#i didnt even want to bring up vexx being half kit and what him looking so strikingly different from aya would mean in terms of planning

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actually you know what hold on I'm not done complaining about the whiteness of A6 yet! there are (2) poc characters and only one I would say is actually canon poc (bash) but I would argue that aya is pretty heavily coded as east Asian even if she's literally an alien (I'm not even going to comment on Ryona she's a white woman is who is blue but she doesn't have to be, fan artists 👀) which is a pretty shit number for a game with so many characters (I could also see arguments for nerissa being latina but the canon for her is weak). what I'm particularly bothered by is aya (not herself she's lovely, but the dev approach to her) since as a literal Japanese scholar I know that her name comes from Japanese and it's supposed to be Japanese (her brother is literally named Akira for fucks sake lol) but the canon pronunciation is so far from Japanese and other than her name and appearance there's nothing about her character that connects to that culture (which could be seen as a good thing considering the only perspective going into the game is a white lady's). I'm also somewhat peeved by bash's canon pronunciation since I'm fairly confident that Ilhaj is Arabic in origin (though it could be farsi or a north African dialect like Morocco's) and surprise surprise Im a student of that too! also I know that bash's arc hasn't started yet but with the combination of an Arabic last name and somewhat white first name (idk much about European languages so idk the origin of Sebastian) it would indicate that he's mixed ethnicity but we just. don't get to know anything about that either and it contributes literally 0% to his character other than him being an addict and arena fighter (wonderful stereotyping! so fantastic). this is long and rambly and may make no sense but these are things that have bothered me but I figured no one would care about but maybe you do! and maybe you have better insights than I do! I'd love to hear them!