Reposting from the dead thread:
>>127502696 #
He doesn't. Look at his interactions with her:
>She freezes up when she sees a girl that looks vaguely like Vi and it causes a massive clusterfuck, he reminds her that their goal is give the sons and daughters of Zaun a life better than slowly dying from Piltover's toxic runoff, and tells her that he trusts her not to make the same mistake again
>He's angry at her when she blows up a building and kills a bunch of innocent people, but he's willing to overlook it when she brings him the technology that could be the key to freeing Zaun from Piltover's tyranny
>She tells him she's afraid of the gemstone because of what happened last time, he reassures her that this is normal and everyone feels fear
>He knows he can't face her fears for her, but he takes time out of his busy day as a crime lord to personally take her to the place where he first learned to master his own fears, and performs a ritual with her to help her separate herself from the person who killed her father and brothers.
>He tells her that his life's greatest dream is achieving freedom for his people, but there is no reward in the world that could ever be worth losing her.
When is any of this manipulating her, or forcing her to become what he wants? All he wants for her is to thrive. At the end, she's horrified when she realizes that she's killed her father *again*, and even then Silco's only words are to reassure her. He did everything that could have been done to keep her sane, but in the end that just wasn't enough.
