Jinx

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Age: 17/19

Allias: Jinx

Real Name: Powder

Species: Human (Enhanced)

Residence: Zaun

Gender: Female

Height: 5'3 (160 cm)

Weight: 44-50kg (97-110lbs)

Hair color: Blue

Eyes: Blue (Formerly)/Pink (Shimmer)

Family:Unnamed Parents †, Vi (Sister), Vander (Adoptive Father), Silco † (Adoptive Father), Mylo † (Adoptive Brother), Claggor † (Adoptive Brother)

Affiliation: Silco

Abilities: Accuracy: Jinx is seen to be an excellent shot, being able to outshoot Mylo in the training simulator and beating Ekko when the two would play together. She tends to prefer handguns such as pistols but is also seen to use a type of Gatling gun. Inventions: while she was under the name of Powder, she struggled with building working inventions as she grew older, she became more adept at inventing weaponry specifically bombs. Shimmer Enhanced Physicality: Thanks to the use of Shimmer, Jinx is now far stronger, faster, and more agile than any regular human.

Appearance: She has an hourglass figure with a slim waist and wider hips and shoulders.

She has pale skin. There are constant dark circles under her eyes, noticeable tear burns and dull purple lips. Her eyes are blue but change to a pink hue due to shimmer.

Her bright blue hair is styled in two long blue braids with a sharp side bang styled on her left. The braids fall down her back and reach to her ankles (approximately 125-150cm), both braids are decorated with bullet casings in both silver and gold and engraved with jinx's drawings. She has a widow's peak and a few short strands of hair that hang loose around her face.

Jinx has tattoos on the right side of her body, depicting clouds. The tattoos are drawn in pale blue, with darker blue outlines and cover her arm, shoulder and stomach on the right-hand side. After her transformation from the shimmer, the tattoos are faded and scarred from the injection and her body's reaction to the drug.

Her attire consists of a dark brown leather crop-top with a piece of thin off-white cloth running through four eyelets to form an x in the centre of her chest. The front and back of the crop-top are connected at the base with a thin belt, and at the top with a circular neckline that splits into a choker. She wears low waisted, vertically striped pants in shades of purple/pink, torn unevenly at the bottom and shorter on the right side. Along with this she wears arm warmers, one black and the other black on the upper half while the lower half matches the pink/purple of her pants. Additionally she has studded belt, made up of three individual sections: the one around her waist, and the two that loop from the back to connect to the belt on the right side and the hem of her pants on the left. She also has a pocket on her right hip for explosives, a gun holster on her left. She is seen wearing a large band aid on her upper left calf, which covers the wound she is seen patchingherself with a staple gun in episode 7. Finally, she wears a pair of loose, worn combat boots to which she's added magenta laces, and extra metal elements on the toes and heels, in both silver and gold.

Jinx is also assumed to be ambidextrous, preferring to shoot with her left hand but also using her right as a seemingly dominant hand in many other scenes.

Personality: As a little girl, Powder was shy and sweet, but was also clumsy and prone to making mistakes. This paired with a case of middle child syndrome sparked irritation from her older "brother" Mylo who referred to her as a jinx. She greatly admired her older sister Vi (her only biological family) and saw her as a role model, as well as an almost parental figure. While not as physically capable as Vi, she was very creative and spent much of her spare time making different kinds of inventions, mostly bombs and other small explosives, though they were predictably unreliable and were only effective later in her teens. She showed how skilled she was with a gun, beating her best friend, Ekko, and her brother Mylo on various occasions. Despite her general timid, quiet nature Powder was shown on multiple occasions to have have extremely strong emotional reactions, especially when faced with the possibility of abandonment, screaming and crying with accompanying hallucinations and self-harming behaviour, something her character retains later in the series.

After witnessing the death of her family and her sister's abandonment, Powder adopted the identity of Jinx. Jinx is incredibly mentally unstable and has become unpredictable and remorseless at a teen, showing no mercy towards her opponents, or anything she perceives as a threat. She is incredibly smart, both in her combat and her weapon making abilities. Like her younger self, Jinx has extremely strong emotions, only strengthened by her guilt, which she copes with using violence and often self harm. Despite her outward appearance of a "manic pixie nightmare girl", her innocent, bubbly attitude is a conscious front used to manipulate the people around her. Along with her wild, ruthless nature, we also see her being vulnerable and childlike in her actions, a contrast between Jinx and Powder, who are separate identities, (as a result of both her childhood trauma and likely Borderline Personality Disorder) and we see many times where her actions remind us she is really a child trapped in the body of a teen. She is left alone to deal with her guilt from the traumatic events leading to the deaths of her brothers and Vander, and her resentment towards Vi, who she believes abandoned her, something drilled into her by Silco to cement her loyalty to him.

