#responses

For the drabble game: Suchin + Sword

I totally didn’t forget about this.

“They tried to kill me ป๋า , that means I get to try and kill them back right?”

Suchin, at the ripe old age of 13 years old, stares at her father with brown eyes. Normally, while she showed interest in things like running around the town and getting her hands dirty, never exactly showed interest in weapons and or violence.

Until today’s accidental murder attempt (or rather, what the man can piece together from his daughter’s story and that of the community), now did she take interest in both of these things with a heaping helping of vengeance on the side. A pair that would not go well together.

“Little one, I can assure you that there are things that you should leave to proper authorities. That is one of them. However, I do think it’s time I show you how to properly defend yourself. The world’s a big and scary place after all.”

She beams

-

For weeks afterwards, her life became a balance of school, a healthy dose of play, and training. The training sword almost was like an extension of herself. A way to protect herself and those who could not protect themselves. -

“You’re not too bad yourself.”

Her school had sent her on a several week exchange program over to Japan since she was one of the most proficient in the language (not that they had to know that her favorite comics weren’t being published in their region fast enough/or in her native tongue so she taught herself out of sheer force of will.)

With the break to her well maintained routine of 2 years, she knew she had to burn off the excess energy somehow, which lead her to join the school’s Kendo club (probably not the wisest decision but it was either this and bend the rules of the exchange or break the rules of the exchange by getting into a fight).

Which put her face to face with their most proficient member: Takahashi Kenshi.

Excuse me?

I'll be sure to share!

It's just that crossovers generally feel much more like a shallow product than art to me. Like it's not a situation where someone had a story to tell and themes to convey and created the characters needed for that, and instead the plot needs to accommodate every character getting a moment to do their Iconic Thing. And then the whole thing is forgotten like a filler episode. Also the extra characters add bloat to the cast so there's less time to develop anything, and usually the whole crossover premise completely breaks the world building if you think about it for more than five seconds.

That is exactly the issue lol. There is a difference between poc artists drawing characters as a person of color because it makes them happy to see themselves represented, as opposed to white artists who only care about white youtubers that draw them as another race to compensate for the lack of diversity in their interests, rather than supporting someone who isn't white for once.

If uplifting creators of color is important to you, why wouldn't someone draw Manepear, Flamefrags, Pili, or Derapchu? Why would they only draw white people, and discuss them in depth while not engaging with real creators who are not white?

I have also noticed people who do this rarely ever do proper research before posting about these headcanons.

They will draw a character as indian without giving any specifics to their background or culture, because they do not care about representing their race past it's aesthetic appeal. A gold star sticker that they can give themselves for being woke while not putting in real effort to uplift creators of color in a white dominated space.