HERETICS RISE FOR GODKILLER: LAST HOPE | DICEY BANTER 

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.