#also im not just changing her race for the sake of diversity points bc previously besides the mc and her fam there was only one other white | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

aro-aizawa · 5 years

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it’s weird how im completely scrapping the main character for my original work i’ve been working on haltingly for the last 4-5 years. but here i am, doing exactly that. and not regretting it in the slightest.

#shut up danni #anyeays i realised a while ago that the mc was basically the most boring white girl protagonist and now im making a black girl the protag #in the past i always avoided writing black people as the main character because as a white girl who’s 97% surrounded by other white people..#i didn’t want to write anything extremely fucking problematic and have no one inform me of it so they silently judge me #so i avoided it and added black side characters but i realised that to know better i just gotta try???#i might mess up but as long as i’m completely devoted to immediately fixing my mistakes then i think i’ll do okay #the protag was just a thinly veiled self insert character (like nearly all my mc ocs dhxueb) so this should be better #i’m not sure if i’m gonna change her name but i probably should i’d be a bit weird bc nothing much has changed w this story in three years #but change is good and i already love the new mc #not sure if i should make her completely black or mixed bc the family dynamic in the story isn’t the healthiest #but im gonna be trying to stay as far away from any possible racist stereotypes as i can #so far what i have for the new mc is she has really long curly hair and her personality is basically super sweet #she’s v passionate about her interests and adores her friends to the moon and back #also im not just changing her race for the sake of diversity points bc previously besides the mc and her fam there was only one other white #character and there are a LOT of side characters #most of them are girls/nbs/trans and all of them are either gay bi or aro #anyways their races are sort of irrelevent to their characters bc the setting is a world w only like five countries similar to atla but not #idk how i’ve gotten round to explaining the diversity in the world considering the countries all have closed borders but shrug #anyways idk why im writing this out when i....literally have not spoken abt this project on this blog before #maybe its so that i cement the decision and don’t back down from it? who knows

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