The black kid is Ekko. Hes the rapper in True Giants. Ekko is a genius whos parents worked themselves to the bone so that he could be educated in Piltover but he saw the potential in Zaun and wants to help raise it up. He ran in the same gang as Jinx before she went crazy and even has a little crush on her.
Jinx was basically raised to hate the "institution" and "the man" basically any authority, Vi (the pink hair girl) ended up joining them to survive. Jinx saw that as the ultimate betrayal. Vi sees it as trying to rescue her "younger sister" unconfirmed if actually related
it was confirmed back in 2017 that they were sisters. it was also said in a trailer for the new series coming out in a convo between Jinx and Vi. Jinx - "are we still sisters?" Vi - "nothing is ever going to change that"
Jinx's story is one of the most tragic narratives that has actually been told from the point of view of the character from protagonist to antagonist. Youre introduced to her as a kid and you know what shes gone through, there isnt a "rise as darth vader" moment where you kind of give up on her. Youre hoping for her to snap out of it but its just her now. She hasnt lost it, she lost everything and whatever was leftover is her now.
@@KayPopReacts yep, you should definitely check him out. The Forever Story is one of my fav albums of all time, if you wanna hear him sing tho check out Sandstorm with Mereba or Far Away with Jessie Reyez.
Background Context. “Arcane” is a series created by League of Legends to be on Netflix. The characters we know to be in it so far are: Ekko (The black kid), Jinx, Vi (Pink hair. Jinx sister).
Thank you so much and the crazy thing is I thought it was a movie but it’s series I can’t believe I missed that im so excited to see every episode lol can’t wait
As far as her eyes turning pink, the most common theory is that after the life saving procedure she went through, people assume it's an effect of the shimmer, and her eyes turn pink when she gets really unstable
@@KayPopReacts You are correct, they are kids in this vid. I mean in the game and also in Ekkos vid they are teens. The League of Legends tv show (Arcane) will be out on Nov 6th on Netflix btw.
@@palinozog658 Ekko`s a teen and Jinx is a teen for most of the show. In the games though, Jinx is a young adult only about 3 years younger than Vi, she`s just psychologically and emotionally stunted because of her traumatic past(Which whenever it`s brought up she denies having of course, saying "Ugh, villains with tragic backstories are sooooo borrrrrriiiiinnnnngggg!") ,mental illness and the Shimmer enhancements.It`s also implied in the games that Powder was already somewhat of a juvenile delinquent, however that may be historical revisionism on Piltover`s part so they can justify continuing to treat Zaunites as second-class citizens!
@@KayPopReacts Arcane`s basically an AU prequel/graphical update/lore expansion of "League of Legends"(Most of the champions and regions come from "League" originally) and "Legends of Runeterra"(Jinx`s real name Powder and confirmation of her past friendship with Ekko as well as being Vi`s baby sis first came there when "Arcane" was in Development Hell due to COVID although Ghostcrawler accidentally leaked the truth of Jinx and Vi`s sibling relationship in an interview with a Russian media agency(That was many years before the war in Ukraine,don`t worry)which was speculated by fans based on their similar haircolors, lore, voicelines,Jinx coming out three years after Vi and two years after Caitlyn with her splash art being a destroyed, graffitied version of Vi`s Piltover splash art and both being neon-haired punk girls from Zaun although Vi eventually defected to Piltover and the Enforcers, even being in a lesbian relationship with another female Enforcer whilst Jinx remained in Zaun as a criminal.)
It's not confirmed as far as I know but the black kid with the white hair is most likely Ekko. He has had voice lines indicating he knew Jinx before she was crazy, and in game his base/default skin has white hair. For reference, Ekko is also the one who has a skin/version that is in True Damage.
That’s so cool! I didn’t know that I love J Cole. I looked him up and they killed his animation it looks just like him lol not the eye color of course lol but spot on
Omg seriously 😳 that’s so exciting if so it’s dope to see the game characters be linked together thank you so much for giving me some help with the storyline
Ekko is the kid and he has a quote in game where he tells Jinx if she’s on the enemy team that he used to have a crush on her before she started talking to her guns
@@KayPopReacts yeah. Hoping for true damage comeback. Because I don't know if it's just an Easter egg but. In True damage Senna's wildrift splash art at the back. There's a poster of K/DA x True damage : show 01.28. I don't know if riot's just trolling us or what. Who knows...
Listen to Never, Workin Out, or Off Da Zoinkeys for more JID. He’s the goat, people just don’t know it yet. Only comparable rappers are Little Simz and Kendrick.
