silencingthedrums:

pancakesprince:

kurgy:

bruixeria:

I still cannot believe we live in a world where people think Cassandra and Sebastian Vael, and now fucking Krem, are not white. Like, when is DA fandom going to grow up.

you know you could argue Cassandra and Sebastian, people do all the time, but Im curious how you see Krems blatant dark skin and think “ah yes look at this white man”

they 

are not

white

The thing that BOGGLES MY GODDAMN MIND about the OP’s argument is, what the hell is it to you that they’re not white unless you’re a white supremacist fuckwagon? I mean, if that’s the case, you’re a literal shitbag and there’s no sense debating with you.

Why do you even want to argue that? Why does anyone want to argue the whiteness of any of the characters?? The only answer is racism so if you’re taking that stand maybe you should not.

It matters to me that they are white because every single brown and black char in the games so far has been given a narrative of (often sexual) abuse and slavery. It took us 3 games to get Josephine and she’s not a companion. I have no doubt the next brown and black companions in DA4 will always have horrific histories of abuse and slavery, because that’s the only way Bioware can conceive of us existing, apparently.

But fandom looks at this and then goes “The solution to this is to take these white chars, clearly intended to be white by their creators, and pretend they aren’t white! That totally makes up for the meta-racism that pervades Thedas.”

No. I’m not satisfied with that. White people like Cassandra get to be the heroes in Thedas, with an ideology and a desire for justice. People who look like me are Zevran—the companion you can kill before even recruiting him. Fandom sticking their head in the sand and pretending that’s not so instead of putting pressure on Bioware to change almost pisses me off more than Bioware themselves.

You guys can recognize the bullshit that all straight chars in Bioware are coded as morally upright/non deviant/religious (Cullen, Alistair, Sebastian, Cassandra) but apparently discussing the shitty treatment brown and black chars get is taboo because god forbid white people have to do an ounce of critical thinking about their faves when instead they can pretend their faves aren’t white and it’s all ok.