#american ideas of race onto 16th century italy don’t really make any goddamn sense. | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

quietwingsinthesky · 17 days ago

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it’s funny to me because like. look, gaming shit, i’m fairly well-versed in, so even before starting ac2, i knew ezio was the assassin’s creed protagonist that a lot of. to be blunt, gamergate-ass chuds like to point to as The Best One™️, on account of him being male and white and het. so it’s just very funny to me that ezio says gay rights. not that it would matter to those kinds of assholes, they’d probably say this game from 2010 has a woke mind virus forcing ezio to love gay people. but. they very much cannot change the canonical fact that ezio’s best friend is gay and he says out loud that he thinks leonardo’s boyfriend is good for him.

#also clarifications on two points: 1) i’m saying ezio is white because in the small mind of gamergate chuds ezio is white. but like. ezio #is italian. in 16th century italy. and i’m not like an anthropologist or anything but i do know that attempts to transpose modern day #american ideas of race onto 16th century italy don’t really make any goddamn sense.#you understand this. i understand this. they don’t because they’re frankly fucking idiots. but moving on.#2) ezio is very much a Video Game Protagonist Guy. not denying that. and ac2’s pivot away from debating the tenets of the assassin’s up #front and mostly leaving it to codex entries and missable stuff IS a part of that. but like. ezio is also Not the guy those fucks think he #is. ezio DOES carry a lot of the hangups of being Video Game Protagonist Guy in the late 2000s. but he evolves. he grows.#and he’s very much still an assassin and the order is about as egalitarian as it gets. ezio says gay rights but also women’s rights!#okay done now.

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