A theory about Ekko, Jinx, Vi... and Ezreal?!

SaltyToplaneGoat··4 votes·8,738 views

We know how three of them might be connected, but we have no idea how. And what Ezreal might have to do with them (but more about him later).

Ekko, Vi and Jinx are from Zaun. Something happened, causing Vi to have amnesia and Jinx to go crazy. It has to be said that this is NOT the event stated in Vi's lore! She remembers that one. No, whatever has caused this mess must have happened waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay before that.

In another thread I brought up the possibility of human modification in Zaun, seeing that both Vi and Jinx are slightly superhuman. A genius engeneer AND a master tactican who is able to out-run people even while carrying heavy weaponary. Wait, Jinx is a master tactican? At first you would imagine someone like Swain when hearing that phrase. But Jinx is highly intelligent, especially if she has to make up a plan within a few seconds - this is how she can play around with Vi, Cait and the entire Piltovian Police Force at once - she simply outsmarts them all.

Additioanlly the fact that both of their bodies are slightly superhuman in terms of strenght makes one wonder if they are not some kind of bio-modded experiments. Ya know, typical Zaun style: Grab some kids from the streets and do some science! Most of them probably didn't survive the modifications tho or were discarded as failures. Not sure if the three of them are rejected subjects or if they broke out and lived on the street since then, hiding from their pursuers - would explain that weird teched up dude trying to capture Ekko (he could have killed him at some point in the video, but instead of his ribcage or head he squashed his ARM. Kinda suspicious...)

The roman numberal theory makes this even more plausible. Vi got her name from the tattoo, Jinx probaly calls herself because of the X (maybe she wears these belts for a reason... to cover up her tattoo?). Also Ekko has a XII on his sword.

About Ekko: We have no idea how exactly his machine works. We are not even sure if the machine is just outside of his body or if that's just the visible part, making him some kind of cyborg. It would make sense for the machine and the one it has to transport back in time to be connected somehow, but we can't be sure if it's because he's just wearing it or if there is some weird Zaun science body-modding going on.

But what connects them with Ezreal? All of them are some kind of genius. Strategy and Long range combat (Jinx), Ridiculous Hextech Engeneering skills + saboteur skills. Vi took a freaking machine apart to build her gauntlets. Within a few moments. While the room was collapsing. If there is war between to highly technologically advanced city-states, this is the kind of soldier you need...

Ekko would fit in a genius "time traveller". I'm suspecting that time travel is not for everyone. Whoever gave him that machine probably had a lot of other people use it, only to see them suffer from... let's just call it "lethal side effects".

And this is where Ezreal comes in. The genius explorer, who mapped out THE ENTIRE CANALISATION OF PILTOVER at a very young age within a super short time. Parents unknown, only know family some weird Piltover-science dude. In another thread I have seen someone point out that one of the kids in the mural in Ekko's video looks kinda like a very young version of Ezreal. Even if he was not from the same origin as they were, he might be connected to them. It's canon that he wandered around wherever he wanted as a kid, so him ending up in Zaun might be quite posiible (it's the next city so...)

And yet, there was an event that completly wiped Vi (&maybe Ezreal's) memory, probably of a very traumatic nature, Jinx went crazy and Ekko... not sure what happened to him back then. And what role does Ezreal's "uncle" play with that?

Another option: how far developed is memory-wiping-tech in Zaun?

Hmmm I wonder how this story will go, especially since there is still the mysterious C around...

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pinwheelviper1 votes

I also noticed the the boy on the mural looked like Ezreal (except for the blond hair part) but I think I read somewhere that Ekko invented the machine thing (I think it's called a zero-drive?) but I like the course your taking when it comes to speculation

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

Ekko made that thing? Hmmm if you can find me proof on that... but it would make sense. Imagine Vi and Jinx breaking out from wherever they experimented on them. They run, hide on the streets, and get taken in by Ekko. At the same time a certain pilty brat ends up on the streets and somehow befriends them...

And then something REALLY bad happens, both Ezreal and Vi lose their memory and Jinx goes totally crazy. I might wonder what Lyte has to do with this. Remember his howling abyss line: "You look like your sister... ah we weren't supposed to talk about this..." How does he know she has a sister when even Vi herself doesn't know? How does a Piltover Professor know about the sister of someone coming from ZAUN?

Also, I might wonder what exactly cuased the memory loss. It might be trauma induced OR from an external source. It might be even Lyte himself. Imagine his nephew suddenly coming home, wounded and totally traumatized. To "help" him he somehow locks his memories of that time...

Or maybe it was something Ezreal wasn't "supposed to know"? There are quite a lot of possibilities...

