EKKO HOLDING HER HAND TO HER HEART?!

jinx doodling little hearts around ekko whenever he shows up in the artbook, oh shes never beating the down bad allegations

Gwen: "I love you, Miles"

Miles: "I love you too, Gwen" *leans in to kiss her*

Rio: It's my time to shine 😎

It’s never too late to build something new.

Rio: *hugging Gwen* And never ever hurt my baby!

Gwen: *struggling to breathe* i promise i-

Rio: Who said I'm talking to you, chica? I am talking to him!

Miles: *not impressed* Sometimes i feel like you abandoned me and adopted Gwen instead

Peter: I can adopt you!

ekko loving jinx or powder is a meaningless argument cuz the entire point of episode 7 is for both ekko and you the viewer to learn "jinx" and "powder" are the same person and ekko loves that person— not their good side or their bad side, but the whole package.

that's why their love song is called my best enemy, and talks about the worst blessings and the best curses. and that's how he can talk jinx off the ledge. the contradiction of being in love with your enemy is the entire basis of their story.

powder at one point literally asks him point blank "so you want me to change?" and he flat out says no: cuz he knows everything that makes 'powder' powder given one favorable set of circumstances also makes 'jinx' jinx given another set of unfavorable circumstances.

there is no powder or jinx, it's just ekko and his blue-haired paramour, in every timeline.

My kid doesn't mess with pistols; you're gonna carry a rifle.

This is the little Ekko/Jinx moment that's been sticking with me:

Because on first watch, I expected this was going to be something negative. Ekko trying to defend why he'd been so hostile to Powder. 'You're not the kind of person who helps... because you destroy things,' or something to that effect.

But no.

oh

What a way to look at Jinx?? Even with everything she's done... He looks at this well-adjusted, 'ideal' Powder, and still thinks she's missing something that his Jinx has. The Powder that he knew was so determined to make something that mattered... it's a Powder who's content to play second-fiddle to the people around her, a Powder that settles that feels off to him.

And that ties into why he can't stay here. Our Ekko isn't the kind of person who settles either.

Three of the four biggest engineers from Piltover and Zaun are MIA, which gives me the perfect opportunity to force an interaction between my faves 🥳

Also them bonding over their complicated relationship with a certain blue-haired pronoun haver:

For one sister to be happy, the other has to die