"This lovely rat running on dog hardware
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oh yeah, a rat if i've ever seen one, i can imagine this guy yanking on a white boy's hair like it's his job
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Thinking about before his teeth grew fangs and eye's turned red...
(I gave him Marie Antoinette Syndrome and I think he was a sun elf)
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dude ,. off valley batter in that damn hoodie is making me act UP i need him so bad yyou dont understand i need him to. no i shant say it. but good LIRD
sorry. sorry for coming into your inbox unprompted and thirsting. you need to understand batter is my blorbo, my babygirl, my poor little meow meow, none of these words are in the bible SORRY i just needed to show my appreciation for hoodie batter and the comcept of off valley as a whole
Honestly, when I was designing the characters for OFF Valley, I didn't think that Batter in a hoodie would slap so hard. Thank you for enjoying him and the concept. ^^
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Another point of discussion on TotK is “it’s racist/colorist/colonialist/imperialist that Ganondorf, the sole cause of most of Hyrule’s problems, is a poc coded foreign man.” (Foreign to Central Hyrule, I guess.)
While you’re all super valid for being on guard about that… Rauru, the guy Ganondorf initially starts beef with in TotK, is also a poc coded “foreign” man.
Apparently there is concept art of TotK Rauru as an old white guy. That was probably based on the Rauru from OoT, and likely from earlier on in development. The final version of TotK Rauru is not only younger, but the coding of his people’s culture is both Mezo-American and [Correction] East Asian.
Also, [Correction] the Zonai descended from the sky. They literally like… immigrated to Hyrule’s surface.(It’s not completely clear unless I forgot something but either Rauru and Mineru came down themselves recently or they are the descendants of immigrants.)
Now, pointing this out isn’t to imply poc cannot be imperialists. The Chinese Empire is a historical rollercoaster ride of imperialism spanning several dynasties. The Persian Empire, the Aztec Empire, etc. Hopefully it’s clear here Rauru is not somehow immune to skepticism just because he isn’t white coded.
It’s just… if the primary basis of the concerns that TotK is imperialist propaganda or colorist is the belief that Rauru is white coded… he’s not. Judging by his clothes and his people’s architecture and iconography, Rauru is coded as poc.
He’s not the only one, either. Zelda is white passing but overtly canonically mixed race. Sonia is brown. Zelda’s dad Rhoam was also visibly tan. Hylians overall have much more variance in skin tone and cultural coding than they did in previous games (Lurelin villagers, the stable folk, etc.) It seems Nintendo learned from OoT that one poc sage wasn’t enough to offset the colorist/racist implications of your main villain being a dude from the desert who takes over a country of pale people.
So all in all it really doesn’t seem like Ganondorf is being othered here… Rauru is also an “other” to the ancient Hylians but he’s their leader.
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oh peepaw please don’t be cross we’re doing our best and we love you very much
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Pretty redbone shawty from a good family? Oh I know the alphas back in the day were CLAMORING for him
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