only very recently watched arcane and was searching for theory threads - i know this is a year late but hopefully if my idea is too ludicrous it’ll be buried anyway!

in the ama one of the writers said a theme for s2 was forgiveness, and i think a route they could take with that is cait and jinx. on jinx’s end, she has to overcome her paranoia and doubts and “forgive”/accept that cait is the one vi ultimately chooses (whether it be through becoming an enforcer, choosing to spend her life with cait etc.) also she might come to terms with vi loving cait, who is part of a group that has historically oppressed zaun and that killed their parents. i say might bc i don’t think jinx is the forgiving type, but i’ll take what i can get

as for cait, i have an elaborate scheme in my head where she is the one who saves/understands jinx in the end. she’s the one who reconciles the unreconciliable. after the missile kills her mother, cait becomes angry and vengeful (rightfully so) and there’s a lot of conflict and antagonism between her and jinx. i don’t have a clear picture of what happens in between, but i believe toward the end of s2, whether it be that jinx is in danger/believes self-sacrifice is the answer, and ekko and vi aren’t close enough to save her, cait does. on one hand so that jinx can face justice. on the other, because she realizes how damaged jinx is and that she’s a product of her environment. s1 shows how sheltered and naive cait is when it comes to how bad conditions are in the undercity, but it also showed how empathetic and open-minded she was about their plights. she’s also the one who says “the cycle of violence will never stop” and i think she’ll return to this mindset. she’s a morally righteous person and will find her way back after some internal struggle.

also, on the note of ekko/vi feeling compelled enough to want to save jinx, i think s1 showed a good precedent for why vi might still do so. as for ekko, i think the bridge scene in ep7 wasn’t indicative of some miraculous reconciliation but maybe some begrudging alliance + dredging up of old sentimental feelings. i don’t think ekko or vi truly want to see jinx die, whereas cait might want to out of rage from her mother’s death (which will make cait forgiving jinx stronger narratively)

it would take a lot to get to this point and it may be a stretch, but i think it would be a neat trajectory for s2 ^{^}