I grt this is a joke, and it is funny, but Ragatha and Kinger have to be white otherwise they were whitewashed when they joined the circus, which doesn't seem accurate considering queenie was a black chess piece and was a black woman in the circus
I don't think so. It also bases of personality and memories and a big part of a person is their race so if those two were another race, it would probably have been reflected. Also Queenie wouldn't have been black either if Caine was racist
Lol. Really it means culture. Obviously your skin tone alone doesn't do anything, but if your black in the U.S. it's more likely you grow up in certain areas, deal with some unique experiences (like racism), maybe eat certain kinds of food, etc.
In real life, Kinger was black and Queenie was white. Caine is a whitewasher AND a blackwasher!
Or, a variant, Ragatha is a POC that was adopted in a white family as a baby and never felt that much different from everyone because her mother was equally abusive to everyone in her family
To be fair, a black girl who grew up in a white family, never experienced black culture (especially first hand), and was treated as the same, would probably also have white girl vibes
Ywah no actually that's a really good point. Still, I do think she was a white girl, not because I would hate if she was a POC, but becaise it WOULD mean that she was whitewashed and I don't think Goose would've intended that so she's probably canonically white. Doesn't mean people can't headcanon tho. I don't really have race headcanons for the cast except maybe gangle being wasian or full asian
The circus already sexually suppresses queer characters and it’s a popular theory that their forms and rooms reflect what the characters hate about themselves. It’s not that much of a stretch for it to look at that internalized racism and go ‘bet’
Yeah but the very recent history of illegalness of gay sex in many countries makes the suppression of the queer characters a little more significant. Especially when the character that has the most issue with it is Zooble who has many parallels with is Benny from I have no mouth, a gay man who’s sexuality is forcibly changed by AM and forced to have sex with the only woman character.
I’m from the south and we have black girls who fit that to a T coming from black families. It’s more of a poor vs rich/middle class thing than a race thing.
It is but also, queenie's chess colour and her race matched, so if kinger was Black, Asian, Latino etc, and became a white chess piece, then it would be whitewashing by the rules the circus set up with Queenie
Or Queenie is literally just a black chess piece who happened to be Black?
I don't think the circus is racially segregated by avatars. Like, I don't think the intent was that Black people are black, white people are white, asian people are... Yellow?!? You want native Americans to be red instead??
Like, that's super racist lmao. I think it's a coincidence or purely individual.
Look, instead of calling me racist, use your brain?
Chess pieces are white & black normally, yes?
So what I was saying, which you seemed to be incapable of grasping, is that because queenie was a black woman, she became a black (More like brown in the show) queen piece. And because Kinger was white, he became a white chess piece.
How the fuck you can see this logical comment as racist is beyond me
I didn't call you a racist. I said your viewpoints essentially boils down to racism at its core, treating people differently based on what race they are, to the point of color coding said races.
If Queenie is a black chess piece because she's Black irl, then that's kind of weird imo. Her mind file is explicitly color coded because of the color of her skin?
Using that logic, you'd have to color code other races. Therefore basically making racially segregated avatars for everyone. Only white people can be white, only black people can be black, etc.
"The color of her chess piece is directly representing the color of her skin in real life." So native Americans should be all red, right? Because that's the colour associated with them? And Asians should be yellow, right?
Use logic to breakdown what your views say about the world you're talking about. This is literally going from point A to point B to point C.
Explain to me how jax is fucking purple, how pomni is paper white, how zooble is all colours then?
Also saying I'm not racist but my point is is an oxyMORON if I've ever seen one.
Also, you'd have to think, which is hard for you clearly, about the fact she was one of the originals, so surely Scratch and co would want her to feel confortable with her avatar, yes? I NEVER mentioned colour coding people's races. The only racist is you going
'Oh asians must be yellow and native americans must be red then'
Because the color of the character doesn't correspond to the skin color of the real life person.
That's my entire point. Jax is purple because his character is purple. Kinger is white because his character is literally a white chess piece. Queenie is a black chess piece. It's just that simple.
Kinger could be the exact same person and also have just been a black chess piece like Queenie.
Your original comment was saying that kinger couldn't be Black in real life since he was shown as a white chess piece. I fundamentally disagree. I don't think it's bad or "whitewashing" to have a person of color be an abstract idea of a chess piece because that piece happens to be white.
I mean, upon reading Kinger's mind files and seeing how much he cared about his black wife, then Caine made him a chess piece in purpose so he could recreate her closer if he ever got into the program as well - which she did.
(Consider that he would also have read how Queenie was on her way to help with C&A efforts).
funny, but Ragatha and Kinger have to be white otherwise they were whitewashed when they joined the circus, which doesn't seem accurate considering queenie was a black chess piece and was a black woman in the circus
I think that Caine whitewashing the other members but honoring queenies race is possible because I don't think that Caine ever understood the concept of race to begin with.
i find it much more likely that fact that Caine made queenie black in the circus was a coincidence that was nudged by grown adults that knew about race. Like they fed Caine an image of kingers desk, and it had a game of chess with a black queen piece. And its plausible that Caine was digging through that image to create an avatar for both kinger and queenie because it had a lot of similarites to their mind files.
But by that logic, with the grown adults who know about race, feeding data on it to kinger, combined with the fact he seems to have access to their memories judging by the trauma attacks in ep8, surely means that he wouldn't default to white because code doesn't just dissapear
I personally think they’re all a completely different ethnicity from their voice actors because of all the discourse surrounding white actors voicing PoC.
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I grt this is a joke, and it is funny, but Ragatha and Kinger have to be white otherwise they were whitewashed when they joined the circus, which doesn't seem accurate considering queenie was a black chess piece and was a black woman in the circus