hey so i just want to rant a bit on silco and jinx's relationship and share my perspective over the whole 'silco was a good father bc he loved jinx' (sorry if there's any grammar mistakes, english isn't my first language)
firstly i'd like to talk about the whole silco mentally abusing jinx:
- yes, silco did love jinx but he was still manipulating her so that she remained as jinx and acted in a way that could benefit him.
- after vi reappears, you can literally see silco trying to pin jinx against her by using lies and touching on jinx's insecurities (she could never love you after what you did, she just wants you for the blue thingy, etc)
- he does this because he doesn't want to lose jinx.
- at that point jinx wasn't of any 'use' to him, politically speaking; she caused more harm than good.
- however, silco couldn't imagine his life without her which is why he keeps using these manipulation techniques in order to keep a certain control over her so that she stays.
- silco feels like he's a bad person and fears that jinx might figure it out and hate him, so he decides to mentally abuse her.
- you can love someone inmensely and still do them harm; that is quite literally a representation of a toxic relationship.
now i'll talk about the physical stuff:
- honestly silco and jinx are both some of my fav characters, and although i find their relationship interesting, i think that it's very very weird.
- like yeah, it is clear that silco loved jinx but it was more in a trauma-bond type of way.
- silco saw himself in powder in the way that they were both betrayed by their older siblings (figure for silco), so when he saw how vi had abandoned powder, he felt connected to her and decided to 'adopt' and take her in his care.
- however this father-daughter relationship is not normal.
- despite the fact silco did perceive her as his daughter, they still had this strange touchy thing that isn't normal at all (the 'baptism' scene is sooo uncomfortable, they look like their about to kiss at one pointππ).
- they aren't romantically attracted to each other, they just feel this deep connection that they don't know how to express correctly.
- this is probably due to both of them having very strained relationships w family members so they didn't quite know what was right or wrong in the interactions within that area.
- i'd also like to point out the fact that jinx at first saw vi and cait's relationship as something sibling-like (which is why she was jealous of cait), demonstrating that jinx didn't understand the boundaries that should exist between family members.
my conclusion: silco was a loving father, not a good one.
