The Psychology of Arcane: Jinx Act 3 — Therapist Reacts!

foreign she's just been shot filled with Shimmer and what happens when we're oxygen deprived 15 to 20 of our blood capacity goes to our brain and it's just there to keep it functioning I'm so sorry about it as it becomes oxygen deprived our brain starts to Fire and it fires all of the different centers oh some people can see things and feel things and so for Jinx she's replaying all of her traumas and fears I understand this must be painful and one of these lasting Memories the sign of how much VI really means to her is that's who she sees you know about it you're stronger than you think and the thing that she holds on to is that she's stronger than she thinks which is something that she's always feared and always felt that maybe she's more of a jinx than a benefit then she goes through that fear her fear of being betrayed as VI holds out the gun to her and then she hears Caitlyn's voice saying that your sister is actually Jinx that perhaps Vai isn't happy with who she's become and I think that that's a very common fear for all of us is that when we meet someone and we haven't seen them in a while we worry am I a disappointment to them are they going to be happy with who I've become especially if we've changed a lot because change is hard for people we become adapted we become habituated and that's our comfort level especially for vice she doesn't even call her Jinx she still calls her powder and that symbolism of VI killing powder and then you see Caitlyn holding Vise bunny that symbol of VI is in Caitlyn's arms and that shows how strongly she fears being replaced by Caitlyn I understand this must be painful I'm afraid it will only get worse when Caitlyn's talking about this is going to be painful she's holding the needle which may make some people think that this is about physical pain but it's not the pain that Jinx feels is the emotional pain the emotional pain of being abandoned and in this case completely replaced replaced rejected not accepted and to have to watch VI with someone else she loves more than her and for Jinx that emblem of betrayal is really encapsulated with Caitlyn now this often happens we are angry at someone a loved one but we blame their partner why it is so much easier to feel that this person has changed them pulled them over seduced them brought them to the dark side instead of us thinking that it was the person that we loved that did it so often we will project our anger not towards the person that's actually hurting us but to someone else that's close to them they're the reason for it and that allows us to still love the person that we don't want to lose or that we're upset with and I think that that happens a lot in families especially when new people come in because whenever there's someone new that comes in it changes the dynamic there's a new Cog in place and that brings out our feelings of fear and if anything else changes well we blame the last Cog that was added to the system she has physical pain this is a very painful experience for her also we already know for Jinx the main thing that hurts her is the emotional I think that for a lot of people we would rather take physical pain than emotional pain it's just so much more painful because it plays Upon Our innate feelings of our ego strength are we good enough we have this need to be accepted by others and it's so deep and when you love someone it makes it really hard because we fear then being rejected by those that we love especially for Jinx who does not find it easy to be vulnerable with people yet she's still able to with Phi [Music] and I think it's always that really cool effect of when you see the mirror starts to smoke up and then you suddenly see an image that you couldn't see before I think that it's really symbolic that it's the little tiny monkey toy the monkey that she brought to be able to defend Van Der and Vai and all of her other family members that is one of the first inceptions of what created Jinx in the first place and then you see that flash of a pinky purple eye calls back to that time where we first see powder in silco's arms I think that this really helps us understand why does she kidnap Caitlyn Jinx wants to get rid of the person that's coming in between her and Phi because in her eyes without Caitlyn everything would be okay and Caitlyn is that risk that she could lose VI again remember she is just recently under a massive active amount of Shimmer a ton of it which also changes you when singe says to silco are you prepared to lose her he didn't just mean are you were prepared to have her die he's saying are you prepared to have her become someone different and what do I lose but problems is there anything so one day as a daughter what silko's really saying is undoing not in a bad way that it's undone all of the things that matter to him have changed because he cares about her more than he cares about the cause the cause that he's worked his entire lifetime for and he's telling this to Vander because he's the only other person that would understand one is Vander was also a father to powder vanda's words to silco is that he himself has a change of heart he's the only other person that would really understand what silco is going through because he loves her and often when we overhear parts of a conversation we don't understand the full context we interpret it through our fears and one is this is a huge fear for Jinx two she's just gone through in a massively traumatic experience and she has all of this Shimmer flowing through her and because of that she's misinterpreting what's happening and when information is nebulous what we do is we fill in in the blanks but we do it from a state of wanting to protect ourselves because it's so devastating to be able to be hurt