Arcane's TATTOOS Explained (Jinx & Vi) | 1min Analysis
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What do Jinx and Vi’s tattoos represent? Gears are uncharacteristic for Vi, who is not a scientist or engineer. And what about Jinx’s clouds? These aesthetic changes are part of the transformations we see these categories go through in the years they are separated. That separation is the key to understanding these tattoos and the meaning behind them.
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Yeah, it kind of kills me how even though Jinx was told that Vi was dead, she still got her blue smoke signal tattoos. Like she was still holding out hope that she would get a chance to use it someday.
As Jinx said: "I always knew you'd come back."
That could be said about Vi to, the last thing she saw before she was throw in prison was Silco standing over powder and to Vi’s perspective Silco most likely killed her so Vi was in prison all those years taking all that abuse and suffering to get back to powder not even 100% sure she was still alive but like you said the hope she would get a chance to see her again kept her going this show is literally so amazing.
How did she cudl know the smoków was blue
@@Shadow30. they've probably see them get used before, or someone else has and told them the description of it and what it does.
@@justthoseawsomevibez1090 siblings _are_ known to have a sort of unexplainable connection. there's kind of a trope about one being unconvinced that their sibling is dead, or being able to sense that something is wrong. it's usually with twins, but not always.
It’s even crazier when we realized that most of the show is original content and they had to work around the established characters in league
@@GrindingGamer isn’t it exactly what I said?
@@alessandropereira4976 yep, pretty sure that’s what you said 🤣🤣
@@GrindingGamer bruh
@@alessandropereira4976 it actually isn't, as what you said implies that it's at least not in conflict with canon, but the thing is, it's not.
@@mr.cauliflower3536 i don't think so, personally, i could tell he didn't imply that, but then again, everyone has a different understanding of what they percieve so it could also come off as that.
I always thought Jinx's blue cloud tattoos represent the explosion on that day. How the beautiful clouds basically killed her family. Showing how much the event haunts her.
This is a good & more accurate interpretation too interpretation too
@@rayanna7188 While I'd agree the explosion can also be connected to her tattoos, I don't think it's a "more accurate" observation.
The way the clouds are drawn don't really resemble an explosion. Like, at all, lol. They're scattered, wispy, and rise up from her arm. An explosion would at the very least have a point of origin (like the smoke would be going outward from a single point), but it doesn't.
@@rayanna7188it's not more accurate interpretation. The smokes are not similar to the smoke of the bomb. Not to mention I don't think Jinx would tattoo the smoke on herself when the spark gave her traumatic flashbacks
@clonnlijinhlong2713 the creator of arcane decided the meaning of jinxs tattoos represent the smoke from the flare gun to call for Vi. Idk what the meaning is for the actual Canon of jinx.
It could be both
Also next to the keys there are two locks designed to look like beer mugs. A symbol for Vander!! He is like a lock that holds the machine (the family) together.
Oh my gosh!🥺
Yes, I love all the connections and detail they put into this show
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*was
I thought the blue smoke was when the explosion threw jinx off the building and she looked up at the blue cloud in amazement.
me too :D
@Shaileen Matheatau I think it’s not because the blue explosion haunts her, but represents the turning point of the person she has become. It was the first time her gadgetry worked especially on a “mission” and it was an amazing blue explosion. She was so excited and wanted to show Vi, of course the consequences of the explosion is what ultimately haunts her.
Ok I think the blue tattoos represent trauma form the day IT happened, like when Vi gave her the flare “light it up and I will find you” she always wanted to be found. The second part is basically what you said but not amazement more of the trauma she carries form that day and the memory’s she can’t take back. Because remember a 9 year old can’t get tattoos meaning she would be at least 15 when she got them 6 years after that day, and she is haunted by that day that traps her in time so I think those tattoos are guilt that she carries along with the hope of getting Vi back.
@@pandora8354 I don't think Zaun has rules about 9 year olds not being allowed to get tattoos :P I also do think she got the blue clouds from the explosion that killed everyone, atleast, for me that would be such a painful but beautiful way to carry around her trauma and at the same represent the first time one of her inventions actually worked. It seems like both an iconic transformation or (re)birth and incredibly sad, haunting tattoo. To me, it basically represents the birth of Jinx or the 'gravestone' of Powder on one side of her body.
