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#i have also seen venezuelan hcs and i like that too
semiconducting · 1 year
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my 2 cents that no one asked for but sometimes i see ethnicity hcs for the td characters and i notice that a lot of ppl hc courtney as mixed latina and asian of some variety (usually south asian, somehow specifically bengali which piqued my interest...as a bengali) but i remember that it was around tdas or something that fresh posted these like. bios or some shit and they like Forgot that courtney was previously stated to be latina n listed her as asian. or maybe it was a tweet from tom mcgillis or smth i don't remember exactly but! i get now these days ppl are like oh just make her Mixed. All Canon! and if i were to have gotten into total drama post-tdas i probably would say the same HOWEVER. AS A SOUTH ASIAN i dont like south asian courtney she's fully latina to me and that's how i've always seen her i can't change it
#i just feel like the cultural pressures on her are a little different if she were latina vs south asian#& i find it more compelling if she's latina idk. like i love her there are components to her personality that i relate to a lot#but honestly she'd be veryyyyyy far removed from the culture if she's sposed to be bengali for example.#NONE of the bengali women ik act like courtney at all.#i say this AS a bengali who goes to a college w an unusually large bengali population specifically#& also i live in an area w/a high latino population and i did in high school too#i think if ur gonna bother w hc'ing a character of a certain nationality u should like. do it with thought right like#their relationship with their culture etc ESP if they're in a country like canada or the us#and courtney at the start of the show is obv a very repressed rule follower...#she learns to let go later both to have fun w duncan in tdi but also to be angry and scrappy in tda#my mom and i are the only bengalis i know who openly express that kind of rage LMAO#and my mom is like. a Very rebellious bengali woman she's prudish by american standards but she heavilyyyyyy rejects her heritage#point is. courtney would be different if she were desi i think.#if she's only latina you don't have to remove her from having or participating in cultural values or traditions#which i think is somewhat in line with her character. she's not Uber traditional but i can't see her as deliberately rejecting all of it#anyways. this was much longer than i meant for it to be#i just have so many thoughts#point is i hc courtney to be puerto rican <3#i have also seen venezuelan hcs and i like that too#shut up mega#LMAO
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wlwanakin · 2 years
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do you have any grell hcs
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hihi yes i have SO MANY it’s kinda crazy how oc-like she’s become in my brain lmao. like she has LORE. but anyway feel free to ask for more specific stuff (i have a whole backstory mapped out for this bitch like the obsession is a tad absurd) but i’m gonna drop a few general fun light ones:
she was named grell after her paternal grandmother’s maiden name and she chose not to change it cuz her grandma was the only family member she had who she even remotely liked
unethically nonmonogamous. despite her being a hopeless romantic she is also a commitmentphobe and her automatic response to relationship problems is revenge via fucking someone else. she loves the idea of relationships so bad but she is too fucked in the head to be a good gf i fear
that being said her only Committed Relationship as of 1889 has been madam red. needless to say that did not help on the grounds of her commitmentphobia (my hcs abt her and madam could be a whole novel i have mapped out their entire relationship)
she’s a fake ginger and lies about it being her natural hair color. there are like 2 people at dispatch who remember that she showed up as a brunette and a handful who have seen her on the rare occasions where she’s having a mentally ill moment and doesn’t touch up her roots but she’s collectively gaslit most of dispatch into believing her (william does not believe her but he hasn’t actually seen her with brown hair he just doesn’t buy it for no reason)
she also has freckles that she covers with makeup. hashtag freckle grell truther
ethnically she is german-british on her dad’s side and venezuelan on her mom’s side and that started as me just being like “haha she’s latina cuz i’m latino” but NO I DID RESEARCH I CAN MAKE THIS HISTORICALLY ACCURATE I PROMISE. LATINA GRELL REAL JUST TRUST ME
this truly does not even scratch the surface of the version of grell that exists in my brain but enjoyyyy
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