Jinx

> It's Jinx now. Powder fell down a well.
>
> Jinx to Vi, "When These Walls Come Tumbling Down"

**Jinx**, also known as **Powder**, is a lead character appearing in *Arcane*. and an orphaned Zaunite. With her parent's deaths while she was very young, she and her sister Vi were taken in by Vander, the then-de facto leader and protector of the Lanes. When a series of events forces Jinx and her sister apart in more ways than one, she is fundamentally and irrevocably changed.

She is voiced by Ella Purnell.

## Biography

### Early life

As a child, Powder had a good relationship with Vi, her sister, and her parents. However, when her parents died during a battle on the bridge between Piltover and Zaun, her and Vi were the only people left in their family. On that same day, Vander found the 2 siblings. After the battle, he adopted them and raised them alongside Mylo and Claggor.

#### The heist

A few years later Vi, Powder, Claggor and Mylo venture into Piltover after getting a tip from Ekko regarding a Piltover citizen whom he had followed after he shopped at Benzo's. After finding the apartment, the kids loot the place and Powder discovers a box full of blue crystals. However, Vi hears Jayce and Caitlyn's footsteps and signals everyone to leave. Yet in a rush, Powder drops one of the blue crystals, setting off an explosion which blows up half the building. This notifies the enforcers and sends the kids on a chase through Piltover.

#### The aftermath

After the kids manage to evade the enforcers, they made their way back to Zaun with their stolen goods. They are stopped by a street gang led by Deckard, who demands they hand the bag over. Not willing to go down without a fight, Vi, Claggor, and Mylo take on the rival gang and leave the goods with Powder. Midway, Powder is chased by one of the gang members who notices the stolen supplies and she is cornered to the docks, where she tries to attack him with Mouser, though it sputters out and fails. Left with no other option, she throws the goods away, Which Accidentally lands in the ocean. As Powder manages to escape for good.

Later, Mylo yells at Powder for losing the stolen goods and claims "she jinxes every job," though Vi silences him. Back at The Last Drop, the group is reprimanded by Vander for the trouble they caused in Piltover while Vi argues back, claiming that Piltover has plenty while they have nothing.

#### Laying low

To lay low, the group decides to hide in a run-down arcade. Mylo berates Powder for not being able to fix a target practice range; instead, she not only shows him how to activate it, but plays the range herself, showing Her excellent aim. Enforcers soon break into the arcade, and they run away once more with the help of Ekko.

Later, several Zaunites gather at the Last Drop, and the group, including Powder, stands by a corner. They watch as several residents, including Sevika, claim they want to fight back, but Vander reminds them that Violence is not the answer, and that they "just have to stand together". The kids wonder why Vander still chooses peace, and Ekko informs them that Vander has a deal with the enforcers.

While lounging in the basement of the Last Drop, the group is signaled by Vander that enforcers have arrived again. They hide on the ceiling, but Powder struggles to hang on; luckily, she manages to stay up top, and falls only after the enforcer leaves the basement. She decides to make more bombs, naming one "Whisker", and she shows them to Vi, who encourages her.

#### Rescuing Vander

Vi returns to the Last Drop, letting the group know what she saw, they begin to plan a rescue for Vander. Powder insists on joining, but Vi warns her not to and leaves her alone with a flare instead. Powder breaks down afterwards; in her breakdown, the Hextech crystals she'd swiped from the penthouse spill out of her bag, and she realizes that those were what caused the explosion.

She makes her way to the docks with a monkey bomb loaded with crystals. She drops the monkey through the window and explosions are set off, killing Mylo and Claggor alongside several of Silco's goons; Vi and Vander are injured, Sevika loses an arm protecting Silco, and Singed's lab blows up with him inside. Powder makes her way to the entrance, only to find Vander dead and Vi extremely anguished, and in that anguish, she angrily calls her a "jinx" and leaves her sobbing.

With no one left, Powder ends up adopted by Silco.