He killed this I truly hope he blows up even more from this Mv because whoa I didn’t know him but love his rap flow so much I’m here to support him now 🙌🏽 thank you so much I’ll do that
Aight, Im here to lay out the lore and shit. Assuming you don't play league of legends, or are in any way interested in the characters, I'll do a short summary of it then go deeper in after. Basically, Arcane is a netflix series that is being made by Riot Games in conjunction with Netflix and animated primarily by Fortiche Productions, who also did this music video. Enemy is song that is part of the soundtrack of Arcane, created for the series, and features snippets of the actual show's animation with some stuff animated specifically for the video. This is all animated in the style of the show using mo-cap and hand animation (which is why J.I.D looks so good, and even his hair moves realistically, he was likely mo-capped doing these movements and then it was replayed over and over by the animators so they got it exactly right.), which features three well known characters from the game at various ages of their life prior to their current status. The characters are as follows, with a short snippet of info about them, but the show itself will feature more of the characters from league. The world itself is in Zaun and Piltover, two cities one on top of the other. Piltover is the city of prosperity and technological advancement, while Zaun is the seedy underbelly of piltover, a natural biproduct of such a prosperous area, and with each city having its own staple techological focus. Zaun has Chemtech, while Piltover has Hextech, each dangerous and sad in their own ways, but that's basically everything glowing green you see. Chemtech allows for special weapons, armor, bodily modifications, special tools, special instruments, drugs, etc. That's why the band members all have glowing green instruments or metallic body-mods. Jinx, The Loose Cannon The blue haired girl from the video, and the main character of arcane. Essentially, Jinx was raised to hate the authority of Piltover, the city above Zaun, where they live. (Essentially Piltover and Zaun are a giant cylinder, with Piltover literally above Zaun, while Zaun stretches downwards underground. Piltover naturally lives high society, while Zaun lives in poverty. But piltover enforces the laws into Zaun as well. Little complicated.) Her story through arcane will be her growing up, and eventually becoming insane due to drugs and abuse, as well as betrayal from Vi. We don't know how this happens, all we know is that it will happen, as jinx does eventually go insane and become an extremely dangerous psychotic terrorist. Her story however takes place over 4 parts as far as we know. Childhood, pre-teenage years, teenage years, and post drug exposure. Teenage years and Post Drug exposure are likely the most important parts of her story, and both have a powerful change in character for her as a whole between the previous points. As a child Jinx was happy, as a pre-teen jinx was rebellious but wide eyed with a strained relationship with vi but still remaining as a loving sister, but as a teenager this all changes. Jinx has to put her happy life behind her as a teenager and become independent. She becomes a strong person with psychotic tendencies, but is nowhere near as insane as she is present day in the game post-drug exposure. We can visualize the change with her eye color change, as pre-drug her eyes are blue, but they turn pink after she's exposed to it. (I say exposed because it's unknown if it's willing or unwilling yet, only time will tell. All we know is that it enhances her violent tendencies and turns her into the psychopath she is today.) Vi, The Piltover Enforcer The pink haired girl from the video, and Jinx's sister. Vi grew up protecting Jinx as best she could, learning to fight and teaching her that the authority was terrible. Before eventually joining them. Vi joined up with Caitlyn, piltover's sheriff, and essentially became something worse than a cop. She betrayed jinx's trust, which was already waning due to their repeated fights, which put a major strain on Jinx's psyche and turned her into what she is today. Ekko, The Boy Who Shattered Time The white haired black kid from the video, Jinx's best friend. Ekko's story is one I won't get into, as it takes place after arcane is over (potentially) and has little bearing over the stuff we see in this video. But essentially he grew up alongside Jinx and Vi, joined their gang, trained with them, and was generally their friend. He had a crush on Jinx for a lot of her life until eventually she went nuts. At that point he couldnt stick around, and became the character we players know today, the boy who can turn back time. The First Half Arcane heavily features Jinx's descent into madness, that much is certain. That's essentially what this video is about. It's Jinx as a pre-teen reminiscing about her childhood friendship and her trauma. The Piltover enforcers attacking her and her sister, running from the cops, the betrayal of a friend of theirs and her eventual sister's betrayal (though this is not featured in the video) but also the good times of learning to fight from Vi, and flipping off said enforcers with Ekko, as well as generally goofing off. We see her slowly begin to believe that she's