If taking asian characters and making them white is “whitewashing” then doing the same and making them black is technically “blackwashing”, but alright then. Let’s call it what you should’ve been calling it from the get go. Backface. You’re bitching that there’s not enough blackface in this game for you. Maybe go watch a minstrel show if you want it so badly.
y you know i’m talking about the skins in the dress up mechanic of the game right? the ‘express yourself endless possibilities your choice’ part of the game? that has no effect on the appearance of any character in the story of the game? where you make your own characters in starry corridor? or your profile avatar? my point in the first post is just that the skin tones aren’t given any effort at all/handled extremely poorly and you are dead ass telling me it’s blackface to use a dark skin tone in a dress up game for fun making your own design/character. holy shit dude. look at yourself. why are you so angry i’m calling out an issue in the game?
You do realize the person you’re dressing up is an existing character, right? It’s Nikki, a canonically pale girl. What do YOU call turning a white person black? Would you rather call it racebending? Expressing yourself is secondary- that’s why the Starry Corridor was implemented months after the game came out; it’s an extra that’s just there as a bonus. There are plenty of little flash dressup games with nameless, faceless paper dolls for you to imprint yourself on. You’re acting all uppity because the devs haven’t molded THEIR character to your exact liking yet. If they want to have a character THEY created be a tiny, milk white little girl, that’s no one’s decision but theirs, and quite frankly, I feel bad that they felt they had to cave to the pressure of everyone screaming about “muh representation” in the first place. I’m dark skinned, but I neither knew nor gave the remotest fuck that I could change Nikki’s skin. Once or twice I did, to see how the dresses looked against darker tones, but ultimately, it didn’t matter because dressing up means putting on clothes, not changing your skin. It’s not an issue with the game, it’s an issue with people who think- wrongly, might I add- that they’re owed representation. This game was intended for asian audiences, and you’re complaining that their efforts to be inclusive to a foreign demographic aren’t good enough for you. If you had a complaint about the way they ran their business or handled their customers, I’d be quiet. But you’re not complaing about the inflation of the price for a carton of milk- you’re complaing that the carton doesn’t accurately represent ALL the cows.
Relatable FE Quote or Something 