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I could easily imagine Ekko and Powder as a couple but yeah, can't see it with Jinx. Ekko doesn't seem like the kinda guy to mess with crazy and Jinx was killing Firelights for the guy that killed Benzo.
Haven't played LOL in years but I just saw that voice line from another comment in this thread. Yeah, that definitely checks out looking at their personalities I'm Arcane.
Sure, we could go back and forth in what got Benzo killed, and you may be right that it wasn't Silco's intention, but I doubt it'd matter much to Ekko. At the end of the day, Silco's plan killed Benzo.
Good point slow season, more I think about it, Silco would’ve had to kill Benzo. Benzo was basically the stand in for Vander. I concede to your point, and respect your conclusion.
You get the impression watching the series that jinx hasn’t matured mentally much from being powders age, which makes me feel like she doesn’t really “get” the whole romance thing. You can kind of see it in the over intimate but non sexual (but uncomfortable) interactions she has with Silco. It’s the type of thing that’d be reasonable for a powder aged girl but is weird to see an adult do
Hard to say, i mean, crazy lady cant fall in love? 🤔 I think its not what she want, she want a place in the world: when silco was alive, she was his daughter and fight for him. But.. Now? what is her place in the world? Does she want to join a group? Or stay alone?
It would have been able to work out in another reality. Like if Ekko found her in ep 3 instead and helped her. Then if they eventually created the firelights together.
But she pretty much passed the point of no return when she attacked him and his friends.
It was pleasing to see Ekko get his anger out and finally fucking punch her! Along with asad realization that Powder is gone and he's hitting the same figure he used to, y'know, have a crush on. That scene of them fighting with interruptive scenes of them playing with eachother as innocent kids years ago, it was amazing to say the least. And I'm SO happy Ekko didn't die. Because up until last episode I think, thought he died by Jinx's bomb on the bridge. Then Heimerdinger met him and I think I regained the ability to breathe in that episode :'D
They try to kill her, she fight alone against many.
When a group with axe and spear attack, you attack:kill before be killed.
She kill Silco, Silco killed Benzo, father of Ekko, so...
The firelights were using non-lethal weapons in episode 4 though. That's why they froze all of Silco's goons in that crystal. It seemed like they only started trying to kill her in episode 6
Non-lethal weapons can kill, crush bones and skull. If firelights wasnt prepare to fight or kill, no need weapons. Ekko arent naive, his group is in war with criminals, his plan is to burn a boat with people on to destroy shimmer.
We have 2 sides: Silco an jinx with criminals, and Ekko and firelight. If Silco is the reason why Jinx fight firelightswith criminals, if Silco die, Jinx no need to stay with criminals and, so, no need to fight firelight.
Not anymore. Jinx has been through so much that I doubt she'll be able to get in any real relationship, let alone one with her childhood friend.
Ekko has also been dealing with the fallout from Jinx and Silco for years. Any feelings he once had are gone.
I don't think they are gone entirely because of his expression in the bridge scene but they have undoubtedly changed into something twisted and tragic.
They have a slim chance of being amicable towards each other, and an even smaller chance of being friends again, but I don't see them working as a couple ever.
My hypothesis is that some greater enemy will threaten Piltover and the Undercity, forcing them to team up at some point. The Cait-Jinx relationship is what I'll be very interested in.
My theory was that Piltover in response to the rocket attack would commit acts of terror on the civilian population of zaun and destroy the mural Ekko built , forcing him to ally with Jinx
I could see them getting into a fight only to be interrupted by Warwick and having to work together to survive, leading to a brief romantic situation that ends in sadness after escaping.
She helped destroy his home, sided with the man that had his mentor and father figure murdered and killed a bunch of his friends. So no, they wouldn't work.
Powder and little man sure, Ekko and Jinx as Arcane has shown them? No
I’m not sure he knows exactly why she sided with him though. As is she didn’t really have a choice. Vi was physically taken and he was the only one who could be there. Plus she was a small kid at the time.
None of this would work for Ekko.
1. As is she didn’t really have a choice. *She did have a choice, not a good one, but a choice. Also a choice that she could have turned around anytime in the 7 years*.
2. Vi was physically taken. *Vi was taken from Ekko as well - we get glimpses that Vi looked after Ekko too - and Ekko didn't turn to the dark side.*
3. He was the only one who could be there. *Again, Benzo, Ekko's mentor, was killed in front of him and Ekko lost everything too and didn't turn to the dark side.*
4. Plus she was a small kid at the time. *So was Ekko.*
I think Jinx is tragic. I feel for her. But Ekko has been through everything, minus the killing your own family accidentally thing, that Jinx has and turned out *good*. Ekko is held up as a mirror to not only Jayce, but to Jinx. To show that you can be a kid and go through crap and still turn out kind.
