#this aint anti bb this is anti writers being fucking racist

[dragynkeep]

My interest is piqued 👀 Please go off about Nevermore.

The thing is with Nevermore is that I like the song itself. I like the beat, and really fits with how V6, imo, has the best soundtrack out of the volumes with the exception of Big Metal Shoe.

But the lyrics are so fucking bad.

One of the biggest issues before going into specifics is that this song has Yang commenting on the Faunus racism and Adam's reaction to it when this is not her place to say anything. She does not get to tell Adam, someone who's not only a Faunus who lived in the most racist kingdom, but also had been enslaved and branded, that he was not the Faunus' saviour and that his ideals and goals were inherently selfish.

I'm even mad that Blake is saying shit about it, as I'll go into, but at least she's of the same race as him and has a leg to stand on. Yang should've just shut the fuck up.

Now going into specifics, I'm not going to go through line by line since there's some that're just alright and fit the general vibe, but I will make a comment on that it's funny that Nevermore is so focused on Adam on what he did personally to them rather than the Faunus Rights fight as a whole, while This Time actually focuses on the Faunus as a whole.

(I'm not counting that as Blake and Ghira, that stupid twat didn't do anything to actually help his daughter and Sun in the whole Menagerie arc. Plus, This Time is also incredibly tone deaf but that's what you get with anything surrounding the Faunus racism in this god forsaken show)

You talked of subjugation,

I answered your violent plea.

Youth and infatuation,

kept me too blind to see.

This part isn't so bad save for the way Blake is kinda putting herself on the same level as Adam when talking about subjugation, because she wasn't.

Before Blake even joined the White Fang, she was living with her very much alive parents, in their giant mansion, on an island that was populated solely by Faunus.

You could've gone into how overpopulation and the seemingly lesser economic wealth of Menagerie meant that Blake was nowhere on the same level as rich humans, especially Weiss, but when compared to literally every other Faunus in the show, Blake is nowhere near as oppressed as she and the show want us to believe.

And again, the whole thing of Blake being too blind to see that violence is wrong, while still using violence whenever something stands in her way, is hypocritical and annoying. Don't protest too hard, but also don't look at how I, working for a mostly human run organisation that's pretty much fantasy cops, can beat the shit outta you and preach when you guys don't protest as I want you to.

You think you're someone's hero,

you're hiding more than your eyes.

This. This is the line that started me off.

First, Yang shouldn't be saying that Adam isn't being a hero to the Faunus, or that his perception of liberating the Faunus was wrong. It's not her place at all to be saying any of this, and I would much rather just take Blake saying it because at least it's a Faunus saying this to another Faunus.

But the second line boiled my piss.

Yang knows what's under Adam's mask, specifically why he wore the White Fang mask beyond wanting to hide his identity. He was branded by the SDC in the eye, very likely blinded by it, and has had to carry that trauma and shame for the rest of his life.

To have a human come and make a comment on it, especially in the accusationary way that Yang does by equating his mask to him hiding his true desires of being glorified, is fucking racist.

I challenge your weak manifesto,

the goal of a saviour is not to be lionized.

This is also racist. Again, Yang should not be putting herself as even an opponent to Adam's ideals around Faunus liberation and protesting against the racist society they live in.

The comment to not be lionized is meant to call back to Adam's song, Lionized, in the short, but again, this should not be Yang acting like she knows what she's talking about. It's not her place to tell the Faunus anything on what they're doing for their rights, which is why I wished either the civil movements were Blake's lyrics, and Yang's just stuck to how he won't keep her scared anymore, or just fucking get rid of Yang.

I'm tired of Blake and Adam's storylines being reduced down to shitty abuse and whoever's buddying up with Blake at the moment. At least if this was Sun, it wouldn't be as racist.

One of the few times I will admit that I'm glad it's BB over Monochrome. This would've been so much worse.

Back when it started,

I thought that justice was your goal.

Not overly racist but I'm making a comment here that I hate how Adam's anger and want for revenge was reduced to spite and going against justice.

What would've been justice for him was bombing the entire SDC company. I'm tired of shows framing anger towards racialised bigotry as wrong and not justice, when it very much fucking is.

The chorus isn't anything particuarly bad. Just meh, but I do wanna say how I liked the use of Nevermore in the actual song.

You offered hope, salvation,

gave me a place to be.

But your vision of liberation was all about you,

it would never apply to me.

This being Blake's line is so funny because this is literally what she and her family has done. They have denounced the White Fang for turning to more aggressive methods, methods that Blake has admitted to be working, and yet shows no hesitation in using violence against the White Fang themselves.

Ghira literally got shot because he was too stupid to actually fight back against the clearly muderous humans attacking him, and then lectured Adam for having to kill one after dispatching most nonlethally. Now I know where Blake gets it from.

But also, Blake had a place before Adam. Again, Blake lived in Menagerie, she was the Chieftan's daughter. Blake had more power and ability to actually do something than anyone else has, especially Adam.

Can the show please acknowledge this and not jump on the Blake is powerless to do anything train?

There's no cause to celebrate,

another soul consumed by hate and spite.

Not hate and spite, justified anger towards racial violence. This stinks of the white racist writers.

There's no pleasure, there's no joy,

it's just a story of a boy who lost his way.

I'm gonna say it now, I don't get this line.

This line reads like they're talking about a whole 'nother Adam, one that actually had depth and the berevity surrounding an abused boy who didn't have the help needed to move past his trauma.

The Adam in the show is a hate sink. The writers have constantly talked about how much they hated him, his VA talked about how his lines made him ick, they behaved as if this character was a real person and not a bunch of pixels that they created and that they made into this way.

And when they decided to appropriate specifically black struggles to slap onto Adam, all for the controversy and shock value, that just makes this line even worse. Because canon!Adam wasn't this lost soul worthy of pity, because there was more to him than an abusive racist who abused one main girl and permanently disabled another.

He was a flat, one note, racist ass character that the writers used as a warning towards minorities being too traumatised and angry towards their oppressors, as opposed to the polite and meek cute girls that stand there and ask for their oppressors to maybe give them rights.

Those are the main lyrics that I wanted to highlight, and overall Nevermore really is the epitome of the wrongs behind Blake, Adam, and the Faunus' storylines. Nevermore was the conclusion of Adam and Blake's arcs, but rather than showing two people molded by hardships and having to fight with their opposing ideals, we got a queerbaited racist ass ship with the white bitch deciding she's allowed to speak at this TED talk.

Girl you shouldn't even be sitting at the table, gtf outta here.