#Natlan leaks

[veonaa]

mualani ⋆ ༅˚🥥.࿓•

[twilyss]

        怖 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐊𝐒 Natlan Characters 4.8

                 ⋆ psd by: Legilia

[phenylshark]

Yassified Murata? This is super rushed i probably couldve done better but i dont have the motivation to fix it. I just saw the leaked designs and wanted to give it my own spin 'cause it certainly wasnt what i was expecting. Trusting that the writers still manage to make her lovable nonetheless. (the reference on the side is an old interpretation of murata as a SU diamond)

[digiflora]

the kinich fanart i've seen is all so toecurling pantydropping incredible amazing and i go look up what he acc looks like and WHAT IS THIS 12 YEAR OLD PALE LITTLE BOY DOING ON MY FKN SCREEN

( the fanart in question )

[koenna99]

So......Oddly Murata being deigned after those that colonized the Americas and not a native makes kinda sense....

That does kind of fit the route they're taking the background of the Archons being they basically stole their roles from the Soverins.

Very much probably not what Hoyo was going for and they just liked they're Himeko expy to be designed this way instead.

(Edit I saw fake leaks. Natlan is still not super good....not surprised)

[jorts-lady-nation]

XILONEN KIT LEAKS ‼️

[mywitchcultblr]

There will be no darker skinned Archons ever, and if there will be other humanoid sovereigns, I doubt they will be darker skinned as well.

The Pyro Archon will be white because Hoyo is 'expecting her to sell' while Western fandom would be happy to accept darker skinned Archons and they do demand her to not be white, Hoyo is still a Chinese company and cater to the eastern fandom.

And no, this isn't a 'china bad' post. But like it or not colorism is a massive issue in Asia.

I'm a Southeast Asian and skin whitening products are very popular and just recently the government issued that the product name must be changed to ' brightening and glowing' instead of whitening. Took 20 god damn years for the government to realize that hating your own skin color is not great actually...

But nothing significant ever be done about it by the people here, many still thinks that you are ugly, poor, or unhygienic if you are dark skinned.

As much as you scream at Hoyo to not be colorist, as much as you demand the company to address the problem, the real issues also lies with the larger society as a whole.

( But I'm not defending hoyo here, I think the company fucking sucks and greedy POS)

Now, not all eastern and south asian people are colorist and I'm sure there are CN, KN, ID or JP fans who will be happy with a black archon or doesn't really care about the skin color, but the fact that colorism is still an issues pretty much said something. Hoyo is a corporation and corporations rarely willing to take risk out of fear that it might harm their profit.

"But if the fans are being loud enough they can release a 5 stars that is not pale (and actually work unlike Dehya)" yeah but Genshin Dev is notorious for not fucking listening to their fans, so I have given up any hope that 'important 5 stars' will have a skin color that is darker than tan. Maybe even with the rampant colorism problem in Asia, if hoyo is a different company things would have been different... :/

But sadly, they are not that different company

[eleiwitch]

Since hoyo doesn't care about melanin, but I do, I had to edit them

[yuamin]

ORORUN REDRAW GUIDE !

i think we’ve all seen the atrocity that is genshin’s unreleased character, ororun. the entirety of natlan is a mess really, but as a yoruba person myself i CANNOT keep quiet about ororun specifically.

outside yoruba mythology, in yoruba, ‘Olorun’ (the name ororun is based on, pronounced o-law-roon , with o pronounced as in orange and the ‘roon’ pronounced shortly, not dragged on at all) is actually the same word we often use to refer to God in Christianity. Christianity is the primary religion among us yorubas so honestly, i was kinda glad they misspelled his name. it would feel SO disrespectful referring to whatever that thing is with the same word we use to refer to God who we actually worship. religion aside, genshin’s depiction of Olorun (cultural god, not Christian one) is downright disgusting. i’d never paid too much attention to genshin and its poor representation, but now that my culture has fallen victim to it, i completely understand all the outrage.

edit: please note that while we use ‘Olorun’ to refer to the Christian God, Olorun is just a general word for ‘god’ itself ! for example if i say “God in heaven” and “god of thunder” we know i’m referring to two different beings, in yoruba it’s the kind of the same—the same word is used to refer to both the Christian and other gods, but we know it’s different, even though olorun can be capitalized regardless of what god we’re talking about (unlike english where the Christian God is capitalized and other gods aren’t) at the end of the day though, when we say “olorun” even without context, we are usually referring to the christian God !

