Biggerington

#borderlands 2 is baylee

Thank you, Ben! I only post bangers, as you know. I really don't get it, though. You also make a very good point in the tags mentioning that it is very strange when others want Jack to be a racial minority So, So Bad yet also completely ignore the actual brown characters—the allegory is much more impactful if he were white considering how Roland, a black man leading the main revolution against him, is murdered and then Jack (racistly!) puts on a blaccent, pretending to be him to the player and then proceeds to mock him. You really cannot get more in-your-face about it when it comes to Handsome Jack.

Yes, Jack is my absolute favorite character in the series and I even consider him one of my favorite characters across all of fiction, I will admit this shamelessly, but whenever I see people draw him with dark skin, I raise an eyebrow, and you should, too. Not every character out there should recieve these headcanons—now, don't get me wrong, I'm not saying people should stop having fun, I don't really take issue when fellow brown individuals feel like projecting their skintone in characters they like, but I usually only see this flavor of Jack drawn by white people. My theory is that white artists do this to come across as more "woke," if you understand what I'm trying to say here, but they fail to understand the undertones they implement when they draw him anything but white.

No, Gearbox is not free from criticism (as the fandom is more than aware), and there are a lot of anti-Native or generally racist elements (you see how the Pandorans are or arguably even the manner Tina speaks—as much as I love her, you can like her and also just accept that yeah that's a little racist coming from Gearbox), but there was a clear intent in the message they were trying to deliver as they criticized corporations and their white supremacist CEOs.