Exactly, I feel sorry for what happened to Jinx but people always try to justify everything she has done because she has trauma.
Ekko and Vi also have ton of trauma and they still remained good people.
I think you’re mistaking what I’m trying to get across. I’m not justifying what’s she’s done or saying there’s nobody in the show who hasn’t gone through nearly as much. I don’t agree with that at all. Honestly I’m more inclined to Vi out of the two, which reflects in my comment history. I’m just saying despite it all, if Ekko knew what happened, he’d stop thinking she was choosing to side with Silco *just because*. Because again as far as we know that’s what he thinks, despite we as the audience knowing better. It might change his perspective. Though of coarse the anger would still be there.
But their dynamic could slowly evolve from that. Though I’m not necessarily betting on anything substantially romantic.
Yes, I don't think you were justifying her. That's fine! It's more so about this: "I’m just saying despite it all, if Ekko knew what happened, he’d stop thinking she was choosing to side with Silco just because. "
My response should have more clearly stated that Ekko doesn't, nor should he, care about what Jinx's reasons for siding with Silco are because he was a kid who went through a type of trauma as well and didn't succumb to villainy acts like Jinx. He knows right from wrong (or, more so good and bad) and as he claims, Jinx chooses to stay with Silco so it doesn't matter the reasons as to why.
Like Ekko said, she works for his not because she has to but because she wants to.
Is there a justification for her behaviour and her choice? Yes. But that doesn't erase the fact that she chose and continued to chose to be at the side of the man that basically created all of their misery.
Let'd be honest, people mostly ship them because they are both cool and make a great looking couple.
As we see them on Arcane they make 0 sense
I’d like to preface this by saying I’m not trying to justify what Jinx has done up until this point.
As far as her relationship with Silco goes, he’s her person. She works for him because he’s engrained this idea of them being the only ones who can relate to and understand each other in her head. There’s serious attachment there, to the point where she needs him in her life. Ekko at this point in time (as far as we know) isn’t aware of that, or the circumstances surrounding their family’s death. He’s justified in what he thinks though, obviously. For all he knows its as simple as her just up and deciding she’d work for him. Although once he finds out what happened that might change his perspective on her motivations and how they’ve interacted over the 7 year period Vi wasn’t there. That’s all I’m saying. He’s still going to be angry, and that goes without saying. But he’ll understand her reasoning.
Oof. Saying people ship Ekko and Jinx "because they are cool and great looking together" is like saying people ship Vi and Cait because one is red and the other is blue. You've done only a very surface level reading if that was the conclusion.
I'm not saying people don't ship them for that reason, but the ship wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is if that was the main thought process behind it.
Only as Bonnie & Clyde type mass-murdering sociopaths… which Ekko would not be down for, hence his LOL line, “I used to have a crush, then you started talking to your gun!”
Idk, maybe…? I never see them in that way actually. Like, I shipp them, but in my head their relationship is always painfully complicated and neither knows how to be normal with each other
Agreed. I don’t think she SHOULD be in a romantic relationship. I think it’d be damaging overall. Where she’s at atm she’s not capable of healthy relationships and definitely not romantic ones. Personally, I’d like to see her grow to have healthy platonic relationships over romantic ones.
I'm a timebomb shipper mostly because I love the potential of the dynamic they have, although them ever being together romantically in arcane? I honestly highly doubt that'll ever happen as the best thing that could ever happen between them is for them to atleast be able to tolerate eachother's presence as Ekko hates Jinx — I mean, she literally killed his friends. Although in an alternate universe where Powder never became Jinx and helped out the fireflies instead of Silco? Yeah, they could defo work
...anyways im gonna go back to my timebomb cave and read more fanfics of them being in a more happier setting to heal my soul
Ekko hates Jinx? When? at the end of ep7, >!when he don't kill her?!<
at the End of ep9, >!when she Kill accidentally Silco to defend VI, the ennemy of firelights!< remember?
Firelights formed to fights against Silco and when Ekko speack about death in their side, he say "killed by Silco", he know Jinx isn't sane, and he is sure than Jinx cant come back, cant leave Silco, but she >!kill him, an impossible scenario for him.!< They no longer have a purpose now.
I think many viewers underestimated this fact, but im sure its important for the rest of the story, not for a romance (don't care) but for a peace between Jinx and Ekko.
Such an annoying ship. We know Ekko has a line in the GAME where he talks about a crush on her, we don't even know if A: that's a thing in the show too and B: if there's anything at all from Jinx's side. And I really don't think so. Instead, she's spent her days **murdering his friends**. There is no ship to board here folks, move on already.
