i am the one who kiniches

honestly im not really sure if its clear to those who arent indigenous or otherwise genocide affected, but natlan's fourth act and really just the idea of abyssal invasion (obvious metaphor for genocide and colonization) and corrosion and havjng to balance the preservation of culture and memory against everything else (clearly indicative of cultural and ethnic cleansing and protecting against it) are so.......extremely powerful. fighting and just having to watch people drop and witness all that is lost and cannot be reclaimed is very poignant and i hope people dont fail to realize this because this does mirror the effects of imperialism and colonialism irl and that remains relevant to this day. if its horrifying in the game, please realize this is what real life indigenous people and many others have faced in history and still are facing now

as retrospect later on, a lot of people did miss this it seems like. it's unfortunate honestly. i'm glad a lot of people in the notes did see it, but it does worry me that so many didn't. by no means will i ever glaze natlan's character designs because indeed we were robbed (especially with it being implied by datamines that they were originally darker skinned but some higher up forced a change (nauseating)), but the writing i feel is being dismissed as boring or bad and to be honest it hurts a little as a native american — an indigenous person. more than that, though, it's worrying that people are not recognizing blatant colonialism criticism and metaphor. the abyss encroaches on a society that has been fighting it off for centuries, and claims hundreds of lives and erodes the culture continuously leaving the tribes in disarray to the point of depictions of post-war trauma and things like mavuika having to sacrifice all of her artifacts in her room for the sake of saving lives. it could not be more obvious. people not recognizing it is more than a little frightening, especially as this tirade of genocide terrorizes indigenous peoples to this day with very few eyes on it. when you are fighting back the abyss, you are supposed to be noting that they are the metaphorical colonizers trying to creep over a land and the night kingdom (the most blatant symbol of cultural erosion as the ancestors of natlan are desecrated and waning away). natlan is not the nation of war because they are violent, it's because they are forced into a war and they have no choice but to fight, and they inverted the violent savage racist stereotype on its head in a way that relieved me quite a lot. however, people are not getting it. something about a story of colonization and a native population's efforts to stop it being brushed off as boring just because people seemed to expect the nation based off brown and black people to be violent sits badly with me. basically, listen to what the story is telling you. it's not boring, you just are lucky enough to not be affected.

honestly im not really sure if its clear to those who arent indigenous or otherwise genocide affected, but natlan's fourth act and really just the idea of abyssal invasion (obvious metaphor for genocide and colonization) and corrosion and havjng to balance the preservation of culture and memory against everything else (clearly indicative of cultural and ethnic cleansing and protecting against it) are so.......extremely powerful. fighting and just having to watch people drop and witness all that is lost and cannot be reclaimed is very poignant and i hope people dont fail to realize this because this does mirror the effects of imperialism and colonialism irl and that remains relevant to this day. if its horrifying in the game, please realize this is what real life indigenous people and many others have faced in history and still are facing now

as retrospect later on, a lot of people did miss this it seems like. it's unfortunate honestly. i'm glad a lot of people in the notes did see it, but it does worry me that so many didn't. by no means will i ever glaze natlan's character designs because indeed we were robbed (especially with it being implied by datamines that they were originally darker skinned but some higher up forced a change (nauseating)), but the writing i feel is being dismissed as boring or bad and to be honest it hurts a little as a native american — an indigenous person. more than that, though, it's worrying that people are not recognizing blatant colonialism criticism and metaphor. the abyss encroaches on a society that has been fighting it off for centuries, and claims hundreds of lives and erodes the culture continuously leaving the tribes in disarray to the point of depictions of post-war trauma and things like mavuika having to sacrifice all of her artifacts in her room for the sake of saving lives. it could not be more obvious. people not recognizing it is more than a little frightening, especially as this tirade of genocide terrorizes indigenous peoples to this day with very few eyes on it. when you are fighting back the abyss, you are supposed to be noting that they are the metaphorical colonizers trying to creep over a land and the night kingdom (the most blatant symbol of cultural erosion as the ancestors of natlan are desecrated and waning away). natlan is not the nation of war because they are violent, it's because they are forced into a war and they have no choice but to fight, and they inverted the violent savage racist stereotype on its head in a way that relieved me quite a lot. however, people are not getting it. something about a story of colonization and a native population's efforts to stop it being brushed off as boring just because people seemed to expect the nation based off brown and black people to be violent sits badly with me. basically, listen to what the story is telling you. it's not boring, you just are lucky enough to not be affected.

honestly im not really sure if its clear to those who arent indigenous or otherwise genocide affected, but natlan's fourth act and really just the idea of abyssal invasion (obvious metaphor for genocide and colonization) and corrosion and havjng to balance the preservation of culture and memory against everything else (clearly indicative of cultural and ethnic cleansing and protecting against it) are so.......extremely powerful. fighting and just having to watch people drop and witness all that is lost and cannot be reclaimed is very poignant and i hope people dont fail to realize this because this does mirror the effects of imperialism and colonialism irl and that remains relevant to this day. if its horrifying in the game, please realize this is what real life indigenous people and many others have faced in history and still are facing now

as retrospect later on, a lot of people did miss this it seems like. it's unfortunate honestly. i'm glad a lot of people in the notes did see it, but it does worry me that so many didn't. by no means will i ever glaze natlan's character designs because indeed we were robbed (especially with it being implied by datamines that they were originally darker skinned but some higher up forced a change (nauseating)), but the writing i feel is being dismissed as boring or bad and to be honest it hurts a little as a native american — an indigenous person. more than that, though, it's worrying that people are not recognizing blatant colonialism criticism and metaphor. the abyss encroaches on a society that has been fighting it off for centuries, and claims hundreds of lives and erodes the culture continuously leaving the tribes in disarray to the point of depictions of post-war trauma and things like mavuika having to sacrifice all of her artifacts in her room for the sake of saving lives. it could not be more obvious. people not recognizing it is more than a little frightening, especially as this tirade of genocide terrorizes indigenous peoples to this day with very few eyes on it. when you are fighting back the abyss, you are supposed to be noting that they are the metaphorical colonizers trying to creep over a land and the night kingdom (the most blatant symbol of cultural erosion as the ancestors of natlan are desecrated and waning away). natlan is not the nation of war because they are violent, it's because they are forced into a war and they have no choice but to fight, and they inverted the violent savage racist stereotype on its head in a way that relieved me quite a lot. however, people are not getting it. something about a story of colonization and a native population's efforts to stop it being brushed off as boring just because people seemed to expect the nation based off brown and black people to be violent sits badly with me. basically, listen to what the story is telling you. it's not boring, you just are lucky enough to not be affected.

honestly im not really sure if its clear to those who arent indigenous or otherwise genocide affected, but natlan's fourth act and really just the idea of abyssal invasion (obvious metaphor for genocide and colonization) and corrosion and havjng to balance the preservation of culture and memory against everything else (clearly indicative of cultural and ethnic cleansing and protecting against it) are so.......extremely powerful. fighting and just having to watch people drop and witness all that is lost and cannot be reclaimed is very poignant and i hope people dont fail to realize this because this does mirror the effects of imperialism and colonialism irl and that remains relevant to this day. if its horrifying in the game, please realize this is what real life indigenous people and many others have faced in history and still are facing now