Something I've also been thinking about is how Powder has one braid, and Jinx has two. BUT as Jinx she has one in the front and one in the back in quite a few shots. To me that symbolizes that she still has both the Powder side and the Jinx side. I'm gonna rewatch the show just to be sure of this, but whenever Jinx is more Powder-y the braids are 'uneven'. Whenever she's Jinx or being in her Jinx character, they're usually both on the back. I don't know for sure though, might also just be gravity.
@@uberemmer they probably don’t care if 9 year olds got tattoos lol. But on a serious note I also don’t fully think she would have them to remember that day I was kinda going of the OG person’s comment cause I was like that doesn’t make a lot of sense (don’t ask me why I was going of there comment cause idk) but my part where I said she got it because she is calling out for her sister that’s what I believe it’s there for and I also agree with how you put it. So what I think it’s probably a lot of reasons not just one at least a few because blue smoke is seen a lot with Powder/Jinx so it could represent a lot and be up for the viewer to decide
About Jinx, you can compare her tattoos with her official design from the game, the clouds are there but bullets are missing, so I suppose she'll add them later :p
The bullets are pink like her new eyes. Eyes only jinx has, that pink is jinx, and the pink bullets are her future tattoos regarding her chaotic destruction as jinx
The smoke is supposed to be gun smoke, IIRC. But she doesn't have the bullets in her tattoos yet.
It's important to remember that Arcane isn't exactly the same lore as what was established, so things like these can and do get changed.
Arcane is its own thing. She probably won’t.
I think the bullets represent Caitlyn's Glock
This show is a peace of art. It makes me so emotional to think about all the characters and their life experience.
Me too!!!
Frr i relate with this comment
I literally tear up whenever I remember the show
As a French i'm so proud that it was animated by Fortiche, a french studio
Good God, the M and C keys took me out. My heart still breaks for those two and it's been months since I watched it the first time.
I'd say clouds relate to Jinx's lifestyle. She's not bound by rules or morale and it's also like she is in a haze constantly.
Vi's tattoo is all about power, just like Vi herself. She's a machine that will mow everything on her way (to her sister).
I just wonder why would she get a tattoo with her nickname on her cheek :\
so no one needs to ask for her name easy ;)
And yes, Vi has clouds on top of her mechanism tattoo. Clouds can mean fog/haze which means confusion. But they can also mean she's hiding something. Her feelings or something like that.
It could also be quite literally steam coming from the mechanism and has nothing to do with symbolism and is just used by artists to show a relation between Vi and Jinx.
Also notice that Vi's clouds look calm and once again fit the overall brutal theme of the tattoo while Jinx's clouds seem to be affected by wind and look like child's drawings. I think it's also a symbol of Vi being strong, coldblooded and mature and Jinx being the opposite of it.
@@theeye6581 Oh, wait. She's refered to by a number while she's in prison. Yeah, that makes sense. She's not «inmate 516» she's Vi.
@@zhulikkulik yeah that's a great idea
Vi names in Roman to 6?......so maybe it means not just Vi to stop people wanting her name but rather the tears she shed in prison couping like reminding herself 6 times she lost her family. Ok so First, there mom, the second is mylo and claggor, the third is Vander, and the 4th is powder when she latch out after unable to contain herself after trying to process everything. 5 or 6 maybe her life and her freedom ever buried in the cold cell from piltover being uncaring about the undercity and it's constant struggle
I like what you said about jinx’s tattoos because I feel like that’s one of the first things VI notices when they reunite after jinx set the blue flare off. First thing VI does is touch the blue smoke tattoos on jinx’s arm
Her minigun fires pink tracers and emits pink flame/energy. I suspect we will see her LoL charachter's pink shell casing tattoos in season 2, representing the moment she killed her adoptive father Silco. Extrapolating, the blue smoke likely represents the moment she lost Vi, Vander, Mylo and Clagger.
Researching OLD threads of the game characters, when folks were first theorizing Vi and Jinx were sisters, people noticed they had the same tattoo designs.
