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Lets talk about Khada Jhin.. seriously.

Sashamica··13 votes·19,793 views

Hello everyone, i hope you are all lore lovers and hopefully a lot more informed than i am on the topic Jhin Jhin .

Jhin Jhin has been my love ever since he got released. From his shape, clothes, voice, whispers, laughs, lines, skills, skins and all the way to the lore. The problem is that i need more. In everything that was given to us about Khada Jhin Jhin , all that i learned is that he's an artist that has an obsession with the number 4. His audience and puppets are selected by him, not random, and maybe he even has some kind of purpose (?) to killing these victims. Competition? Jealousy? Something from the past? What has shaped Jhin Jhin into an artistic murderer? From his speech, he's clearly educated. Maybe even coming from a rich family when he was a kid. How did he grow up into this person? Who did he meet along the way?

Well, i have a lot more questions than just that. But what really drove me to write this topic are 2 main things. 1: The Camille comic. In her comic (go read it if you haven't yet), there is a weird man that she calls a baron, but my heart skipped a beat at the thought of that man being Jhin Jhin . I froze here in my chair and studied the man carefully. His mask is... different? Or maybe that's his real face? His hair is long.. and his clothes are a bit different, with that huge, um.. hole in his heart? So maybe it wasn't him. Or at least i hope it wasn't him, as Camille easily killed him. He deserves more than that. Way more. And i think for the sake of fans, no LoL characters should be killed off in the comics. Otherwise my heart will bleed out and dry. And 2: I actually started writing my own Jhin Jhin lore, the base being the official story we get from LoL, with Zed Zed and Shen Shen as his rivals. From where the story left off, when they were supposed to battle, i continued only a little bit, but before i get to the action part, i want to know if there are more informations on Jhin Jhin , as i want to stay as true as possible to the man he really is in the League world. I also want to stay true to who each character is because i have a lot of respect for the characters and their creators.

TLDR; Are there any other lore sources for Jhin Jhin ? And am i allowed to write lore? I hope they're not copyright protected because i'll write the shit out of my husbando. Thanks!

Oh, one more thing, sorry if my english isn't always correct gramatically, i'm not english/american/canadian at all.

63 Comments

Stray Kat5 votes

I have nothing constructive to add(Sorry) - But rest assured that your apology at the end isn't necessary at all. Your grammar/spelling are exponentially better than half of the threads I've looked through today, and most of them are native English speakers in the NA region.

Sashamica2 votes

Thank you very much! [slayer-jinx-catface]

LordRedStone Nr14 votes

I don't think the baron from Camille's comic is Jhin. The only connection that can be made is the location, as he is currently heading to Piltover/Zaun, but the timeline does not fit. The comic is set some time ago, and Jhin has not arrived yet. Also, as you said, they would not kill him this easily.

For more lore, I think that's it. He does not have many written pieces, but appears in "Awaken". Maybe you should check out his other color story which was the official german version, but I think it got replaced with his normal one: The man with the steel cane.

Now for some speculation: He might appear in a Marvel comic soon. After Ashe: Warmother and the ongoing Lux series, we will get a Zed comic where he "hunts down one of Ionias most deadly assassins". Most people think this is Jhin.

And am I allowed to write lore?

Obviously yes! Most writers will encourage you to continue their work, but keep in mind this is not official and should be called fanfiction instead of lore. If you want to share your piece, post it in Concepts & Creations. Story, Art and Sound is for discussion the official stories, C&C is for your own things.

Chembaron Yamada4 votes

[slayer-pantheon-popcorn] Don't mind me, just waiting for 4 Step Cadence to jump in here and leave a detailed analysis on this topic.

4 Step Cadence4 votes

So first of all, yes, you are allowed to write your own "lore" for characters. I myself do everyday. I am Jhin, after all. My friend and I both have explored the depths of his character, from his first canvas to the evolution of his killing technique. There are also other works by countless other wonderful writers.