surrounded by people that hate her and are her "Enemy". The greater plot of Arcane is yet to be known, so the reason for Jinx actually going insane is yet to be known, though people like Necrit, a league youtuber, believe it will have to do with a purple drug that the main villain is peddling. Also, the firefly coming out of her mouth is apparently going to be a plot point in the show, as we saw the fireflys in a previous trailer. Finally, after one final fight with Vi, we see Jinx break down and start to cry, which begins J.I.D's verse. J.I.D's Verse and Aftermath I like to think that J.I.D's verse is Jinx trying to rationalize inside her head, or to Ekko since he's featured so much in the cutaways during it. If you look at the lyrics for his part it really just screams jinx's story, at least to me. We can sorta see the defined change in Jinx's psyche right after J.I.D's verse, which is why I think that it's her rationalizing it all before succumbing to her own insanity. The lyric "Spare the sympathy" is her eventually breaking down and realizing that she can't rely on people. This unleashes the monster, which we see as adult jinx killing the attacking enforcers. This results in the person she is now, ending the song. This is further supported by the imagery we see of Jinx during the entirety of J.I.D's verse. The scrawled lines in the outline of J.I.D and Jinx's silhouette, as well as the overlaid projections that keep changing, and then the appearance we see of adult jinx during it, whom we hadn't seen at all up to that point except for brief snippets show that as time goes on she can't keep being the weak little girl. That means all of this is taking place within Jinx's head, and in the future, her personal view of herself and who she needs to become, while that darkness she has inside herself is slowly influencing her to become someone she may not consciously want to be, until eventually there's no going back. Directly after J.I.D's verse we see a lot of this, with Jinx as a kid punching at her own head, tearing at her clothes and struggling inside her own head as the silhouette behind her becomes jagged and violent, symbolizing the dangerous part of her mind trying to break free. Also, a small note is that Ekko is no longer present in this white space like he was during J.I.D's verse, potentially showing that Ekko's absence was also a big part of her breakdown. Psychology of Jinx Generally, we can see that pre-teen jinx is not happy about the person she is becoming, but after her change she realizes it was either necessary, or enjoyable. This we see by her ever-present smile after growing into a young adult. I think that this also has to do with the fact that adult jinx in this video symbolizes psycho jinx, or the psychotic part of her brain, while the pre-teen version symbolizes her stable version. And eventually, that stable version is overshadowed by the her adult self, not present at all, or completely inexpressive, like she's come to an understanding that this is what needs to be done. We see stable jinx struggling with this realization for a while, until eventually she becomes stone faced, falls back, and gives up, allowing her teenage part to take over and deal with her problems for her, symbolized by in my opinion, the most dramatic shot of the entire music video. That shot, is the Piltover enforcers encircling her and her younger version. Stable jinx allows her to deal with the problem, which is symbolized by her falling back in the next shot, before teenage jinx fires on them all, but not before all 3 versions of jinx express their remorse for their upcoming actions, and leaving stable jinx there, alone, with no expression. God I hope this show is good. I will lose all respect for Riot if it isn't.
Whoa! I appreciate the details. Honestly I haven’t had time to go through a lot of the characters backstory and I played and sucked so I quit lmao I couldn’t perfect the craft because I work 3 jobs but damn you killed the details and I’m grateful thank you 🙏🏽
@@KayPopReacts No problem, I've been playing league since I was like, 15, so 6+ years of playing it has given me a lot of time to get to know the characters. Not to mention having the weekend off and this releasing has given me a lot of time to deconstruct it. I'm super excited for Arcane, and this has just enhanced the hype x10.
@@Vordt_ wow gotta love the dedication though! Yeah I’m excited to see this it will be my first time really seeing hearing the full storyline of a character I can’t wait I seen some cinematics but this is another level
@@KayPopReacts If you're interested, while league of legends is way harder a game, there is also Legends of Runeterra, which is a card game that uses the same universe and characters from League. It's a lot more newcomer friendly, and way less complex. Also it has a lot of character interactions that expand on the universe, as well as cool cinematics.
@@Vordt_ that sounds nice now I can try to do that because league was a little too hard for me but easier when I bought a mouse for my laptop lol but thanks I’ll try that and see if I can do better lol much better because I’m terrible
I swear this is like the 10th time I subscribe to your channel. Maybe I'm using different accounts or RUclips is auto-unsubing me? Here's your like once more! Lovely reaction as always!
