Sounds like you have amazing friends

Thank you, that’s such kind feedback! But also I totally understand. I’m sifting through these episodes and rewatching slowly because my first reaction was a very messy bag of big, complicated emotions. I think it just attests to how much we care about these characters and the resonance of the story

If only I just had to imagine it.

I actually love tragedies—but tragedy for the sake of tragedy is boring and redundant imo. That said, I could be wrong, but the creative team at Fortiche strikes me as incredibly thoughtful storytellers. Their approach doesn’t seem trite, even if they fumble here and there.

Hence why I refuse to believe #Jinx is gone. Aside from the visual clues--and the pragmatic fact that killing her off would be a loss for the IP--her death would shatter the thematic core of #Arcane

That life lies not in perfection and fatalism, but in motion, reinvention, and imperfect progress.

And whabam! Airship! Dynamic. Agile. Reinvented. Much like #Jinx herself when she’s at her best and feels most alive.

Her transformation here is not about erasing her struggles or the persona of Jinx but about reintegrating the parts of herself, of Powder, that dreamed.

#Arcane (7/)

Then Ekko reminds Jinx that she can build something new, and she pauses.

Schnee on YT already brilliantly made a breakdown of this as well as the#Timebomb episode. But it boils down seeing the potential of the monkey in the Z-drive, suspending her belief that she is doomed to destroy

#Arcane (6/)

These pieces of the airship have been lying dormant throughout her story, much like her potential. They’ve been right beneath her feet all along, literally holding her up over the abyss.

#Jinx intends for this refuge to become a grave, diminishing all possible futures for it and her.

#Arcane (5/)

The significance of the hideout as her chosen grave cannot be overstated. It’s a workshop—a place inherently tied to creativity, ingenuity, and potential.

But for Jinx, it’s also literally the bones of her dreams. The blades that will become her airship.

#Arcane (4/)

Jinx, on the other hand, defines herself by stagnation. Her belief that she is a curse. Always has been, always will be.

This is a kind of metaphorical death, the rejection of her growth, dreams, and self-worth.

She goes to her hideout in the finale to die.

(3/) #Arcane

We know from the first episode that Powder’s dream is to ride an airship—a vehicle that represents untethered freedom of movement and potential for exploration.

Powder believed in motion, in her ability to contribute and grow.

#Arcane (2/)

This is what I’m referring to in case that was in question;

www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...

Now I won’t deny that some media creators are certainly willing to encourage and prey on this feedback loop to make money from people who need therapy, not rage content. But isn’t that also just symptomatic of those creator’s own issues?

TLDR: our media/game choices reflect what’s already within