>>130140734I don't really think of them as separate, though. Schizophrenia is genetic and often needs just a trigger to manifest, with the stresses of even a normal puberty being enough to do it a lot of the time, let alone one spent in the undercity with fucking Mylo as your older brother.
In addition to that, she already shows very clear signs of amorality, if you pay attention to body language the way Arcane wants you to. In the opening scene, when Vi sees her dead mom and starts bawling, Powder is very clearly crying because her sister is; she barely pays attention to her own dead parents at all.
Same thing at the end of episode 3: She is horrified because she messed up and was trying to help and now her sister is mad at her and she proved herself a weak and useless jinx after all. She does not cry for Mylo and Claggor or go over to Vander's corpse because of how horrible it is for her that he died, or any of that. The entirety of her trauma is her sister rejecting and leaving her; the fact that she did a whole bunch of murder doesn't seem to matter that much.
So we have a girl with a remarkably low sense of empathy and a mountain-sized inferiority complex who is also basically guaranteed to start hallucinating at some point.
It seemed to me like one of Vi and Jinx's several misunderstandings, that they are two separate people. They're not. One is the natural and inevitable progression of the other.
Adult Powder definitely could have been saner, happier, and more stable, but she never in a million years would have become a "good" person.
And that's fine. She's perfect. But still.
