#mayhaps even take a break to write for wyll a little bc i need to now even more than before

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Bestie I think we know why Wyll is underappreciated and lacking content 😭 If that man was palm-color, he’d be a big hit… I’m a WOC (Indigenous proud!!) and to see the ONLY canon* BIPOC in the main lineup being severely ignored by the fandom makes me so angry.

*I inserted ‘canon’ in this phrase since Lae’zel and Karlach have unnatural skin tones, they could be seen as BIPOC coded or headcanon as such (I hc both as Indigenous baddies, but that’s mostly just projection lol), but ultimately, they are not BIPOC and are their own separate classification, and I don’t think the developers/writers really had any intention of writing them with any specific race or nationality in mind since this is in fact a fantasy game and those concepts aren’t always translated into media on purpose.

The blatant racism in this game makes me so viscerally angry I start shaking. The rewrite of Wyll to make him less "aggressive" into man-who-can-do-no-wrong because people saw he was black and perceived it as aggression pisses me off. Not to mention he has the least content of everyone, rewrite or no. They were too scared to give him any sense of anger or anything because of racist EA players, instead of saying hey y'all are racist because he's black and this is the story we intend to tell.

Similar thing with Gale and being blatantly ableist in their treatment of him. He's neurodivergent (mostly autistic) coded, and the studio openly joins in with an ableist community to shit on him for BLATANTLY ND TRAITS.

I love the game and I haven't even played it yet, but I am so so so tired of the blatant mistreatment of their characters because they keep caving to fan "complaints". Wyll needs more love ESPECIALLY as the only BIPOC companion and I will eat elephant shit for this to happen.