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Nah, I'm talking about the non-Black authors... Now, for some, I appreciate the effort, but bro, why do you have to make it a point to mention my race constantly or revolve everything around my race? Or worse, why assume that we're one singular stereotypical trope as if we can't be nerds, weird kids, cutesy, or literally anything else? You really don't have to do all that.

I have so many problems with the this design so here’s a few

1.) WHY DID THEY WHITEWASH BLUE???????

(^blue for reference)

He’s one of the most explicitly black coded characters in the game and they just ???? Made him the same color as aqua???? Also there is a difference from his outfit and skin so they are changing their color palette but they can’t change it enough to make it accurate? And even disregarding the fact that blue is one of the few explicit black (coded) characters we have in Deltarune, it’s just sorta bad design???? Like there’s no contrast??? He lwk just looks like a blue blob from a distance??? Which shouldn’t you be trying to avoid especially on a shirt? And honestly I have this issue with aqua, Seth, and green as well but blue is the worst one in this case.

He also doesn’t have basically ANY of the defining features we see in his talking sprite most notably his defined lips.. they do draw one line but that’s a far cry from what they could and should have done.

(Said talking sprite is pictured above ^)

Now less pressing details I have an issue with…

2.) WHY IS ORANGE YELLOW??? You already have an orange and a pink in your design why make her yellow?????

(Orange’s sprite for reference^)

And it’s not even so you could tell the characters apart, yellow (the character) has the EXACT SAME color pallet. They somehow made a character named orange NOT ORANGE???? And they don’t even use the pink in the character designs???

3.) now this one is a little nitpick-y but where is aquas red?

(Aqua for comparison^) (sorry we can NOT calm her down)

It’s arguably her second main color and they just ditched it… and you know her red helps with? Her contrast and definability 😱😱 aka the stuff you sorta need on a shirt!!

And honestly that’s abt it…(plus there’s no flowery but they have his flower there??which if you know me you already know how I feel abt that) this is overall a bad design with some racist undertones.. I’m not sure HOW this design got through but I’m hoping they will fix it. It’s a cute concept just executed very poorly.

Here’s a fixed version I mades for example :3 it’s not the best just showing how this could be fixed

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