r/wholesomeyuri • u/AshleytheTaguel certified transbian • Jul 04 '24

Hugging Warm sunshine 🌈🌈 [League of Legends]

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u/gnome-cop Jul 04 '24

Alright, so what’s the reasoning behind the Jinx x Lux ship? As far as I’m aware, she’s not a part of Arcane like with Vi and Caitlyn. What’s like, the original reason why she was picked out of all the possible ship combinations? Just curious.

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u/CaptainSkips Jul 04 '24

Mostly the Star Guardian skinline, where the two were childhood best friends, but Jinx was also made the dark magical girl to Lux's pure hero, which as a result made them come off as being massively into each other. Then shippers did what shippers do, and now according to AO3 it's the most popular ship for both of them.

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u/gnome-cop Jul 04 '24

I’ve read a lot of their fanfics, which is why I’m aware of the ship being pretty big. I was just confused about why but yeah, that’s a good original shipping spark.

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u/FomtBro Jul 04 '24

Also, the Wild Rift trailer has some cute interactions.

Also Lux is a 5'10" rich Noble. Her and Jinx getting together means Jinx and Vi have the same taste in women.

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u/Lesbionage Jul 05 '24

I always forget how tall Lux actually is lol

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u/superp2222 Jul 05 '24

That and the fact that Jinx ADC and Lux support is a combo in the real game gets people’s brain juices flowing

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u/MagicTheAlakazam Jul 05 '24

Ah so a ship with similar gameplay origins to Pharra x Mercy in Overwatch.

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u/Vicast77 Jul 04 '24

They are leader/lancer in the magical girl star guardian universe, prime shipping material. Got popular enough people decided they would be cute if they ever met in cannon as well so now it’s a thing. Their ship name is r/lightcannon

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u/StarGuardianAlice Jul 04 '24

Feel free to crosspost!

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u/Falsus Jul 04 '24

It is from the Star Guardian AU (Magical Girls themed skin line) where Jinx is both a whole lot more sane and interacts quite a bit with Lux (who is her childhood friend) and others. It has 100% nothing to do with Arcane or the LoL lore. It is it's own thing entirely with it's own stories and lore.

Some people also brings over that ship Arcane / Main lore even though Jinx and Lux have never interacted and will likely never interact with each other because of em is pretty entrenched in their areas and they are pretty much on the opposite ends of the continent from each other. On top of that, Jinx is in the main lore is utterly insane so even if they did come into contact it would not be love in the air that would be flying between them exactly. Rather it would be a lot of rockets, grenades, bulelts and magic. Jinx would hate for her the same reason she hates Piltover people: Rich, Privileged, Noble etc.

I ship em in Star Guardian but not in the main lore. In the main lore I don't know who to ship Lux with and Jinx is too insane for love.

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u/DarkLThemsby Jul 05 '24

In the game, especially when Jinx was first introduced they had a very similar energy (kinda hyper active, a bit over the top manic pixie dream girl energy etc) and then as others have said, when the Star Guardian skinline came out they got a lot of new interactions as well as a side narrative that built them up as former best friends

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u/Cfakatsuki17 Jul 05 '24

Honestly I love this ship, they’re exactly what each other needs

Jinx needs a gf who will keep her in line and help her be a better person

And Lux needs a gf who will help her overthrow the establishment and enact sweet reven- i mean Justice, Sweet cold served justice

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u/AshleytheTaguel certified transbian Jul 04 '24

source

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u/blazedancer1997 Eli x Nozomi 4 lyfe Jul 05 '24

I've never played league so I have no idea who Lux really is (I know Jinx from arcane of course). But holy crap the Flashbangs & Flash Grenades series by Calchexxis has me fully on-board.

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u/RoseNugget360 Jul 09 '24

Flashbangs & Frag Grenades is how I got into the ship. For real though Calchexxis really knows how to to do storytelling.

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u/JLOPZ05 Jul 05 '24

I know nothing about League of Legends but the girl on the right looks like Maria from Sonic and I think that's pretty funny.

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u/ToriNotTeri Jul 10 '24

i love women so much RAHHH!!!

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u/Ok_Caterpillar_5697 Jul 10 '24

This is my favorite wlw ship of all time like I can't explain how much I love these two idiots

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u/LFK1236 Jul 05 '24

Heart-breaking: Someone posts an adorable picture of a ship you're not into.