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"You're a jinx, you hear me?! Mylo was right!"
Jinx is a child of trauma, similar to most of the main cast. But unlike the rest of the main characters, Jinx had allowed those past traumas to fully consume and control her.
Jinx had been through a number of traumatic experiences at such a young age. She lost her parents, possible friends, her home, all to the enforcers. And as such gained rightfully placed hatred towards them, which later comes into play when she first meets Caitlyn.
Jinx was never allowed the opportunity to overcome her parents' death. Though that is not inherently her fault. When Jinx lost her family, she was too young to understand the weight of the situation. And instead of trying to understand it, and trying to work out her emotions, she instead pushed all of it aside and clung to the last remaining remnant of her past life. Violet.
Jinx clings to Violet at every chance she gets. There was always that lingering fear in the back of her mind, that hushed hiss constantly whispering to her, that like the rest of her family, Violet too would be 'taken away' to a place just beyond her reach. This is why she always tried so hard to perfect her bombs. Not just to prove that she was useful to the group, but that she was useful to Violet. Vi has always been the one to protect her, willingly putting herself in harms way if it meant Jinx got to be safe. This is why when Mylo had constantly belittled her, calling her a Jinx, making her out to be the one thing she was afraid of becoming, that his voice became so prominent over the others once she got older.
When Jinx was presented with an opportunity to prove herself, to finally be the one to protect her family; she took it with little to no hesitation. She doesn't think about the obvious consequences of her never using the hexcore gems before, she doesn't think about the previous catastrophic outcome of when she accidentally dropped one. No. All she thinks about is finally getting her much craved recognition. Of the happy faces of her family when she saves them.
But ofcourse, just like all the other times she attempted to be of use, everything quite literally blows up in her face. Her monkey bomb did work. But it did everything except of what it was intended to do. She killed her family. Yet again losing them, but this time it wasn't to the enforcers. This time it was to her. When Violet becomes upset, and in the heat of her anger, strikes Jinx, everything begins to set in all too quickly. Vi was angry. Vi was angry at her. And instead of being angry that Vi hit her for the very first time, all she asks is why she was left behind. Why didn't Vi take her like she always did on all of their adventures?
All the while being too young to fully grasp that this wasn't another one of their expeditions. There were real consequences this time, lives were at stake. But how could she understand that when all she could think about was her new family, her sister, never coming back home? How could she understand that her sister had those same fears? How could she understand that Violet loved her too much to even entertain the thought of losing the only surviving member of their past family because she was foolish enough to bring her along?
When Violet leaves to calm herself down, Jinx is too clouded by emotions to understand that she was going to come back. That she was simply rigtht around the corner. In her eyes, all of her worst fears were coming to fruition in frightening accuracy. She lost her family again, Vi was going to leave her. And in some twisted way, it was all her fault. Which made it all the more painful, when Vi, the one person she wanted to prove herself to the most, admitted that just like Mylo said, just like what she feared everyone saw her as, She was a Jinx.
