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biography.

Powder was born to Felicia and Connol, as the younger sister of Violet. Growing up, Powder had a good relationship with Vi and her parents. However, when her parents died during a battle on the bridge between Piltover and Zaun, she and Vi were the only people left in their family. After the battle, Vander found the two siblings where he adopted them and raised them as his own, alongside Mylo and Claggor.

A few years later, Vi, Powder, Claggor, and Mylo venture into Piltover after getting a tip from Ekko regarding a Piltover citizen whom he had followed after he shopped at Benzo's. After finding the apartment, the kids looted the place where Powder discovered a box full of blue crystals. However, Vi heared Jayce and Caitlyn's footsteps. This made Vi signal everyone to leave. But in the rush, Powder drops one of the blue crystals, setting off an explosion that blows up half the building. This notified the enforcers and sent the kids on a chase through Piltover.

After the kids evade the enforcers, they return to Zaun with their stolen goods. They are stopped by a street gang led by Deckard, who demands they hand the bag over. Not willing to go down without a fight, Vi, Claggor, and Mylo take on the rival gang and leave the goods with Powder. Midway, Powder is chased by one of the gang members who notices the stolen supplies. She is cornered at the docks, where she tries to attack him with Mouser, though it sputters out and fails. Left with no other option, she throws the bag of goods away, where they land in the ocean as Powder manages to escape for good.

Later, Mylo yells at Powder for losing the stolen goods and claims, "She jinxes every job," though Vi silences him. Back at The Last Drop, Vander reprimands the group for the trouble they caused in Piltover while Vi argues back, claiming that Piltover has plenty while they have nothing.

While laying low, the group hangs out in a run-down arcade that seems to be their go-to hangout spot. Mylo berates Powder for being unable to fix a target practice range; instead, she activates it and plays the range herself, showing off with her excellent aim. As the four are playing, enforcers who are searching the Undercity for the ones responsible for the explosion enter the arcade through a broken window. With Ekko's help, the kids manage to escape once again.

Later, several Zaunites gather at The Last Drop. Powder, Ekko, Mylo, Vi, and Claggor stand by a corner and watch as several residents, including Sevika, claim they want to fight back, but Vander reminds them that violence is not the answer and that they "just have to stand together". The kids wonder why Vander still chooses peace, and Ekko informs them that Vander has a deal with the enforcers. While lounging in the basement of The Last Drop, Vander signals the group that enforcers have arrived again. They hide in the rafters, but Powder struggles to hang on. Luckily, she manages to keep from falling, and only after the enforcer leaves the basement does she let go. She decides to make more bombs, naming one "Whisker," and she shows them to Vi, who encourages her.

When Vi returns to The Last Drop, letting the group know what she saw, they begin to plan a rescue for Vander. Powder wants to join, but Vi refuses, telling her she's not ready and giving her a flare before leaving with Mylo and Claggor. Afterwards, Powder has a breakdown, feeling left behind and not appreciated by her sister and adoptive siblings. In the midst of it, the Hextech crystals she'd swiped from the penthouse spill from her bag. Realizing these crystals are what caused the explosion, she realizes that she can help her siblings.

Powder then makes her way to the warehouse with a monkey bomb loaded with Hextech crystals. She releases it through the window and, for the first time, her bomb works, releasing a massive explosion. It successfully kills several of Silco's goons, as well as disintegrating Sevika's arm and blowing Singed's lab up with him inside. However, the explosion also inadvertently killed Mylo and Claggor, as well as injuring Vander and Vi. Powder, unaware of what she's done, proudly makes her way to where Vi and Vander are, only to find Vander dead and Vi agonized. In her anguish and pain, Vi punches Powder in the face, calling her a "jinx" before storming off and leaving her sobbing.

Silco finds Powder still sobbing and alone, and, a broken-hearted and betrayed Powder embraces Silco, crying into him, at which point Silco decides to adopt her.

Seven years later, on a day known as Progress Day, a shipment of Shimmer ( a highly potent and dangerous drug that enhances physical and mental abilities of its users ) is ambushed by the Firelights, a vigilante group from the Undercity. Powder, now known as Jinx, emerges and fights back mercilessly with her now very effective explosive inventions. Deadly in combat, she easily takes down multiple Firelights until one of them is unmasked. Upon seeing the girl's pink hair, Jinx hallucinates Vi's face on the girl, causing her to freeze before she realizes it isn't her sister, and she shoots the girl without hesitation. The remaining Firelights flee, and Jinx fires on them, putting her own group in danger as they're in the line of fire.

