Well with Jinx it’s very obvious, I wouldn’t consider her as having NPD exactly but narcissism is just part of her psychological makeup. I think even when she’s being “selfless” it shows I mean Isha turns into a mini version of her haha. Her narcissism mainly comes from being the center of her own world and having little care of not seeing things this way. She is a creature of mostly id, and so the very idea of selflessness and not doing things for her own gain seems silly and pointless to her. Outside of her favored people she does not care about the thoughts and feelings of others, she strikes against Piltover because she personally hates them not for the idea of a greater good. She’s insanely jealous and possessive of the people she loves (Vi, Silco) because she thinks their worlds should center around her and anything short of that is a failure and betrayal that will make her spiral. Though part of this is because this is how she loves too, as someone who usually centers herself the only time she won’t is when she wants love/approval from someone. To her this is a big sacrifice, so to not receive this in return is being ungrateful for her devotion. I could go on about it… it’s not a thing I imagine she is very conscious of. The way she is ND, I feel like it doesnt really let her have a wider scope on things and see outside of herself.

Caitlyn has typical rich person narcissism, she has a huge ego and practically doesn’t consider people different from her human. She admits this in s2, but it was a vibe already present in her character even if Vi temporarily made her start to have more empathy. I see people point to her saying she could protect the guy Jinx shot in s1 as ~proof that she cares~ but she was only saying that as a tactic to get information lol, she didn’t actually care about him. Caitlyn has shown a lot of times that she has low empathy similar to Jinx, unlike Jinx it’s simply filtered through polite society. Caitlyn is motivated by her ego, narcissists believe that they inherently deserve to be respected and thought of as great and it burns them up when they’re not. Caitlyn can’t stand to not be taken seriously as an officer and seeks out this respect relentlessly. She becomes a cop at all likely because the respected authority is alluring. Cait too is possessive with those she loves, demands unfaltering loyalty from Vi, even is weirdly controlling of her making her an enforcer without her permission, gets upset when Vi can’t immediately be this version of her she wanted, completely rejects her and hits her for questioning her and deviating from her ideal at all. And it’s nuts that with all the bad Cait does she doesn’t ever seem to feel really bad for it lol, they make her say “nothing we do can undo our mistakes” blah blah but she never actually seems like she feels bad about anything she did. Like Jinx she’s the center of her own world and her actions are justified to her and that’s all that really matters.

I'm flattered that you're excited!! Sugar Pool is sort of like... whats the word... I dunno, a setting lol? The things I make for it are multi-media. I guess you could call it a playground for me to have fun in with different things. So there won't be one big... "publishing" of it as a single existing thing. At the moment what's in the works are a website of complied works and information about it, a game, and a fic of a specific moment in time of it - I consider the fic a sort of "bonus material" because it's not something I intend to exist as a fic. I've made lots of art for it and want to make more (all of my modern au drawings are sugar pool) and to make comics. But even the comics are vignettes, I don't intend to make a large chronological comic about it.

The structure of Sugar Pool are 3 Acts:

Act 1 - Powder and Vi's childhood before separation (the game takes place here)
Act 2 - Years of separation (the fic The Gap Years takes place here)
Act 3 - When Jinx & Vi reunite and begin living together in adulthood (no major installment planned for this atm)

Ultimately I guess the most "complete" thing of it you can look forward to would be the fic and the game. It's always going to be a bit of a scattered thing but I hope the website will help make sense of it all.

When will you be able to enjoy these things? I'm sorry, I wish I could tell you. 😭 The fic will likely be the first thing I publish, I can hopefully get the ball rolling on it again once I have my adhd medication again. With it I also want the website done so people can have more background information before getting into the AU. The game is far off, but I want to make a little teaser of it at least where you can explore Vi and Powder's apartment so that will come sooner.

But in the meantime I'll always be drawing stuff from it, I hope you'll enjoy it. ^^;

Important to note I'm torn between it and a stoat, somewhere in this range. Realizing your theriotype I think is maybe a unique experience for everyone - the people who are so 100% sure of their species I can't relate to them, it must be nice! I think therian-ism in general is not a universally agreed upon experience and means different things to people. For example a lot of people think they are "actually this animal" or "this animal's spirit on the inside" and this is not so for me, I don't believe spirits have a static shape. I lean more into believing in reincarnation and that I was an animal so recently that its still left impressions on me, or that it is a form I spiritually prefer even if for whatever reasons I'm human now.

Long disclaimer out of the way, therianism to me is related to the "animal impressions/behavior impulses" I have and have had since childhood. The human body has always felt awkward and wrong to me, and I've always been envious of animal bodies. I think a lot of therians think they're wolves because canine behavior is usually the main animal behavior we have contact with in childhood and wolves are wild and majestic and relate to that familiarity so its sort of a thing you default to when you're not as familiar with other animals - I had this "I'm actually a wolf" phase as well haha. But as you age and familiarize yourself with more animal species is when things begin to align and click. For me my "impressions" and "impulses" are things like being a solitary predator, hunting primarily small rodents and rabbits (i think this is part of why mice/rats are so cute to me it is lingering affection haha), denning, being in a woodsy environment, rivers/lakes i would occasionally catch fish at, etc. I felt naturally drawn to mustelids and realized the behavior matched up.

A lot of people think I kin a sheep/goat(mistaken species they're a sheep) bc of my fursona which is funny! A grey sheep is more representative of who i am as a human.

Yes and No. Sugar Pool is a modern AU I've been making work about since s1 and is very personal to me, so before s2 premiered when I could already tell I wasn't going to like the direction they took Jinx my mind needed some separation between canon Jinx and Jinx in my AU and so I renamed her Jen "officially" to have a hard line between them. I think we naturally make characters ours when we create fanworks and this is especially true when changing the setting - and so Jen is practically an oc even if her origin was inspiration from Jinx. Still she can't truly said to be Jinx anymore, since a lot of the ways Jinx behaves in s2 Jen would never behave that way. But in a way she's still Jinx, because Jen was always just my interpretation of Jinx. Its confusing I know LOL. Anyway, I still often refer to her as Jinx to limit confusion. The official name of Jen mainly exists for my emotional well-being to remind myself that this particular character that was inspired by arcane is ultimately mine and the canon of arcane doesn't impact her. One day I may stop referring to her as Jinx altogether, maybe one day I'll completely rip Sugar Pool away from its Arcane soils and repot it, we'll see...