(I’m assuming this is about my AU otherwise it would make no sense LMFAO)
yeah I would say he’s definitely a father figure to Vi, but obviously their relationship is vastly different from Silco and Powder/Jinx in canon… Silco still sees himself in Vi but in the “hotblooded revolutionary ready to throw hands at topside” way rather than “I got betrayed by someone who was supposed to protect me” for Powder,,
I think in canon Silco was definitely projecting all his trauma w/ Vander onto Powder’s relationship with Vi (I don’t blame Silco though bc parents just want to help their children in any way they can, Silco thought by forging a new identity he was able to “get past that” so that’s what he taught Powder) but if Silco is dealing with Vi instead, I don’t think he’d do that since it’s not relevant. Since Vi’s older, it’s not gonna be as easy to influence her compared to Powder who was like 10 or something.
We never get to see exactly what Silco tells Jinx about Vander (beyond that short conversation in the river where it seems he’s still pretty bitter and Jinx is totally over him reiterating the same thing over and over again lol). Vi has a lot more memories with Vander compared to Powder (she would probably be Vander defender #1), so I feel like during those talks rather than Silco focusing on how Vander betrayed him specifically, he would focus on the fact that Vander in a certain way betrayed all of Zaun by making that deal w/ the enforcers. Vi was already sort of feeling that in s1e2 when Vander refused to fight the enforcers, Silco would definitely play into that frustration bc I mean, he still felt the same way. I think after the first few arguments about Vander both Silco and Vi would be on the same page of basically Vander being a good man but a stagnant leader who was too comfortable w/ the status quo (which is basically my point of view as well HAHAHA)
As for specifically calling him dad idk though HAHA I guess that’s just not rlly a word I think the characters would use in the sense that like. Vi, Jinx (also Mylo) calls Vander “their father” but doesn’t use the term “Dad” for him directly, they just call him Vander. I think it would be the same here where if you ask Vi who Silco is to her she’d probably say something like “he’s like my father” (I don’t think she’d directly say “he’s my dad” since it would be too painful and she probably has emotional baggage abt erasing Vander and Connol’s memories or smth idk) but the sentiment is still there. Same thing w/ Silco tbh like he’d obviously see Vi as his daughter but he would never say it out loud (unless he was pushed to the brink like the canon situation where he calls Jinx his daughter LMFAO hopefully that never happens to him). I think they would both outwardly downplay how much they actually care for each other