Later, Silco, with whom Jinx has a complex father-daughter relationship, encourages Jinx to work on her inventions, excuses her blunders, and is shown to genuinely care for her. Her hideout, built over the fissures, allows her time and space to work on her inventions. However, the decorations in her hideout reflect her mindset being stuck in the past—she keeps Vi's rabbit from childhood and even made a copy, keeping one in a box and nailing the other to the wall above her desk. She also keeps Claggor's goggles, along with a life-sized doll of Mylo, who often appears to her in hallucinations.

After her explosive reaction on the airship, Silco suggests to Jinx that she take time to collect herself, frustrating her. In an effort to prove herself, she breaks into the Piltover Council building, stealing a refined Hextech crystal and creating a diversion by starting a fire in a pavilion to lure Enforcers into a trap filled with explosives. Six Enforcers are killed, with a seventh being injured.

Despite Silco's initial frustration, the benefits the crystal promises outweigh the risks to his business, and he is quick to forgive. 

When Jinx finds out from Sevika that her sister is alive and in the lanes searching for her, she uses the flare Vi had given her in an attempt to find her. Despite her doubts, Vi shows up, and the pair are reunited. When Caitlyn appears, Jinx turns on the pair, questioning Vi's motivation for returning until the Firelights ambush the trio, and a fight ensues, leading to Vi and Caitlyn being taken and Jinx being left alone yet again. 

Searching for both Vi and the hextech gemstone, Jinx watches from on high as her swarm of explosive mechanical butterflies explodes across a barricaded bridge Topside, killing the team of Enforcers, including Marcus. Jinx comes face to face with her sister and Caitlyn and fires at them from almost point-blank range, stopped by Ekko intercepting and knocking her back. Ekko faces off against Jinx, allowing Cait and Vi to escape while the two fight. Despite the pair being evenly matched, Ekko pins her down, and Jinx lets off a grenade, dislocating Ekko's leg and nearly killing her. Silco carries the severely injured Jinx to Singed, begging him to save her. The doctor injects her with Shimmer, enhancing her strength and speed and ultimately saving her despite the demanding and extremely painful process. This also changes her eyes into a bright pink that occasionally glows.

Jinx lures Vi to her, and knocks out and captures her, bringing her to what remains of the warehouse where Vander had died. She reveals she has set up a twisted tea party, with Caitlyn and Silco both tied up and gagged at the table. Jinx begs Vi to kill Caitlyn, which she refuses. Jinx then turns on Caitlyn herself, sparing her only because of Vi's pleas. This leads to Cait firing on her, and Jinx retaliates by knocking her out. Silco and Vi each try to convince her to either spare or kill Caitlyn, and in her overwhelm, she shoots and kills Silco. Breaking down at her own actions, she takes her rocket launcer named Fishbones, powered by the Hextech gemstone, and fires a missile at the Piltover council; leading to the death of three councilors: Cassandra Kiramman, Irius Bolbok, and Torman Hoskel.

In the aftermath of the explosion, half of the reunion, including Caitlyn's mother Cassandra, are killed, causing Mel's mother Ambessa Medarda to encourage war. Meanwhile, in the aftermath of Silco's death, the various Chem-Barons go to war over the territory they once all shared. With her revenge seemingly fulfilled, Jinx goes on to lack direction in life, dropping Silco's body in the river he fought Vander in, and merely wandering throughout the Undercity as the chaos unfolds, intending to simply "watch it all burn". While traveling one day, Jinx encounters an orphan named Isha, whom she rescues from men that were pursuing the kid. Jinx later meets with Sevika, who has tried in vain to convince the Chem-Barons to work together, where the two link over having been used as puppets by Silco, and Jinx ends up building an arm for Sevika.

