First appearance: S7E3 — Chinchilla the White — Akumu v Jinx · watch it on YouTube
Jinx is a human Echo Knight and e-streamer who was pulled into the Void in the middle of a ranked match. She arrived in a unicorn onesie, still talking to an invisible chat, and fought Akumu in deep space. She fought as if the whole thing were a video game, steering a shadowy copy of herself with a controller. She won over the Grandmaster and a whole section of the crowd, came back from the dead once thanks to a chinchilla she had kept warm, and still went down in the end.
Story
Jinx came through the Arbiter’s portal into the Dread Fortress wearing a full unicorn onesie, LED gamer headphones with little cat ears, and blue hair in pigtails. She was mid-apology to her chat: “I was playing Underview and I was like top ranked plat.” Like her opponent, she had never heard of the Dread Fortress. She was startled to learn the blood would be real. When the Grandmaster told her she looked “like a killer on a video game,” Jinx answered, “If you put a controller in my hands, I’m going to crush it.” The Grandmaster had already promised the Chinchillas there would be no blood in the throne room, so the fight moved to an orange asteroid strewn with rubble and old champion bones, under the floating grandstands of The Acolytes.
Jinx struck first and fast. She summoned an echo behind Akumu, a copy of herself so rat-like that the Grandmaster dubbed it “the Jinx rat,” and the two of them carved into Akumu with a flurry of scimitar cuts. Jinx was so shocked by the real blood that she apologized, which drove the Grandmaster to pound her armrests: “Jinx! Don’t you apologize! What you did was phenomenal! Do it again!” Akumu offered her vodka. Jinx refused because drinking on stream is against the rules, and Akumu decided she had to kill her now. When the Acolytes triggered a chaos event and freezing chinchillas staggered out with drinks, Jinx tucked hers inside her onesie to keep it warm. Akumu drop-kicked her own chinchilla into the sun. Because Jinx had kept hers safe, it would take one hit on her behalf.
Fired up by the crowd’s surge of support, Jinx chugged her boba “with a mouth full of balls,” tied the slashed seam of her onesie into a cute little bow, and hit back with fire-giant strikes. She roared as she swung, a noise the table found gross. She caught her second wind and healed almost all the way, scritching the chinchilla in her pocket as she went. Her rat echo later dove in front of a blow Akumu aimed at her head and vanished. When a second chaos event sent a giant hamster ball with a chinchilla inside rolling toward them, Jinx shrugged it off. Her new echo, a shadow dog, scooped her up in a hug and carried her clear. Then the chinchilla nipped her mid-combo, her echo’s swing went wide, and Akumu walked straight past the shadow and cut Jinx down with smite after smite. Akumu invoked her deity, Captain Morgan, and brought her sword down, breaking Jinx’s controller in two, “and you.” Jinx’s last thought, split clean in half: “my hair’s been blue for like a really long time and I should maybe try pink.”
Then a star drew closer. The chinchilla Akumu had kicked into the sun came back shining in platinum as Chinchilla the White. It offered a small white paw to the one who had sheltered a chinchilla “in the coldest of times.” Jinx was stitched back together up the middle, and the little gray chinchilla she’d protected gave her new hair in Pantone 238 “Baskin Robbins,” which she insisted was “not quite pink.” The Grandmaster banished the chinchilla and declared there would be no more revives. Jinx wanted to know whether her controller had been fixed too. “What, do we look like a Radio Shack?” the Grandmaster replied. When The Box of Chaos crashed onto the asteroid, she sacrificed 396 hard-earned channel points and got a fire-resistance potion, which she shotgunned. Akumu sacrificed her grandmother, a bottle of Bailey’s, and got Thaneater. Then Akumu revealed she was also a warlock and hit the distant Jinx with all three beams of an Eldritch Blast. With her last act, Jinx sent the shadow dog to wrap Akumu in a comforting hug, stick its tongue inside her ear and make it nice and wet. The Grandmaster called it “the worst thing you could have done.” Jinx collapsed, and tiny worms pulled her body underground. “For why, who knows?” said the Grandmaster. “But you will be remembered.”
Afterward, the chinchilla she sheltered was named Wicked. The Grandmaster said Jinx had essentially adopted it, since keeping it safe and giving it scritches was “a clear sign that they have now bonded to you.”
Personality and Abilities
Jinx is small (five foot one, or two, depending on when you ask), sunny, polite to a fault, and permanently online. She treats the Void like a stream: she talks to chat, refuses to break the platform’s rules, worries about her rank, and once she reaches diamond in Underview she plans to move on to a game called DC Competitors. She watches her own channel to boost her numbers but refuses to viewbot. She compliments the Grandmaster (“Your wings are very pretty”) and tells her drunk opponent to drink more water. Under all the niceness, she fights with real bite, and she can trash-talk: “Go outside and touch grass.”
In battle she wields two scimitars, chosen for “lots of little cuts,” and can wreathe them in fire-giant strikes. Her signature trick is her echo, a shadowy double she steers with a full controller from across the battlefield. It started as the rat-like Jinx rat, which threw itself in front of a blow meant for her, and later became a shadow dog that could carry her out of danger. She proved hard to put down. She could recover mid-fight, shake off a rolling hamster ball, and keep swinging after a crowd-fueled surge of power.
Relationships
- Akumu: Her drunken half-elf opponent, who mocked her rank and killed her twice.
- Grandmaster Elusia Skypiercer: Cheered her on loudly, called her “my sweet baby,” and allowed her one return from death before demanding a real fight to the finish.
- Thea: Picked her as a champion; after reading Thea’s profiles, the Grandmaster said Jinx and Akumu “were fantastic.”
- Chinchillas: She sheltered a freezing chinchilla, later named Wicked, in her onesie. In return, Chinchilla the White revived her, and a whole section of chinchilla fans cheered for her.
- Doug the Pug: Paraded out on a wagon mid-fight, he looked her over and approved.
Memorable Quotes
- “If you put a controller in my hands, I’m going to crush it.” (S7E3)
- “I can’t have vodka because you can’t drink on stream. It’s against the rules. I don’t want to break TOS.” (S7E3)
- “Can I just tuck a chinchilla inside my onesie with me?” (S7E3)
- “You know, my hair’s been blue for like a really long time and I should maybe try pink.” (S7E3)
- “Did you fix my controller too, or just me?” (S7E3)
- “I’m being bullied on the internet. It is not fair. I cast gun. I need to go get a white outfit, make an apology video for losing.” (S7E3)