Silco And The Moment Arcane Became Human

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  @AFlyingWalrus · 4 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Hey everyone! Just wanted to quickly address I know my views on Silco are somewhat controversial, regarding Jinx, his faults and failures, and his character arc. <br>But this is why I wanted to make a video talking about things from my perspective, and I hope you enjoy. Please leave your interpretations of this wonderful character so we can talk about him more.<br>And yes should have said, &quot;The definitive moment the show became human&quot; because the show displays humanity it many scenes, but this was the scene that hammered the point home for me.

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  @fakename2926 · 4 years ago

  Another thing to note is how Silco, during his meeting with Jayce, actually took responsibility for Jinx’s killing of the enforcers when it was literally the <b>only</b> criminal event that he actually <b>wasn’t</b> responsible for.

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  @Bee-zr5pb · 4 years ago

  True writing talent is being able to kill off a terrible person and still make everyone cry

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  @WandersNowherre · 4 years ago

  I love so much that Silco is introduced and framed as basically a Bond villain - silhouetted in darkness with his skinny Nosferatu build and his disfigured red eye - in his underwater mad scientist lair with a freaking Dunkleosteus swimming by - delivering a villainous sermon about how power belongs to those who will do anything to claim it. And that could&apos;ve been it. That could&apos;ve been his character. On a lot of other shows that WOULD have been his character.<br><br>But they weren&apos;t content to stop there. They set him up that way to subvert it with all the complexities he built up over the series.

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  @rafaelcastillo3939 · 4 years ago

  One thing that Silco did that no one in Jinx&apos;s life did, was forgiving her and staying with her despite her mistakes. He gave her what she wanted: someone that would never leave her. That&apos;s how Jinx was created<br><br>When she was a kid and made a couple of mistakes, her friends mess with her and bully her for them, she feels useless. When she ultimately causes the death of her friends: Vi calls her Jinx, punches Powder and &quot;leaves her&quot;.<br><br>While, later in her life, Silco forgives and stays after every mistake Jinx makes. Even after every member of Silco&apos;s mob wants her out, he stands up for her. And in the final scene, where JINX KILLS HIM, the worst fuck up, he still tells her how much he loves her, that she is perfect, and that no matter what, he will always choose her<br><br>That, I believe, is what finally made Jinx choose her chair

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  @bernadettedurbin1396 · 4 years ago

  Jinx is so profoundly broken. And the fracture lines were there from the start. Silco seems to approach the relationship as though he&apos;s carving a statue, cutting away all the parts that aren&apos;t Jinx. He does love her. That&apos;s evident from every action that he takes. But he doesn&apos;t realize that he&apos;s breaking her instead of carving away the wrong parts.

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  @JeremyDA88 · 4 years ago

  Arcane is one of the best examples of &quot;everyone&apos;s right and wrong and there&apos;s fault on both sides&quot; that I&apos;ve ever watched 😊

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  @aicnerolf · 4 years ago

  the phrase &quot;is there anything more undoing than a daughter&quot; capsulates so well silco admitting what vander went through. i feel like that scene is silco finally coming to terms with the fact, that even though jayce almost gave zaun for free (in jayce&apos;s pov), it was a deal silco was never ready to agree with. and vander basically went through the same refusing to riot and rebel again bc he had vi (and the others, but that&apos;s an essay for another day where i believe vander was more vi&apos;s father figure than the rest and left vi to care for the others). this was an amazing video essay, silco constantly made me uncomfortable as a character i guess it&apos;s his complexities that make me understand him less than other characters, but either way i&apos;m fascinated by him.

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  @arielraine1642 · 4 years ago

  &quot;Is there anything so undoing as a daughter?&quot; is a line that has stuck with me since I watched Arcane back in December. It&apos;s such an impactful moment and you can truly see the change in Silco.<br>Credit to Jason Spisak for doing a fantastic job voicing him as well.

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  @joshuataylor5080 · 3 years ago

  Vander became a literal monster to save Vi. Silco became human to save Jynx.

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  @carmenbermudez7218 · 4 years ago

  &quot;He showed the human side of evil&quot; That quote just hit me in the chest. I&apos;ll never forget that line, thank you

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  @ShigoAsakura · 4 years ago

  &quot;He shows the human side of evil&quot; PREACH. Silco is such a complex character, so well written in every aspects. I think that the ben thing about Arcane is this: every characters is real. They&apos;re not just villains, heroes, champs etc; they&apos;re people. I fell in love with this show, with Silco, Jinx, Vi, Vander, Ekko, Cait .. Everyone. And yes, Silco is not a good father to Jinx, but he&apos;s exactly what Powder wanted from a father figure: a dad who loves her unconditionally. It&apos;s so sad to think that she&apos;s the one who kills him in the end - MAN I&apos;M GONNA CRY AGAIN BYE

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