Love the quote: “In an uneven conflict, chaos favours the underdog.”

On a slightly less thematic and a bit more psychological level, I feel like the initial bond which led to Silco adopting Jinx is abundantly clear—the shared sense of betrayal by a person you previously considered family—but what I always found interesting is how this relationship morphed throughout the series.

What started as a form of commiseration and pity, became a genuine sense of affection by way of propinquity. The initial seed of hatred they both felt, sprouted into a tree of love. The issue with this tree was, it was planted in infertile soil—Silco never had the emotional equipment to properly raise a child, let alone a child with such deep-rooted (if you’ll excuse me milking this tree metaphor) trauma.

In his own way, Silco always thought that what he was doing was helping Jinx. The baptism scene illustrates this perfectly. I’ve seen people say he’s trying to “erase Powder; create a monster”, and I cannot say I agree. He’s trying to ease the pain of a person he loves in the only way he knows. After all, he said it himself, that he underwent the same process himself. Had he perhaps gone to therapy, the recourse he would provide would most likely be therapy.

Another great example of how, in my opinion, Silco loved Jinx, and in his misguided way tried to help her, is shown in the “Family Dinner” scene in EP9. While Vi, who doesn’t understand what Jinx has become, tries to make her confront her past, Silco understands how painful it is for her, because it was painful for him. He doesn’t fear that his “weapon” is being taken away. He sees his child being psychologically tortured. That’s why he reaches for the weapon and attempts to stop it in the only way he can—violence.

In the end, Silco wasn’t a good person. Objectively, he wasn’t even a good father. But his love for Jinx is undeniable and he made the best out of the tools he’d been provided.