#rc volot

[fayromance]

I can't get over how different they are

Like, this "raised eyebrow" face is literally one of my favorites of all Black Volot's emotions. He looks so confident, hot and somewhat arrogant with that face. And it's soooo NOT IT with White option

And Black Volot's angry face exudes so much power and gravitas. Meanwhile White one's face is just funny. I can't for the life of me believe that he's actually the one who inspires so much fear and awe into the villagers

And it's also why I can't accept the idea that Volot was always meant to be Race of Choice. Then why do they look so wildly different?? Not in terms of skin color even but more importantly — their general vibe and impression they make. My only explanation is that White Volot was in fact a last minute addition haphazardly thrown together to please the racists who hated Black Volot after the first update. That's why he simply doesn't look the part

[kundaquarius]

I can't stop laughing my god I hate - love this fandom so bad.

[romanceclub-confessionss]

Confession:

"i feel like ppl dont get why everyones mad at white volot its not that we have a problem with roc (race of choice) lis its that he was 10000% intended to be black his moodboard was all black guys and in the first 2 eps you can see his hands and theyre dark skinned"

[noelle-v]

What a great view 👀😏

[dumpingscreenshotshere]

This just feels so wrong. So now Volot is not canonically Black. Now we have this basic white sprite

[jun3lily]

tf is this? white volot?? no thx. im a part of russian fandom but i don’t claim him☠️ he looks like a 90’s gopnik

[salisburyliam]

💀💀🥵🥵

[indomitable-mrs-barkley]

[yeullove]

Tried using White!Volot in my other slot and my goodness I couldn't take him seriously. I could only see him in Adidas tracksuit and knock-off Burberry cap 😭😭😭. The season finale did not hit the same with Wholot 😭. Sorry 😭🙏🙏🙏.

[bouquetstatue]

while racism with volot + the mc in the russian fandom was not... surprising to me? (i didn't expect it but many russians, and by extension eastern europeans, do hold outdated views, so it's not new to me) i think it just drives home the fact that white russians will never consider poc as russian or "like them".

russia is home to MANY indigenous people and i've seen so many stories, as a person with heritage to the sakha people, from other indigenous people who are always made to feel like outsiders because they don't look russian enough. they're, quite literally, publicly shunned and people saying that volot/lada being dark skinned ruins the "accuracy" of the story about slavic mythology forget that poc russians are still... russians, they have a place in russian culture.

also, let's not forget that, while being a minority, some central asians are also considered slavic. and they do not look "stereotypically" russian.

this definitely is a problem with most slavic/eastern european people because they assume that apperance determines your heritage or your blood, it does not. to say that a poc who has slavic blood, spoke a slavic language, was raised in slavic culture isn't slavic just because they're a poc is extremely racist.

[zvonkayatishina]

Volot 'And the Haze Will Take Us' by Romance Club

/Commission/

[fayromance]

The talent in this fandom is saving this scene for me 🙏❤‍🩹

Just look how beautiful those CGs would look like if the RC devs would simply bother to draw them!! 😭

And it's just a sketch, I'm crying at the thought how breathtaking actual CGs would look like

I know Volot romancers shouldn't get everything and I agree: we need to share resources evenly among LIs. But that's exactly why they shouldn't have wasted their energy drawing the stabbing in a vision CG and should've given us a gorgeous first kiss CG

Source

[dmitryswifeyy]

You are like the stars in my empty night sky. ✿︎ Lada x Volot

[romanceclub-confessionss]

Confession:

"Now that the long-awaited white male LI has finally arrived in the Haze story (Hallelujah 🥳🥳 amirite, guys? 🤪) I have to ask again Was really so necessary to race-swap Volot? People who are only capable of having feelings for white men could just wait a couple of updates and finally get their prize The Black erasure was completely unnecessary and it's frustrating to see how many people supported RC in this racist decision by choosing the white option

Also it's funny how the white guy gets to be canonically white and no one is demanding for an additional Black version. What if I want a Black option for that LI? Will they race-swap him for me? It's clear as day that "giving more options to the players" means erasing a character's Blackness and giving racists a chance to avoid Black people"

[noisykoalacollective]

I'll say this. Changing the skin color of a character in a game, namely when we have a choice between one or the other, is not racism. In this case, the developers satisfied the requests of Russian-speaking players who wanted more authenticity for the Slavic setting. (But don't forget that having a white character doesn't make him a Slav, ahem). But this was not done immediately, but was done already when the character was already initially conceived as he is. Therefore, in principle, I can also understand the bombing.

Racism for the most part is an insult and jokes about colored characters (for a minute - there is a choice, for example, gg) or people who prefer them that way. I've seen it here many times. That is, if the negative reaction is directed solely at the skin color or nationality of the character, no matter in the real or fictional world, and this is accompanied by insults or jokes, then this is also a form of discrimination.

Everything is the same on reddit now, but in the opposite direction.

The situation is complicated only by the fact that for some representation is important, and for others cultural conformity (although they immediately warned that this should not be expected), which is not present in any story in the Romance Club: neither in the Nile, nor in Kali, nor in Li.

There are no rightists on either side.

[dumpingscreenshotshere]

I keep winning