#jinxers

I was wondering if you have any info or headcanons or fun facts abt that version of him bc he just seems rlly cool and honestly the concept of Mylo being a jinxer has a bunch of potential especially considering his character. If not that’s totally fine tho!!! Keep up the great work 🫶

My hc is simple. This is Gert. I think Gert was Vi's prison wife. Or one of them anyway. (s2 spoilers incoming)

In the alternate universe, she works at the Last Drop and is a DJ, I think it's safe to say she seems well-established in the Zaunite community, likely grew up in the area, and probably knew, or at least knew of, Vander and his kids in our universe, too.

We know she's political and not afraid to buck the system. I can easily see her getting arrested as young adult and being glad to see a familiar face in Vi.

Gert don't give a fuck about compliance with enforcers:

And here we can see she seems to like the ladies (sorry other-Mylo):

Then, when she's dying and they start to take her helmet off, here's Vi's reaction from the smallest glimpse of her dreads alone:

That's it. That's all she sees and we get this moment:

She knows exactly who this is without even seeing her face. She looks shocked and scared. Sure she probably wouldn't have had blue hair at the time she's in prison, but we do know she bleaches it in the other universe, so maybe she's always liked to change it up. Regardless, I think Vi sees the dreads, maybe her complexion, and just knows.

With her last breath, what does Gert do? She reaches for Vi who holds her hand right as she slips away. Her last act was to seek comfort from the familiar face in front of her- probably because that is the face of the woman who comforted her in Stillwater prison as well.

Vi is gutted and in disbelief, so much so that she has to be hoisted to her feet and literally dragged away by another enforcer.

assaulted,

imprisoned,

shot at, and plainly intimidated in their own homes.

All for it to mean nothing, because everything they did had no bearing on Piltover's decision to pull back the occupation. And after what seemed like months of being terrorized they're asked to join a fight of which it's catalyst and driving force is hextech and it's creators. A technology and group of people that have never directly or indirectly benefitted them in any tangible way, and didn't one of those guys kill a kid in Zaun a couple months back!?!?!???

But it's the end of the world so of course they're going to fight, and of course many of them died. Some worse than others, in the uniforms of the forces that beat and imprisoned them.

On the battlefield all the double standards are laid bare for them to see because Piltover has fully weaponized hextech to defend themselves from an aggressor. Meanwhile one of the core reasons their home was gassed and occupied was to rid the place of shimmer. Without it Zaun was easily occupied by Piltover and they died in droves on the battlefield from wounds that it would have easily healed by it.

And after everything that's happened, from the invasion of their home, the violent repression, the deaths of their leaders and their symbol, they gained practically nothing in return. Even the power Sevika gained as a councilmember is completely dependent on when a Piltovan deigns to side with her. What's worse, there's literally nothing stopping from Piltover from doing it all over again. Piltover didn't need hextech to occupy Zaun, without shimmer, all they needed was their guns.

So what happens next?

Obviously, this isn't over. None of what's happened will be forgotten, especially by the faction that appeared to spend the most time fighting the occupation. Even though they've gained nothing of material value from Piltover, the connections and skills they've forged in the conflict are decent substitutes.

Some of these new skills include gunsmithing! An incredible development in Zaun as only Jinx and Piltover had a monopoly on the technology. Add to that the fact that the Jinxers don't just admire Jinx, but likely Silco as well and are even depicted fighting the enforcers alongside Silco's former underlings, there's clearly a new wave of militancy brewing.

This leads me to wonder if over time the Jinxers would morph into something like the Inx. The Inx are of course a noncanon Jinx-aligned faction, but their creation was heavily inspired by Arcane and even included Silco's iconography in their aesthetic.

Now first off, the Inx are dangerous. They're violent, obnoxious in a hooligan kind of way, and they operate kind of like a cult (real estate fraud and all), but they're also the kind of dangerous Silco enabled in Jinx. Leading members like Chadd above are artistically creative, inventive, charismatic, and genuinely well-organized.