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PLAYER
CHARACTER
NAME: Silco
CANON: League of Legends: Arcane
CANON POINT: Prior to finding Jinx's body on the bridge after her fight with Ekko (So through the events of Episode 7 of Arcane)
AGE: 43-46 yrs old
SPECIES: Human
INFORMATION: Wiki Link!
CHARACTER PITCH: In the story of Arcane, Silco serves as the primary antagonist of the story, the dark crime lord, who runs the seedy underbelly of Zaun. Silco is the one who directs the future of Zaun, and it's his influence for the city that brings it out of the shadows as as a problem for the city above (Piltover), and manipulates it to reflect his vision for the future of Zaun. Silco believes in power, and the ability to grasp it, is the most important of virtues to have, and his vision and direction of Zaun reflects this belief. He is callous, cruel, and allows his darker instincts to reign supreme, as he infects the city he espouses to care for is overrun by drugs and crime, with him at the epicenter of most of it. He is a crime boss "dad of the year", who also happens to pretty much be the slumlord mayor of danger-town.
POWERS: None.
QUESTIONNAIRE
What is the worst or most malicious thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?
He plotted revenge for close to five years, against a man he ran in a gang (maybe gang, maybe they just caused crimes, it’s not explicit) with, named Vander. They were, as Silco puts it: “like brothers” before Vander's betrayal. It is implied that there was a violent disagreement, possibly between the approach that the two of them took, regarding the future of Zaun and Piltover. Vander takes the side of being someone who wants to work with Piltover, adopts some kids, is all around seen as a “Bedrock of the Community”, whereas Silco, much more violent, sees Zaun in opposition to Piltover, which rests above the undercity. So Vander tries to kill Silco, resulting in a fight where Silco is strangled and drowned in the poisoned rivers of Zaun. Yes, it was also the cause of the eye mutation. Silco takes his knife, stabs him, and escaped. Silco then spent a great deal of time forming his Shimmer industry, and planning revenge against Vander. Then he knocks him out, tortures him, stabs him in the back, and sends underling after underling after him, and it’s not until Vander gets extremely over-dosed on Shimmer and his daughter Powder accidentally blows up the canning factory, that he dies. Silco’s still not over it, and it isn’t the catharsis you would think it would be. Oh yeah, and he adopts the daughter.
This is pretty typical for Silco, actually (sans adoption). Nobody else gets close enough to hurt him to this extent again. The event with Vander is pretty much the event propelled Silco from a violent street kid who went too far, to the industrialist “Eye of Zaun” that raised a base of power in the undercity, and caused a wealth of problems for Piltover. He is vindictive, and does not shy away from violence or manipulation. The only reason he doesn’t get so personal in the future is because he doesn’t trust anyone like that again, except for Jinx. Which really backfires like...constantly.
He also threatened an innocent kid once to strong arm a cop he was bribing. He's...not a good guy. In the slightest.
What is the most altruistic or selfless thing your character has ever done? How do they feel about it now? Was this sort of action typical of them?
As of the point that I am taking Silco from, the only even remotely altruistic thing he's done has been adopt Jinx at the end of Act 1 of Arcane. In the aftermath of the explosion at his drug factory, and Vander's death, Powder, who was one of Vander's adopted kids had an altercation with her sister, in which she was left abandoned and crying in an alleyway. Silco is the one who finds her, and even though he's not a particularly kind person, he sees a similarity to himself in the little girl, who promptly hugged him. So instead of murdering her, he adopted her, I guess. It's a relatively altruistic act, all things considered, and where Powder (later named Jinx) is concerned, Silco tends to be more forgiving of the things she does throughout the series. While Silco is cruel and violent towards almost everyone else in the series, he very clearly is a bit of a softie when it comes to his daughter. That doesn't mean that he isn't still cruel -- and in fact he manipulates her multiple times -- telling her things like it's just the two of them, or that her sister doesn't love her anymore. There is a weird baptism thing because he's obsessed with drowning. He does nothing for her mental illnesses, and lets her literally design weapons for fun. She's 17, mind. Still a child. Clearly, he's father of the year.
There's one other event later after the point I take him from, but I would be remiss to not touch on it. While it is still a wholly selfish act, Silco is given the opportunity to get everything he ever wanted from Piltover, if only he gives up his daughter. It's very clear that this is an offer he absolutely will refuse, although Jinx overhears him waxing poetic about it at Vander's statue later, and it sets off a sequence that will result in Silco's own death at Jinx's hands. It is still a relatively altruistic move, even more than taking in Jinx as a child, however, it's also an extremely selfish move, to give up the future of Zaun, and their own annexation, because of his daughter. Silco places Jinx above the lives of an entire city of people who can't even afford to eat, who toil away in mines and are relatively destitute, because of the structure of Piltover and Zaun. It's both an altruistic move, and a completely selfish move, given the tension between the two cities is gearing toward violence. While I won't say Silco becomes a different person, when Jinx is involved, it's easy to say that he values her above pretty much anything else.
