Now that so many people are throwing or will be throwing their fancasts out into the world I wanna remind you all 😊 that
- the illyrians
- the bat boys
- emerie
- helion
- lucien
- Amren
- Thesan
ARE NOT WHITE ………..OR BLACK! Don’t white wash them but also don’t erase their true ethnicities
If you care so much about the characters not being white washed and representation then don’t just give them whatever non-white race/ethnicity you please and call it a day. (Really this goes for fan art too). There’s barely any rep for brown poc and asians so stop erasing them, stop with the “creative liberties”.
And one more thing before I go: Don’t gatekeep the skin tone of brown folk. Someone can have light brown skin (hell every really freakin light brown skin) and still be a POC, not white or whitewashed. Just because their skin isn’t brown or dark brown doesn’t mean they don’t “count” or are being “misrepresented” as a POC