History: Early life As a child, Powder had a good relationship with Vi, her sister, and her parents. However, when her parents died during a battle on the bridge between Piltover and Zaun, her and Vi were the only people left in their family. After the battle, Vander found the two siblings, he adopted them and raised them as his own, alongside Mylo and Claggor.[1]

The heist A few years later Vi, Powder, Claggor and Mylo venture into Piltover after getting a tip from Ekko regarding a Piltover citizen whom he had followed after he shopped at Benzo's. After finding the apartment, the kids loot the place and Powder discovers a box full of blue crystals. However, Vi hears Jayce and Caitlyn's footsteps and signals everyone to leave. Yet in a rush, Powder drops one of the blue crystals, setting off an explosion which blows up half the building. This notifies the enforcers and sends the kids on a chase through Piltover.

The aftermath After the kids manage to evade the enforcers, they made their way back to Zaun with their stolen goods. They are stopped by a street gang led by Deckard, who demands they hand the bag over. Not willing to go down without a fight, Vi, Claggor, and Mylo take on the rival gang and leave the goods with Powder. Midway, Powder is chased by one of the gang members who notices the stolen supplies and she is cornered to the docks, where she tries to attack him with Mouser, though it sputters out and fails. Left with no other option, she throws the goods away, Which Accidentally lands in the ocean. As Powder manages to escape for good.

Later, Mylo yells at Powder for losing the stolen goods and claims "she jinxes every job," though Vi silences him. Back at The Last Drop, the group is reprimanded by Vander for the trouble they caused in Piltover while Vi argues back, claiming that Piltover has plenty while they have nothing.[1]

Laying low To lay low, the group decides to hide in a run-down arcade. Mylo berates Powder for not being able to fix a target practice range; instead, she not only shows him how to activate it, but plays the range herself, showing Her excellent aim. Enforcers soon break into the arcade, and they run away once more with the help of Ekko.

Later, several Zaunites gather at the Last Drop, and the group, including Powder, stands by a corner. They watch as several residents, including Sevika, claim they want to fight back, but Vander reminds them that violence is not the answer, and that they "just have to stand together". The kids wonder why Vander still chooses peace, and Ekko informs them that Vander has a deal with the enforcers.

While lounging in the basement of the Last Drop, the group is signaled by Vander that enforcers have arrived again. They hide in the rafters, but Powder struggles to hang on; luckily, she manages to keep from falling, only after the enforcer leaves the basement she lets go. She decides to make more bombs, naming one "Whisker", and she shows them to Vi, who encourages her.

Rescuing Vander Vi returns to the Last Drop, letting the group know what she saw, they begin to plan a rescue for Vander. Powder insists on joining, but Vi warns her not to and leaves her alone with a flare instead. Powder breaks down afterwards; in her breakdown, the Hextech crystals she'd swiped from the penthouse spill out of her bag, and she realizes that those were what caused the explosion.

She makes her way to the docks with a monkey bomb loaded with crystals. She drops the monkey through the window and explosions are set off, killing Mylo and Claggor alongside several of Silco's goons; Vi and Vander are injured, Sevika loses an arm protecting Silco, and Singed's lab blows up with him inside. Powder makes her way to the entrance, only to find Vander dead and Vi extremely anguished, and in that anguish, she angrily calls her a "jinx" and leaves her sobbing.

With no one left, Powder ends up adopted by Silco. [2]

Progress day During Piltover's day of celebration, a shipment of shimmer is ambushed by the Firelights, a rebel undercity group, and Powder re-emerges as Jinx, fighting back mercilessly with her now very effective explosives. Now deadly in combat, she easily takes down multiple Firelights until one of them is unmasked and her pink hair triggers a hallucination, confusing Jinx with a false image of Vi, causing her to freeze before she realises it isn't her sister and heartlessly shooting the girl without hesitation. The remaining firelights flee, and she fires on them, putting the rest of her own crew in harms way.

Jinx remains with Silco, the two have formed a father-daughter relationship, albeit an unhealthy one. Silco encourages her to work on her inventions, excuses her blunders and shows genuine care towards her. Her hideout, built over the fissures allows her time to perfect her explosives, but also shows how trapped by her own memories she is, showing that she kept Vi's rabbit, and even made a copy, one in a box and the other nailed to the wall above her desk, along with Claggor's glasses and a life-size doll of Mylo, who appears to her in frequent hallucinations.

After her explosive reaction at the shimmer shipment, Silco suggests she take time to collect herself, frustrating her. In an effort to prove herself, she breaks into the Piltover council building, stealing a hextech crystal and creating a diversion by starting a fire in a pavilion to lure enforcers into a trap filled with explosives, which kills six enforcers and injures a seventh.

Despite Silco's initial frustration, the benefits the crystal promises outweigh the risks to his business and he is quick to forgive.

