I finally found your channel!! Found you through “The Chaos Protocol” on transplaner! I love your performance as Seir and it’s shocking that your channel so underrated! I can’t wait to see more of your content! Take care :)
1:31:30 this mention from Sea is so interesting to me, because I can't possibly see those characters as white, because they, like, literally are not white, they are green or grey or blue. The fact that one can project whiteness on a character that is not of a human race is weird to me. Like whiteness and even blackness or other race-ness is too human for the fantastical world of d&d/TSS in my brain. Even for a character like Dr. O who is light skinned/"white" in art is not white in my brain because even though they are human, they're still in this like a fantasy world that is a different "human" than our worlds "human" and therefore, my brain for some reason can not compute them being a human race. Its weird because I feel as a human the default is for humans to try to humanize things that can't be humanized like fantasy characters but that is not how my brain processes fiction.
I actually want to push back on this a little - I think that stripping characters of their ethnic, historical, and cultural touchstones is an act of assimilation and feeds white supremacy. These may be fantastical people in a fantastical setting, but the POINT of Andake and the Second Stranger is that these fantasy worlds, characters, and stories are rooted in AAPI mythologies and culture. Removing characters from this intentional context does the work a huge disservice - because as people and players, we ARE calling on specific touchstones, and that matters a LOT. It matters that Abiku and Kostas and Gentle are Black, it matters that Citlalli is Latine, it matters that Rev, Mercy, Cain, Halo, Dr. Oluso, and many other NPCs are Asian. (I must also, as gently as I can, point out that Dr. O isn’t white or light-skinned, and never has been described or depicted as such - their art is literally color-picked from photos of Connie) so to say that you don’t see them as such because it’s “fantasy” is something that I actually think should be deeply interrogated. That’s part of WHY characters in CHAOS are so explicitly described as people of color - so their identities cannot be erased, overwritten, or overlooked.
@@c0wsrcool_ Sea has already done a fantastic job in outlining the precariousness of this line of thought. It is deeply important that we uphold and see the cultural touchstones of characters & performers. When playing Voska, I as a performer am informed by the artistry and poetry of my own desi heritage as well as the storytelling pillars that inform her growth, love and strength. To separate that concept of desi-ness away from her would be to ignore a huge aspect of her character. The same goes with Seir, who is deeply informed by my experience as a specifically South Indian masculine person.