Edit: Just rewatched the "Monkey Bomb" scene, as Powder falls she sees the Bunny rabbit toy silhoutted against the background of the blue smoke. As the bunny represents Vi, it is likely the inspiration for the tattoos was the moment of the explosion.
Those pink tattoos could also mean that she protected her sister from being killed that night.
You could endlessly talk about how much detail has been put into this show. Arcane is truly wonderful
I STILL can’t get over the smoke signal scene oh my god
Vi's tat also serves as a nod to her base deisgn in League which has her using a sorta exosuit with the gauntlets. Clearly she doesn't need that in Arcane but homage is still paid to it with that tattoo.
WELP. Thanks for making me cry this morning! (It's really sweet to know this detail, it shows just how fleshed out the artists wanted to make the characters).
Crazy I got clouds similar to Jinx's because my sister and I used to play this game where we would try to see shapes in the clouds, we havent spoken in 6 years, but my tattoos mean the world to me too
I didn’t really realise until this video that their tattoos had meanings and now I’m crying because it’s so sad and sweet
A few people pointed out that in LoL Jinx also has pink bullets as a part of her tattoo design. The speculation is that she’ll add them in the second season. I wouldn’t be so sure about that, in Legends of Runeterra (card game based on LoL) Jinx doesn’t have pink bullets. LoL is the original, of course, but it still shows that bullets aren’t guaranteed to be a part of Jinx’s character.
Yeah I think they'll add her bullets later.
Runterra seems to be following arcanes story line rn with how the champion story mode works.
I haven't gotten super far in Jinxs story, but it's all side story stuff that doesn't talk alot about what happens at the end of S1
The time is line is spoiler free and undefined in that.
Summoner rift has weird magic going on in it.
Like they know they're being controlled by an outer force (summoners) and they're interacting with unimaginable beings from other continents at an unspecified place and time.
Ryze is a great example of how rune stones can mess with time.
I can only assume they'll fit the story to the game.
The best thing outta this whole rework in the story too as a side
Is Caitlyn after 9 years she gets a Reskin and model update. Thank God!
Finally giving the lady some goddamn pants!
It never ceases to amaze me how much detail and hidden symbolism is packed into Arcane. There are new things to discover with every view. Insane!
Always manage to outdo yourself. Grats on 10k sir, you deserve every one of them!
I think the animation on this show is some of the best I’ve ever seen, and I haven’t even seen it yet.
I've watched this show before & yeah the animation & the storyline is just beautiful (well the storyline is heartbreakingly beautiful tho). I'm watching the show for a 2nd time now
It's hard to say for sure unless we get an unambiguous reason from one of the writers, but I think this conclusion is wrong for a few reasons.
Jinx's tattoos are much more likely to represent the explosion that killed her family. Why? Because in the game she also has pink bullet tattoos, and if she adds those in s2 then they would obviously represent the way Silco dies. It's very intentional on the artists' behalf to not give s1 Jinx the pink bullets yet.
Vi doesn't have to be a technician to admire machinery. She has robotic gauntlets and she famously fought the punching machine in the arcade. This is a world where everything steampunk is cool, so seeing yourself as a machine would be right up Vi's alley. In fact, her tattoos literally mirror her steampunk exoskeleton that her in-game model has. Can you relate that back to Powder? I guess. But that's kind of a stretch when all the machinery in the world has a steam or smoke byproduct.
I would argue that Arcane’s writers don’t do anything without a reason. So saying that Vi got the gear tattoos just because she admires machinery, when it’s not shown anywhere else in the show (except in relation to Powder), is discrediting the writing a bit. I’ve seen another comment saying that Vi’s design represents her fascination with power, and that does track. Although, I don’t think it has to be in contradiction with the tattoos symbolizing her love for Powder.
Same with Jinx. Tattoos can have multiple meanings at the same time. Your explanation of her tattoos absolutely has a place to be. But I also think it isn’t a coincidence that the flare that Jinx intentionally kept for years (so it had a lot of meaning to her) contained blue smoke. And again, as mentioned by another comment, it could represent sea foam, symbolizing her love for Silco in his relation to polluted waters of Zaun. None of these interpretations contradict each other, they all are equally important to Jinx.
