ill never give up on this miracle!

yeah! a lot of them in fact! i was actually working on a video to show a bunch of em off, and i was gonna make a bunch of sprites and even short animatics for them, and then i stopped working on it. so this is what i have

my take (that i do not expect to have been the actual thought process from the developers and if they give us more information ill change my headcanon lore) is that in the universe of cotl, sheep as a species are infantilised as a form of their oppression, since abrahamic religions call for specifically a sacrificial lamb

even before the bishops called for their complete extermination, sheep were the favoured victims for sacrifice; how that came to be no one truly remembers, but does that really matter anymore? sheep are typically referred to as "lambs", from the belief that they will die young, either from sacrifice or from other factors (famine, disease, etc that affect them disproportionately due to them being stuck on the lower rungs of the social ladder). they are also referred to as children derogatorily, as is the case with several types of real life oppression

the lamb is known as The Lamb for several reasons:

literal: they are the last sheep alive (until reviving yngya of course) so they truly are The Lamb

to demean them: they are treated as nothing but a child and not worthy of respect. they are just A Lamb

irony: they cannot die young because, as the new god of death, they will never die

but back to temi, her being associated with youth is a little different than the titular Lamb. while she did die young (though she is clearly not a child, since she is the same size as the other adult sheep rather than keru and aza) it represents her wide eyed idealism, her fascination and fixation on death and gore with an Innocence (her title) that can only be described as "childlike". she leans into the infantilisation of her species, but not the way typically expected. she is not weak and frail, she is incredibly strong. maybe not physically but mentally. they cannot break her. if they managed to find her, she would not have given them the satisfaction of her tears

also, according to the wiki (i am unsure if this has been confirmed or just a theory) she was named after the angel Temeluchus, who looks after children who died of infanticide. maybe she babysits keru and aza? this would make sense to me, since the Fleece of Youth (which is not her fleece. her fleece is "fleece of the innocent" and looks like what she wears) is covered in stars

just like keru and aza

i dont know if its been said whether well get more on the woolhaven sheep but i expect temi has some sort of ties to the twins specifically. for her little red riding hood motif... maybe she lead a (metaphorical OR literal) wolf in sheeps clothing to woolhaven and ensured their doom. whether it was accidental or because the little freak wanted to see what would happen, i dont know

genocide apologism extends to fictional characters that look like this

its like... a lot that has built up over a few months so it might be hard to find One Concrete Source but you should be able to piece it together if you look hard enough. but the basic gist can be summed up with how she finds fandom drama to be more important than the safety of her black fans and also these two images

i agree, bad people ARE capable of making good art! for example, there are several musicians i still listen to occasionally bc i still like their music, but i would NEVER monetarily support them in any way because they are bad people, nor do i advertise how i still enjoy them because i dont want it to seem like i support their actions. HOWEVER: the concept of rose tinted glasses is VERY real

in a personal relationship, you can ignore all of someones faults because of how much you like them, and it is only when theyre out of your life do you look back and realise they werent all that great to begin with. its the same principle, even if you dont know the creator personally

maybe you finally notice how corny the dialogue was when youre not fixated on how pretty the visuals are, or that something you thought was an intentional deconstruction in progress was actually just conforming to the creators internal biases, or MAYBE you were just caught up in the thrill of a Community (fandom) where you were having fun seeing everyone else having fun so you werent being as critical as you usually are

I dont think nothing burger mildly egdy jokes makes someone a racist. Escpecailly the when theyve since then apologised and shown since that they do take racism seriously through other statements.

youre right! i would not, personally, say that making an "edgy joke" would forever make someone Racist with a capital R, as long as they apologise and take it seriously in the present day, and dont play the victim OR demand forgiveness which they are not owed. gooseworx has not done any of that

to this day she specifies "genuine racist hateful things" because she is okay with "ironic" racist hateful things

Toby Fox hates mexicans,

Scott Cawthon is republican,

Vivziepop hates women, trans people and black people,

Andrew hussie is Andrew Hussie.

Are there any indie creators who are good people?

okay 1: "toby fox hates latin america" is a huge exaggeration considering he just preferred to personally oversee any translations of his games and he only speaks english+japanese (he didnt even forbid fan translations! he gave his blessing in fact! there just wont be an official one for the time being!) he also didnt translate it into french or arabic despite those each being the official languages of dozens of countries and no one gives a shit about those for some reason

2: theres a lot of good indie creators out there, you just have to actually look instead of letting everything get spoonfed to you via the trending tab. especially if youre including games and comics which may be the two most accessible mediums for an indie creator to dip their toes into. look through itch.io or tapas or even webtoon to see if anything strikes your fancy, become a fan of the work first and if you want to you can look into the creators other projects