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Player Information

Player: Lena
Contact: belleteyn @ plurk ; lenafish @ discord
Invitation: Noa
Are you over 18?: yes


Character Information

Character: Violet (also known as "Vi")
Canon: Arcane; end of season 2
Age: ~23
History: Arcane Wiki Page
Possessions: just the clothes on her back, a wrist brace, and her face jewelry
Weapon: none; just her hand-to-hand combat proficiency

Powers/Abilities: Vi has no supernatural abilities. (And she won't have access to hextech in this setting.) Instead, her strengths lie in:

• Physical conditioning (strength, speed, reflexes), though within human norms. (Parkour!)


• Hand-to-hand combat & brawling: street fighting, improvised weapons, grappling, knowing how to take a punch


• Tactical instinct: quick thinking under pressure, crowd control, reading opponents


• Survival and street skills: street smarts, navigating underground and challenging terrain

Application Questions

Who is the most important person in their life and why? What might be different if this person hadn't been around?

Hands down, the most important person in Vi's life is her sister — both as Powder and as Jinx. After they lost their parents, Vi became Powder’s protector. She wasn’t just Powder's sister; she was her world, her caretaker, her only safety net. That role shaped Vi into who she is now as someone whose identity was built on loyalty, protectiveness, and the necessary survival skills for the both of them.

But Powder’s actions (at the end of Act 1, Season 1) and the tragic explosion that changed everything pushed Vi to a breaking point. In a moment of absolute devastation, Vi called her a jinx — and that name stuck. She didn’t just lose her sister that day. She created Jinx. And in a painful way, Jinx also created the Vi we see now — shaped by regret, sharpened by loss, and weighed down by the blame she still carries squarely on her shoulders. Ever since, she's been pushing forward to atone — for creating Jinx, and for all the tragedies that followed in her wake.

Yet, despite the tragic path Powder's mistake led them both down, if Powder had never been in her life, Vi might have become someone far more bitter and directionless from the very beginning. After losing her parents, Vi could have easily gone down a darker path. Powder gave her something to fight for, something to protect, a reason to live. Even now, that bond — fractured, strained, and twisted but still deeply rooted in love — defines the choices Vi makes. Powder, and now Jinx, is the reason for every major decision in Vi's life since childhood. They define each other. Powder was Vi’s heart and her anchor; she was the reason Vi had to grow up fast so she could hope to preserve her little sister's childhood a little longer.

Without Powder, Vi is unmoored. Maybe she would’ve given in to her hatred of the Enforcers, tried to lead the war she was pushing Vander toward in Act 1 of Season 1 — and very likely would have lost her life young, burning out in a fight with nothing left to lose.

Now, Vi has to learn to love her sister the way she is now, made up of Powder and Jinx together. The most important person in her life will also always remind her of the most tragic losses, as well as her happiest days, in the duality that defines their relationship.


Is there an event in your character's life that they'd do differently? How so and why?

Vi will always regret the moment she struck Powder — when, after seeing the destruction Powder had caused, after Vander and their brothers were killed, and Powder stood there taking credit — Vi snapped. She hit her. She called her a jinx. And then she walked away.
It was a breaking point for both of them, and Vi knows it. Even if she hadn’t intended to stay away, she left. She only needed a minute to gather herself. She saw the blood on her hands — the same path of violence Vander had tried to keep her from walking. She realized she’d hit her sister, and how inexcusable that was. But when she stepped away, tried to give herself a moment to breathe, to stop herself from doing worse… everything changed. She was taken away, and Powder thought she’d been abandoned.

Vi thinks about that moment constantly. If she could do it over again (she's spent so long wishing she could do it over again), she would try to be strong. She wouldn’t hit Powder. She wouldn't walk away. This is something Vi's certainly replayed in her head so many times: how she could still be angry and in shock — but how she should have instead held her sister, comforted them both, told Powder she wasn’t a monster. Powder needed her in that moment more than ever. And Vi wasn’t strong enough to stay.

In truth, it’s unfair to blame Vi — a grieving child — for how she reacted. But she doesn't have that kind of grace for herself; she always blamed herself anyway. That one moment of weakness, one failure to show up, toppled everything. It set Powder on the path to becoming Jinx and set the dominoes falling (with Silco taking control of the Undercity, the spread of Shimmer, later even the war between Zaun and Piltover).

This mistake lives in Vi always; it's something she still can't forgive herself for, though she's made some progress toward trying to accept Jinx as she is. Even as she allies herself with Caitlyn and tries to work toward peace instead of violence, Vi carries the weight of having failed the one person she swore to protect no matter what.


What's the greatest challenge you foresee your character facing in the setting?

At the end of Season 2, Vi was finally beginning to heal. She was finally getting the time to grieve her lost family (Vander, Jinx) and had begun to find something close to peace with Caitlyn: safety, stability, a place to land. After being tossed from her time in prison straight into having to reckon with what her sister had become and shortly after that, the war between Piltover and Zaun, Vi has had hardly any time to breathe, to process anything. She hasn't had a home since Vander died (the first time). With Caitlyn, she was finally getting to a place that could become home…

And in that moment of peace and finally allowing herself to be vulnerable, she’s been ripped from that safe place. Thrown into the Diadem with no time to grieve, she will have to figure out a way to process her feelings while also navigating this new place. Vi is a survivor by nature, but survival isn’t purpose. And in a setting as unmoored and lawless as the Diadem, Vi may find herself drifting, unsure of who she’s fighting for, falling back on survival instincts that she was finally becoming ready to move past.

It is her instinct to protect; she'll surely be able to find those who need it and put her fists to use there. But what she’s really looking for is someone who protects her. Someone like Caitlyn, who made her feel safe again (the first person since Vander who actually looked out for her). It's going to be hard to find that kind of trust again, and without it, Vi will likely fall back into old habits: closed-off, guarded, all punch and no plan. The real challenge won’t be staying alive. It’ll be finding something — or someone — worth staying soft for.


What's the easiest thing you foresee your character adapting to in the setting?

The mechanics of driving and vehicles in the Diadem. Vi’s always been good with her hands — she’s quick to pick up tech, as shown by how fast she adapts to using the hextech gauntlets. She grew up around Powder’s inventions, half-functioning gadgets and jury-rigged bombs, so unfamiliar tech doesn’t scare her. She’s used to figuring things out on the fly, and when it comes to cars and machinery, she’ll take to it naturally.

The open road, in particular, will call to her. Vi has a bit of a thrillseeking streak, and not just for fun, but in a way that sometimes leans self-destructive. (e.g. her cage fighting in Season 2). On the Fringes and the open roads, there will be so much new for her to discover, she’ll throw herself into the experience headfirst.

She’s never had the chance to see much of her world. Between growing up in the Undercity and being imprisoned for years, her life has been small and mostly confined. Driving through the Fringes, discovering strange corners of the Diadem, chasing mysteries and challenges — that's the kind of exploration that she might be able to find some excitement in. What Vi really wants is stability, but without it, she will lean on what she knows: using her fists and her wits and getting a feel for this new place she's found herself in.

Panorama will remind her in some ways of Zaun. Vi grew up scavenging, fighting, and patching herself up after street brawls in the Undercity. Panorama’s grimy alleyways, its black market deals, even The Dome's cage matches — all of it speaks her language. She may not understand the cosmic weirdness of the setting at first, but she’ll understand the rules of the street: the way people look out for their own, take what they need, and pay with bruises.