I'm ok with tackling dark themes in media as long it's done in a tasteful and inoffensive manner so I get how BFC's backstory and hat design combined with the food's origin are very problematic. But at the same time, she's a fictional character. Plus, there are FF characters who have done villainous acts in their stories and yet the fandom seems to love them regardless. Overall, I understand both sides. I just think blatantly referencing a dark piece of real life history is bad from the get-go.
Black Forest Cake has undeniable similarities to Nazis historically.
Black Forest Cake is a fictional character.
Nazis can be tackled in fictional media if done tastefully and inoffensively.
Therefore, is she tackled sensitively and properly?
Given the nature of Food Fantasy, which is simply ill equipped to handle such sensitive and relevant topics, and her backstory’s sympathetic writing, I would argue no.
Therefore, Nazis are not tackled tastefully and inoffensively in Food Fantasy.
It is not because Black Forest Cake committed horrible acts that so much outcry has broken out. We can have a dictator food soul, we can have a military-themed food soul, we can have a German Food Soul, we can and have Food Souls that have done terrible things.
But did you really have to make the German military Food Soul the dictator who does terrible things to the people they rule over?
That leads to the first item from my bullet list and everything that follows.
I could agree anymore with OP but i would alsonlike ro add something personal about myself i have always been very involved in social work in my school environment and outside. One such involvement was my participation in the second German-Rwandan Student Workshop on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the genocide in rwanda in 1994 and the 70th anniversary of the end of the holocaust in 1945 in april 2015 withe the topic “Dealing witb traumatic past - the only way to avoid repetition”. During this workshop we (a group of 20 student 10 from Rwanda 10 from Germany) traveld through Germany and visited the big concentration camp’s that where directly in Germany and close to the towns / cities. We visited memorials and talked with survivors and their children we also talked about Rwanda and how people would just go from door to door killing entire families because everyone was doing it and they were “cleaning” the country. (Some of the teachers talked about their first hand account of how some people would just enter schools and kill everyone).
So even though i like the real black forest cherry cake i just cant bring myself to over look her backstory because it reminds me of one of the darkest times in history and the death of about 5.6-6.3 million innocent people.
But i also understand why some people are angry about others taking her serious and seeing the parallels because FF is just a cool /cute game for them that they play for fun. But thats the same for me and most likely the others as well so while playing this game and enjoying it we are suddenly confronted with all of this that bfc (unintentionally) represents.
If my post made someone uncomfortable i apologize.
It’s a fictional game about silly food people.
There are moments where we were unexpectedly touched, or affected by a poignant instance. Games have meaning and they do affect us.
But a lot of us played Food Fantasy or joined the fandom to escape from the real world, where there’s rising danger to us, whether is physically, politically, mentally, or emotionally.
And it really, really sucks, to see your happy place bring in something so horrifyingly relevant to our modern day troubles and issues, and handle it with no grace or respect.
Truly said properly...