@@feduckil9238 So odd for people to say that Jinx's tattoos represent the explosion that night, because I thought it was blatantly obvious it's pointing towards the flare that she uses in Ep 6. Like it almost seems hamfisted it's such a direct comparison. I get that all of these people are having their own interpretations, which is great, but honestly Schnee's interpretation best represents the parallel between their two tattoos, and we all know Arcane is about dualities.
@@lockekappa500 Again, I think both explanations can be true at the same time. The explosion has played a huge role in her life, and it bears similarity with the tattoo design. We also know that Jinx tries to accept that event as a part of her, as seen by her adopting the name - Jinx. So it makes sense that, among other things, the blue smoke symbolizes that fateful explosion.
Though, I do recognize that singling out the interpretation that Jinx and Vi both independently decide to show their longing for each other through tattoos makes it more poetic.
Also, as a side note, how did Jinx know the colour of the smoke in the flare before ever using it?
@@feduckil9238 I guess Im more inclined to agree with Schnee's take because of the fact that both of them state to each other in episode 9 that they were both the reasons why they fought to stay alive. Tattoos seem like the most likely reminder to someone of a reason to live.
Not to mention Powder shudders and tries to distract herself from that night constantly. Anytime she is reminded of it she goes off and gets emotional. "I keep seeing them, that night." Seems odd to remind yourself of a night that obviously haunts you so much. You'd think she'd have a reaction to her own tattoos in the same manner that she had when she tried to use the Hexgem again.
@@lockekappa500 Well, she has the dolls of Milo and Clagger, so not every reminder of that night gets her off balance. The hex tech was more of an exception in how much it resembled the explosion itself.
They both kept each other going. That breaks my heart after everything that happened and will happen
Wow! I always was confused by vi’s tattoos! This is a great analysis
The gradual switch from confidence to horrified Guilt and denial is incredible
Love the attention to detail and the fact that there's so much detail to pay attention to.
Wow. You just made me like Arcane again. And Arcane was already #1 on my list of best animations of all time.
I absolutely love these videos. So many small details I lost
Its amazing how the show can add every part of the original characters and bring new meaning to everything.
Everything about a character is important to adding depth to them. By adding these tattoos to these characters you can see the sisters really do love each other and miss the other but circumstances put them at odds
Ahhhh your so perceptive! I've been loving your videos on Arcane! I admire everything you can see and catch symbolically and litterally!
I always love watching your analysis videos
It's also the culture and community that had been built in piltover and zaun, even characters who don't really have anything to do with machinery are still related to it in some way cuz in this place machines and technology are just cool, even the barman jinx talks to is named Theorum, like theory. It's just a part of life there
THANK YOU! I was wondering about the tattoos!
this whole show broke my heart. Vi and jInx would do anything to have another back, only to have the worst reunion ever
We need some Victor lore next lol. He's probably my favorite character.
These are actually great analysis. Saw the one about Milo which I picked up on intuitively but this one, I’m subbing.
They recreated something that used to mean her talent in mechanics (in the old lore Vi builds her own gauntlets) into something so much deeper and creative, I love arcane and the new ideas for the characters
I never had doubts about what Jinx's tattoos could mean. I think is easy to think/see where they come from and it's beautiful. Sad, but beautiful.
Vi's tats however were a little bit of a puzzle to me. My first impression was that because the show has some steampunk aesthetics it made sense for Vi to use gears and stuff. The blue clouds were obviously a nod to Jinx/Powder from the begening. So no questions there for me. The sisters have matching tats and that's pretty neat.
Now that I watch this I can agree with your reasoning behind Vi's machinery tattoos. But I think there could be something more behind them.
I do realize my thought could be farfetched though. Recently I was reading about the different hextech weapons and artefacts in the LOL wiki and I read that the prolonged use of the Atlas Gauntlets (Vi's signature weapon) causes skeletal damage to the user. In the game Vi is pretty much always (or most of the time) using the gauntlets and seems to wear some kind of exosuit. This make me think Vi experiences the skeletal damage in the game. So I thought Vi's tattoos could be foreshadowing of her skeleton becoming weak with the passage of time and the use of the hextech gauntlets in Arcane.