Hey mama queen 💃nc one JID part was fire 🔥. I my mouth was open the whole rap part .. also i just saw you cosplay nc one looks good on u ... Wishing for over a hundred subs Go mama queen💃
I think jinx has a Childhood Trauma and maybe it's because of her sister Vi that might cause it that trauma I'm not really sure this is just a theory but let just see when the series is released in Netflix
Great reaction, I checked all your league videos and I'll be looking at some of your other stuff to see if we have any other common interests. You earned a sub. This aside, I'd really like to see your reaction to League's Awaken Cinematic. It's one of my favourites. Cheers
@@KayPopReacts Same here, I didn't know that K/DA had so many videos, when I was binging your league reactions I noticed that there are way more than what I thought lol
Powder/Jinx`s eyes turn pink because of the Shimmer enhancements to save her life by Silco(Her adoptive father figure and the Chem-Baron/de-facto leader of the undercity of Zaun beneath the utopian City of Progress Piltover who resents Zaun and himself being exiled, polluted,systemically impoverished and criminalized by Piltover) and Singed(Silco`s mad scientist who used to work for Heimerdinger but had a falling out with him because Singed lacked Heimerdinger`s scientific ethics and caution as well as disagreeing on whether magic and science should be mixed for the greater good or not and the inventor of Shimmer and Chemtech from the toxic chemicals in the rivers of Zaun Silco nearly drowned in and got half his face and one eye infected by),however symbolically yes the pink violet eyes can also symbolize her remaining love for Vi especially considering Vi`s real name in the series is revealed to be Violet.
The black kid is Ekko. Hes the rapper in True Giants.
Ekko is a genius whos parents worked themselves to the bone so that he could be educated in Piltover but he saw the potential in Zaun and wants to help raise it up.
He ran in the same gang as Jinx before she went crazy and even has a little crush on her.
True Damage*
Thank you so much 😊 I’m glad we can see a little of ekko in this series I love seeing the relationship of characters
Had* a little crush
I see you found JID, welcome to the enlightened side
Omg yes and I’m in love
Fr doe🙏🏼
Jinx was basically raised to hate the "institution" and "the man" basically any authority, Vi (the pink hair girl) ended up joining them to survive. Jinx saw that as the ultimate betrayal. Vi sees it as trying to rescue her "younger sister" unconfirmed if actually related
They're sisters, I assume by blood but even if not, they've known eachother and lived together since babies
if I remember correctly their whole gang is a bunch of Orphans. I could be wrong though
Thank you so much for more details to this it helps make more sense I can’t wait until the series
it was confirmed back in 2017 that they were sisters. it was also said in a trailer for the new series coming out in a convo between Jinx and Vi. Jinx - "are we still sisters?" Vi - "nothing is ever going to change that"
@@ant47474 wow this is going to be epic thanks I can’t wait to watch
Jinx's story is one of the most tragic narratives that has actually been told from the point of view of the character from protagonist to antagonist. Youre introduced to her as a kid and you know what shes gone through, there isnt a "rise as darth vader" moment where you kind of give up on her. Youre hoping for her to snap out of it but its just her now. She hasnt lost it, she lost everything and whatever was leftover is her now.
Yoo every character and detail in this video looks incredible, but they did JID some damn JUSTICE and I love it so much..
I agree they killed this I haven’t been keeping up with league because of work and my schedule lately but so happy to have seen this
my first reaction to JID was the same lol. Dude is a beast, one of the best in the game rn. And he has an amazing singing voice too.
What? He sings I gotta hear more of him! He killed this I kept rewinding for him lol
@@KayPopReacts yep, you should definitely check him out. The Forever Story is one of my fav albums of all time, if you wanna hear him sing tho check out Sandstorm with Mereba or Far Away with Jessie Reyez.
@@marioortiz9824 thank you I am he is so dope
Rap's not usually my thing, but JID is just jaw-droppingly good in this. You got to recognise the skill.
I agree I thought he was the best rapper to have on this
Background Context.
“Arcane” is a series created by League of Legends to be on Netflix.
The characters we know to be in it so far are:
Ekko (The black kid), Jinx, Vi (Pink hair. Jinx sister).
Thank you so much and the crazy thing is I thought it was a movie but it’s series I can’t believe I missed that im so excited to see every episode lol can’t wait
Also jayce, heimerdinger and caitlyn were shown in the trailer.
@@mrmarkius4855 viktor too and assumed human warwick
@@CursedHatter Don't forget about young Singed
Caitlyn, wiktor, the small one with yellow hair dunno his name, vi, jinx, ekko, Jayce, Warwick prob
As far as her eyes turning pink, the most common theory is that after the life saving procedure she went through, people assume it's an effect of the shimmer, and her eyes turn pink when she gets really unstable
Oh wow thank you so much I watched the series but still didn’t understand fully so this helps a lot
@@KayPopReacts no problem
this series takes place before she changed her name from powder to jinx
Wow thank you so much I haven’t been able to get too much time to learn the background of a lot of characters but I didn’t know that
@@KayPopReacts it from an interaction between ekko and jinx in the card game legends of runnterra
@@mourninggrey2186 wow I gotta go look that up 👍🏽
The black kid (Ekko) has his own cinematic. Its called 'Ekko: Seconds' It shows him as a teen not a child, around the age Jinxis in the game.