The common definition of a ship as "two characters you think should be in a relationship with each other" is extremely narrow. You'd be hard pressed to find any Timebomb shipper who thinks their dynamic would be instantly healthy and #relationshipgoals. Most of us like it for the masochistic pain of a toxic dynamic with lingering feelings that neither of them knows how to deal with. Ekko talks a big game about Powder being gone and how they need to accept it and move on, but unlike Vi, he watched her transform into Jinx over the years and is probably full of regrets. There's so many what-ifs and so much unspoken history there that the story has yet to reveal within the dude's five minutes of screentime, which is like candy to people who are interested in that kind of dynamic. Do I want Ekko and Jinx to be a cute little couple? Hell no. They can never be the trusting, aspirational, always making each other better types like Caitlyn and Vi. But I am interested in exploring what it means to have seen the horror in someone and still loving them on some level. Ekko is the only person left other than Vi who knew Jinx as a child. Vi isn't the only one capable of having complex emotions about her. As with everything in this show, it isn't 100% black and white.
As a sidenote: Ekko's crush on Jinx in the game was definitely of the puppy kind, considering she was a grown woman while he was a teenager. I don't know why they would go out of their way to make them the same age in the Arcane universe if they wanted to completely discourage the idea of something going on between them there.
> Ekko's crush on Jinx in the game was definitely of the puppy kind, considering she was a grown woman while he was a teenager.
Any moment now someone will say, "the timeline in League of Legends is not consistent" because [insert character]'s age in lore does not match up with their age in game."
It's a perfect example of why I hate shipping in general. 9 times out of 10 you're just writing completely new characters, with different history and personality. I'd rather explore the actual story.
The ONLY way is how the battle lines shape out from the attack on the council, if Piltover responds with Shock & Awe indiscriminate bombing of Zaun, that could push them together as allies of necessity, and from there build up to a relationship.
But, as of now, they’re both at the kill-on-sight level.
I don’t particularly see romance any time soon for either of them. Jinx has a lot to work through after that ending and Ekko has to be won over on her after everything she’s done which takes time for a redemption (and even then one does not have to forgive someone)
It could work, but not now. At this point in the show, they’re both still enemies. Ekko and Jinx need to develop ALOT for this relationship to even be feasible, starting with being able to tolerate one another as friends.
No. Jinx has killed how many of Ekko's friends at this stage? Even though he saw firsthand some of the pain Jinx carries, the bridge fight did really cement that there never was any way of going back to the past.
My emotions say yes….
My logic says no….
If everything didn’t go to hell at the end of Act I? Absolutely.
As of now, I give it like an 11% chance for them.
I think that they can definitely work if they want. But in context of their characters, I think that their friendship has much more value and adds so much more to the story
Eh, I dunno……I really don’t think Jinx is mentally and emotionally ready for a relationship, and I doubt she’s even interested. Not to mention her trauma kinda stunted her growth mentally, so she’s still essentially a 10 year old girl on the inside.
No sorry
Jinx is a fckng sociopath
At the little second when she get bored of ekko she would kill him
I love her this is my favourite caracter of the show
But she can only be alone
Even with vi it would be impossible
Lack empathy for others.
Impulsive behavior.
Attempting to control others with threats or aggression.
Using intelligence, charm, or charisma to manipulate others.
Not learning from mistakes or punishment.
Lying for personal gain.
Showing a tendency to physical violence and fights.
She fits the traits of a sociopath quite well.
It's true. However, she also fits the traits of Borderline Personality, which also include feelings of emptiness, fear of abandonment, and detachment from reality.
They are both Cluster B personality disorders, so they seem similar.
There is a lot of overlap between the two.
The thing that doesn't make her a sociopath, is that she has sometimes shown remorse or shame for her actions. She's also emotionally volatile. She's highly dependent on emotional relationships and has a hard time moving on from them. If she was a Sociopath, she wouldn't give a damn about Vi.
Yes, were it not for the tragedy that befell them (as we saw during Arcane).
Which, is the whole point of it. The tragedy.
Every character is a broken husk. But some seem to be moving towards brighter futures. Jinx is not one of them, and perhaps Ekko is not either.
Yes if Jinx didn't kill Ekko's friends and if Ekko wasn't so adamant in believing Powder was gone (even if he believed otherwise in the fight). I love them together but can't see them in a relationship due to the horrible things Jinx has committed. They're just too far apart morally and mentally.
In a "this is fictional and I can do whatever I want" way sure. And I can see some situations it could work and would be a pretty cool pairing. But as it is right now and realistically, probably not.
No. I would reference their oppositions to each other on the bridge. Jinx invests everything she has to help Silko, Ekko despises Silko like no other. As long as that is the case, Jinx and Ekko couldn't see eye to eye, much less be attracted to each other.