The machinery tats going from her neck to her whole back and arms make me think of a mechanical skeleton. And I wonder if the design goes even along her legs as well?
I could be wrong and the tattoos could be all about Powder, who knows?
My question is where did you get the picture of the hoodie with her entire tattoo on? After the premiere, people asked even Amanda on twitter if they would ever show it all. The answer was ambiguous. I'm surprised we can see it now 😲
as you saw the hoodie does not have the accurate tattoo
Holy shitte! I never thought about that. I always liked jinx's cloud tattoos but never connected it to the blue smoke her sister told her to use to signal her! That is an awesome observation.
Jinx is coveder by mixture of pink bullets and blue cloud shapes witch are referencing blue smoke of burned gun POWDER... Maybe for similar reason she call her minigun Pow-pow...
I've been wondering about this... Because I found it odd that both their body art had the same motif.
And, arguably, I'd agree that the blue puffs in Vi's tattoo are representing of Powder (and, incidentally, the hope she's still alive and wandering the the streets of zaun, as they do all over her tattoo - unlike claggor and mylo, who are fixed).
I like the thought that the blue puffs in Jinx's body art are representing of the flare - but I'm not sure they would have known the flare's colour before setting it off?...
I'm wondering if Jinx's tattoos are, like @beastmonger says, are a reminder of Powder. It isn't until after Vi's return that Jinx lets go of Powder completely. Perhaps the tattoos were her way of holding on to her past.
A scene early in episode 1 caught my eye. Once the gang broke into Jayces apartment, Vi was the only one who immediately went to look at the books and writing on the wall -- intellectual academic stuff she def doesn't understand. It struck me as strange bc Vi wanted to do this job and get a big payout -- why didn't she immediately run to the shiny gold trinkets. I think it's great foreshadowing of Vi's lore. Would love to hear your thoughts about it.
Goddamn. It’s stuff like this that keeps grabbing me back into the show.
Not just got tattoos to honor her family and keep her strong, according to one source I found, she MADE those tattoos. It would be really difficult to do all of those herself, but there you go.
i don't think it's possible even for a tattoo master to get the tattoo on the back only by themselves lmao
@@thequeenoftheeasternseas3230 In all honesty when I read that I called b*******, but that was what I read. They've also given multiple ages for characters in different sources, so the Canon of anything not shown explicitly in the show itself is open to interpretation and change.
Jinx’s tattoos seem to represent both the hope Vi gave her in the form of the flare and the despair she caused and later became known for.
VI’s tattoos represent her family and her much they mean to her, almost as if she refused to forget about them in any way.
I always thought Jinx cloud tattoos were were something cultural something to do with the wind goddess Janna, she was once Zaun's primary deity. Also that Vi's gear tattoos were just a cultural respect and admiration for machinery and engineering. I theories that both got inked due to the grief they felt at the loss of their family, but the actual tattoo's were cultural.
I LOVE your idea!!!
why would vi admire machinery, it's directly linked to piltover and she hates piltover.
@@mysticmale7223 zaunites are just as good at technology as piltover which usually gets the credit.
I agree full on with everything, but I’d also like to add that VI’s tattoos of the gears can also represent the pride she has for the place she was born. Not just the undercity, but the entirety of Piltover, which is represented by its machinery and inventions.
Absolutely NAILED it.
Something also about Jinx's, that I saw in another analysis: She is fire, with all the explosions and stuff; while Silco is water, with all his methaphors after being drowned, and his fascination for marine beasts. Silco wants to be like Jinx, fire, so he is shown to wear redish clothes; while Jinx wants to be like Silco, water, therefore her tatoos resemble water.
I actually like both of this analysis, probably both of them are true!
With the mechanical parts being the joints, that means the clouds are over the muscles: the trapezius, the triceps. Another metaphor for Vi's view of her role as the protector.
This is funny to me cause in LoL lore Vi was a mechanical genius. Even repurposing a mining golem's arms into the prototype gauntlets that she used before getting the ones we see in game. So this tattoo for the show is geared towards Powder/Jinx but is actually noting a trait that they both shared in the game.
