If there's one thing that "League of Legends" fans believe Netflix got down pat with "Arcane," it's the streaming giant's realistic portrayal of Powder aka Jinx, who comes across more as a struggling and fearful young girl rather than a manic, uncontrollable "psycho," as gamers have described her.
"For so long I have seen so many shows and movies with Jinx's type of characters, the same crazy, lunatic girl who hides a dark secret yada yada etc," explains Redditor u/thesilentwizard in a recent "Arcane" discussion. "But most of the time they just use the mental condition as some sort of a quirky thing that makes the character unique and 'cool.' Except in reality, mental illness is anything but cool...It's a cancer of the mind that's eating people alive...I'm so glad that the show writers understand this and tell Jinx's story for what it is: a traumatic nightmare."
From the very first trailer of "Arcane," fans were led to believe they would be getting "another edgy grimdark" character — as Redditor u/grumpoholic puts it — for the role of Jinx. But that definitely wasn't the case.
"I genuinely felt sorry for powder," said u/grumpoholic in the "Arcane" discussion. "It was not silco but her guilt that drove her to madness. Somehow when she chose to be Jinx it was very moving for me that she was ready to leave behind all her past mistakes and just embrace her current self, no matter how f*****d up that is."
