#no cove is not white hes canoncally biracial

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Ok so, for those who are confused about Derek's slander, what I think OP means is that Derek is significantly more criticized as a DLC/character than Cove and Baxter.

Many people have stated not liking his DLC because "it was focused on his family" and "we didn't pass that much time with him one-on-one" and, If you did play his DLC you would know that is his main conflict. Like is literally the main conflict, it's something he admits out loud in-game, most people who criticize those aspects did not pay attention to his DLC.

I've seen plenty of people not paying attention to what's happening in his DLC and hating that they couldn't have more romantic moments with Derek, but here's the thing, OUR LIFE IS NOT A DATING SIM, these people are treating Derek story as your regular Dating Sim when our life isn't that. Derek does genuinely have an incredible story BECAUSE IT REVOLVES AROUND OTHER PEOPLE WHO JUST AREN'T THE MC, he feels real, he feels like an actual person you can meet, his relationship with him, whether romantic or platonic, feels real.

People are also hating for the most obvious answer which is: racism and white favoritism. Those who usually criticize him, love Baxter DLC, they love Baxter who's a white man (and before anyone gets offended by this, hi, I'm white, I'm literally European I'm as white as it can get) and this is important because it can be read as a white bias for Baxter. Baxter is the average character that gets popular mostly within cishet women, not that everyone who likes Baxter is a cishet woman but his archetype is popular with them, this is all important because to these people you cannot touch Baxter or criticize him, but you can criticize Derek.

It feels like Derek needs to prove that he can be a LI in this game, he needs to have more time, he needs to spend less time on his family,his family is annoying etc; but Baxter? Baxter is perfect the way he is and if you criticize him, you're a hater.

You see how this reads as right? You see how this is a blatant display on how POC need to constantly be enough for white people but a white person can be as shitty as possible and people would still defend them until the end. You can't touch the white man but you can put under the bus a Mexican man because he didn't prove to be enough for us.

They don't look at themes of his DLC, they don't look what hid DLC was trying to do, they don't look how his DLC works on a writing perspective, it doesn't matter is not the love story they expected, Derek didn't prove himself to be enough therefore these people feel allowed to criticize him and to slander him because it's ok to slander the Mexican man but heaven forbids you touch the white man

Nothing confuses me more than Derek Rio Suarez slander