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it makes me so insane that even though the undeniably most relevant moment in his character arc was being betrayed by someone, silco still fundamentally trusts people on principle. the system he's built relies entirely on other people doing their part, he relies entirely on other people's loyalty to him. he lets jinx, someone everyone else says is a liability and unpredictable, inject his eye with shimmer, an insanely vulnerable position for him to be putting himself in willingly. he trusts sevika, someone who could easily overpower him physically (much like vander did), to remain loyal to him.
the trust silco places in other people is also indicative of his past role as an activist and a revolutionary, i think. communities are built on trust. movements are dependent on trust. when an entire people work as one, trust is the thing that keeps them together. and even though vander, in silco's mind, betrayed that trust, he still believes in the inherent power of it.
Vex: I hate you, Delvin
Delvin, in his head: Enemies to lovers slowburn, angst with happy ending, 300k+ words.
...as opposed to the outside, where you'd normally expect to see the jewel of a wristband like this. It's a simple fact that still carries so much weight:
Of course, one thing it signifies is simply how it's not for show, not an adornment, but instead something deeply personal to Jayce.
Beyond that, however, there is just something so symbolic about keeping a memento directly on top of your veins like this. Where you might feel for a pulse, or - you know - cut in order to end your life (Jayce's suicide attempt just so happens to be the only time he takes it off, too - he doesn't even take it off during sex).
And while it's not something I noticed consciously for the longest time, everytime Jayce rubs his thumb over the crystal, as he so often does... he is inadvertently also baring his wrist and tracing his lifeblood; his heart, his "whole life".
Jayce is quite literally carrying the stone, the beauty and the dreams it represents cased in gold and close to his heart.
And I don't know about you, but I can just never get over how - even though he won't know it for many years - what this gem really is at the end of the day, is the bond Jayce shares with Viktor across time and space made manifest. Given to him by Viktor in order to set them on their path to each other.
At which point, when Jayce does find out, it is then fully embedded into his body and his very essence; to be - at long last - dug out of his veins, gifted to and shared with his own Viktor during their final moments.
I don't know, man... the layers of symbolism with these two sometimes actually makes it more difficult to write these posts because there is just so much to consider. For instance, in this topic alone we have:
The crystal representing the mage who saved him,
who is also Viktor,
but also representing Jayce's dreams of bringing the magic that the mage i.e. Viktor brought to his life to the world,
those dreams being Jayce's "whole life"
and something of which he is immediately eager to share ownership with Viktor
after Viktor validated those dreams by returning the wristband to Jayce,
being the only other person to have held said wristband,
which in itself is again a symbol of their bond,
and -
You see the issue here? I feel like I can never truly get to the bottom of every facet I want to talk about in any of these posts (while still remaining coherent, that is).
Then again, I guess all that really means is that you are cordially invited to dig deeper if you wish to.
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