1. PLEASE DO NOT DRAW HIM WITH ANIMAL EARS !

i’ve noticed that hoyoverse has this nasty habit of portraying every dark skinned character as wild or animal-esque. kaeya seems to be the only exception to this. even xinyan, though lacking any animal features, has this wild energy to her. some might call it a stretch, but i feel like her features are pretty feline in comparison to other liyue characters.

Olorun in our culture is the supreme god of the heavens. In my opinion, it is disrespectful to liken him to something akin to an animal. normally i wouldn’t even mind that much, but with how hoyo makes its few dark characters more and more like animals, i can’t help but feel weird about it. its really off putting.

2. HIS HAIR WOULD NOT BE CURLY !

majority of nigerians have 4C HAIR. not wavy hair or loose curls. some have 4B, but 4C is the usual here, that is, kinky or coily hair. Olorun is often portrayed as bald in traditional art, but trust me if he had hair his hair would resemble his people’s, not Tyla’s.

DREADLOCKS ARE A YES ! outside nigeria, locking hair is pretty common, but in nigeria a lot of people have locks naturally. our hair sometimes just grows out that way, no treatment no nothing. dreads are 100% an appropriate style, they look good asf too.

3. PLEASE USE CULTURAL FABRICS IN YOUR DESIGNS !

when i saw ororun’s outfit, i almost started crying. they couldn’t even bother to dress him up a little. they really dressed my brother in a scarf and cape and called it a day 😭 upon how fashionable we nigerians are know to be, hoyoverse still made it their mission to embarrass us stylistically. God knows my people have suffered man 😭

ankara is a traditional nigerian fabric that features bright colors and lots of patterned designs. see below:

here in 9ja, we love our ankara. it’s a big part of our fashion here and trust me it would look excellent in your designs. it’s perfectly fine to draw ororun in normal fabrics since he’s a deity and it’s not like ankara existed back then, but if you really want to represent nigeria, ankara is a must 🙏

i’m going to address another fashion piece because if you search up nigerian fashion you’ll see it a lot: beads.

these orange beads are igbo (another tribe here in nigeria) NOT yoruba. does this mean you can’t use it in olorun’s design ? no ! let me explain. tbh, here in nigeria there’s a bit of...tension between clans. it’s not that common, but older people are definitely a lot more tribalist. as a yoruba i love my igbo brothers and sisters, i truly believe they’re the most fashionable clan and i adore their festivities, they always go over the top. please, just look at them:

(only one image because of image caps, ugh)

anyway, we yorubas wear beads too. but the specific way the beads are worn around the head and in multiple layers round the neck is igbo, not yoruba. though i personally wouldn’t care too much if i saw olorun with igbo beads since all i want is for him to at least look nigerian, at the end of the day he is a yoruba deity. it might be disrespectful to dress the god of one clan as if he belongs to another, especially since there is so much historical ( and very slight but uncommon present ) day tension between both clans.

here’s a more yoruba outfit. sorry yall, it might be hard for you to distinguish if you’re not yoruba or igbo, but a lot of nigerians can tell the difference at a glance. ( actually nowadays, there is so much overlap between yoruba and igbo fashion, but there are many specific styles that may be associated with one tribe and not the other, for example how beads are worn in the above paragraph ) please do your research, he’s not only a nigerian god, but a yoruba one.

one more thing, because i know it will start discourse : skin tone.

nigerians have a very diverse range of skin tones. some of us are so pale, if not for our afrocentric features we could maybe pass for another race. however, ororun is yoruba.

