..

AMAZING VIDEO! hearing you talk about powders trauma and feelings made me cry. very well spoken!

So glad this blew up your channel! Not only is this content amazing but so is it educational, and can make people self-reflect on these characters that we can relate to so much! Thank you again for your amazing videos!!!