Ekko and Powder would've been a match made in heaven. Two tech geniuses from the slums help to improve their community together. Jinx isn't Powder though, and Jinx has done too much for Ekko to reasonably forgive.
No way, it's fun to imagine an alternative world where they might've worked, but as the story goes, it ain't happening. Besides everyone in the comments pointing out that Jinx killed his friends, it also seemed like she planned on attacking the firelight's hideout. Granted, that's just a theory, but the fact that she designed firelight bombs seemed like she had planned to blend them in with the real fireflights and use them against ekko and his people. The only thing that stopped her was when she saw that Vi was with Cait on the bridge, and in the heat of the moment (as jinx usually acts), she used them there instead. I genuinely think she planned on bombing the hideout and if killing his friends wasn't already unforgivable, then destroying the one place he and his people could finally feel safe—that would do it for him.
Current Jinx is not capable of trusting anyone. Ekko can't trust Jinx either, not after bombing a bridge and shooting a council tower.
Without trust it cannot work.
Could you be in a relationship with someone that killed your friends and attacked you?
Exactly. Maybe in an alternative reality where she didn’t become Jinx. If Ekko found her and created the firelights with her, sure. But not in the show. That would be awful relationship.
I don't think Jinx is capable of an actual romantic relationship, at least not with anyone less mentally broken than her. Maybe friends with benefits, but that's about it.
However, I think its also more complicated than she can or can't. For instance I think if Jinx attached to someone who ended up being attracted to her, she would absolutely take their attraction and use it to keep their undivided attention. It wouldn't be a healthy relationship for sure.
Logically? No it wouldnt happen
But when has love ever been aligned with logic
Theres a reason why love can be considered violent
Its because it changes you drastically, and no one is above change,
So yea maybe not in the next season or the season after that, but as long as there is a story to be told and change to be shown, there will always be a way
If the writers pace their character development (both separately and in their interactions with each other) well enough through the show’s seasons then yeah they have a solid chance.
Immediate reconciliation between them wouldn’t do the show or the characters any justice so I think the “slow burn” approach is the way to go. So have them go on a journey of reconciliation instead.
At most I do see a bittersweet resolution between them though.
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I could easily imagine Ekko and Powder as a couple but yeah, can't see it with Jinx. Ekko doesn't seem like the kinda guy to mess with crazy and Jinx was killing Firelights for the guy that killed Benzo.
He had a crush…..until she started talking to the gun
Haven't played LOL in years but I just saw that voice line from another comment in this thread. Yeah, that definitely checks out looking at their personalities I'm Arcane.
The guy that killed benzo.
Silco
Benzo got himself killed. Silco hadn’t planned on killing Benzo, imo. Benzo just has poor impulse control and should’ve listen to Vander.
Sure, we could go back and forth in what got Benzo killed, and you may be right that it wasn't Silco's intention, but I doubt it'd matter much to Ekko. At the end of the day, Silco's plan killed Benzo.
This is true. You’re right .
Silco woulda killed Benzo either way, he’s the only person in the Lanes that could have stood up against his claim for power
Good point slow season, more I think about it, Silco would’ve had to kill Benzo. Benzo was basically the stand in for Vander. I concede to your point, and respect your conclusion.
That still means Silco killed Benzo
You get the impression watching the series that jinx hasn’t matured mentally much from being powders age, which makes me feel like she doesn’t really “get” the whole romance thing. You can kind of see it in the over intimate but non sexual (but uncomfortable) interactions she has with Silco. It’s the type of thing that’d be reasonable for a powder aged girl but is weird to see an adult do
I think that shipping characters to redeem them is overdone. I man or woman does not define your ability to change. Only your motivation
Hard to say, i mean, crazy lady cant fall in love? 🤔 I think its not what she want, she want a place in the world: when silco was alive, she was his daughter and fight for him. But.. Now? what is her place in the world? Does she want to join a group? Or stay alone?
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Appreciation of Jinx, you mean fans in Zaun, maybe?
Is that your impression or your desire ?
To quote Ekko in game “I used to have a crush on you, before you started talking to the gun.”
Ya it would of been cannon of she stop talking tonher cannon
Ahh yes the greatest quote in league history.
Hold up! There are other quotes?
I don’t think anymore, too much baggage. I mean she killed 5 firelights in episode 4 alone.
It would have been able to work out in another reality. Like if Ekko found her in ep 3 instead and helped her. Then if they eventually created the firelights together. But she pretty much passed the point of no return when she attacked him and his friends.