light skinned nigerians are usually igbo. not to say that yorubas can’t be light skin, but here in nigeria if you saw a light skinned person, we’d automatically assume they were igbo. igbo people usually have lighter skin tones. majority of yorubas fall on the more milk to dark chocolate end of the skin tone spectrum. i’m saying this now because i know a lot of people are going to start arguments over ororun being redrawn as ‘too light’ or ‘too dark.’ i don’t really care about complexion, but i thought i’d help you all get your facts right.

that’s it ! if you read all this i’m super thankful. i don’t usually post about this kind of stuff but i honestly love my country and could go on about it for days. nigeria is such a beautiful place with a diverse range of cultures— from hausas to fulanis to so many more. natlan was supposed to be Africa’s time to shine, as well as latin americans, but hoyoverse said fuck you and your people. they did this to an extent with sumeru but natlan was done straight up dirty—not a single melanated character in sight, and the only one who does have melanin, iansan, looks so desaturated you might as well call her grey. i saw someone on tiktok call mualani a dark skinned character—it was at that point that i knew genshin was done for.

please REBLOG this post so it reaches more people and artists in the fandom !! this is literally the third time i’m making this post because tumblr refuses to show it in the tags for some reason 😭 i encourage other cultures who feel misrepresented to make posts like this too. it’s a perfect opportunity to educate and inform people about the diverse cultures genshin has once again failed to represent properly.

Hoyo has never been one to make customer satisfaction their top priority, but we’ve been able to call them out before and i truly believe we can do it again. Natlan is not poor design choice. it is blatant racism, a nation based on POC ethnicities with not a single colored character insight. Hoyoverse has been able to escape racism accusations for as long as i can remember, but natlan is the icing on the cake. we CANNOT allow hoyo to proceed as planned without giving them the appropriate backlash.

Also, if you redraw ororun using this guide, make sure to tag me here or on my main blog, @heartkaji !! i’d love to see all your redesigns. once again, thank you all for reading and have an amazing day !!

[matchalaatte]

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[ravenwolfie97]

i truly think Varesa is the worst Genshin character to date

even if we ignore the incredible racism and whitewashing of Natlan in basically its entirety, and the potential fact that her name comes from a Zulu goddess, her character is nothing but a fat girl layered in tropes

her splash art has her in the middle of eating a taco, her main attack in combat is a ground pound with her big butt, one of her idles is her inhaling a scooby-doo lookin-ass sandwich, some other leaked info says she's "a food-eating champion", and to top everything off SHE IS LITERALLY A COW????

combine those two awful things with a design and personality that is pure uwu cutesy softgirl with knit sweater arm and leg sleeves, the tiniest miniskirt, pastel colors, hearts everywhere, and of course some prominent tiddies and thicc thighs - with superficial connection to the land of Natlan, let alone the world of Genshin Impact on the whole - you get the absolute worst character in the 4.5 years this game has been running, built on prejudices and stereotypes and reduced to goonerbait, because apparently that's what hoyo cares about now

[weird-grapejuice]

HOT WOMEN ALERT❗️❗️❗️

JUST LOOK AT THEM ⬆️⬆️⬆️ (if only they had a bit of melanin…)

[dailycapitano]

Capitano nation!!!!

[rhineposting]

something tells me natlan is going to be even more on the nose about HoYoverse's racism and colorism.

like. the teaser itself is telling enough : a pale, blue eyed blonde little girl, getting chased around by a big, dark skinned scary man - eventually getting saved by two other pale, light eyed people that barely resemble the cultures they're based on.

again, that's without mentioning that the God of this region, heavily based on pre-Columbian America,

IS GOING TO BE A LITERAL CONQUISTADOR.

WE'RE IN HELL EVERYONE PACK IT UP

[writerandbaka]

Late night quick doodle of Mitsuri Kanroji... I mean Varesa! (//▽//)🌸

Ofc I would have preferred that her body model reflected her eating habits a little more... and that her skin was more chocolate shaded…but unfortunately, not all dreams can come true so easily, sigh (╥_╥)

[softhornymess]

Wouldn't it be extremily cool if Natlan was based on ancient civilizations or native tribes of America and archont was an indigenous woman warrior and the archont quest was about fighting off colonisers therefore justifying that nation/archont of war is not just violent nation/person