so we go to the worst case scenarios and often that makes us assume the worst and often assume it wrong you see in jinx's eyes that anger and then the last emotion is that pain that hurt oh my goodness she's just been betrayed in Her Mind by Vai and she had this fight with Echo she's lost everyone and now she's also lost silco everything that Jinx has been doing has been to prove to everyone and really it's to herself that she's not a jinx that she can do it right that she can make people proud really thought I'd buried this place and I should have known better nothing ever stays dead what I believe that she's saying is that all of her fears all that negative self-talk she's tried to bury it she's tried to move away from her past but it keeps on coming back to haunt her and so she brings everyone back to the Inception of where she started where powder became Jinx that transition between this location to the next one I Wanna Know A Secret Silko thinks he made Jinx be what they fear Jinx but he didn't make jinx and you hear the bitterness in her voice this is another person that's betrayed her and she's angry at him because she trusted him and he crushed her she believes that he would trade her in you did I never meant to leave you you never left I always heard you your voice pushing me picking me up you're the reason I'm still alive even though she hurt her and created jinx this fracture this change in who she was as a person why is also that positive voice when she was dying and had to go back from the darkness you're stronger than you think it was vice words that she heard even though she's upset at her sister and she's not sure if she can trust her because she left her before she still loves her and she wants to be able to trust her still and that's why out of everyone at the table it's VI who isn't gagged because she wants hear what she has to say are we still sisters nothing is ever going to change that that's what happened when she had these near-death Visions when her cortex was firing are we sisters or are you gonna get rid of me am I still okay for you VI's answer is really beautiful that nothing's ever gonna change that I wish she said more like I'm here for you you don't have to worry I'm Never Gonna Leave You I always knew you'd come back what's going on and I believe that that Jinx did believe that she would come back where that beautiful scene where she lights that Flair she's held on to it for all this time and she stood there so stoically yet in pain hoping for her sister to return to her but in order to hold on to that especially for Jinx that shows so much trust that she still has after all of those years in by that's like the coolest scene like that she like flicks the lighter and lights everything up and then we get to see this really creepy tea party table I really love it again not psychological but it was really cool he took everything from us right here he stabbed Van Der in the back just like he planned to with me all the time saying you abandoned me when he knew the truth liar because she overheard those words that Silko said now she doesn't believe him she's gonna make him pay the price for it and she wants VI in her side this is her offering to VI to get her back she set this up which is kind of scary for Vai she has the clagger doll she has the Milo doll and she has the symbol of her love the little tiny bunny sitting at the table and yes of course vander's pipe and his metal Gauntlet gloves I paid your girlfriend a visit this morning what did you do I'm not that crazy I did worry also that Jinx had Caitlyn's head on this platter because she was so angry and upset about it and she sat this entire scene up to increase the anxiety and stress level of everyone that was at the table Jinx is still upset at five that's why she plays with her that's why she sets this up so that VI will think that it's Caitlyn's head in this platter she wants her to feel uneasy she wants her to know don't cross me she's so worried that if she doesn't VI may not choose her and so she'll take it if not by Will she'll take it by threat we have to mention that she's really clouded from the effect of the Shimmer on her it's played upon her worst paranoia it's played upon all of her delusions and fears and because of that it's made her much less stable a lot of different drugs do Cloud our mind they can numb certain parts of them they can make a skittish paranoid with intrusive thoughts cause us to have auditory hallucinations or visual ones it can make us into a more agitated or aggressive person even regular things such as chocolate and coffee and sugar does have psychological and physical and emotional changes and effects on us I think that we need to be really cognizant of how do these things affect you where should I sit that's your choice really it could go away you can have powder back she offers VI this choice this choice of who do you want me to be I'll be whoever you make me it's an unfair question because Jinx can't go back to being powdered even if she wanted to she's changed and become someone new now she could evolve and change into something else with time and work but that's a lot of effort our brains are kind of hearts that they want to stay wherever we happen to be even if it's a place that we don't want to be that makes us feel comfortable she's offering this because she doesn't care she just wants vibac and it doesn't matter the price it's a little bit of a test does PHI actually accept her for who she is now because again she keeps on still calling her powder but powder's gone I can't ultimatum that no one would be able to choose she's testing how much do you really love me pick between us it's common with people with an insecure attachment or fear of being abandoned because it's just you're so worried that you