#laios is beautiful in his odd little way

[cowboythewizard726]

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[eldhuug]

no one else can say what your intentions were but its really…odd to draw the brown character in a pairing as a huge beast while the white character is just a normal guy. especially when youre white yourself

Hi anon, I don't take this lightly, so I'm sorry if my answer to your ask is a little too long

The comic was made as a spoof of the beauty and the beast movie, with the monster being what I hoped was similar to the movie design with the image description making it clear what I was referring to. The two characters in question, Kabru and Laios, have wildly different attitudes towards monsters. Laios, the white man, has a deep and intense love for monsters that would subvert the point of the movie which I hoped people would find amusing as a play on their characters.

It was in no way my intention to play into the stereotyping of brown characters as beastly or predatory, especially as he turned back into himself and looks like he does in the series without any features changed to make him appear bigger or more aggressive than he is. I have been very aware of the trend in which black and brown men have been made bigger/more aggressive and assertive I'm ways that are often distinctly out of character and always rooted in racism for a long time and have done my utmost to avoid it in my work. If I have failed to do that, I'm sorry.

 If my work comes across as pedaling racist stereotypes I'm not going to defend any intention I might have had, as my intention wouldn't matter since I am white and I sincerely apologize. 

Through the process of making the comic I posted it on my private Twitter and did not receive any reaction that my work that it was out of line or offensive, and while I do trust that my friends who are POC would notify me if I was drawing a comic rooted in racism, I also know this can be difficult to do and I don't want it to come across as mindlessly pushing the responsibility on to my friends when it's entirely mine.

I hope I have addressed what you were wondering about, and if there is anything lacking with my response or anything else you wanted me to connect on, my ask and messages are always open