So I was thinking about which characters to do for the Melanin Beam challenge, and some time I thought about doing one character and his family (they're my favorite characters from their game and I wanted to do some cool stuff with their designs). Unfortunately, since then, I've played more of the game and it turns out that the dad ends up abandoning his kids and has a strained relationship to them (though, it's a fantasy game so it's because he died and got possessed by a god and not because of his actual personality. Also, bad things happen to a lot of the other parents in the game, because fantasy). Is there a way to avoid the deadbeat dad stereotype (even by, say, putting them in an AU where the possession thing doesn't happen), or should I just pick a completely different character?
Just draw the characters. If he got possessed and died, then he's not a deadbeat dad 😅 there were very valid circumstances that led to him not being present in his children's lives. Narratively, even if the family believes that's what he is, that doesn't mean that we don't know that he isn't. I have lessons on stereotypes, please refer to them 🙏🏾
Lowkey kinda love the idea that he's a deadbeat for getting possessed. lmao





