Thank you so much and dang I thought they were kids because they looked so young but I appreciate the details
@@KayPopReacts You are correct, they are kids in this vid. I mean in the game and also in Ekkos vid they are teens. The League of Legends tv show (Arcane) will be out on Nov 6th on Netflix btw.
@@palinozog658 I appreciate that thanks 🙏🏽
@@palinozog658 Ekko`s a teen and Jinx is a teen for most of the show. In the games though, Jinx is a young adult only about 3 years younger than Vi, she`s just psychologically and emotionally stunted because of her traumatic past(Which whenever it`s brought up she denies having of course, saying "Ugh, villains with tragic backstories are sooooo borrrrrriiiiinnnnngggg!") ,mental illness and the Shimmer enhancements.It`s also implied in the games that Powder was already somewhat of a juvenile delinquent, however that may be historical revisionism on Piltover`s part so they can justify continuing to treat Zaunites as second-class citizens!
@@KayPopReacts Arcane`s basically an AU prequel/graphical update/lore expansion of "League of Legends"(Most of the champions and regions come from "League" originally) and "Legends of Runeterra"(Jinx`s real name Powder and confirmation of her past friendship with Ekko as well as being Vi`s baby sis first came there when "Arcane" was in Development Hell due to COVID although Ghostcrawler accidentally leaked the truth of Jinx and Vi`s sibling relationship in an interview with a Russian media agency(That was many years before the war in Ukraine,don`t worry)which was speculated by fans based on their similar haircolors, lore, voicelines,Jinx coming out three years after Vi and two years after Caitlyn with her splash art being a destroyed, graffitied version of Vi`s Piltover splash art and both being neon-haired punk girls from Zaun although Vi eventually defected to Piltover and the Enforcers, even being in a lesbian relationship with another female Enforcer whilst Jinx remained in Zaun as a criminal.)
It's not confirmed as far as I know but the black kid with the white hair is most likely Ekko. He has had voice lines indicating he knew Jinx before she was crazy, and in game his base/default skin has white hair. For reference, Ekko is also the one who has a skin/version that is in True Damage.
Thank you so much that’s so dope how they can tie in characters I’d never think would be in the same storyline I can’t wait for this
he also mentions having a crush on jinx in game or lore before she was crazy
@@CursedHatter yea ingame he says "You know Jinx...I had a crush on you before you started talking to your guns"
@@CursedHatter what? Thanks that’s insane but love it
JID is A1 sis 🔥 you should definitely check him out more songs like Workin Out are a great start or his full projects The Never Story and DiCaprio 2 🔥
I believe you he did such a dope job I fell in love instantly lol
@@KayPopReacts the white hair is Ekko
he is also in true damage
@@MjayOnRUclips thank you so much 😊
lol "Handsome" is JID hes signed to J Coles label and, yes, minus the green eyes that is what he looks like
That’s so cool! I didn’t know that I love J Cole. I looked him up and they killed his animation it looks just like him lol not the eye color of course lol but spot on
The black kid with blond hair is Ekko. He is also a character in league of legends, and that's the young version of him
Omg seriously 😳 that’s so exciting if so it’s dope to see the game characters be linked together thank you so much for giving me some help with the storyline
black kid with the hair is ekko. he was the leader of true damage
Thank you so much omg I bet this series is going to be so amazing
Jinx:"Yeah, Fishbones is soooo much fun...UNTIL HE STARTS TALKING,THEN HE IS A TOTAL BUZZKILL!"
Ekko is the kid and he has a quote in game where he tells Jinx if she’s on the enemy team that he used to have a crush on her before she started talking to her guns
That’s so crazy how they are in the same story line I love it
This channel has the most underrated reactions to league content on RUclips I swear
Thank you so much 😊 definitely slowly but surely 😉 hope it’s meant to be
Riot removing all chat to avoid toxicity
Also riot : 4:32
Awe that’s sad toxicity is being put
@@KayPopReacts yeah kinda sad. No more interactions with enemy in season 12 (next year :
@@edgaphelios7422 well I hope we definitely get more mvs this year though 🙌🏽
@@KayPopReacts yeah. Hoping for true damage comeback. Because I don't know if it's just an Easter egg but. In True damage Senna's wildrift splash art at the back. There's a poster of
K/DA x True damage : show 01.28.
I don't know if riot's just trolling us or what. Who knows...
Ive been watching people react to Arcane vids to still my shimmer addiction. Thanks for helping
Thank you so much I’m so glad you enjoyed
God damn, best reaction ever of this song!! I love how u gave a damn and just replayed the best parts!!! I also do it, keep it up don't change!!!
