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i find it ur ideas abt silco and sevika so it interesting!!! do u have any more ideas / proof / or just anything abt that really? i didn’t even think that she would love him but now that it’s been pointed out it’s hard to not :)

Hey there, thanks for asking!

I have a lot of feelings about Sevika and Silco, which definitely isn't a surprise. The fic I'm writing right now explores their dynamic early on in Silco's rise to power.

The long and short of my thoughts:

I think Sevika is someone who is driven by her rage and passion. Silco was exactly the person she needed to hitch her cart to at the end of part 1. She clearly believed in his vision and goals for Zaun and the people of The Lanes. Enough to betray Vander and enough to nearly sacrifice herself for him.

She literally threw herself behind Silco and believed he'd do the most good. I think in the beginning she must have really admired and respected him. She needed someone to believe in again.

Silco admired her passion and dedication to the causeand in turn her dedication to him.

She viewed him as the vessel of Zaun's independence at first. Then she grew to respect and like him as an individual.

I don't think anything romantic happened between them. Sevika is heckin' gay (however I love fics when they're in a polycule, but that's for a different post). But I do think the passion they held in their respective hearts built a strong kinship and forged a strong friendship/partnership.

Sevika and Silco definitely had a closer relationship while Jinx was still young.

He'd lean on her, and she'd be there to support him, no questions asked. He could trust her implicitly.

She is an expert at reading him and anticipating his needs.

He is also an expert on her, after the years together her can read her like an open book.

There was small air of playfulness between them. She'd tease him and he could dish it right back. She was careful never to push it too far. She learned his boundaries early on.

That's why when Jinx got older and caused more issues, Sevika and Silco began to develop distrust. Jinx was a boundary she could never cross.

He could not and would not listen to any criticisms about Jinx. Even when there was absolutely a problem and something needed to be addressed.

This sewed a distrust in Sevika. She saw the same cracks forming in Silco that weakened Vander. She saw it coming before anyone else.

As Jinx began to divert and distract Silco, and Sevika found herself cleaning up more and more of Jinx's messes, her views on Silco suffered greatly.

I feel like when we see Sevika after the time jump in part 2, a lot of the closeness she once had with Silco was gone. His dedication to Jinx really, really drove a wedge between her and him.

He is also cold to her. I truly believe it wasn't always like that. The tension between them was fueled by Jinx. His inability to see past his love for his daughter and Sevika's most likely near-constant pleas to cut her loose, killed any real friendship between them.

If the ending of the show didn't happen as it did, and Sevika found Silco spared Jinx and the expense of Zaun's independence, she would have killed him ON THE SPOT. Straight up.

She would be devastated and FURIOUS. She would curse his name forever. Any respect she once held for Silco would be as dead and gone as he was.

Yet she would not have been surprised how it ended.

She wouldn't betray Silco for Finn, but she would've for someone with a greater promise, someone without a flaw... someone without a Jinx.

At the moment she chose to spare Silco's life, she rerooted herself in that position of loyalty. She decided to stay, to continue to fight alongside him. I think there was an iota of tenderness behind it.

The scene where she is sitting in his office waiting for him to come back in the final episode. The emptiness I personally felt at that moment was profound. She went straight there after getting nearly killed by Vi for the second time; waiting for him, waiting on the next steps.

The man she cared for and protected, the one she would follow into death for, was undone by the very thing she warned against.

I just mourn the closeness they once had, the trust and loyalty they had in each other. I'm so interested to see the aftermath of that final episode.

Thanks for the ask! I hope I covered enough ground.

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