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latinokaeya-moving · 2 years ago

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thinking maybe i was going somewhere when i wrote a note in my isidora fic speculating that maybe one of the reasons her foil relationship with claude works is bc of how interesting it is to look at them in terms of how the both of them are treated differently as these supposed ‘foreign’ entities within fodlan n how that could be analysed through a more meta political lens of the difference in perception when a racialised person is primarily seen as an invading threat vs when a racialised person is primarily seen as a source of extraction of resources/labour

#x #i gave up on pretending this wasn’t n oc canon thing lol #thinking so hard abt a thread i read on claude n his treatment by other characters in the context of the political surveillance of muslims #in real life and then i saw something referencing how latin america has historically been obviously used for both resource extraction but #also as the source for bodies to perform the unskilled labour white USAmericans don’t want to or whatever #and how that aligned in a rather interesting way with how i explained isidora’s in story justification for why HER family was allowed to #remain in such an otherwise closed off/isolated continent #and it’s because they were the key for providing a trade relation with morfis who’s resources eventually came to be greatly valued in fodlan #and THATS why isidora and her family have been ‘permitted’ to remain stewards of the land. they’re tolerated solely for what resources they #bring into the continent #and on a far more small scale/symbolic level isidora herself takes a role in combat that’s meant to be very gruelling as a frontline tank #archetype who’s meant to absorb most of the dmg for her teammates. something which while not Exactly the same could arguably be an analogy #for hard labour/her body being used as a shield for the rest of her team #AUGH…. it sorta clicked into place so neatly i’m kinda. :33333 abt it. omg #sorry for being insane but this is just a cool revelation to me and i’ve been rotating it in my head for a while #anyways now i gotta go to a meeting with a tutor without a fully planned essay structure LOL whoops #isa

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