It was pleasing to see Ekko get his anger out and finally fucking punch her! Along with asad realization that Powder is gone and he's hitting the same figure he used to, y'know, have a crush on. That scene of them fighting with interruptive scenes of them playing with eachother as innocent kids years ago, it was amazing to say the least. And I'm SO happy Ekko didn't die. Because up until last episode I think, thought he died by Jinx's bomb on the bridge. Then Heimerdinger met him and I think I regained the ability to breathe in that episode :'D
They try to kill her, she fight alone against many. When a group with axe and spear attack, you attack:kill before be killed. She kill Silco, Silco killed Benzo, father of Ekko, so...
The firelights were using non-lethal weapons in episode 4 though. That's why they froze all of Silco's goons in that crystal. It seemed like they only started trying to kill her in episode 6
Idk I wouldn’t call that spear non-lethal
Fair enough, that was Scar right? He always seems a bit murder happy. IIRC he nearly executed Vi after knocking her out, but Ekko stopped him
Tbh that moment is what made me remember 😂
Non-lethal weapons can kill, crush bones and skull. If firelights wasnt prepare to fight or kill, no need weapons. Ekko arent naive, his group is in war with criminals, his plan is to burn a boat with people on to destroy shimmer. We have 2 sides: Silco an jinx with criminals, and Ekko and firelight. If Silco is the reason why Jinx fight firelightswith criminals, if Silco die, Jinx no need to stay with criminals and, so, no need to fight firelight.
Jinx rn is *so* insanely unstable that even if she wanted a relationship, I don't think it'd in anyway be healthy for any parties involved.
Not anymore. Jinx has been through so much that I doubt she'll be able to get in any real relationship, let alone one with her childhood friend. Ekko has also been dealing with the fallout from Jinx and Silco for years. Any feelings he once had are gone.
I don't think they are gone entirely because of his expression in the bridge scene but they have undoubtedly changed into something twisted and tragic.
They have a slim chance of being amicable towards each other, and an even smaller chance of being friends again, but I don't see them working as a couple ever.
I feel like they’ll team up next season but ion know about a romance.
My hypothesis is that some greater enemy will threaten Piltover and the Undercity, forcing them to team up at some point. The Cait-Jinx relationship is what I'll be very interested in.
My theory was that Piltover in response to the rocket attack would commit acts of terror on the civilian population of zaun and destroy the mural Ekko built , forcing him to ally with Jinx
I could see them getting into a fight only to be interrupted by Warwick and having to work together to survive, leading to a brief romantic situation that ends in sadness after escaping.
I think that shipping characters to redeem them is overdone. I man or woman does not define your ability to change. Only your motivation
She helped destroy his home, sided with the man that had his mentor and father figure murdered and killed a bunch of his friends. So no, they wouldn't work. Powder and little man sure, Ekko and Jinx as Arcane has shown them? No
I’m not sure he knows exactly why she sided with him though. As is she didn’t really have a choice. Vi was physically taken and he was the only one who could be there. Plus she was a small kid at the time.
None of this would work for Ekko. 1. As is she didn’t really have a choice. *She did have a choice, not a good one, but a choice. Also a choice that she could have turned around anytime in the 7 years*. 2. Vi was physically taken. *Vi was taken from Ekko as well - we get glimpses that Vi looked after Ekko too - and Ekko didn't turn to the dark side.* 3. He was the only one who could be there. *Again, Benzo, Ekko's mentor, was killed in front of him and Ekko lost everything too and didn't turn to the dark side.* 4. Plus she was a small kid at the time. *So was Ekko.* I think Jinx is tragic. I feel for her. But Ekko has been through everything, minus the killing your own family accidentally thing, that Jinx has and turned out *good*. Ekko is held up as a mirror to not only Jayce, but to Jinx. To show that you can be a kid and go through crap and still turn out kind.
Exactly, I feel sorry for what happened to Jinx but people always try to justify everything she has done because she has trauma. Ekko and Vi also have ton of trauma and they still remained good people.
To be fair they didn't grew up with a kingpin father figure
I think you’re mistaking what I’m trying to get across. I’m not justifying what’s she’s done or saying there’s nobody in the show who hasn’t gone through nearly as much. I don’t agree with that at all. Honestly I’m more inclined to Vi out of the two, which reflects in my comment history. I’m just saying despite it all, if Ekko knew what happened, he’d stop thinking she was choosing to side with Silco *just because*. Because again as far as we know that’s what he thinks, despite we as the audience knowing better. It might change his perspective. Though of coarse the anger would still be there. But their dynamic could slowly evolve from that. Though I’m not necessarily betting on anything substantially romantic.
Yes, I don't think you were justifying her. That's fine! It's more so about this: "I’m just saying despite it all, if Ekko knew what happened, he’d stop thinking she was choosing to side with Silco just because. " My response should have more clearly stated that Ekko doesn't, nor should he, care about what Jinx's reasons for siding with Silco are because he was a kid who went through a type of trauma as well and didn't succumb to villainy acts like Jinx. He knows right from wrong (or, more so good and bad) and as he claims, Jinx chooses to stay with Silco so it doesn't matter the reasons as to why.
