Lightcannon
| Pairing | |
|---|---|
| Pairing: | Lightcannon |
| Alternative name(s): | JinxLux, LuxJinx |
| Gender category: | femslash, f/f |
| Fandom: | League of Legends |
| Canonical?: | Fanon |
| Prevalence: | common |
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| Click here for related articles on Fanlore. | |
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[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[2]
The fanart that followed often used Jinx's Arcane design with Lux's standard LoL design
Tropes and Fanon
- Jinx's nickname for Lux being Flashlight.
Fanworks
Fanfic
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.