/lit/ - Literature

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>Vargas reinforces stereotypes that POC are violent and poor students.
i don't have this stereotype at all, nor is it in any way implied by the game's story. Vargas isn't even a poor student, he's an excellent one. that is indeed his problem. nor does his violence have anything to do with his skin color - to say nothing of the fact that they're learning martial arts, ffs. what if he simply chooses to exceed his limits? these things happen. Kefka chooses to do this also. race has nothing to do with any of this, or gender, and anything you are reading into this is entirely your own. Duncan doesn't give a shit what color he is. my guess would be that all he cares about is who can do the techniques.

>And don’t get me started on Kefka, a very homophobic construct.
this would be interesting if Kefka being gay had anything to do with his character or why he does what he does. he's experimented on by Cid - don't you know the lore? nobody cares about his sexuality, it's his proficiency with magic that actually matters. he's really fucking good at magic. and he blows up the world too, but what does this have to do with his sexuality? there's nothing in here about hating gay people. people are perhaps predisposed not to like him because he blows up the world. but this is because FF6 is a story about nihilism at bottom.

>The character, Locke is a glorification of Enlightenment values of white people stealing things that don’t belong to them.
hilarious

>What if Locke were black? Would he still be a hero?
General Leo is black, and guess what? nobody fucking cares. the appeal of hacking the game to recruit Leo comes from the fact that he's *awesome,* not because of his skin color.

i honestly can't believe you think these things are for real, like anyone would be dumb enough to unironically conflate White with Hero and Black with Evil. it's so mind-bogglingly stupid i can only assume you are just bored out of your mind...or at least as bored as i am...

>Or would he, like Dadaluma, be just another NPC for the (white, male) gamer to mow down?
Dadaluma's fucking cool. i wish i could recruit him as a secret character. i'd prefer that i *didn't* have to kill him so that i could add him to the party instead - again, and not to fill out a demographic quota. i just think having a martial-arts crime boss from Zozo would be cool.

i can't even get mad at this stuff anon, it's just too silly. but if you feel you need to talk about it more, go nuts.