What I have managed to learn about him that is 100% canon by Riots standards is this;

  • His father was the head of a martial arts school somewhere within the province of Zhyun. This I got from the Wiki.

  • I believe, officially, that his father's school specialized in daggers and darts, though Jhin was never agile enough for this, preferring to use blades in slower, more precise moves. This caused his father to develop a disliking for his son, and is possibly what drove Jhin to be obsessed with being perfect. He wanted his father's approval. I also have no source for this information, I heard it from someone else.

  • Jhin has always had an interest in the arts, and probably studied them or even pursued a career in them behind his father's back.

  • Jhin would later become a stagehand in Zhyun's traveling operas, which is most likely where he learned most if not all of what he knows, as he got acting lessons among other things.

  • Adding on, Jhin's "mask" when not in his outfit is simply his face. However, his acting training allows him to better control the muscles in his face, which allows him to "change" it to appear normal and unassuming in a crowd. His acting training also allows him to keep him composure better, giving him better control over what little emotions he has.

  • This may have been where he learned to play the piano as well.

  • His victims do appear to be random, as he was most likely killing along the routes of the traveling operas he worked for. However, he always kills in 4s, no matter where he is or what he's doing.

  • He is noted to have killed "scores of travelers and sometimes entire farmsteads".

  • "Entire farmsteads" might be hinting that he's killed entire families.

  • Not so fun fact, but based off of a line from his color story, we can assume that he also removed his victims faces and wore them as masks.

  • However, since Jhin is now an assassin for the cabal that freed him, Jhin has less of a choice with some of his victims.

  • And no, he doesn't like this, and only really tolerates it so he can get to Zed & Shen.

  • And since he kills in 4s, the cabal is putting innocent people at risk for their own gain, because he's not just going to kill his target(s).

  • Khada Jhin is not his name, but a stage name. It means "Golden Excellence" in Ionian.

  • We have no indication of his true identity, be it his name, his age, his face, nothing.

  • He is 4 years older than Zed, though.

  • Due to miscommunications in the making of his artwork, Jhin's "official" appearance is not canon.

  • In the lore, his eyes are blue, not red-brown.

  • His arm is not mechanical, its just armor.

  • His weapons (in the lore) are as follows:

  • The Hextech Mass Accelerator: AKA, the thing on his shoulder. This is why he wears armor of his right arm. Its so powerful that, without the armor, it would shatter Jhin's arm like glass.

  • Whisper: Whisper is in-tune with Jhin's innate magical abilities as well as his Ki techniques. This coupled with the fact that its already magical makes Whisper a very lethal weapon.

  • His cane: Whisper's detachable barrel. When Jhin isn't performing, he uses it as a cane when he walks to "announce his presence".

  • His traps: We learned from awaken that these things are essentially bear traps, snapping closed when someone is unlucky enough to step on them, cutting open their flesh and sending magic coursing through their veins before detonating.

  • As noted above, Jhin does have innate magical abilities.

  • When creating the bullets for Whisper, he infuses them with his magic.

  • You can read Jhin's scrapped color story here.

  • Someone brought this to my attention a while back. However, the version they posted was a bit fucky due to the way this site is. So, I fixed it up and saved it in my Google Docs for easy access.

  • You can also watch Awaken, which I don't have the link to, to see Jhin in action.

  • There's also Of Rats and Cats and Neon Mice, which gives some insight into PROJECT: Jhin. While not canon to the main lore, its still interesting.

  • AH! How could I forget his champion insights?

  • As someone else already pointed out, Zed will be getting a comic later this year where he will be, presumably, hunting Jhin. Riot/Marvel, you have one job, do not fuck this up.

  • As for that comic, I have no idea what that's all about, but that doesn't sound at all like it could be Jhin, so don't worry about it.

Am I missing anything? I think... I think that's everything that's official. I just woke up, so pardon me if I missed anything.

