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i just saw the actual worst take ever about the tts/volot situation so im going to shadow rant about it cause i blocked the author

keep reading if you want to see me rant about elves/volot while summarizing the og post ig

ok so op is like super pissed that rc is changing the tts mc's sprite to add elves with poc features claiming that they were bullied for the sake of "politically correct foolishness"

i don't think asking for ONE mc who doesn't look like she's of european descent is too much of a demand especially since most games give themselves to self inserting, that's why we have white passing amala

also having multiple elven races is not diverse if they all have the same face and hair type, and claiming that giving them poc features/brown skin options is "human diversity" is nuts, elves in almost all fantasy can have whatever shade of skin (ex. drows can have skin ranging from gray to black with a purple undertone), hair type, etc. the only thing they need is their subrace-specific traits (which iirc NEVER say "this elf can only look like a white person" it usually covers skin color, not shade, eye color, etc) and pointy ears.

op then goes on to say what happened to volot WASN'T racist

changing a character from black to race of choice (black or white) because of backlash from people who didn't want him to be black for any reason is racist

op also argues that since tts is fantasy and doesn't take place in the real world that there should't be a need for diversity standards of our world to apply

so where's the same energy for volot? one of the main complaints is that he was black in a slavic inspired setting. it doesn't take place in our world so why should we expect him to look like real life ancient slavs?

then they say that writers shouldn't have to sacrifice their vision for the wants of fans

SO WHERE'S THE SAME ENERGY FOR ALICE? she had to sacrifice her vision of volot to appease racist fans

they then say that people read fiction to escape reality and so it shouldn't be a reflection of reality

bffr right now you basically just said you need an escape from people of color

after whatever the fuck that was they then say that the elves were actually super diverse actually because they have different skin colors like no your mcs should look different outside of skin color

they then also link each elf subrace to a real life race which seems iffy as fuck but i'm white so i can't really speak on that

they then conclude that fantasy races shouldn't adhere to human diversity standards (which in this case is including at least ONE poc) and that since some people choose to play as the mc they find prettiest (i actually do this) that diversity is not necessary

what the fuck, right? it gets worse though

they then say that poc were included less in old stories because of racism, but that today writers usually do put poc in their stories so people usually don't complain "so stop making a fuss over something that was never an issue to begin with"

WHAT THE FUCK? that is insane to say.

imo unless an author has an explicit reason to not include more than one race in their story (ex. one of jester's other stories, lotw, took place in an era where there was nobody except japanese people in japan) they should include it. especially in a cyoa story where the player is meant to project onto the main character.

rant over ig if you want to argue with me, don't, if you agree with op, i can't stop you but i'll block you