An announcement for further depictions, themes, and representation. Along with an apology for our mishandling of racial themes throughout the campaign, and clarification on main character representation.
Mikey: Hi, everyone. This is an announcement tackling the issue of our depictions of racism in this universe. We set out to bring more attention to the topic, and greatly mishandled it. More specifically-me. I did. I didn't properly research the topic before starting a podcast, and used sources that were not prevalent to the perspective of minorities in America. Moving forward we want to retcon the racism out of the universe and focus more on the themes of the military industrial complex, fascism, capitalism, and classism. I'm personally sorry about my mishandling of this topic, and putting my best friends in the situation where they have to depict these scenarios, so we're stopping that. I also want to specify that from now on we will only depict things we understand and perspectives we have. We also want to have fun and enjoyable stories that we can make accessible to as many people as we can to avoid exclusion.
Nathaniel: About speaking only on experiences that we know personally, I wanted to clarify that my only intention for Patches is to portray her reaction due to the trauma I saw the character having been through. I do not want to claim that she has an established disorder or condition such as ptsd and I don't want to pretend that I understand what that's like to be going through that, so I just wanted to address that.
Connar: As for my character, Val, she was never designed to represent an oppressed people for any sort of racial reasons. Uh, canonically the triton kingdoms are designed to be more pseudo socialist societies where they maintain the majority of the economy for individual profit. It's more of a classist issue than a racist one with the tritons.
Josh: Yeah and for my character, Xerces, he’s..I decided to be a demon. When I think of demon in like a DnD sense, I think of like a murder hungry, wants to eat souls, evil demon, that's how I depicted Xerces as. I didn't wanna..That's what..that's how..that's what demons are in this world.
Mikey: We're gonna stray away from the racism by cutting it out entirely. Moving forward, we kind of want to make sure we're saying in our lane, and portraying what we do portray correctly. So, if you see us mess up, feel free to let us know on our social medias. I will go back, either trying to cut it out, if it's something I can't cut out, I'll do the best that I can and put an announcement during the break and take off monetization so we don't profit off of us doing something problematic. As for bonus content, any...most of our bonus content is heavily based in the racism of the universe so well probably end up taking it down. Other than that, we're sorry and we plan to do better.
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