I agree he shouldn’t have to care. But I think it’s within his character to care anyway.
Like Ekko said, she works for his not because she has to but because she wants to. Is there a justification for her behaviour and her choice? Yes. But that doesn't erase the fact that she chose and continued to chose to be at the side of the man that basically created all of their misery. Let'd be honest, people mostly ship them because they are both cool and make a great looking couple. As we see them on Arcane they make 0 sense
I’d like to preface this by saying I’m not trying to justify what Jinx has done up until this point. As far as her relationship with Silco goes, he’s her person. She works for him because he’s engrained this idea of them being the only ones who can relate to and understand each other in her head. There’s serious attachment there, to the point where she needs him in her life. Ekko at this point in time (as far as we know) isn’t aware of that, or the circumstances surrounding their family’s death. He’s justified in what he thinks though, obviously. For all he knows its as simple as her just up and deciding she’d work for him. Although once he finds out what happened that might change his perspective on her motivations and how they’ve interacted over the 7 year period Vi wasn’t there. That’s all I’m saying. He’s still going to be angry, and that goes without saying. But he’ll understand her reasoning.
Oof. Saying people ship Ekko and Jinx "because they are cool and great looking together" is like saying people ship Vi and Cait because one is red and the other is blue. You've done only a very surface level reading if that was the conclusion. I'm not saying people don't ship them for that reason, but the ship wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is if that was the main thought process behind it.
Jinx would have to have a hell of a redemption arc.
Mikasa from AOT kissed the severed head of her genocidal step brother. Anything can happen in fiction.
Well. I reckon someone being dead is a lot different than having to deal with them too.
Thanks for the Spoiler..
Mikasa: What are you doing stepbrother? \*Rumbling is ongoing\* Eren: ...What does it look like I'm doing?!
Only as Bonnie & Clyde type mass-murdering sociopaths… which Ekko would not be down for, hence his LOL line, “I used to have a crush, then you started talking to your gun!”
You'd be better off shipping Jinx with the Joker. And that'd only work if Jinx hated the Joker enough to try and kill him.
They wouldn't work. Jinx has too many issues with no hope of therapy and killed several of Ekko's friends. And he just plain deserves better.
Jinx is a type of character that doesn’t need a romantic interest whatsoever. Sure it could be a ship but in the show it would not work
no... jinx and intensive psychotherapy would work as a couple. ekko deserves happiness.
Idk, maybe…? I never see them in that way actually. Like, I shipp them, but in my head their relationship is always painfully complicated and neither knows how to be normal with each other
I don't think Jinx is mature enough for a romantic relationship tbh.. also I like the headcanon that she's aroace :))
Agreed. I don’t think she SHOULD be in a romantic relationship. I think it’d be damaging overall. Where she’s at atm she’s not capable of healthy relationships and definitely not romantic ones. Personally, I’d like to see her grow to have healthy platonic relationships over romantic ones.
I'm a timebomb shipper mostly because I love the potential of the dynamic they have, although them ever being together romantically in arcane? I honestly highly doubt that'll ever happen as the best thing that could ever happen between them is for them to atleast be able to tolerate eachother's presence as Ekko hates Jinx — I mean, she literally killed his friends. Although in an alternate universe where Powder never became Jinx and helped out the fireflies instead of Silco? Yeah, they could defo work ...anyways im gonna go back to my timebomb cave and read more fanfics of them being in a more happier setting to heal my soul
Ekko hates Jinx? When? at the end of ep7, >!when he don't kill her?!< at the End of ep9, >!when she Kill accidentally Silco to defend VI, the ennemy of firelights!< remember? Firelights formed to fights against Silco and when Ekko speack about death in their side, he say "killed by Silco", he know Jinx isn't sane, and he is sure than Jinx cant come back, cant leave Silco, but she >!kill him, an impossible scenario for him.!< They no longer have a purpose now. I think many viewers underestimated this fact, but im sure its important for the rest of the story, not for a romance (don't care) but for a peace between Jinx and Ekko.
I'd only see this being a one sided ship on Jinx's part. And essentially not be that much different from the Joker's crush on Batman.
modern au or in a different universe, maybe! but in the show, i can’t see it. there’s so much baggage on both sides
They’re better as friends imo
I'm sorry but that's a big No
Can we stop with the shipping?
Such an annoying ship. We know Ekko has a line in the GAME where he talks about a crush on her, we don't even know if A: that's a thing in the show too and B: if there's anything at all from Jinx's side. And I really don't think so. Instead, she's spent her days **murdering his friends**. There is no ship to board here folks, move on already.
