𐔌 Spidette ♡

now onto the post:

it’s obvious that hoyoverse takes inspiration from cultures for each country (genshin), character (hi3) and planet (hsr), boothills planet had lots of things from native culture from what i’ve heard (more so boothill himself) and seen, his design is representative of plains natives/south western natives and mexican vaquero’s, mostly natives because of his clothing.

commonalities:

-long hair (we take pride in our hair, many tribes have different meanings for our hair being long and it is common for both men and women in tribes to grow their hair long, sometimes braiding it sometimes not)

-feather in the hat, these are used to show affiliation with/rank in tribes

-unsure of what exactly the little like strands on the blanket on his back is for, but our attire commonly has it, especially things like regalia or the capes/blankets rangers and cowboys carried with them

my issue is that they were openly racist about it, using our genocide to make the ipc look like bad guys (i understand they’re like public enemy number one in game, this isn’t the point), and once the ipc destroyed the planet their reasoning was that “they were uncivilized savages” (real racial slur against native american people). and that’s it, that’s the only form of “representation” they gave. that he’s visually native and that the IPC is racist to his people.

this is my fucking issue - the fact that this million dollar company had the chance to idk, spread awareness? make people see our culture if they’re gonna use it? not fucking kill them off because they hate minorities and poc??? this is kind of going off on a rant but as a native american i am fucking SICK of media and companies using us for some shock value bullshit, i can only imagine what racist stuff they’re gonna pull in natlan (genshin nation of pyro) since its supposed to be precolombus america and mexico.

update 1:

wow i’ve discovered that hoyoverse also made it canon that the ipc not only colonized them - but also put them on reservations on another planet with only the elderly and children so that they could die out - what the fuck!!