constantly need that affirmation and the affirmation works for a period of time a little bit of time that you feel comfortable and safe but then it becomes ephemeral it disappears on you and you have to have another proof so that you can feel stable it doesn't actually work it's like trying to fill water into a cup with a big hole in it it goes away and you need the new test to be able to prove it instead what we would want to do is we would want to practice being safely attached and we actually do it not to other people around us but you practice being attached and comfortable with yourself and then you have that secure attachment with you you're not alone because you have yourself and I know it sounds really really therapy-ish you have of you you're not alone and then everyone else is extra and you can enjoy them but it's not like a tree that if it's gone you'll collapse powder listen we'll leave and never come back where would we go that's what she wants she wants Vine she not just wants her she wants her all to herself because she's been so hurt so traumatized because so many people she's lost she's holding on to her in such a tight way that she doesn't even want the risk of anyone else around because they also are a threat to maybe take VI away in time inside of jinx I don't think that she really understands how important she is how wonderful she really is she's constantly trying to prove to others that she's good enough but in the end what she really needs to do is know inside of herself that she's good enough just as she is no no no she's not saying that it's true VI is only saying this because of duress and her negative self-talk you can hear that her voice inside of her head is saying she's just lying why is offering probably more than she's able to actually give so that fear plays up and that's what often happens when we're doing something that we're worried or we're scared about is that we end up with all of these negative voices that puts doubt into US you'll be with her a day before she realizes you aren't that girl anymore and turns her back on you and those are her fears that VI might leave her again you can see the pain in her eyes as she's pondering what should she believe these are her two most important people in her life right now and they're pretty much pitted one against the other but both of them really love her you aren't lying not again I'm not lying we're talking she gets rid of the negative voice she shoots Milo when Milo laughs and mocks that Vice telling the truth she wants to believe her the top side has offered me everything they can all burn ing the words that Jinx has always wanted to hear even if given everything that I've Ever Wanted he'll still choose her you can feel that healing that pain dissolved I really wonder if what didn't unfold we had some moments what would have happened between everyone because you can definitely tell that she believes him and I believe him he was really authentic and genuine in what he felt he loves her more than his cause and I think that that's one of the beautiful things about Arcane is that it's over and over again that people choose the people that they love over all of their different beliefs and wants [Music] and you see how Jinx listens to her sister she really does care about what VI thinks about her and doesn't want to hurt her and because of that she chooses not to kill Caitlyn now twice even though she could in jinx's mind find it's Caitlyn that's between her and VI but she can't do it she can't kill Caitlyn but she knows then that she would lose VI also in the process and I think that we have to really appreciate how brilliant of a tactician Jinx is that little tiny hands up and don't worry I'm no threat she wants Caitlyn to underestimate her Shinx is battle-hardened she knows how to fight this is an area that she is confident in and so is able to take on Caitlyn even though Caitlyn has a weapon and she's chosen to put her weapon down she can tell that Caitlyn is not as battle-hardened as she is and Caitlyn is really good with a gun but there's a big difference in shooting in a Range when you're not under stress versus shooting in an actual battle that increases your levels of adrenaline and when you have a master to skill when you have an adrenaline rush you're actually going to be better you have all this muscle memory so you don't need to think versus if this is a new situation that's stress you still have to think about it because you're still of an amateur a beginner at a skill and so because of that it takes a lot of cognitive load then that adrenaline overloads the system and it knocks out your working memory so the area that makes you have to think by the time that she's thought she's moved towards me it's too late Jinx is already on her and so adrenaline acts really different between people that have mastered a skill and people that are just new at it making the master faster better more sure and more accurate because they don't need to think they've mastered it it's all muscle memory neurons that fire together wire together she can do it without thought you see now finish it damn it when you go into fight or flight you end up with this Rush of adrenaline so now we have Jinx who already has all of this overload of Shimmer inside of her you can see how pink and purple her eyes are then we add all of this adrenaline epinephrine into her system it's overloaded it you can tell when someone's in an anxiety response a fight or flight response because the whites of their eyes nothing's going in they've kind of zoned out and both silco and Vai can recognize that she's not there really and they're both worried and in this scene Vice trying to wake her up by telling her things and people that she's loved she doesn't know that for Jinx these are the demons that