Thank you so much I appreciate the support and I’ll def keep it up 😉 I got chu lol
Her hair is fucking beautiful, bros
Thank you so much 😂 I appreciate the compliment truly 😉
Listen to Never, Workin Out, or Off Da Zoinkeys for more JID. He’s the goat, people just don’t know it yet. Only comparable rappers are Little Simz and Kendrick.
He killed this I truly hope he blows up even more from this Mv because whoa I didn’t know him but love his rap flow so much I’m here to support him now 🙌🏽 thank you so much I’ll do that
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Aight, Im here to lay out the lore and shit. Assuming you don't play league of legends, or are in any way interested in the characters, I'll do a short summary of it then go deeper in after.
Basically, Arcane is a netflix series that is being made by Riot Games in conjunction with Netflix and animated primarily by Fortiche Productions, who also did this music video.
Enemy is song that is part of the soundtrack of Arcane, created for the series, and features snippets of the actual show's animation with some stuff animated specifically for the video.
This is all animated in the style of the show using mo-cap and hand animation (which is why J.I.D looks so good, and even his hair moves realistically, he was likely mo-capped doing these movements and then it was replayed over and over by the animators so they got it exactly right.), which features three well known characters from the game at various ages of their life prior to their current status. The characters are as follows, with a short snippet of info about them, but the show itself will feature more of the characters from league.
The world itself is in Zaun and Piltover, two cities one on top of the other. Piltover is the city of prosperity and technological advancement, while Zaun is the seedy underbelly of piltover, a natural biproduct of such a prosperous area, and with each city having its own staple techological focus. Zaun has Chemtech, while Piltover has Hextech, each dangerous and sad in their own ways, but that's basically everything glowing green you see. Chemtech allows for special weapons, armor, bodily modifications, special tools, special instruments, drugs, etc. That's why the band members all have glowing green instruments or metallic body-mods.
Jinx, The Loose Cannon
The blue haired girl from the video, and the main character of arcane.
Essentially, Jinx was raised to hate the authority of Piltover, the city above Zaun, where they live. (Essentially Piltover and Zaun are a giant cylinder, with Piltover literally above Zaun, while Zaun stretches downwards underground. Piltover naturally lives high society, while Zaun lives in poverty. But piltover enforces the laws into Zaun as well. Little complicated.) Her story through arcane will be her growing up, and eventually becoming insane due to drugs and abuse, as well as betrayal from Vi. We don't know how this happens, all we know is that it will happen, as jinx does eventually go insane and become an extremely dangerous psychotic terrorist. Her story however takes place over 4 parts as far as we know. Childhood, pre-teenage years, teenage years, and post drug exposure. Teenage years and Post Drug exposure are likely the most important parts of her story, and both have a powerful change in character for her as a whole between the previous points. As a child Jinx was happy, as a pre-teen jinx was rebellious but wide eyed with a strained relationship with vi but still remaining as a loving sister, but as a teenager this all changes. Jinx has to put her happy life behind her as a teenager and become independent. She becomes a strong person with psychotic tendencies, but is nowhere near as insane as she is present day in the game post-drug exposure. We can visualize the change with her eye color change, as pre-drug her eyes are blue, but they turn pink after she's exposed to it. (I say exposed because it's unknown if it's willing or unwilling yet, only time will tell. All we know is that it enhances her violent tendencies and turns her into the psychopath she is today.)
Vi, The Piltover Enforcer
The pink haired girl from the video, and Jinx's sister.
Vi grew up protecting Jinx as best she could, learning to fight and teaching her that the authority was terrible. Before eventually joining them. Vi joined up with Caitlyn, piltover's sheriff, and essentially became something worse than a cop. She betrayed jinx's trust, which was already waning due to their repeated fights, which put a major strain on Jinx's psyche and turned her into what she is today.
Ekko, The Boy Who Shattered Time
The white haired black kid from the video, Jinx's best friend.
Ekko's story is one I won't get into, as it takes place after arcane is over (potentially) and has little bearing over the stuff we see in this video. But essentially he grew up alongside Jinx and Vi, joined their gang, trained with them, and was generally their friend. He had a crush on Jinx for a lot of her life until eventually she went nuts. At that point he couldnt stick around, and became the character we players know today, the boy who can turn back time.
