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#how do yall whitewash a white woman 

And talking about how the new frizz her is her niece, allow me to do a direct side by side instead

These are STILL not the same woman. Where is the icon fashion, the earrings (the chameleon, which might be in the new show idk I haven't watched it), the prominent hooked nose, the broader shoulders, the volume to her hair, the LIFE IN HER EYES

This frizzle looks like she's been called into the school board for inappropriate behavior and dress one too many times and has been broken.

The old bus had a personality and life and fun and now it’s just… a bus.

What's important to remember is that the whitewashy approach to character design in kidvid is a backslide.

Representation in cartoons had generally been on an upswing since the 1980s, even though efforts were often minimal, clumsy, or badly executed. Diversity helped sell action figures in the lucrative US/Canadian market and it was recognized as a prosocial value on the production side.

"Prosocial messages" are a major part of kidvid TV pitches and development, nearly every show has specific prosocial lessons the narrative themes are intended to work around, even if its an action-figure ad. These range from sincere expressions of the creator's intent (Gargoyles, OG Magic Schoolbus, OG He-Man (no, for real)) to the entertainment equivalent of carbon credits.

Slight aside. Actual ink-and-paint animation tended to lock characters down into more distinct tones because there were only so many standard paint colors. Which is why Kwame from Captain Planet, Roadblock from GI-Joe, and Tim from OG magic schoolbus all use essentially the same pantone.

Ralphie gets skinny because not only fatphobia, but I suspect because he would need slightly different rigging and would add just a teensy bit to the budget adjusting his animations when they could just copy-paste from one of the other identically built kids. If they need to put them all in spacesuits or diving suits or whatever, they just make the one body and slap the heads on, eazy-pezy.

Decals on the schoolbus mean they have to be tracked, they have to use different versions of the bus in flipped shots, same with Mrs. Frizzle's clothing patterns. Wouldn't want to spend time flipping Ralphie's "R' around.

And with the marketing for everything now being global, there's an impulse to average everything down to appeal to all markets to a general degree. Making stories oversimple makes them easy to translate. Humor varies culture to culture, keep it slapstick or quick quips that can be localized easily. Everything that makes the Chinese censor boards happy also makes US reactionaries less likely to kick up a protest, the incentive is to keep everything:

ALSO: These characters have the same face. They probably use the same eye and mouth parts for character animations.

It's all to do it as cheap and broadly appealing as possible, as determined by business weirdos who know nothing about art and care nothing about kids, and they're more than willing to leverage racism (or just ignore that its happening) for the promise of a tenth of a percent more profit.

And what's galling is that this kind of animation software doesn't have to make crap. It can be used to make amazing stuff and still be vastly cheaper than traditional hand-drawn, but the same quality at 60% of the cost is never going to beat 1/2 the quality at 5% of the cost for the money-men.

Welcome to Wanderer Sabo AU where Sabo is not doing okay.

He's not picked up by Dragon, instead washing up on an uninhabited island, with some of his memories. And no way off. At least the climate is similar to Goa, and there's wildlife and plenty of fish around.

He stayed there for some six years until he decided no rescue was coming (he was not doing okay mentally and had to put his jumbled memories in order). So he built a raft. The night before departing, he found a Devil Fruit and ate it.

It was the pheasant-pheasant fruit of the mythical variant - Firebird.

Not relying on it, he made his way to Shells Town (his raft barely made it) and from there, lies, scams, stowaway's his way to Loguetown and then the Grand Line. He plans to make as much distance from home as possible without being recognised. Covering his face and pretending he's mute is his way of lying low.

Ace and Luffy will make it to the Grand Line eventually, and he can meet them there.

After a few too many close calls with Marines as he blindly goes up and down Paradise, he gains the nickname Wanderer and a bounty. He's not happy. But what did he expect killing and robbing marines and pirates as he goes along.

The knife is for when he doesn't want to use his abilities.

After six years with no human contact, he's slightly off his rocker and very much feral and doesn't even try fixing it

A batshit crazy genius 

Has incredibly nice handwriting, which helps him communicate when he pretends to be mute

Unreasonable rivalry/ antagonisation of fish 

Fish = all evil

If he calls you a fish-lover, he really hates you

Not a fan of flightless birds (damn fake birds working with fish)

Health Issues

His left eye occasionally hurts and is also barely working. It doesn't look as damaged as it is, but all he can see is black and white blobs at the edge of his vision until he focuses his good eye there

Mildly insane from brain damage and six years of isolation from society

Is lactose intolerant - hasn't had any milk since he was ten

Will sleep tucked into a corner, exclusively on his left side, or even inside wardrobes/closets

Immortal so long as seastone or water isn't involved, he'll heal, but it always leaves scars

Can't heal others, can't heal his past wounds, meaning his brain is just messed up

Feathers in fire, he can turn it on and off, 

A boost to observation, especially when it comes to hostile intent (?), 

Can fly (duh), is incredibly light - his bones are hollow like a bird's

Developed a habit of biting his lips, leading to them being scarred quickly after he got the Devil Fruit 

When learning observation (probably very irresponsibly on his own) didn't learn future sight or anything BUT Presence Masking, basically cloaks himself to make people believe nothing's there or that something else is there

Myriad eyes darting around unblinking. Wildfire ravaging a deserted island. Wings beat over open seas. Scarred hands reaching for a fraying rope.