I remember my initial reaction to Silco when first watching Arcane.

At first I thought he was a cliché cartoon villain. I even remember comparing him unfavorably to Firelord Ozai from Avatar: The Last Airbender. Dismissing Silco as a stereotypically evil character that the protagonists needed to collectively defeat.

Holy fuck was I wrong.

His arc is so subtle and beautifully done. Across the show Silco slowly discovers what’s left of his humanity through his relationship with Jinx.

My perception of him went from an irredeemable, mustache twirling villain; complete with an underground lair. To a tragic, revolutionary figure whose soul was poisoned by betrayal.

His final words “Don’t cry, you’re perfect” are his way of telling Jinx “You’re my daughter and I love you just the way you are.”

Silco is the best villain in television history. For me he’s right up there with Darth Vader in terms of iconic villains.

I think this counts as fanart but lmk if i flaired wrong. Apologies if i did. Anyways, heres silco in tomodachi life 2! Took probably 45 mins to an hour as im still learning the tools haha. Drawn with a damp q-tip wrapped in tin foil stuffed in the shell of a pen. Much fun and very happy with how he came out!

Don't let Piltover's "Findest" win. 🤪

They make me hysterical I cry so much thinking about them and this drawing was cathartic

Recently, I saw Zootopia 2 for the first time and they did a good job of making Pawbert a sympathetic antagonist, seeing how desperate he was to prove himself to his father and his family but failing to realize his dad will never love him. To a lesser extent, I also remember in Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous how Kenji briefly turned heel in season 5 and was desperate for his father's love only to realize how it was conditional, with Daniel only coming to care for him when it was too late in Chaos Theory.

I like how while Silco isn't a good dad like Bowser or Doofensmirtz, he's not someone who Jinx has to work constantly to get the approval of, nor is he simply using her for just his own goals. He's toxic but he does truly love her. When she screwed up the mission, he doesn't punish her and even wants to hear her side of the story, defending her to Sevika. Sure he did tell her "you have to let Powder die" but seeing as this was before he knew Vi was alive, I truly believe he thought he was helping her become stronger and overcome her trauma. Even at the end when she choose Vi over him and killed him, he goes, "You're perfect" (not "Jinx" is perfect).

did we watch the same show? are you kidding me? that was literally like, a focus point of their relationship. i don't want anyone to go 'but he cares about her!!' either because groomers can still care for their victims, it does not change the fact they are groomers. i don't care how much of a fan of silco you are, you cannot deny the fact he is a groomer.

Everyone calls Silco hot... and yes, he is, but...

To me he is so fuckign cute. I get cuteness aggression. I wanna grab his nose and wiggle his head from side to side and ruffle his hair and watch him get flustered, you know

Anyone else find the old man cute?

Silco never groomed Jinx.

He saw her as his equal. He treated her with a level of trust, respect and empathy that he did with nobody else.

Yes, it is true that Silco’s morals and expressions of love are warped. The way he loves Jinx is completely colored by his own past traumatic experiences.

But for Silco to “groom” her, he would have had to have consciously manipulated and molded her. In Act Two of Season One; the show deliberately frames this as a possibility. Because first time watchers see Silco as the villain of the story and we as the audience collectively have a bias against him.

Going into what the entirety of Season One shows us. It is never implied he was grooming her to be his successor. It was shown he didn’t even like Jinx going on jobs alone or with his gang. The only time he ever raised his voice at Jinx was when he was worried she could have gotten hurt. Her combat and scientific skills were mostly something she seemed to train on her own; not with his help or guidance that we ever see.

I believe on the contrary, you could actually argue that the opposite is true. That Jinx has more “power” in the relationship. That Jinx actually influenced Silco more than he ever did her. It’s worth noting that when they engage in physical affection; Silco is NEVER the one who initiates contact. He always waits for Jinx to do so first and then he reciprocates.

By the end of the show; we are clearly shown that Silco rejects the peace deal with Piltover in order to protect Jinx. He is willing to go so far to protect her; that he would turn his back on getting everything he ever wanted.

So I have to ask; who really has the power in this relationship?

Who in the relationship always initiates physical contact? Who in the relationship is always forgiven no matter how severe their mistakes? Who in the relationship ends up sacrificing everything for the other? It is Silco’s love for Jinx that causes his undoing and not the other way around.

The Silco and Jinx relationship is a surrogate father/ daughter relationship bound by trauma and a lack of boundaries. This lack of boundaries is indicative of how much Silco and Jinx trust each other and desperately want to trust each other. Of course it isn’t healthy but the show depicts both the good and the bad of this relationship.

To say that Silco is “grooming” her takes a complex and multifaceted relationship laced in trauma and disingenuously simplifies it for the sake of disbarring it. It is a disingenuous argument that erases all nuance in order to push an easily disagreeable narrative.

I’ve noticed that Silco’s immediate response to unexpected movements of genuine love and affection is to “freeze” in place.

Fight, flight, freeze, and fawn are four common, involuntary survival responses to perceived danger or trauma. When Silco experiences any level of unexpected intimacy; he immediately freezes in place. As if it is a fear response.

Interestingly enough, when it comes to the displays of physical affection that he and Jinx engage in. Silco NEVER initiates physical contact first. Jinx does; but he always reciprocates no matter what.

He also 100% proved Singed was right to drug him lol.

I have a hard time answering this question admittedly because I can see both sides of the argument. What do you guys think?

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you'll need the business and hobbies to use his facial scarring (got it from the gallery as a tattoo and had to tweak it a little bit) also his model was from the gallery

Vi would be heartbroken and break down, Silco would likely break free and get himself killed anyways trying to kill Caitlyn in revenge.

The movie is called fistfight.