I want to say one thing about the setup for Jinx leaving.
The Silco in her mind told her to walk away to be free and she immediately thought about dying. That was the plan.
But THEN-- then Ekko stops her from blowing herself up. The thing is how. Because talking Jinx out of that mindset would require a whole team. And it does.
We can infer he told her that there is another version of her, of course. Powder and Jinx are the same, and as Powder told him "you want me to change" Jinx would think the same! except Jinx believes there is no "good version" of her
But as we know, it is not about one version being superior to the other or how Jinx and Powder being different. But it's about how Ekko has everything to recontextualize something that our Jinx knows deep down.
Because that is the same conversation she had with Silco in the cell, but this time not from a hallucination but from someone who is treating her as a real friend, part of the support system Jinx lacks, but she clings on so desperately.
So I'll go back to Powder for a sec
This is not the first time Vander and Powder have this conversation about her potential, about her leaving
And Vander did say something about it to Ekko. He knows her daughter
As well as Silco's words of wisdom.
Here he might be talking directly about Vander but, we know that it is also about oneself, after all that's what Jinx is all about. She is The Jinx because she destroys everything right? she is her walking reminder of all her failures.
And that's the Ekko's secret knowledge that saves Jinx. We don't need a recap of that episode, we just watched it. and Ekko is there to reach for Jinx, finding her, rewinding the explosion as many times as he has to. He tries very hard for her.
Jinx, as much as she claims to destroy everything, she creates, the one thing she knows how to do, and that's where she is more herself. She builds things and she might find someone worth trying for, not her ghosts or her guilt, but just herself.
Now, here they are: you've seen them, you love them, our acclaimed shimmer ray from the explosion and the ship sailing away.
Jinx leaving is about her following her dads advice and believing in Ekko's words. And I bet she does.
I just.... find it so charming that the glimpse of hope Ekko gives her is not just from himself but also about the fathers she lost so many times.
and to tie up the box, we have the final lyrics of Wasteland (that the series leaves out for ambiguity imo)
bonus monkeys, i bet it is the second Jinx kind of knew that Ekko was talking about her when he said "someone very special"
"someone worth building it for"