haunt her these are the people that she's killed that because of her are no longer with her so these are traumatic experiences and for her Milo especially is a negative voice he's the one that's always bringing her down and saying that she's not good enough and things are going to end poorly because of her and so unfortunately by trying to bring her back is actually pushing her further away and it reminds me of that time that VI was talking about the larger and larger monsters that would fight each other until Jinx felt like until powder felt like she couldn't handle it anymore she's traumatizing her she's asking why to stop but for why she doesn't understand that she's asking her to stop because she's becoming more and more overloaded she's going into a full blown panic and silco I think can tell exactly that this isn't gonna work one is he doesn't want to lose her but I also do believe you guys were right that he is worried about these psychological damage that VI may be unwittingly giving to her [Music] it really does show how much silco trusts and love Jinx because he could have gotten out of his ties at any point in time him seeing his daughter in pain is what gave him that adrenaline reaction to be able to grab the gun and to try to get rid of the person that's hurting Jinx which is fine you see her curled up trying to hide her head trying to stop the pain the sound the voices that are coming in and tormenting her and traumatizing her as they're just eating at her and I think that a lot of times when we're feeling really hurt or we're going through a traumatic flashback that's what we feel we go back to being that child that's helpless and all alone and it's a really painful difficult space to be in silco goes to shoot at Vai she also goes to protect her she is gonna stop this and she's on autopilot so as she did before with the battle on the boat with Echo and savika being tied up where she just wildly shoots all the way around I don't even think that she was aiming just for silco it seems like she just did a full 360 of bullets and she just wanted the pain to stop it and lots of times when we're in that painful situation and we're just hurting we lash out and we kind of just will do anything so that it ends because it causes us so much distress we're not thinking and then we have this Shimmer that makes her already feeling more paranoid she definitely still has a preference of VI over silco even though I think that he did his best to be able to show her love and care body is still that main attachment for Jinx and that's shown by by her holding out the flare going to find her and also during her flashbacks it's VI who is the painful person that she didn't want to lose I'm sorry I never would have given you to don't cry you're perfect for jinx again she's done something when she was really just trying to protect and in pain and didn't mean to that's caused the death of another one of her father figures and that pain and hardship that feeling that no matter what she does the worst case is going to happen it's just so painful because here she is with both people that she loves telling her that they love her too and it just ends so poorly for her because of all of her childhood fears this is now that fulfilling of a prophecy this proves to her that you know what this is her lot Silka right away he didn't care he just wanted to let her know that you're perfect that you're okay and for her not to cry and I think that that's just so beautiful that in his last moments that's what he thought about he thought about making sure that she was gonna be okay and he didn't want her to carry the guilt of this act powder I'll be okay and you hear her doing her breathing as her breathing starts to slow down in the realization of what's happened but also of who that makes her how does she now identify with who she is as a person and I think that sometimes when we do actions we think that our actions now make us who we are and she's chosen that who she is is jinx that she is beyond Redemption just like everyone has said Echo and Caitlyn thought maybe you could love me like you used to even though I'm different and then that's pain again of her want to be able to be accepted fully as who she is now and now she believes because of these acts that her sister wouldn't be able to love her anymore not the way that she used to love her because she feels like she's A Bad Seed but you change too here's to the new us now she's chosen her side it's gonna be her versus Phi instead of with her I believe that she's decided that she's Beyond Redemption that she's just gonna go it alone and she's going to complete the mission that she started in silco's honor she's gonna just Scorch everything and I think that it's really symbolic that this is the weapon that she made for silco and it's in the shape of those fish that silco loved so much that she's going to make everyone pay because he can't and if you like this video make sure to check out the whole series ad free sponsor free on nebula including my first exclusive special on the animation of Arcane and why this Unique Style creates such an intense emotional connection I also have a bunch of other specials to come available only on nebula where the luxury of making videos and I don't have to really optimize for YouTube and I can make the ones that I really want to all of these will be ad free sponsor free on nebula and bundled in for free when you sign up with today's 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Channel: Georgia Dow

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Keywords: psychology, psychotherapy, therapy, self help, life coach, psychotherapist, self improvement

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Length: 29min 17sec (1757 seconds)

Published: Wed Mar 16 2022