Searching for Vi When she finds out from Sevika that her sister is alive and in the lanes searching for her, she uses the flare Vi had given to her in an attempt to find her. Despite her doubts Vi shows up and the pair are reunited, but when Caitlyn appears Jinx turns on the pair, questioning Vi's motivation for returning until the trio are ambushed by the Firelights, and a fight ensues, leading to Vi and Caitlyn being taken and Jinx being left alone yet again.

The Boy Savior Searching for both Vi and the hextech gemstone, Jinx watches from on high as her swarm of mechanical butterflies explode across a barricaded bridge topside, killing the team of enforcers including Marcus. Jinx comes face to face with her sister and Caitlyn, and fires on them from almost point blank range, stopped by Ekko intercepting and knocking her back. Ekko faces off against Jinx, allowing Cait and Vi to escape while the two fight. Despite the pair being evenly matched, Ekko pins her down and Jinx lets off a grenade, dislocating Ekko's leg and nearly killing her. Silco carries the severely injured Jinx to Singed, begging him to save her. The doctor injects her with shimmer, enhancing her strength, speed and ultimately saving her despite the demanding and extremely painful process.

The tea party Jinx knocks out and captures Vi, bringing her to what remains of the warehouse where the events of episode 3 took place, and reveals she has set up a twisted tea party, with Caitlyn and Silco both tied up and gagged at the table. Jinx begs Vi to kill Caitlyn, which she refuses and Jinx turns on Caitlyn herself, sparing her only because of Vi's pleas, leading to Cait firing on her and Jinx retaliates by knocking her out. Silco and Vi each try to convince her to either spare or kill Caitlyn, and in her overwhelm she shoots and kills Silco. Breaking down at her own actions, she takes fishbones, powered by the hextech gemstone, and fires a missile at the Piltover council, the outcome is so far unconfirmed.

"Watch It All Burn" In the wake of Silco's death, Zaun descends into chaotic infighting by the three remaining Chem-Barons - Smeech, Margot, and Chross - now all clamoring to be on top. Jinx, grieving Silco's loss, becomes a wanted fugitive and is indifferent to the anarchy erupting as she wanders aimlessly incognito. She stumbles upon Isha, a young orphan girl on the run from Chross's men. Jinx immediately takes them all out and continues on. Isha, grateful for her rescue, cautiously tags along with her.

Smeech attempts to raid an establishment of Margot's territory but when they arrive, the place has been struck by the Grey - dense suffocating factory smog underneath Zaun. Smeech's accountant, Heenot, is forced to investigate inside alone. Heenot steps into a terrifying encounter with an unknown figure. Later, Sevika assembles the three Chem-Barons and makes a plea to halt their turf wars and ally against Piltover. Margot and Chross are reluctant due to their rivalries and the recent major setbacks to their forces. Smeech speaks up, agreeing with Sevika that Piltover is a threat but proposes the solution is to capture and extradite Jinx to the Enforcers. Sevika is reluctant to give up one of their own, but Smeech reminds her that she has no hold over their demands. Smeech will provide her a new state-of-the-art prosthetic arm in exchange for her compliance in capturing Jinx as a last offer. Sevika retreats back to the late Silco's office, frustrated that she can't fix her old prosthetic and that Silco's death left her to deal with the Chem-Barons' unchecked power. Jinx makes her presence known and Sevika can't bring herself to take her out. The two reminisce their time with Silco and ponder their next moves without him.

Jinx tinkers a new invention from the parts she gathers at the now dilapidated arcade place of her childhood. Suddenly, the place becomes gassed with the Grey and she retreats into hiding while trying to control her breathing. From the dense smog, Caitlyn's strike team emerges and probes the area for any sign of Jinx. Vi explores on her own and picks up Jinx's welding goggles, unaware that Jinx is within her gun's sights from above. Jinx struggles to pull the trigger on her own sister. She loses her chance when her tear drips down on the goggles and Vi quickly looks up. Jinx goes back into hiding and plots a way to escape unnoticed. Jinx finds a plug that turns on the target practice music, distracting Caitlyn's team enough to investigate it. When Maddie gives the all clear, Caitlyn, in a fit of rage, fires her rifle at one of the target practice's panels.

Jinx escapes while having a breakdown from seeing her sister as an enforcer, but she's ambushed by Smeech's henchmen. They restrain her as Smeech reveals that they were tipping Caitlyn's team of Jinx's location after striking a deal that would end with Jinx's capture. Jinx catches him in momentary shock when she confesses to be Silco's killer. Smeech's men are prevented from hurting Jinx further when Sevika guns them down. Jinx breaks free and passes her new invention - a heavily-modified and weaponized prosthetic arm - to Sevika and attaches it. Jinx, with help from Isha, takes care of Smeech's remaining men. Sevika takes down Smeech herself with the help of the prosthetic arm's wacky but brutal abilities of attack. In the aftermath, Jinx intends to tie loose ends with Vi by plotting her next move with Sevika; they notice that Heenot is still alive and struggling to break free from a dead member of Smeech's gang.

Isha: Child, She is mute, Loves Jinx