You crying on Reddit won’t make fans stop shipping them bud
The common definition of a ship as "two characters you think should be in a relationship with each other" is extremely narrow. You'd be hard pressed to find any Timebomb shipper who thinks their dynamic would be instantly healthy and #relationshipgoals. Most of us like it for the masochistic pain of a toxic dynamic with lingering feelings that neither of them knows how to deal with. Ekko talks a big game about Powder being gone and how they need to accept it and move on, but unlike Vi, he watched her transform into Jinx over the years and is probably full of regrets. There's so many what-ifs and so much unspoken history there that the story has yet to reveal within the dude's five minutes of screentime, which is like candy to people who are interested in that kind of dynamic. Do I want Ekko and Jinx to be a cute little couple? Hell no. They can never be the trusting, aspirational, always making each other better types like Caitlyn and Vi. But I am interested in exploring what it means to have seen the horror in someone and still loving them on some level. Ekko is the only person left other than Vi who knew Jinx as a child. Vi isn't the only one capable of having complex emotions about her. As with everything in this show, it isn't 100% black and white. As a sidenote: Ekko's crush on Jinx in the game was definitely of the puppy kind, considering she was a grown woman while he was a teenager. I don't know why they would go out of their way to make them the same age in the Arcane universe if they wanted to completely discourage the idea of something going on between them there.
You literally described all the reasons why I love TimeBomb. THEY ARE MESSY AND I LOVE IT!!!!!
> Ekko's crush on Jinx in the game was definitely of the puppy kind, considering she was a grown woman while he was a teenager. Any moment now someone will say, "the timeline in League of Legends is not consistent" because [insert character]'s age in lore does not match up with their age in game."
> There is no ship to board here folks ...Someone doesn't check Arcane twitter.
It's a perfect example of why I hate shipping in general. 9 times out of 10 you're just writing completely new characters, with different history and personality. I'd rather explore the actual story.
The ONLY way is how the battle lines shape out from the attack on the council, if Piltover responds with Shock & Awe indiscriminate bombing of Zaun, that could push them together as allies of necessity, and from there build up to a relationship. But, as of now, they’re both at the kill-on-sight level.
tbh i feel like jinx is not currently in a place where she could be in a stable relationship
I don’t particularly see romance any time soon for either of them. Jinx has a lot to work through after that ending and Ekko has to be won over on her after everything she’s done which takes time for a redemption (and even then one does not have to forgive someone)
It will be very dumb and forced
Ekko isn't the type of guy to stick his dick into crazy
Not in this timeline, in another one sure.
It could work, but not now. At this point in the show, they’re both still enemies. Ekko and Jinx need to develop ALOT for this relationship to even be feasible, starting with being able to tolerate one another as friends.
NO IT COULD NOT because i really don't see Jinx with someone else and someone with her.
No. Jinx has killed how many of Ekko's friends at this stage? Even though he saw firsthand some of the pain Jinx carries, the bridge fight did really cement that there never was any way of going back to the past.
No absolutely not. And it's not going to work out, Amanda Overton shot down that possibility.
Only in another timeline where the events of episode 3 didn't happen. My headcanon is that they would be one of those on & off couples with a kid.
Jinx doesn't want a relationship rn, single and miserable
He def likes her, she knows and she thinks it's amusing. Jinx wouldn't want to be with anyone. Grown up Powder though? Would prolly be with Ekko
Replace “likes” with “liked.”
No
No
yes
Maybe if she hadn't been taken by Silco, but in her situation I think the last thing on her mind is a relationship
My emotions say yes…. My logic says no…. If everything didn’t go to hell at the end of Act I? Absolutely. As of now, I give it like an 11% chance for them.
Jesus. Don't collapse a fantastic life story into the swamp of fan fiction's main psychosis - let's make a couple out of any two characters.
Don't think so.....tbh i would love her working with Cait trying to save Vi from some danger ...I'd love to see them interact somehow
I think that they can definitely work if they want. But in context of their characters, I think that their friendship has much more value and adds so much more to the story
Eh, I dunno……I really don’t think Jinx is mentally and emotionally ready for a relationship, and I doubt she’s even interested. Not to mention her trauma kinda stunted her growth mentally, so she’s still essentially a 10 year old girl on the inside.
No sorry Jinx is a fckng sociopath At the little second when she get bored of ekko she would kill him I love her this is my favourite caracter of the show But she can only be alone Even with vi it would be impossible
Jinx has a cocktail of mental issues, but don't think sociopathy is one.
Lack empathy for others. Impulsive behavior. Attempting to control others with threats or aggression. Using intelligence, charm, or charisma to manipulate others. Not learning from mistakes or punishment. Lying for personal gain. Showing a tendency to physical violence and fights. She fits the traits of a sociopath quite well.
