#I hc as southeast asian of some kind

[llumimoon]

Every time I draw Scary internally I’m going she’s not white to ME!!!

[uzuluna]

Hey I just gotta ask, what do you think about these?

An anon made me aware of this content when I was starting and it turns out the fandom really likes portraying him as the unbothered one when it comes to ghosts. And it's kind of hilarious especially when he's with other nations, especially Indonesia.

Anyway, what's your opinion about it?

kinda true tho? hahah our "ghost""horror" stuff is so different from our neighbors..

like the smell of jasmine, that alot of our neighbors fear it, but for us that concept alone is not a thing, and most filipinos don't even remember what jasmine smells like.

or the "pocong" ghost would scare our neighbors for ghost but most filipinos be "oh shit EJK victim"..

not to mention how we celebrate day of the dead is pretty Hispanic too- like cleaning the graveyard, having meals at the graveyard and lighting candles bringing flowers..( like how can that be a scared boi behavior when in the time when spirits are most active what he does is have a meal at the cemetery)

plus being america's colony, we know alfred is scared but doesnt see ghosts or any mythical stuff..so an influence could hit phili. (additionally we ended up abandoning our native deities like bathala and etc, that has got to have some consequence on how he see's or not see--mythical creatures)

so my HC Phili. he could or could not see, but overall, its just he is just not that bothered? i guess..

ex. our door knocking culture is shouting "tao po!"(its human/im human" our way of knocking the door is announcing "were human!" thats sounds like people just "lived with it" , the idea non humans are with us and we just dont know and dont even care that much.. this is not a scaredy cat behavior tbh haha.

i think we share with southeast asian the idea to deal with them is just "mind your own business, dont acknowledge them or else"

(not to mention i feel most filipinos if there is a rumor of "ghost""chanak""mananggal" knee jerk reaction is get the cellphone and start filming for the internet)

[kate-les-bridge-stewart]

Once again I am rotting my brain so heres an au I made up that is very oddly specific and completely self indulgent

I have some smvtty hcs about this au but I'll put those in a different post :3

Warning for brief mentions of vaping and marijuana use

It's a human au that centers around a ship of 12 and dhawan!master

For the sake of simplicity and the au, 12s human name is Basil and the master will be named O

Basil is basically the same 12 we know and love but he's so fucking gay. Like, so fuckin gay. He's 59 years old and mainly uses he/they pronouns but he doesnt really care what you call him.

O is 39 years old and hes an intersex trans man who uses he/they pronouns. Hes very feisty, eccentric, just very feral chaotic neutral

Basil is autistic but he's pretty outgoing despite not being very socially aware sometimes.

O has ADHD and some ASD traits. Some of his hyperfixations are with indian/southeast asian mythology and history, MLM/gay culture, marine biology and birds

Some of basil's special interests are the history of rock/jazz/blues, music history and culture in general, all metal genres, all kinds of guitar, the Doom games (mainly the classics), balisong flipping and knives in general

They do share some special interests as well, mainly music history, gay culture, and general history/mythology

13 and yaz are in this too. Human 13 uses the name Jordan, uses any pronouns, and is 40 years old. Shes a tattoo artist and has ADHD and tourettes.

Yaz is 36 years old, uses she/her, and does singing and voice acting for a living.

Bill is an old friend of Basil and O, she actually kinda got them together originally. Shes not much different from canon Bill, she still calls Basil grandad and likes talking about music and queer culture with him.

Bill and yaz are the closest best friends. They actually used to date but they just decided they felt better as besties.

Clara is also an old friend of Basil. Shes 34, uses she/her, and is a super chill tumblr vet who's an absolute womanizer. Shes like the futch lesbian friend who vapes, smokes weed on the weekends, only ever wears baggy hoodies, and can make any lesbian within a 10 mile radius flock to her like the sapphic pied piper. She's also in a casual and open relationship with bill

O and Jordan (human!13) have always been like frenemies. Like they platonically love each other but they also love bickering and arguing over the stupidest shit

I will likely add more to this au soon :3

[da-rulah]

I love your work, your writing, the sense of passion you put into these stories you create just wows me, Genuinely. But, besides that, I would love to request something a bit more angst-ish or whatever you'd label it as if you're still taking requests🥰 I'm southeast Asian, (Korean) I live in a not so diverse area and I've been bullied/ridiculed about it since primary school. Id love to know the papas Hcs on their s/o being targeted for being a much more diverse race Tysm💚🙏🏻

Thank you so much! I'm so grateful that you see the love and passion I have for writing and you enjoy it 🥹🖤

As for the request, I've given this a lot of thought...

As a white person, I don't think my voice is the right one for a request of this nature. Personally, I can't ever understand what it feels like to be marginalised for my race, and I don't wish to offend anyone or take anything away from real people's stories and feelings by doing these HCs.

