#im so tired of the g1 and g3 comparing

[chrlotpony]

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[llimerrence]

monster high rant under cut because i have feelings and wanna rant lol

its my blog i do what i want

ugh now im thinking about how the new show like ... sort of removed clawdeen's blackness. like i'm glad she's still not white, oh my god i would have lost my mind. but at the same time it feels like a weird choice to change her as dramatically as they did. like draculaura is still miss perfect while being an absolute sweetheart; and frankie is still a newbie who's prone to mess ups. but clawdeen is....not clawdeen??? She's not miss fashionista with a bite who's a protective big sister anymore. it just feels ... weird. idk. (also the whole thing where in reboots the black characters suddenly become biracial feels weird in a way i don't know how to explain.) i'm not black so like, idk if this is just me comparing new clawdeen to old clawdeen & therefore i am only noticing the lack of 'blackcent'; but then there's also the fact that her g3 doll is lighter skinned than g1, g1 cgi animation is darker than g3 cgi animation; and box art g1 is darker than g3 box art, and her hair is lighter color. Also if they end up making her and deuce a thing then they're actively ignoring that the creator basically said she's a lesbian; and that's....something.

also, the way that draculaura is biracial is sort of weird if only because it constantly feels forced. Dracula was romanian. and original draculaura was romanian. and now she's asian. it just feels like a strange choice? Espically when there are plenty of other characters with unspecified backgrounds / uncertain backgrounds (twyla, Ghoulia, Toralei, spectra, Purrsephone and Meowlody, etc). but espically removing any hint of an accent from draculaura & making her dracula's bio daughter feel like the weirdest choices. It's like, completely removing the entire point of her character. She was prosecuted, a plague survivor, and they got rid of that. I hope they at least like, say she's half-romanian and half-asian. That would honestly satisfy me that way; but it doesn't look like they will.

I like the choice to change lagoona from austrailian into latina as a nod to the creature from the black lagoon which was in the amazon rainforest. It's a neat nod. I do wish we had another austrailian character though just to fill that hole. maybe they'll do it with gil? idk i miss gil lol

anyway, my tl;dr is that some choices make sense. other parts just feel....weirdly forced. and im tired lol

anyway frankie being nonbinary was an A+ choice okay bye