These videos will never stop shocking me.
Love this 🥺💗
jesus christ im literally tearing up this show is wrecking me
When the Flare went up and I saw it's color I almost instantly got the shills, not because of the Song or Powders yearning for her sister but because it hit me that the blue clouds are an extension of her tattoos. It's like Powder turned herself into this ever burning blue flame with them, projecting outward and figuratively screaming 'I'm here, Find me!'.
My Headcannon for Vi's tatoos was that she had to become more than a person in prison to survive, that she had to turn herself into something that doesn't know pain and cannot be hurt. It correlates somewhat with her fighting style, in that she uses her high pain tolerance to overcome her naturally weaker physique in fights against opponents that are physically bigger and stronger than her.
But your theory is insanely good and makes total sense. Of course Vi would mirror Powders decision with their tattoos and the meaning behind them. They always draw strength from each other.
And Damn, the Jilco fans hate it when it's just about the Sisters and their love for each other. Constantly trying to shove Silco in there, no matter how contrived.
no please
don't tell me Jilco is a thing
I agree they always push Silco everywhere !
@@Victorsandergamer Bro don't go to Ao3 you will puke !
The two things by the keys look like one of Jink’s bombs and the thing at the bottom looks like her mask as well. The two x’s are a symbol that shows up with jink a lot too.
More in depth analysis of this please :)
The pain I feel rn is insane. I fell in love with Arcane and everything about it.
"I couldn't care what inventions you made me. Because I--I was ment to be yours"
-"What Could Have Been"
I've been thinking about Jinx's tattoos, and now I know the reason why she got them. Very sad, honestly. But beautiful too.
Literally insane detail
I just figured it was because "Where there's smoke there's fire" for Jinx and "Just another cog in the machine." For Vi.
But this was much more etiquette
Also. Gear tatoos look so fucking rad
You have no right to make me cry
If your show keeps getting more brilliant the more people pick it apart, you've really made something special.
I was wondering about this the other day!! This is awesome
these would be badass tattoo ideas irl
D A M M I T I just got done crying over this show 😭😭😭
crying. sobbing even.
I have a theory about why VI got a tattoo of her name on her cheek. My best guess is that she did it because in prison they give you a number instead of a name. She is a really emotionally strong, stubborn character; she got sick of being dehumanized. Her name of her face is an act of spite and defiance against the prison complex. It’s like a big middle finger. It's like she is saying “Look at me! Look at my face. I'm a person; I have a name. My name VI!”
Mmm that's interesting
That doesn't actually work, her name is Vi it's short for violet. It's just a nickname.
@@lexxymoo51 I think you are onto something! I think that's the point- it's a pun! "VI" is the number 6 in roman numerals but also "VI" is her name (nickname) when written in full caps.
Six might represent the number of people in Vi's found family- Vander, Vi, Powder, Milo, Clager, & Echo.
Jinx's cloud tattoos look a lot like Indonesian traditional art called Mega Mendung
I think personally the gears are a reference to mylo's lockpicking and her lol design has her wearing claggors glasses
I always pictured Jinx’s tattoos as a storm/hurricane, representing how crazy and unstable she now is, meanwhile I always thought VI’s as a machine, possibly representing how she’s a “fighting machine” but I do like this interpretation a lot better. :3
Looks to me more like Jinx's smoke clouds are from when that blue crystal exploded, first in Jace's place, then when it killed everybody.
... I'M NOT CRYING, YOU'RE CRY...ah frak it, I'm crying.
You're telling me they have hoodies with VI's tattoos and I had NO IDEA?????😮💚
hey, congrats on over a million views!