However, I am aware that this app is FULL of incredible POC writers who would be able to give this kind of ask the voice it deserves. I don't want to speak over those voices or take anything away from those people.

In fact, I'd like to open this up to the floor... PLEASE tag some POC writers in the Ghost fandom in the replies or send it over to them. Recommend some amazing voices of POC who could do this justice and give it the correct voice - because it's their voices that matter, not mine.

Or, I would even encourage you, anon, to write this yourself. You can speak on your experiences better than I ever could. 💚

[moistvonlipwig]

Do you think there are some Amphibia fandom hcs and interpretations that reveal some unexamined biases of the fandom?

I generally think everyone has unexamined biases and fandom tends to be a space where those biases come out, sometimes in obvious ways and sometimes not.

As for how this manifests in Amphibia fandom in particular...well, to be honest, I'm not sure I have enough experience with the fandom to give you a good answer. I binged the show last fall and I've browsed the tags enough to get a general sense of common fandom opinions but my main go-to places for other people's Amphibia opinions are a.) the incomparable frogscholar @grendelsmilf and b.) reaction videos on YouTube which tend to be less influenced by popular fanon. So I don't necessarily have a good sense of what kinds of headcanons and interpretations are out there, although if there are any specific ones you had in mind then you can definitely send them over.

One thing that does come to mind is that I have seen a general attempt in parts of the fandom to flatten or soften Anne and essentially sand away her flaws in a way that I think undermines her complexity as one of the few Southeast Asian protagonists on American television and especially in children's animation. Part of this is ironically possibly an attempt to avoid being seen as racist, a sort of over-correction for how fandoms often demonize and exaggerate the negative traits of female characters of color. But the flip side of that is that it reduces her character and I do wonder if that isn't part of the point, that some people (however unconsciously) do not see Anne or girls like her as capable of possessing complexity at all and are not interested in digging deeper into their characters to find out.

[chaoxfix]

Do you have a hc of sonic's true origin story it's always hinted at in your fics as something that might have been sad that sonic doesn't want to share so his friends won't look at him differently i'm super intrigued of ideas you might have

sure! i might actually end up making a fic about all the possibilities of different origins, because canon suggests a few different things.

im responding to this, but please know that i like the idea of keeping it open-ended in my canon adjacent fics since, well, someday canon might give us an actual answer and i dont want to be wrong lol -- i like canon keeping it open-ended partially for that reason

anyways. i have, honestly, a lot of different ideas.

here are some of them that mesh best with my battery au.

(please bear in mind that the only thing canon about battery au is that, at some point in time before sonic met tails, eggman used sonic as a power source. im still free to change the time period this happened, and am not yet inclined to solidify my time-table for lore bc i like keeping my options open.)

no matter what, all of these tie in with christmas island, as that is canonly where sonic was born.

Sega's internal story documents, circa the mid-1990s, also refer to Christmas Island as Sonic's place of birth. Rather than living there, it's said that his love for adventure called him away and he has visited so many different places on Earth that he doesn't really have a place he considers to be home. According to Yuji Naka, Christmas Island is where the action in Sonic's universe first unfolded and is populated only by animals and robots. Naka also revealed that Christmas Island is based upon the real world location (also known as Kiritimati), where nuclear weapon testing was conducted by the United States.

so based on that... sonic raised himself on christmas island alone. again, sega says it's only populated by animals and robots.

however in the real world, christmas island isn't completely unpopulated -- it does have human inhabitants. its just that it was unpopulated until relatively recently human-history wise. it has no indigenous people-group, and was only discovered in the 1600s, and eventually used for phosphorous mining (a super awful process for the environment) in the 1800s and 1900s. currently it's settled by southeast asians, pacific islanders, and australians. its also been the site of major concern over phosphorous mining, and many environmental protection groups fought to create national parks to preserve as much wildlife as possible while the phosphate mines were operational.

sega also says christmas island's islands are very strange -- because christmas island was also used as a nuclear test site.

anyways, these things in mind, 2 ideas out to me about sonic's origins, and how he got there. this is said with respect to irl sites affected by phosphorous mining and nuclear testing, but with all irl locations put into fantasy worlds, im taking some liberties creatively.