What do they desire above all else? How far would they go to accomplish their goals or fulfill those desires? Do they have lines they wouldn't cross?
Silco desires above all else, a powerful and free Zaun. As it is, the undercity is leashed to Piltover, and while they enjoy the sunlight, wealth, and a gilded city filled with wonder, Zaun is left as the dirty undercity, filled with mines, drugs (that Silco sells), and poisoned rivers. Silco is listed by the writers as explicitly growing up working in the mines, which he perpetuates later on in the story with further child labor. He wants the city to be the kind of place where the ones willing to seize power will be able to take it, and the weak will be crushed while they pursue greater power. Completely and totally free, anarchistic, and untamed by the Enforcer’s boots.
Silco will literally do anything to accomplish his goals. Stab his old friend turned rival in the back? Check. Suffocate and poison his Chembarons? Check. Threaten a man by playing with his daughter, menacingly? Check. Silco is portrayed throughout Arcane as being someone who would literally do anything to make his goals. He is put into many situations, and he manipulates, lies, cheats, and murders his way there. However there is one line he doesn’t cross. The whole point of establishing Silco as someone who would do literally anything to get what he wants, is to set him up to get exactly what he wants, within days of his pull point, and they ask exactly the thing he wouldn't give -- which is Jinx. It's the one line that Silco has found he can't cross, and it's simply giving his daughter to the authorities. It's the line Silco won't cross, when given everything he could ever want for Zaun.
So while Silco isn't aware of this line, it's important to establish it, because it's pretty much the only thing that would stop him from taking what he wants. Everything else? Absolutely on the table.
GAME DETAILS
LEGACY: Visionary! I will admit that I thought about this a bit, since Silco is somewhat split between two legacies, between either Sovereign or Visionary. However, I think that he more fits the visionary, given the line of Arcane's plot, where he starts, and where he ends up. Yes, in Arcane, he runs Zaun essentially, but his whole deal with Zaun is that he is somewhat of a revolutionary, more of the type that controls the narrative while fighting, more than he is someone to guide them after the fight ends. He wants to burn it all down and believes that it isn't the fastest or strongest that is what embodies Zaun, but instead those that can just take,without recourse. He sees Zaun as an anarchistic playground where the most powerful are the cutthroat are the one who succeed. This is obviously not a way for a society to really function, but Silco's design for Zaun takes hold, as we see from the later League content. In addition, while Silco is definitely considered a leader in Zaun, he is less a leader of men, and more a racketeer and swindler. The kind of person that seizes power that shouldn't, and by the time it's been recognized, he's got too much power to depose. Silco shows little interest in leading people, and more interested in getting rich off of his drug empire, using his daughter as a terrorist, and see himself as in the throes of a revolution, while doing incredibly little to achieve it. Silco is a man of veneer and polish, he adopts Piltovan clothes, a Piltovan accent, he covers his large scar with makeup, and plays the part of the reasonable leader, but in the end, it's all just polish, and not substance. It's the trappings of a man who wants to be in charge, with little of the interest or talent. That is the reason I'd prefer to put him in Visionary!
INTRODUCTORY SECT: He will definitely be a Kenoma-man.
SUITABILITY: Silco being what he is, a slimy industrialist with a penchant for manipulation and burning the world down around him, really slots neatly in with the Kenoma aspect. I love the idea of ripping him out of the world he’s in, particularly when it comes to the motivations behind most of his actions. It would be fascinating (and fun!) to place him somewhere else, to tug at that deep-seated nihilism and unwillingness to compromise, especially given the themes of the game, and the supposed destruction of his world. He's not really the type to settle into hopelessness (and probably wouldn't), but the Kenoma focused ideas of despair and hatred are already baked into Silco, and I'd love to play with those. Silco is the kind of person who lashes out and destroys everything around him during his outbursts, for example the betrayal, his entire relationship with his daughter, his aspirations for Zaun, etc., and with Silco, who keeps his darker instincts under control in most situations, I'd love to play with how Kenoma enables those in him, and tips him over the edge, and where that nudge toward his darker instincts will take him. He's all about letting out the monsters of his people, and forcing him to come to terms with his own uncontrollable monster would be exciting.
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