Sashamica1 votes

This is already much to read, so thank you for that. I have watched Awaken a lot of times to study Jhin some more. As for the weapons and his armor, i already knew that. And that he wears people's faces too. I also know about Khada Jhin meaning Golden Excellence, as i have read The Man With The Steel Cane over 20 times last month alone, trying to figure more out about him. But i still have to look into many of the things you linked here, which i'll get to right now, thanks again.

And also, i didn't think that was Jhin either in the Camille comic, it was only for a few moments that i was struggling to understand if that's Jhin or not, but as i turned the "pages" or labels, i saw more of that guy and he looks nothing like my husbando.

4 Step Cadence1 votes

My pleasure.

DerMangoJoghurt1 votes

One thing I might add is what makes his murders so horrifying that people lose their minds. It's the beauty of the murder. Jhin will kill your mother, rend her flesh apart and rearrange it in twisted ways, but she is going to look more beautiful than anything you've ever seen.

4 Step Cadence3 votes

This.

There's also the fact that what we see isn't the same as what Jhin sees, though. When Jhin makes a flower, he actually sees a flower, while we see flesh and bone twisted into something that looks like a flower.

Sancre2 votes

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This.

There's also the fact that what we see isn't the same as what Jhin sees, though. When Jhin makes a flower, he actually sees a flower, while we see flesh and bone twisted into something that looks like a flower.

And that is what in my oppinion feels the most alluring about Jhin. He can see beauty in what for us is ugly and grotesque, molding a heap of flesh into perfection, not only in his eyes but also in ours due to his magic, until your mind can no longer tell if it should be joyfull about a beautifull sight or nauseated about the twisted corpse that lays before it

Camille Ferrøs2 votes

I'm amazed. The amount of info in this post is just wow. I'm at loss for words.

4 Step Cadence1 votes

There's probably/definitely more that I forgot. I honestly thought I didn't include enough.

DerMangoJoghurt3 votes

4 Step Cadence has been summoned

He'll probably be able to help you out when he shows up. (And there's no way he'll ignore a Jhin thread.)

Sashamica2 votes

Ohh more Jhin fans, i appreciate your summon. Waiting here nervously. [sg-soraka]

4 Step Cadence1 votes

Did you just. Assume my gender? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Sancre3 votes

[{quoted}](name=4 Step Cadence,realm=NA,application-id=6kFXY1kR,discussion-id=aYHjqzmE,comment-id=00020001,timestamp=2019-06-05T17:04:16.404+0000)

Did you just. Assume my gender? REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE.

Worry not guys, he/she/it isn't dangerous yet, still needs to count up to FOUR

Arakadia2 votes

I know your joking but "it" is probably not the best choice of words considering it usually refers to an object or inhuman thing.

Sancre1 votes

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I know your joking but "it" is probably not the best choice of words considering it usually refers to an object or inhuman thing.

Yep, i'm not a native english speaker myself, but I think "They" was the word for neutral gender, Am I right?

"It" was used because the option of being an Apache Helicopter is always there, but should be adding "They" too I guess

Sashamica2 votes

Well, sort of. I guess i played too much Hollow knight, where the main character, the one you play as, is refered to as "it" for being genderless. Hope i didn't offend anyone xD

Arakadia3 votes

As long as you are polite/not intentionally malicious nobody should get upset. No worries, especially cause Hollow Knight is a great game.

Arakadia2 votes

You are correct. No worries and its great that you are open minded.

4 Step Cadence2 votes

I am very much a women.

But I have no pronoun preference.

DerMangoJoghurt1 votes

Damn it, I even hesitated before posting because I wanted to avoid this scenario. But then I thought "What are the chances?" and posted it anyway. Now I feel dumb ._.

4 Step Cadence1 votes

It honestly doesn't bother me.

GreenKnight2 votes

His name is "Khada"? I always thought it was "Four"

Sashamica4 votes

Hahahah yes, it is just a stage name, but he is called Khada Jhin, it's the only name we know, which is hinted that it is not his real name.

