Arcane: Vi The Jinx/Vi the Martyr
As I navigated Reddit's Arcane subreddits, I kept finding one idea pop up over and over again in reference to Arcane's season 2 episode 7*, and this is that for the "Good Universe" to exist, Vi had to die, and therefore Vi was the 'true jinx' and not Powder. This seems like such a bizzare assumption of meaning, especially given the rest of her symbolism in this episode: The other children crying over her body, the altar with incense and her image, the mural of everyone the Firelights had lost replaced with paintings of only her. That's not the imagery of a curse on the timeline and the world rejoicing being free of it, but the canonization of Vi the martyr, whose blood washed away all the sin of the timeline.
I know this is supposed to look more like an ancestor altar but it's not entirely un-iconography-like
Viktor gets all the credit for the Jesus imagery but it looks like, at least in the good universe, Vi was the real deal.
And this is probably the Jew in me speaking, but this is so much worse for her. Vi's character is forever giving, trying to save her sister and her father, pressured into leadership and being a role model from a very young age. In the first three episodes she is promoted to Powder's caretaker, and is expected to make perfect decisions because her sister and younger brothers look to her for guidance. It's on her decisions the Undercity's safety depends on, Vander even implies, when he chooses to lecture Vi on the cycle of violence and none of his other children. And then, Powder becoming Jinx is pinned on her. Powder wants and is not expected to give to get Vi back, and Vi is expected to give and give and give to the point that you wonder how much from her would be enough for any good to come back to her world, and in season 2 episode 7, you get the final answer. There is nothing Vi can give that will ever be good enough short of her entire life. There is no possibility for her to have happiness and wholeness for herself. Her only purpose, apparently, is to give and be taken from. There is no good in the world with her in it not because she's a 'jinx' but because the world is insatiable for her blood, specifically.
And it's a depressing read of Vi's character but maybe it's more depressing that so many seem to lack the media literacy to see it. But then, we should not rely on Reddit's media literacy for anything, I think.
*Reddit's obsession with this specific episode could probably be its own post, to be honest.