#thinking about Mel unambiguously supporting peace and freedom for the undercity in the final episode directly in conflict w her mother’s

[badolmen]

Thinking about the Mel and Jinx parallels this evening.

#ra speaks #personal #arcane #mel medarda #jinx #sorry mutuals you know the hyperfixation is real when I start making original posts abt it #anyways character tags so I can find this 14 months from now when I’m rewatching the series and I know I’m right abt this #a gilded angel #I want to throw her in a McDonald’s play scape and see if she establishes dominance or gets stuck in the net #just like. hmmm. #political parent who’s no stranger to war and violence trying to impart what they consider wisdom to their daughters #how Mel rejected this and as a result ambessa rejected her (even if she had her own motivations for banishing her daughter ie. it hurt her #to see her daughter struggle w the bloodshed that came w her responsibility) #how jinx embraced this to the point of being a danger to silco’s own power (both in directly interfering with his political ties ie. #the enforcers and indirerectly ie. making others see her as a liability/weakness of his bc of his reluctance to control her #how he largely disregards this threat her actions pose bc he fully accepts her and will not reject her #thinking about Mel unambiguously supporting peace and freedom for the undercity in the final episode directly in conflict w her mother’s #plans to instigate conflict for her own gains #versus jinx literally pulling the trigger on a full blown violent conflict (also against her parent’s wishes to my understanding) #Mel’s mother surviving her daughter in part bc Silco didn’t survive his daughter #jinx thought vi had been dead but she wasn’t Mel didn’t know her brother was dead when he was #I just. I feel like there’s an underappreciated link between these two characters who never interact except when one of them kills the other #ALSO ADDITION 7/12/22 their character arcs have the same question answered in the final episode (identity - Mel taking off the medarda ring #jinx sitting in the jinx chair) #this show drives me fucking insane