Ebonmaw Dragon1 votes

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Ekko made that thing? Hmmm if you can find me proof on that... but it would make sense. Imagine Vi and Jinx breaking out from wherever they experimented on them. They run, hide on the streets, and get taken in by Ekko. At the same time a certain pilty brat ends up on the streets and somehow befriends them...

And then something REALLY bad happens, both Ezreal and Vi lose their memory and Jinx goes totally crazy. I might wonder what Lyte has to do with this. Remember his howling abyss line: "You look like your sister... ah we weren't supposed to talk about this..." How does he know she has a sister when even Vi herself doesn't know? How does a Piltover Professor know about the sister of someone coming from ZAUN?

Also, I might wonder what exactly cuased the memory loss. It might be trauma induced OR from an external source. It might be even Lyte himself. Imagine his nephew suddenly coming home, wounded and totally traumatized. To "help" him he somehow locks his memories of that time...

Or maybe it was something Ezreal wasn't "supposed to know"? There are quite a lot of possibilities...

Even though, i think that the theory of Ez being part of that gang is a bit far fetched... i posted this in a similar thread:

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You are forgetting that is heavily implied that the people from the mural are orphans from Zaun... However, we know that Ezreal has an uncle, an uncle from Piltover called Lyte.

Lyte... Who is this guy? the merchant of the Howling Abyss... So, what?

LYTE WAS THE FIRST PERSON THAT MENTIONED THE SISTER OF VI.

And, is speculated (some members of Riot even Confirmed) that Jinx is the sister of Vi.

So, Lyte knows Vi and Jinx and their story... why would an old man from Piltover know that?

Because his nephew, Ezreal, was friend of them.

And that is why Ekko has a picture of Ezreal, Vi and Jinx.


However, it doesn't explain why Ekko(and Jinx) has no interactions towards Ezreal if he (and she) knew him... or why Ezreal does not remember them.

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In my personal opinion, i think that the guy on the wall is "C"

And kinda... makes sense...

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

C is a phantom thief who keeps bugging cait, long before Vi joined her... he seems to be older then the others. I think it's Ezreal in that picture ^^

He might be connected to them tho... Probably even the one behind Vi's and Jinx' possible augmentation. Or one who came before them, who knows?

stealthfox941 votes

Maybe Ezreal helped Ekko in some way.

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

Well, clearly possible. Imagine young Ezreal making an in-depth map of the Zaunite slums - an area that actually HAS NO official map. For people living on the street something like that is quite valuable...

We should keep in mind that Ezreal back then had absolutely no magic skill since he found his gauntlet in shurima. He might have been able to use his arcane shift tho... Short range teleport, but without the attack.

Vistha Kai1 votes

I ain't even gonna comment on that Ezreal thing.

There is basically no champion bio that mentions champion's parents (You could argue Ori and Blitz's does, but... ya know). That doesn't mean one day they appeared out of thin air or sth.

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

It depends highly on the circumstances. I mean Lux and Garen had both a rather normal childhood - before getting the usual DEMCIA!-brainwash. Usually this wouldn't be a problem or anything, but if you are in Zaun with all it's potential crazyness ( bio modding experiments on kids, probably even cloning at some point...) it can make a difference...

We know with a lot of champs actually. Draven and Darius were orphaned at a young age, Vayne's parents were killed by an evil witch, Irelias lore mentions her father if I remember correctly, The DuCoteau Family... we still have no idea what happened to the old Boram Darkwill, father of Kat, Cass and Talon (adopted). Shyvannas parents are mentioned... etc etc. Even Zac has his parents in his lore ^^

Vistha Kai1 votes

I guess I forgot those details after 2 years.

Either way Ezreal's family wasn't that poor and he got into a techmaturgy school, that's why I don't see him hanging out with some zaunian kids.

SaltyToplaneGoat1 votes

Actually, that was not the defining element of his lore. It was his wanderlust. Sometimes he would just not show up in school because it bored him so he wandered around. It's not very unlikely that he might have ended up in Zaun at some point - kids are curious, you know? Especially when their parents tell them to "Not go there!" xD

I can see Ekko's gang trying to mug him, but realize that he's just some kid with nothing to steal. Stuff happens, suddenly zaunite police/another gang shows up and they have to run - and simply take Ezreal with them. And that's how it all started ^^

shayminion1 votes

with the release of Ekko's lore comic, Rewind, we now know that the kid's name was Ajuna, so it couldn't have been Ezreal. Although, I wouldn't say that means that Ezreal and the Zaun gang aren't connected, considering Ekko really doesn't like Piltovians.

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