No one stands out quite the way Jinx does in Arcane - with her goofy insanity and unpredictable psychosis, her scenes are filled with pure chaos.

She has issues. Obviously.

In the very last episode of the first season, The Monster You Created, Jinx explicitly blames her sister for making her who she was. And needless to say, she was right to a certain extent - but not completely.

While Vi channeled her trauma in rash actions and mindless fights, Jinx bottled it up in the form of fear, low self-esteem and a deep desire for approval from her sister and peers.

It was those bottled-up emotions that took over Powder and made her Jinx - along with Vi’s abandonment, of course.

Before we jump deeper into the messy waters of Jinx, we need to take a dip in her past, when she was still Powder.

After losing their parents in a violent face off between the citizens of Zaun and the enforcers of Piltover, sisters Violet (aka Vi) and Powder were protected and adopted by Vander - the hound of the underground.

Being the smallest (and the weakest) one in the group, Powder had always been protected by her sister Vi and others, often resulting in slowing them down.

Unlike others, she isn’t street smart or an excellent fighter, but she is quite intelligent and a winner in her own might.

She grows up being compared to her sister Vi on every occasion by their adoptive siblings - especially Mylo who keeps calling her a jinx and a liability for the group.

Being the reason for every failure of the group, we see a thirst in Powder - of acceptance, love and acknowledgement.

So in a nutshell, this is her childhood before everything goes berserk:

●     Constant exposure to violence even though she is not made for it

●     Unhealed trauma of her parents demise

●     Being associated as the source of bad luck by her friends - and later her own sister

●     Feelings of incompetence and low self-esteem - and a thirst to prove herself worthy of love and acceptance

This is who Powder has always been - a child prodigy caught in a wrong place. She was never made for violence - yet she was constantly exposed to it.

She was trying her best to achieve her full potential in a place that provided no funding or resources for it.

She was struggling with acceptance - finding it hard to accept her own ‘incompetence’ and ‘bad luck’, there has always been only one person who accepted her for who she was - her elder sister and protector, Vi.

 So coming from here, we see her suddenly thrown into the chaos that unravels when Silco kidnaps Vander.

We have to understand that for Powder, abandonment didn’t come just once - it came twice. For a child who felt safe only with her sister - even amid complete chaos - nothing could have been worse than being told to sit back and wait alone in her room while the whole undercity was becoming a pure hell.

But Vi unknowingly added a label of incompetence to that already bubbling deep fear by telling Powder that “she was not ready” before she left to save Vander from Silco and his henchmen.

In Powder’s head, this was the first time Violet abandons her.

Alone in her room, we can see her getting more and more scared alone - to the point of insanity and psychosis. Her only source of comfort, her sister had left her behind.

The second, and more severe abandonment, again comes amid pure chaos. When Powder realizes what she had done, she is filled with remorse, guilt and a sense of loss. She begs her sister to not leave her and yet Vi leaves her behind in anger.

Take a moment to consider Powder’s state of mind here - a child who is still dealing with the enormity of her unintended crime and all alone in the streets outside.

Powder could not forgive her sister in that moment - but one can argue that her real anger was truly directed at her own self. She most likely saw herself as a failure - as the jinx who would never be accepted - not even by her own sister.

And it was during this extremely delicate moment that she received Silco’s support. And it was here where Powder was burned down and Jinx rose from those ashes. From here on, it had always been her and Silco against the world.

When she throws herself in the arms of Silco, crying in grief and anger, Jinx has already taken birth inside Powder. All her insecurities and unhealed trauma takes the form of pure psychosis and insanity - something that Silco nurtures from there on.

Whether Silco was a good father or not, is a completely different argument, but he did give something to Jinx that even her sister couldn’t - unconditional acceptance.

Only Powder can get acceptance from her former family - but Jinx can't. So who can give her the love she deserves? Silco. He looks her in the eye, sees her demons and accepts them.

Where Powder and naivety couldn't have even survived Silco, Jinx and her madness ruled him. And who else could have survived Jinx, if not for Silco - a man unscathed by unknown monsters and unstoppable by external fears?

So while in one way, Jinx's birth was a result of her unhealed trauma, in another way it was also a metaphorical act of self-defense and survival - both in terms of dealing with threats that lay in her own psyche and in the outside world!

In the very last episode, we can see Jinx struggling to choose between Vi and Silco - struggling to fight or accept her insanity.

What happens that despite killing Silco, when her path is actually clear to go back to her sister, she chose to be Jinx - pure chaos?

While Silco, even in death, is accepting of Jinx and her madness, we can see Vi trying to hold it back and bring Powder to the surface. In doing so, Vi inadvertently rejects Jinx and the troubles she brings with herself.

And it’s the juxtaposition of rejection and acceptance in the ending scene that unleashes the hell within Jinx.

Before Silco’s death, Powder was still alive somewhere within Jinx, waiting for her sister’s approval. And with Powder, a doubt also lived inside her, about Silco’s true loyalty, love and acceptance.

Two things happen simultaneously - she believes in Silco’s love for her and she no longer trusts her sister will love her the same way he did. And boom goes the bomb!

So at her core, this is who Jinx is - a wounded prodigy waiting for her extraordinary self to be acknowledged, appreciated and accepted.

Unlike most other characters from Arcane, who all have a ‘greater purpose’ or so to speak, Jinx has only one thing center to her complete being - unconditional acceptance.

And she only ever remembers getting completely accepted as Jinx - by Silco, and even her enemies.

Now what remains is to see how things unravel from here because we still have someone who is not willing to let Powder go. Vi.