Sancre1 votes

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Hahahah yes, it is just a stage name, but he is called Khada Jhin, it's the only name we know, which is hinted that it is not his real name.

Yes, it's not his real name

I do understand how you feel when wishing to know everything about how Jhin came to be. I think I can help a bit with that, as I vaguely remember reading that Jhin has a passing interest in killing Yi due to how the Wuju School surpassed the one that was led by Jhin's father.

Keep in mind that all those details about how Jhin's life was before the mask, before turning into a killer, don't matter anymore, for now Jhin is the mask, and what's under it has no meaning, you could consider that Jhin's early age was as Khada Jhin, and he has lived that way since then. Would be quite interesting to know about that time period, but I fear that what discover might not be of your liking.

Would be interesting seeing you giving life to Jhin's early life through your writing skills, can't deny that

Sashamica1 votes

Thanks, but a part of me hesitates to start writing and speculating. There will be people who like it and people who don't. And then again, if a comic about Jhin does come out and i'll end up writing nonsense, i feel like i'm going to fail Jhin :<

Also, where did you read about Jhin's father?

Sancre4 votes

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Thanks, but a part of me hesitates to start writing and speculating. There will be people who like it and people who don't. And then again, if a comic about Jhin does come out and i'll end up writing nonsense, i feel like i'm going to fail Jhin :<

Also, where did you read about Jhin's father?

I can only tell you, that you should never troubled about writing a story that you wish to, as there will always be people that don't like it, just because of how we are and how our tastes differ. You need to write, not for the others but for you, and just by looking at this thread I can already tell that you really enjoy writing about Jhin. About writing something that would later end up not being true, thing is that right now we have no idea how Jhin's life was and he could have be many things... I'm just sure that Jhin would appreciate it, even if it ended up being incorrect, as the principal tool of an artist is its mind

Cadence was faster about where that tip about Jhin and Yi was located, to be honest I wasn't really able to remember where I read it, feels nice knowing that it was a true fact and it wasn't me just misremembering something.

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Well, sort of. I guess i played too much Hollow knight, where the main character, the one you play as, is refered to as "it" for being genderless. Hope i didn't offend anyone xD

Hollow knight, such an amazing game.

Leaving that aside, don't worry, I was just making a joke, so there is no way I would get offended. I do hope Cadence didn't feel bad because of my jokes though...

Sashamica1 votes

4 Step Cadence seems like an amazing person, she DID write Jhin after all -

Sancre1 votes

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4 Step Cadence seems like an amazing person, she DID write Jhin after all -

Have heard many things about that, but I'm not sure to what extent was she involved with Jhin's story. Did she write his bio? or some of the skins like proyect or blood moon?

4 Step Cadence2 votes

No. I was never involved with any official work for Jhin. I actually didn't even know this game existed until over a year after his release, and didn't even really develop my reputation for being "that Jhin person" until last year.

See, I only started playing League because of Jhin(or, more specifically, because of his voice actor). I knew nothing of his character or this game going into it. All I had was a name. 2 years, over 750k mastery points, and a ton of shitposts later, I became synonymous with Jhin. In there's a Jhin post, it was either by me, or by someone else and its now full of my comments(like this one). Hell, I even bring him up in unrelated topics(for example, "Do you ever get mad when someone steals your penta? No, I'm a Jhin main.). Everyone always wants to know what I have to say, be it about Jhin's lore, his builds/runes, ect.

I think they mistook me being is official roleplayer on the boards as me being his writer, which is not the case. In fact, I'm not even the first nor the best Jhin roleplayer. That honor goes to my very dear friend, MakeThemPerfect, who is also the one that wrote Adolescence and the Scent of Lilac. They were the first Jhin, and I honestly would have preferred if they stayed the only Jhin. But, they wanted change, so they handed him off to me.