The First Half
Arcane heavily features Jinx's descent into madness, that much is certain. That's essentially what this video is about. It's Jinx as a pre-teen reminiscing about her childhood friendship and her trauma. The Piltover enforcers attacking her and her sister, running from the cops, the betrayal of a friend of theirs and her eventual sister's betrayal (though this is not featured in the video) but also the good times of learning to fight from Vi, and flipping off said enforcers with Ekko, as well as generally goofing off. We see her slowly begin to believe that she's surrounded by people that hate her and are her "Enemy". The greater plot of Arcane is yet to be known, so the reason for Jinx actually going insane is yet to be known, though people like Necrit, a league youtuber, believe it will have to do with a purple drug that the main villain is peddling. Also, the firefly coming out of her mouth is apparently going to be a plot point in the show, as we saw the fireflys in a previous trailer. Finally, after one final fight with Vi, we see Jinx break down and start to cry, which begins J.I.D's verse.
J.I.D's Verse and Aftermath
I like to think that J.I.D's verse is Jinx trying to rationalize inside her head, or to Ekko since he's featured so much in the cutaways during it. If you look at the lyrics for his part it really just screams jinx's story, at least to me. We can sorta see the defined change in Jinx's psyche right after J.I.D's verse, which is why I think that it's her rationalizing it all before succumbing to her own insanity. The lyric "Spare the sympathy" is her eventually breaking down and realizing that she can't rely on people. This unleashes the monster, which we see as adult jinx killing the attacking enforcers. This results in the person she is now, ending the song. This is further supported by the imagery we see of Jinx during the entirety of J.I.D's verse. The scrawled lines in the outline of J.I.D and Jinx's silhouette, as well as the overlaid projections that keep changing, and then the appearance we see of adult jinx during it, whom we hadn't seen at all up to that point except for brief snippets show that as time goes on she can't keep being the weak little girl. That means all of this is taking place within Jinx's head, and in the future, her personal view of herself and who she needs to become, while that darkness she has inside herself is slowly influencing her to become someone she may not consciously want to be, until eventually there's no going back. Directly after J.I.D's verse we see a lot of this, with Jinx as a kid punching at her own head, tearing at her clothes and struggling inside her own head as the silhouette behind her becomes jagged and violent, symbolizing the dangerous part of her mind trying to break free. Also, a small note is that Ekko is no longer present in this white space like he was during J.I.D's verse, potentially showing that Ekko's absence was also a big part of her breakdown.
Psychology of Jinx
Generally, we can see that pre-teen jinx is not happy about the person she is becoming, but after her change she realizes it was either necessary, or enjoyable. This we see by her ever-present smile after growing into a young adult. I think that this also has to do with the fact that adult jinx in this video symbolizes psycho jinx, or the psychotic part of her brain, while the pre-teen version symbolizes her stable version. And eventually, that stable version is overshadowed by the her adult self, not present at all, or completely inexpressive, like she's come to an understanding that this is what needs to be done. We see stable jinx struggling with this realization for a while, until eventually she becomes stone faced, falls back, and gives up, allowing her teenage part to take over and deal with her problems for her, symbolized by in my opinion, the most dramatic shot of the entire music video. That shot, is the Piltover enforcers encircling her and her younger version. Stable jinx allows her to deal with the problem, which is symbolized by her falling back in the next shot, before teenage jinx fires on them all, but not before all 3 versions of jinx express their remorse for their upcoming actions, and leaving stable jinx there, alone, with no expression.
God I hope this show is good. I will lose all respect for Riot if it isn't.
Whoa! I appreciate the details. Honestly I haven’t had time to go through a lot of the characters backstory and I played and sucked so I quit lmao I couldn’t perfect the craft because I work 3 jobs but damn you killed the details and I’m grateful thank you 🙏🏽
@@KayPopReacts No problem, I've been playing league since I was like, 15, so 6+ years of playing it has given me a lot of time to get to know the characters. Not to mention having the weekend off and this releasing has given me a lot of time to deconstruct it. I'm super excited for Arcane, and this has just enhanced the hype x10.
@@Vordt_ wow gotta love the dedication though! Yeah I’m excited to see this it will be my first time really seeing hearing the full storyline of a character I can’t wait I seen some cinematics but this is another level
@@KayPopReacts If you're interested, while league of legends is way harder a game, there is also Legends of Runeterra, which is a card game that uses the same universe and characters from League. It's a lot more newcomer friendly, and way less complex. Also it has a lot of character interactions that expand on the universe, as well as cool cinematics.
@@Vordt_ that sounds nice now I can try to do that because league was a little too hard for me but easier when I bought a mouse for my laptop lol but thanks I’ll try that and see if I can do better lol much better because I’m terrible
In love with your reaction, specially when I found the Yugyeom and Jinyoung pic behind you!! 💚
Lol thank you so much and yes that is them
The kid with the white hair is ekko
That’s so dope I love ekko especially from true damage Mv
I swear this is like the 10th time I subscribe to your channel. Maybe I'm using different accounts or RUclips is auto-unsubing me? Here's your like once more! Lovely reaction as always!