Distressed by Vi's second betrayal, Jinx escapes the hideout, only to be confronted by the Chem-Baron Smeech, who intends to hand Jinx over to end the war. However, Sevika arrives, and, with the help of the new arm, manages to kill Smeech and his goons. After the battle, Jinx shares her intentions with Sevika to kill her family, and use Smeech's henchmen as bait to lure Caitlyn's squad to her hideout. There, Jinx and Sevika begin a fight against Caitlyn and Vi, with the latter officially denouncing Jinx as her sister. At the same time, due to unknown circumstances regarding the Hexgates and the Arcane, Cait, Vi, and Jinx's Hextech weapons begin glitching out. Caitlyn pursues Jinx, wanting revenge for the death of her mother. Ultimately, Vi takes down Jinx, but before she can kill her, Isha jumps to Jinx and holds Vi at gunpoint. Vi prevents a bloodlusted Caitlyn from shooting so close to a child, and in the chaos, Sevika triggers Jinx's bombs, allowing the two to escape, while releasing paint-based explosions onto the surface and vandalizing the city.

Some time later, Jinx has gone into hiding. Jinx becomes completely apathetic to the events, and instead spends her time in her hideout. When Sevika tries and fails to encourage Jinx to continue the attacks, Isha decides to launch an "attack" at a security checkpoint, causing security to crack down even more. As a result, Sevika organizes a rally at Vander's statue with many individuals going, only for Noxians to capture the vast majority of them. Thus, Jinx and Sevika break into the prison, only for the compound to be attacked by Warwick, a man-wolf beast created by Singed. Sevika and Isha escape, while Jinx faces Warwick head on, and discovers that he is in fact a revived Vander.

Jinx goes to Vi, who has become an alcoholic pit fighter after the fight, and attempts to convince her to help her find Vander. The two track him into the mines where Vander and Silco used to work. Along the way, they get into a fight once again, but this time it's more akin to that of a typical siblings fight than their earlier one which was held with killing intent. Soon after, they find a letter of apology from Vander to Silco, before eventually encountering Warwick in the mines. In an attempt to cure him, they visit Viktor who, after an encounter with the Hexcore, has developed the ability to heal people and become known as "the Herald". Viktor finds curing Vander challenging, but remains willing to do so. At the same time, Caitlyn, now given the title of general, track Warwick to Viktor's commune, and attempt to capture him, only for then to switch sides. At the same time, Jayce, who believes that Viktor's use of the Arcane is dangerous, uses his hammer to shoot Viktor, causing a mass explosion in the commune. During the fight, Jinx, Vi, and Caitlyn try to escape from both a rampaging Warwick and Ambessa's army, only for Isha to use all of the Hex-crystals in Jinx's gun and shoot Warwick herself, causing a massive explosion.

Caitlyn, Jinx, and Vi all manage to escape the Noxian army, and hide out in Caitlyn's mansion. There, Caitlyn keeps Jinx in the basement, though acknowledges she's tired of her constant hatred towards both Jinx and herself. Haven fallen into a deep depression, while Jinx has a conversation with a hallucination of Silco. Vi, still desperate to help her sister, causes Jinx to realize that Vi will never give up on her, as Vi releases her from the prison cell. Jinx then locks Vi in the prison, proclaiming she intends to "break the cycle".

After burning down The Last Drop (Vander and later Silco's bar), Jinx attempts to detonate one of her grenades, but is stopped by Ekko, who uses his recently invented Z-Drive to rewind time and lead her to help out. Thus, everyone decides to work together to help Piltover face Ambessa, the Noxian Army, and Viktor, who intends to use the Hexgates to capture everyone in Piltover and erase free will. Jinx arrives in an airship and rains down fire with her mini-gun upon the Noxian army, before being attacked by Warwick, who has been transformed into a mindless drone by Viktor. Vi arrives to help, and the airship crashes into the hexgates, leading to the two sisters facing off against Warwick, while Jayce fights Viktor down below. Ultimately, with Ekko's help, Jayce manages to convince Viktor to give up his crusade, and the two sacrifice themselves to destroy the Arcane power, freeing almost everyone.

Upon awaking, Jinx and Vi are yet again attacked by a now feral Warwick. Vi attempts to reason with Vander, but the creature attacks maliciously. Before he can strike the final blow, Jinx rams into Warwick, and the two start falling only for Vi to grab Jinx's hand with her gauntlets. Jinx deactivates the gauntlets and falls with Warwick as she detonates a bomb and an explosion occurs, presumably killing both, although if Jinx truly did die from the fall, remains to be seen...

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