1) i do think he could've, obviously, had a family at some point. i doubt that sega would ever go there, bc why would they, but i think his parents could've been ecoactivists. i think they could've been killed by eggman and/or other businesses trying to exploit the island for its natural resources. irl it was for phosphorous, but in sonic's universe it could've been for other resources. it could've even been a reaction between the nuclear testing and exploitation of resources (such as the chaos emeralds or rings or general chaos energy instead of irl phosphorous). could've led to a kind of catastrophic mix of the two that his parents wanted to figure out and help the environment before it was too late. but then they got caught in the crossfire somehow.

if sonic remembers this family at all, i think it would be a very painful thing for him, and he wouldn't want to remember much. but he does care deeply about the environment like they would have. so if he did have parents that were ecoactivists, he'd be following all the lessons they gave him about protecting the planet. (...sometimes by protecting natural resources. sometimes by saving all life on earth. there are many ways to fulfill this task, okay)

how he got to be fast - who knows! since sonic was canonly born on the island he likely got doses of the strange environment in utero and continued to be around it in his early years... so it would make sense. especially if the island was nuclear tested and/or exploited for precious substances like the chaos emeralds or chaos energy.

the way it ties into battery au is that upon realizing there's still a strong natural resource full of power and energy, eggman doubles back and decides to catch this little guy. it takes a while, but ultimately he succeeds.

hence. battery sonic. ultimately he escapes, yeets this event from his head and never looks back. it does conflict with sonic only leaving christmas island to seek adventure.

then again, if christmas island was eggman's main base of operations at that point... sonic could've left the lab and then gone back to christmas island, the only home he'd had before -- only to realize that it was too small for him now, and he craved adventure, and to stop eggman from destroying other environments.

anyways. that's the one im leaning towards right now. but other more generic ones that didnt require 2 hours of research. yes all of these can be tied to battery au because its really not that complicated of an au.

2) sonic's a time traveler and unknowingly from the distant past

3) sonic's the original project shadow

4) sonic's the next chaos

5) sonic's literally just some guy, exactly who sega wants him to be

plenty of others but i like these 5 the best <3

[90calibre]

GOD NO i can’t shut up i’m sorry lol as a person of color,  especially an asian woman,  i cannot shut up

the racism in this is just.  there’s so many things like.  the anti-immigrant ideology in that asians cannot hail from another country and move to another place is so.

like,  for example.  consider someone might have lived in idk,  europe or america for GENERATIONS due to their ancestors having been immigrants long ago.  let’s say,  for this example,  these people are asian.  i’ll say japanese because that’s my expertise.  these people become what we call diaspora,  who are people whose roots are native to elsewhere but are now scattered around the world due to immigration for whatever reason.  for example,  in world war two,  countless japanese natives,  both of the mainland and its indigenous people,  were forced to flee,  and generations of families have lived in other countries with their children and their children’s children and so on being born and raised in other countries.  those diaspora have blood ties with their ethnic and racial origin to the country of their ethnicity,  but have no physical ties and if they were to move to japan,  they would technically be immigrants in japan even if they are japanese by blood,  simply because they were not born there and did not grow up or live there.

characters like kayn are difficult when there’s no canon indication as to what his ethnicity actually is.  i personally find his features to be asian-coded,  but that could also just be me projecting but i’ve also found that some of my hcs have been on the nose  (  re:  caitlyn being confirmed mixed asian  )  buuuuut since there’s no proof the world is your oyster.  you can write a white kayn if you want to,  i suppose,  because i guess his origins and design are ambiguous enough,  but again,  i’ve always been on the kayn is asian wagon.  noxus is not a wholly white country.  there are many poc in noxus,  in and out of power.  hell,  even darius and draven are kind of brown-coded and i personally hc them to be middle eastern.  noxus is a melting pot of culture and ethnicity.  it’s home to so many different people,  for various reasons.  conquered lands,  willingly allied lands that accepted becoming noxian under its standard,  people who chose to find home and settle in noxus,  refugees who became noxian citizens whose children may have then born and raised there.  i don’t think we know exactly what racial or ethnic background noxus takes after,  but regardless of that,  it doesn’t change the fact that noxus itself is a huge melting pot of different people of origin,  whether they’re born and raised there or not.

the implication that kayn can’t be ionian by blood just because they consider him a foreigner and is from noxus is really?  gross.  like  ...  i’m half okinawan,  an indigenous japanese person.  i was born there,  but i’ve lived in america all my life.  even though i have japanese citizenship and family there and whatever,  i’m still considered a foreigner there because although culturally i’m part of two worlds,  i’m still much more american than i am japanese.  the same goes for my thai heritage.  i know very little about it and although my appearance is very southeast asian outwardly,  i’m definitely a foreigner there,  even though i’m 1/4 thai.

it’s complicated but it’s also not.  just the whole sentiment of all of this is extremely stupid and gross and just the idea of “transracial” is so fucking gross and stupid and insulting in so many different ways and i just cannot believe the ignorance of people like.  if you had the sense to go out of your way to dig to determine whether or not someone could be transracial,  you’d have seen the countless of other things on top of that that would surely say why that’s fucked up and impossible and not real.