Thank you so much I appreciate that. I’m so sorry it’s not allowing you subscribe but I’m so happy you came back to watch it means a lot 🥲
J.I.D is a fckin beast, if you wanna check him out i'd recommend starting out with "151 rum"
Or "Off deez ft. J.Cole"
Thank you so much 😊 he killed this I’ve been looking into him and dang I love it
The black boy one is ekko is a champion in lol also
Thank you so much 😊 yes I loved him in true damage
is a serie in netflix bae
Omg it’s a series omg I thought it was a movie ahhhh I’m so excited thank you so much
feel like jeopardy but the word you are looking for is steam punk 👍
Thank you so much yes 🙌🏽 loved this
Hey mama queen 💃nc one JID part was fire 🔥. I my mouth was open the whole rap part .. also i just saw you cosplay nc one looks good on u ... Wishing for over a hundred subs Go mama queen💃
It was so dope I was so surprised by that rap breakdown was so nice and the animation of course so glad I got to react to this
I think jinx has a Childhood Trauma and maybe it's because of her sister Vi that might cause it that trauma I'm not really sure this is just a theory but let just see when the series is released in Netflix
Thank you so much that’s going to be so crazy to see and then see jinx turn into who she is now
Damn that cosplay is nice.
Thank you so much
Did you see the official trailer for the animated series?
I seen the first trailer that came out with jinx revisiting a place I think her and her sister practiced fighting skills
@@KayPopReacts ruclips.net/video/4Ps6nV4wiCE/видео.html heres the newest one for you :D
@@CmonPars thank you so much 😊
i believe the blonde haired kid is echo
Thank you so much I heard it’s him omg I can’t wait to see this
Great reaction, I checked all your league videos and I'll be looking at some of your other stuff to see if we have any other common interests. You earned a sub. This aside, I'd really like to see your reaction to League's Awaken Cinematic. It's one of my favourites. Cheers
Thanks yes I have seen some cinematics and love them so much I haven’t actually been keeping up with league like I use to but I loved this so much
@@KayPopReacts Same here, I didn't know that K/DA had so many videos, when I was binging your league reactions I noticed that there are way more than what I thought lol
@@Batuhanea wow 🤩 you binged my videos lol awe thank you so much but yes so much I need to learn about league but love it every time
Arcanes story is a little bit different than the lol story so even when jinx has purple eyes she's not that crazy
Thank you so much..Omg I seen arcane and omg I have a better understanding now and just love it 😍
Banger.
Omg yes
i loved your hair
Awe thank you so much
she is now a simp for JID
Lol yes 🙌🏽
Powder/Jinx`s eyes turn pink because of the Shimmer enhancements to save her life by Silco(Her adoptive father figure and the Chem-Baron/de-facto leader of the undercity of Zaun beneath the utopian City of Progress Piltover who resents Zaun and himself being exiled, polluted,systemically impoverished and criminalized by Piltover) and Singed(Silco`s mad scientist who used to work for Heimerdinger but had a falling out with him because Singed lacked Heimerdinger`s scientific ethics and caution as well as disagreeing on whether magic and science should be mixed for the greater good or not and the inventor of Shimmer and Chemtech from the toxic chemicals in the rivers of Zaun Silco nearly drowned in and got half his face and one eye infected by),however symbolically yes the pink violet eyes can also symbolize her remaining love for Vi especially considering Vi`s real name in the series is revealed to be Violet.
told him F the Police
Lmao facts 😏
Pink eye = total madness from whatever they did 2 her.. blonde blk guy is ekko I'm pretty sure
I’m excited to see her transformation
Samme
Cosplay 😍
Lol thank you so much I tried it was my first time
@@KayPopReacts You are very beautiful , and it turned out very cool for the first cosplay 😄✨
@@aliwi3476 really? Thank you so much! Your awesome
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he is ekko
Thank you so much
The white hair kid maybe its a Eko
Omg 😱 so dope
you should react to the arcane series it's been out for a while now 9 episodes, it's so hype get on the train while it still fresh
Thank you so much I should I seen some already lol
plz react to sum jid
Thank you 🙏🏽 I’ll try to do that
you know you dont have to pause every few seconds, right?
Maybe some don’t but I’m always blocked even on videos others aren’t so that’s why I do that
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You pause the song so frequently when It drops. I feel uncomfortable
I get blocked a lot so I pause a lot