## Characteristics

### Appearance

Jinx stands in a physically tiny stature (5’3) with sharp features, pallor skin, a pop of dark eyebags under her eyes, and a skinny body.

Being newly pallor skinned- she loses the slight tint of fairness in her hue. Becoming a ghostly white with the most pop of color being her dull lips and eyebags. Her eyes are narrowed sharper and they have grown out of their grey shade. Becoming a faint blue.

Her body possesses a mix of a skinny, slender, and slim figure. With having slender legs, slim arms and a slim body that includes a narrow waist. Following her midriff and arm (left) with white cloud designs.

Her bright blue hair is now styled in long blue braids with a sharp side bang styled on her left- with the braids falling over her mid-back and cascading down to her ankles. Accompanying her braids with a few pairs of gold bullet casings scattering through her braids. With her left braid having four and her right having three (including one at the top being silver) and two of them at the bottom of her braids.

Her attire consists of a leather crop-top that had four holes cut into the middle of the chest (ordered in a dice manner) with thick white twisted rope passing through the holes and crossing eachother in a X symbol. Followed with severed straps raising up on her neck. She dons vertically dark purple striped pants that are torn at the bottom (with the right being torn higher than the other) which has her white X bandage, loosely hung up by a brown belt with a gun-holster and bomb pouch. finishing with a pair of leather combat boots that are shown to be worn and weathered. With faltered collar's on the boot that have silver rings hung on the tips and magenta X laces.

As a child, Powder stood smaller (Underneath Jinx's chest, which seemingly makes her 4'2) with a flat chest, softer features, and a more skinny body. With slender arms and legs; she had her doe grey eyes and had a slight fair shade. Usually presented with dirt smudged against her cheeks due to the messiness of Zaun. She had her bright blue hair styled in a singular braid that reached her mid-back, following with scattered hair clips in her hair along with fringe bangs. Her attire consisted of a dark blue shirt (which seems to be her shirt from when she was a baby presented in the start of the first episode) over a magenta T-shirt with darker vertical stripes, a split dull blue skirt hung up with a belt that holds a brown pouch. Wearing brown shorts over purple leggings and brown ankle length shoes. Followed with black arm-warmers and blue leg-warmers.

### Personality

As a little girl, Powder was shy and sweet, but was also clumsy and prone to making mistakes. This and a sad case of middle child syndrome sparked irritation from her older "brother" Mylo who referred to her as a jinx. She greatly admired her older sister Vi and saw her as a role model. She was also quite creative and enjoyed making different kinds of inventions, mostly bombs, though they usually failed to work. She also showed how skilled she was with a gun, often beating her best friend, Ekko, when the two of them played together.

After enduring the death of her family and her sister's abandonment, Powder adopted the identity of Jinx. Jinx is a mentally stunted teen (assumed) who enjoys reeking chaos wherever she goes and blowing things up. She is loud and ecstatic and often torments others and shows no remorse for hurting or killing others. Despite this havoc nature, she is quite smart and is shone to have improved on her bomb making skills. Despite her loud, crazy persona, she is shown to be struggling mentally and shows an incredible amount of guilt for accidentally killing her family. She is also shown to have abandonment issues after Vi left her, after the death of her family. Her personality is heavily influenced by her childhood trauma.

## Trivia

* Jinx is heavily implied to suffer from schizophrenia, a mental illness that causes people to see and hear things that aren't real. She often feels stuck in a world warped through her own anxieties.
* She also might suffer from borderline personality disorder, a mental condition that causes you to have intense emotions, mood swings and highly impulsive behaviors. She may also suffer from PTSD.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Christian Linke, Alex Yee (writers) and Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord (November 6, 2021). "Welcome to the Playground". *Arcane*. Season 1. Episode 1. Netflix.
2. ↑ Ash Brannon (writer) and Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord (directors) (November 6, 2021). "The Base Violence Necessary for Change". *Arcane*. Season 1. Episode 3. Netflix.