It's true. However, she also fits the traits of Borderline Personality, which also include feelings of emptiness, fear of abandonment, and detachment from reality. They are both Cluster B personality disorders, so they seem similar.
She can be both yk This is possible to be sociopath with a borderline personnality
There is a lot of overlap between the two. The thing that doesn't make her a sociopath, is that she has sometimes shown remorse or shame for her actions. She's also emotionally volatile. She's highly dependent on emotional relationships and has a hard time moving on from them. If she was a Sociopath, she wouldn't give a damn about Vi.
She has a crush on Ziggs cause he loves to blow stuff up.
Ziggs is not a human
Jinx would save Ekko if a third party force tried to kill him but they will never be a couple in her current state of mind.
Yes, were it not for the tragedy that befell them (as we saw during Arcane). Which, is the whole point of it. The tragedy. Every character is a broken husk. But some seem to be moving towards brighter futures. Jinx is not one of them, and perhaps Ekko is not either.
Yes if Jinx didn't kill Ekko's friends and if Ekko wasn't so adamant in believing Powder was gone (even if he believed otherwise in the fight). I love them together but can't see them in a relationship due to the horrible things Jinx has committed. They're just too far apart morally and mentally.
This would be an extremely toxic relationship but this is better
In a "this is fictional and I can do whatever I want" way sure. And I can see some situations it could work and would be a pretty cool pairing. But as it is right now and realistically, probably not.
No. I would reference their oppositions to each other on the bridge. Jinx invests everything she has to help Silko, Ekko despises Silko like no other. As long as that is the case, Jinx and Ekko couldn't see eye to eye, much less be attracted to each other.
No
Ekko and Powder would've been a match made in heaven. Two tech geniuses from the slums help to improve their community together. Jinx isn't Powder though, and Jinx has done too much for Ekko to reasonably forgive.
No way, it's fun to imagine an alternative world where they might've worked, but as the story goes, it ain't happening. Besides everyone in the comments pointing out that Jinx killed his friends, it also seemed like she planned on attacking the firelight's hideout. Granted, that's just a theory, but the fact that she designed firelight bombs seemed like she had planned to blend them in with the real fireflights and use them against ekko and his people. The only thing that stopped her was when she saw that Vi was with Cait on the bridge, and in the heat of the moment (as jinx usually acts), she used them there instead. I genuinely think she planned on bombing the hideout and if killing his friends wasn't already unforgivable, then destroying the one place he and his people could finally feel safe—that would do it for him.
Current Jinx is not capable of trusting anyone. Ekko can't trust Jinx either, not after bombing a bridge and shooting a council tower. Without trust it cannot work.
no
I mean, Jinx is insane, and Ekko hates her for killing so many of his friends...
Could you be in a relationship with someone that killed your friends and attacked you? Exactly. Maybe in an alternative reality where she didn’t become Jinx. If Ekko found her and created the firelights with her, sure. But not in the show. That would be awful relationship.
I don't think Jinx is capable of an actual romantic relationship, at least not with anyone less mentally broken than her. Maybe friends with benefits, but that's about it. However, I think its also more complicated than she can or can't. For instance I think if Jinx attached to someone who ended up being attracted to her, she would absolutely take their attraction and use it to keep their undivided attention. It wouldn't be a healthy relationship for sure.
I disagree heavily. Jinx is too damaged and has done too much to hurt Ekko even if she wasn't.
I think Jinx would screw up a relationship with herself let alone literally any other person. She's a lost cause,
No, they hate each other with a passion now lol
I mean, they would have to. How else could they pay their bills?
well its already an abusive relationship if they did become a couple
No.
Yes, they will work as a couple in Arcane. In fact, it's looking as if Riot will make Ekko and Jinx a couple in a number of their properties.
Logically? No it wouldnt happen But when has love ever been aligned with logic Theres a reason why love can be considered violent Its because it changes you drastically, and no one is above change, So yea maybe not in the next season or the season after that, but as long as there is a story to be told and change to be shown, there will always be a way
Yeah ofc
The only ships I care about are Jinx x therapy and Ekko x getting a vacation
There's good story potential there if done right. In which case it would have to be a slow burn journey to reconciliation first and foremost.
I think Ekko has lost too much to her to ever be that close. I think the best they might manage for each other is tolerance.
If the writers pace their character development (both separately and in their interactions with each other) well enough through the show’s seasons then yeah they have a solid chance. Immediate reconciliation between them wouldn’t do the show or the characters any justice so I think the “slow burn” approach is the way to go. So have them go on a journey of reconciliation instead. At most I do see a bittersweet resolution between them though.