However, if anyone other than the Rioters that made Jhin deserve to be credited for "writing" him, it would be them. My work will never amount to their's, honestly. They actually went to college for things like writing, so they are far more able to craft a story than I am. They added so much to his character, and they continue to help me behind the scenes whenever I need help with the details that they probably already established for their portrayal of him. They still do write as him sometimes, though as of right now, I don't believe they have any intention of returning to portray him on the boards.

I am but a meme of sorts here, notable for my shitposting antics just as much as I am for my love for Jhin. Nothing more, nothing less.

Dyromic2 votes

Jhin is kind of young, according to the In-Game Tooltip he is 3 years older than Zed, who is 22ish.

He was a decorator in a travelling theatre as you can read in his original color story, so his connection to culture and literature is pretty much there.

Sashamica3 votes

I see, i totally didn't read that, but i'll go ahead and read it now, sounds like an undiscovered side of him for me, which is so exciting to find out

RiotWAAARGHbobo18 votes

Actually he’s about 3 to 4 years older than Zed, and zed is about 34-35 currently.

C me6 votes

Will we ever get a full list of official ages for champs that have updated lore?

Sashamica5 votes

Age doesn't matter, i will marry Jhin.

Lewanor1 votes

You want to die that much huh

Sashamica5 votes

I want a beautiful, meaningful death, i believe Jhin can grant me that, and maybe a goodbye hug. Ahem.

Lewanor2 votes

Your life has no meaning, but your death, shall.

ForgottenLuck2 votes

Really? I personally always liked the idea that he was much elderly, almost like mid 40's to early 50's, which would play on both the idea of being both an unsuspecting man of the arts, and his fascination with being more than perfect and as such would have liked the mask to hide his elderly body. But oh well that's my fault for getting thinking and putting my ideas on a character rather than waiting... still a bit sad though

EdgeLady1 votes

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Actually he’s about 3 to 4 years older than Zed, and zed is about 34-35 currently.

Is he? I always heard Zed was in his mid-20s, though not as young as 22.

Zeppelins circus2 votes

HIs normal skins "outfit" is that of an old man leaning on a stick with a hunched back.

Sashamica1 votes

He's hot af, what are you talking about?

4 Step Cadence2 votes

Fun fact: Dark Cosmic Jhin is shirtless. Enjoy.

Sashamica3 votes

Omg. Don't give me wild ideas, it's already a hot summer here.

Jhins Girlfriend2 votes

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Omg. Don't give me wild ideas, it's already a hot summer here.

And Project Jhin is technically naked except for the jacket! :D Just gonna spout out some random shitl: My favorite part about Jhin is basically that he's just a shy, normal, unassuming-looking dude. Just a middle-aged Ionian guy with a voice that could set a thousand panties on fire and who happens to have an obsessive-compulsive killing obsession. God bless.

He's definitely got self-esteem issues (his story mentions pangs of self-loathing), some kind of psychosis, delusions, and a very bad case of obsession-compulsion. His lines hint that he knows his actions are fucked up but he can't stop.

Oh, and his description of putting on his suit?

He knew he shouldn't, but he unpacked the black, eel-skin bodysuit. He drew the fingertips of his left hand across the slick surface of the clothes. The feel of the skin's oily surface quickened his breath. He picked up the tight, leather mask, then - unable to help himself - slid it over his face. It covered his right eye and mouth. It constricted his breathing and removed his depth perception... Delightful.

Make of that what you will, but that sounds like a sub to me. [sg-lulu]

4 Step Cadence1 votes

There's, ahem, fanart of Jhin partaking in a... Questionable activity. Not sexual or anything, just weird.

Lets see if you can guess what that is. If you guess right, you get it.

Jhins Girlfriend1 votes

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There's, ahem, fanart of Jhin partaking in a... Questionable activity. Not sexual or anything, just weird.

Lets see if you can guess what that is. If you guess right, you get it.

I feel like that's...so broad. I'm not sure now. Kissing his gun? lmao I've definitely drawn questionable Jhin art but that ain't allowed on here :V

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