Lightcannon
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| Pairing: | Lightcannon |
| Alternative name(s): | JinxLux, LuxJinx |
| Gender category: | femslash, f/f |
| Fandom: | League of Legends |
| Canonical?: | Fanon |
| Prevalence: | common |
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Lightcannon is the femslash pairing of Jinx and Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard in the League of Legends fandom.
Fandom
Ship Name
Well Jinx' nickname, old nickname is Loose Cannon, this was written in her biography, back on wiki. Lux' magic is primarily light, that is like her whole appearance, personality, she is bubbly, hopeful, naive a bit, light. So she is a 'flashlight' as Jinx endearely calls her in fanfiction, that's why the pairing is called Lightcannon. It sounds cute I thinkstarwantrix, Nov 25, 2023.[1]
Post-Arcane
While Lightcannon had a small but dedicated following thanks to their Star Guardian incarnations, the pairing gained further support after the animated series Arcane was released. This was due in two parts; firstly Jinx is a main character in Arcane and very well liked within its fandom, secondly, the Arcane fandom has a strong femslash presence thanks to the depiction of Vi and Caitlyn's evolving relationship. Thus the femslash fans in the Arcane fandom wanting to ship Jinx with another woman began looking at what the League of Legends fandom already had ready and waiting.
Arcane boosted Jinx’s popularity and gave more dept to her lore, and queer Jinx fans wanted to know more about her and learned her ship with Lux. With both having pretty fleshed out lore now, people saw the parallels of them being an outcast but polar opposites of each other. And if its one thing people love. Its polar opposite sapphics.TayluxSwift, July 8 2023.[2]
The fanart that followed often used Jinx's Arcane design with Lux's standard LoL design.
Influence of Flashbangs & Frag Grenades
The Lightcannon fandom has noted the influence of Calchexxis' long-running series, Flashbangs & Frag Grenades, on the characterization of the pairing in fanworks that were created post-Arcane. In an tumblr ask about the history of the ship, Calchexxis chimed in with the following:
Speaking from experience, at the time there were no consistently updating Lightcannon fics except mine. Jinx was kind of a meme in the community as a sort of wish.com Harley Quinn, and with other more popular ships like Cait/Vi (called Piltover's Finest back then), Diana/Leona, and of course the K/DA ladies present. Even my own work was pretty sparsely viewed before Arcane came out and people came doggedly searching for cute sapphic copium in the angst-ridden wake of Arcane’s ending.But that ending changed everything.
I can’t explain how weird it was to see hundreds and hundreds of people suddenly appearing and commenting, then seeing my own personal story tags like ‘Lux is Crazier’ appearing in other fics I had no input in. Even my own personal world creations like the fictional Zaunite language of gutlau being referenced started appearing in other stories. That was to say nothing of the characterization of Lux in almost all of the newer stories being parallel or outright identical to my version of her in Flashbangs where she’s more or less a sociopathic spy wearing a mask of Disney-princess-esque gentility.
To this day, I’ve only ever suspected this, but I can’t help but wonder how much of Lightcannon specifically stemmed directly from Flashbangs, if only because it was, again, the only thing there was to read that was still updating. It was pure luck even if that IS the case, because I had no input on that and it caught me off guard more than anything, but it’s still very weird to think about.Calchexxis, May 8, 2024.[3]
Tropes and Fanon
- Jinx's nickname for Lux being Flashlight.
Fanworks
Fanfic
- Flashbangs & Frag Grenades (link) by Calchexxis
Fanart
- Lightcannon by xi-xi-chen
- Lightcannon & Piltover's Finest by wlw0nderland
- A long day’s light by soupskkn
- I need to share my vision of wingman Ezreal by anothertina
Fanvids
- Jinx Gives A 2nd Chance To CUPID | Lightcannon Cinematic by DarKraf
- Lightcannon - Bad Girl by Marblestairs
Events
- Lightcannon Week held on Tumblr yearly since 2022
- Lightcannon Week held on Twitter in 2022
Meta
Archives & Fannish Links
Archives
- Luxanna "Lux" Crownguard/Jinx works at AO3
Communities
- Lightcannon, lux x jinx and jinx x lux tags at Tumblr
- Lightcannon hashtag on Twitter
- Lightcannon subreddit
- Lightcannon on the Shipping Wiki
References
- ^ Comment by starwantrix, Nov 25, 2023.
- ^ Comment by TayluxSwift, July 8 2023.
- ^ Comment by Calchexxis, May 8, 2024.