#damara.prtsc

[nekropsii]

didn't damara SA meenah on-screen?

I have no clue what this is referencing, but. Hm. Yeah, though I'm finding it difficult to take this the same level of serious as whatever Cronus, or Bro, or Doc Scratch, etc., has going on. This seems like more of a throwaway joke that's characteristic of the era than anything. Another way to put it, I think this may be more of a Hussie Moment than anything.

Damara's, uh... Sexual Harassment bit is a pretty complicated one to address and untangle, because on one hand, speaking on Watsonian terms, it's supposed to be read as a Trauma Response - this is how she lashes out at people who have previously hurt her. We know that's specifically the case, and that she isn't always like that, because we see her interact with characters that aren't the Alpha Trolls, and she's perfectly nice to them. On the other hand, the Doylist reasoning behind her Sexual Harassment bit is, bluntly, that Hussie was being Racist about the fact that she's Japanese.

So, on one hand we've got some very emotionally difficult trauma writing, and on the other we have Racial Caricature. And these things are tangled together so tightly it's difficult to speak purely about just one of these angles.

Generally, Damara's weird Sex Crime thing is supposed to be seen as funny, in an... Uncomfortable, Edgelord kind of way, rather than it being a character trait that has any degree of seriousness or commentary behind it, like Cronus. Hussie was attempting to say something with Cronus. I don't think she was trying to say anything in particular with Damara's Sex Crimes bit, other than "Isn't it funny that the East Asian girl is Aggressively Sexual, rather than submissive and shy?"

...Which could be taken as a rather uncharitable read, but it's kind of hard to see it as anything else, considering some of the stuff Damara says, and the fact that she was canonically quite meek and kind prior to Rufioh, Horuss, and Meenah tag teaming her mental health.

But, yes, technically she does. That's an accurate statement. Meenah doesn't really seem to care about it that much, though, and the comic doesn't take Damara's Sexual Harassment of the Alpha Trolls seriously whatsoever - plus we have clear Doylist + Watsonian reasons behind why she is doing that - so... Eh... I just find it difficult to raise any pitchforks at her. The narrative sure as shit doesn't care, you know?

[nekropsii]

They're all so fucking funny.