Cogs are imagery for a lot of things
_ the machinery or inner workings of a society, system, field etc
_ the expression "cog in the wheel"
_ the french word "engrenage" which means gear but also chain of events and spiral, and is used to describe a domino effect
_ the double meaning of the word "mechanics"
_ coping mechanism
I love how Jinx tatoos can both represent Powder and Jinx in the show with the blue smoke
Powder in the Flare she lets off and Jinx in the blue smoke trail left by the missle in the last episode
Great, now I can cry again
The way that Vi couldn’t defend herself and had to just sit there while being tortured and on top of that thinking about all the guilt on powder/jinx just kills my feelings every single time
Same, man, just the thought of her being fourteen or fifteen when she was imprisoned for the first time kills me. Like, I truly believe those guards would’ve kicked the hell out of Vi when she was just a kid and onward. 😭
What I find interesting is how Jinx’s clouds are blue, but in her og design she has pink bullets. So the clouds represent Vi and the bullets represent her, but they’re in each other’s colors.
This is GENIUS!!!! And heartbreaking! I always wondered!!!
She also grew up in the city of progress alot of people overlook the fact that zaun is still piltover during that time and zaun is still part of the city of progress.
Another detail I saw someone else caught, was that the design in the game for jinx has blue clouds/smoke AND PINK BULLETS. I think the blue clouds also symbolize the tragedy that occurred when she blew up the factory when trying to save Vander, getting herself tattooed with them is kind of like embracing the tragedy, embracing how it's shaped her, and while she's still very evidently effected and mourning over it, like when she says "It was a mistake" after getting flashbacks. She acknowledges that it happened, she doesnt really move on or confront it directly until ep 9.
I believe the situation will likely be similar after Silco's death, another tragedy that SHE CAUSED. Tattooing herself as like a reminder maybe? I hope if she gets a new character design for s2 or her s1 design gets altered, i hope we'll get to see the bullet tattoos so i can cry myself to sleep more ^^
Oh and another thing i saw while i was scrolling through the comments (IDK WHY I FEEL COMPELLED TO WRITE THIS, ITS BEEN 2 YEARS. NO ONE WILL SEE IT LMFAO) But some people alter their tattoos after a breakup, so bullets like gun smoke. Letting go of what happened in ep 3 and changing its meaning to destructive chaos
I think this is the only series that's genuinely broke my heart
The keys also reference mylos lock picking
I’m pretty sure VI’s tattoos were actually a design change. In the ‘Warriors’ video for Vi you see that she has actual machinery connected to her gauntlets to make them easier to lift because at the time Vi had a more feminine build. They ended up changing that so they switched the machinery to tattoos and gave her a more muscular build so she’s using her strength to use the gauntlets instead of gadgets.
Or hear me out here, Vi has an overall steampunk aesthetic so cogs and machinery tattoos go great with that. And Jinx's tattoos are supposed to be smoke like what comes out the barrel of her guns and explosives. Don't think it meant to be that deep, but who knows maybe it is, just feels like you reaching abit.
I agree, I too love Jinx's body
As my name jinx irl and a jinx main in league one of my favorite quotes from the series “pow pow is dead now there’s only jinx”
“I thought maybe you could love me like you used to. Even though I’m… different. But you changed too. So… Here’s to the new us.”
These are just some of my favorite quotes from the series
I believe the reason for League's Vi having these tats *is* because she's an engineer constantly maintaining her beloved gauntlets, but I like the spin Arcane put on it. Great analysis of Arcane Vi's design.
If we weren't thinking about Arcane, her tattoos were most likely designed and tatted *before* she went manic- as smoke tattoos like hers seems like a pretty common design in Ionia. After she went manic, she most likely then added the pink missiles.
I saw this short two years ago, and I've rewatched the Warriors Cinematic a bunch of times and only today did I realize that in the cinematic Vi has this cyber gear machinery stuff attached to her back. And it made me think of this
I actually think that VI might have known more about machinery and inventing things when she was younger maybe not so much when she was older other than inventing new ways to knock someone out…
In episode 1 when Vi and her friends broke into Jayces room she instantly recognized that his drawings were not of things that already existed but things that were still in development and future tech. She recognized that the room belonged to an inventor
The facts vi has a tattoo for mylo and clogger makes me so happy Mylo was my favourite and I wish he could’ve lived
Tbh Jinx got the blue smoke tattoos (about Vi) and Vi got the gears tattoos representing Powder/Jinx because when she was little she would build ‘’robots’’ that’s what I thought when I saw their tattoos
Love this show so much
*Podwer's* Longing, Vi's Strength. Nice.