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ok, so this is a a general blog for my isat art and isat reblogs (isat spoilers are untagged so dont go in here if you havent finished the game! unless youre devious and you want to), but its also about my oc astor who is a post game version of the king, and the king in general because i liek him :]
also, please dont use my art as profile pictures or similar things...
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tired: odile said shes not friends with the party and agreed that theyre family because shes the group mom/grandma/aunt/whatever
wired: odile is aplatonic and sees the party not as friends or family but a secret third thing. they are her relatives. "family" paints too domestic and idyllic a picture but she looks at them and goes yup i am related to them. our lives affect one another. where they go i will follow and they would do the same for me
i don’t remember where i saw this, it wasn’t an idea i came up with by myself, but i think one of my favorite “unique ways the Change Belief can be kinda shitty/imperfect” is the idea that they would not really get why cultural appropriation could ever be, like, a problem.
maybe they adopt other people’s practices as ~cool quirky aesthetics~ that come and go like fads. because they love sharing and expressing their own faith in personalized ways! they love trying new things! how could it possibly be disrespectful? things fall in and out of fashion. they have traditions and rituals and symbols but they’re never cemented in place as immutable fixtures of the faith. and that’s a sign of growth, flexibility, and individuality! it seems so strange to just do ONE THING forever, right??
but maybe things that are rich and meaningful in another culture/religion get swallowed up, stripped of the depth of their history and context, decoupled from their origins as they’re passed around, until they’re absorbed into the miasma of “different ways to express your faith in the Change God” that ~someone, somewhere~ came up with.
like “asking for favors” (wishing) at a Favor Tree.
on another “ways the Change Belief can kinda suck” front, it’s also really important to me that Mirabelle’s struggle reconciling her identity with her religion isn’t trivialized as Just Anxiety or some minor, mostly personal problem that’s super easy to “fix” postcanon. if amatonormativity could be "solved" by Just Telling Everyone that asexuality and aromanticism exist, it COMPLETELY cheapens Mirabelle's conflict and the courage of her resolution to "Change the Change Belief."
i think most Vaugardians would ACT like that’s the case. this can't be a REAL problem, can it? everyone is free to choose how and when they change! of course we support people who don't change in these specific ways, too :) isn't that obvious? oh dear, we thought that was obvious! thank you for telling us, so sorry for the misunderstanding, but well, now you know you have nothing to worry about (you were worrying about nothing)!
i think, always, about how Bonnie said they HAD to get their ears pierced when they were younger. how the Vaugardians in the party didn't even consider that earrings might be so standard in their cultural fashion norms BECAUSE earrings are directly linked to their bonding customs. which of course just about everyone does eventually, and even if they don't, it's just fashion, right? :) it doesn't really mean anything nasty or insidious. (if earrings were really just accessories, why wouldn't children be given the choice of what to do with their bodies? why would they have to get them?)
Mirabelle is neither sheltered nor naive. she has the biggest social network out of the entire party, she has taken over a hundred classes, she loves reading and studying and learning. but she didn't even know that other people like her existed. their voices aren't heard, their stories aren't known. that's pretty telling!!!
how many other customs, turns of phrase, story tropes, etc. are constantly and subtly reinforcing the pressures that Mirabelle was feeling, just in ways that are invisible to people who are raised into them? people who have the privilege to be supported and validated by them instead of minimized and dismissed?
i think Vaugardians would be plenty eager to change things and accommodate the Savior of Vaugarde on a surface level, but they would struggle to identify deeper structural causes that need addressing in the long term. the relaxed and lackadaisical attitude resulting in not taking people's concerns seriously, or seeing it as an individual problem rather than a collective issue that's worth spending the time and effort to thoroughly understand. (obviously people can just choose not to wear earrings anymore when they grow up! but isn't it still easier to just give everyone piercings when they're young?) even followers of a religion that prides itself on its capacity for Change aren't immune to stubbornness or being stuck in their limited worldview. we see that with how the party treats Siffrin and his beliefs, and that's certainly not resolved the second they become aware of a problem existing.
to tie it into the idea above, i think a lot of followers of the Change Belief would have a self-image of being SOOOOOO welcoming and accepting and open-minded that it can make them dismissive and blind to their own biases. we're being so nice and accommodating and flexible! (if you have a problem, obviously it's not our fault!)
siffrin voice i am quite fond of femtanyl on spotify
portrait mod real now
extremely funny result of making a portrait mod is that it's just how siffrin looks in my mind now n actual official art is disconcerting
siffrin has always looked like this. why is the cover art lying to me
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its been a while since i posted here. astor enjoying a plate of cookies
friends and i were discussing king as a beautiful woman & literally the only thing that changes from canon king isat is that he’s wearing a he/him pronoun pin with a lesbian flag behind it. you agree
notice how the king isat's racial marginalization tends only to ever be invoked by fans in order to further villainize him. Interesting
there's a whole conversation to be had about this phenomenon I've observed, so let's have it.
siffrin and the king are heavily coded as indigenous. while it's true that cultural loss and being diaspora is not exclusive to any particular race, it is also true that most people in the real world who have this experience are people of color. they are, at the very least, ethnic minorities in the country of vaugarde who are dealing with a horrific mass-scale loss of their culture.
however, they are drawn as pale-skinned. according to id5, while they have afro-carribean features, they are white-passing. (the authorial decision to make them white-passing is a whole other can of worms that I have complicated feelings on, but that's a different conversation.) and so, most fans end up treating siffrin in a way that suggests that they just view him as white. him being an ethnic minority is often passed over in fan content, and he is centred and discussed and treated in a very similar way to how white protagonists usually are.
this is a difficult thing to articulate, and it's hard to point to particular examples to explain what i mean. but as a fan who has been in a number of different fandoms, including for media with nonwhite protagonists, there is a palpable difference in how most fandoms view and treat protagonists that they understand as poc versus how they treat protagonists who they understand as white. siffrin is not often* sidelined, treated as aggressive, given stereotypical racist tropes, or treated as an accessory to his white love interest. which is why I say he is very much treated as white.
but. however. the king, on the other hand.
there is a way that fans discuss villains they dislike and view as white cisgender men, and there is a way that fans discuss villains they dislike and view as people of color. the king is frequently treated as both. as an assumed white man, he is treated as the pinnacle of an oppressor in some stories -- he is written as racist, misogynistic, transphobic, wealthy, privileged, cruel. and yet, there is also an awareness of him being an outsider to the dominant culture. and so he is also often portrayed as a heavily accented brute who lives to brutalize small, pale waifs. in short, he is white unless his diaspora status can be used to villainize him further, in the fan consciousness.
both of these are huge, massive, incredible problems, but none of them make me as upset as one particular tendency. which is that, if his grief and loss is ever touched on -- the main point of his character, the most sympathetic aspect of him by far, the thing that makes him a foil to siffrin -- it is often only to make him more villainous. his grief, as a man who lost his home and culture, is treated as inherently suspect or even insincere for some reason by white fans.
his love for vaugarde, his clear desire to treat his opponents with respect (at times,) the pain that he is in, the fact that his worst tendencies are directly analagous to siffrin's worst tendencies, a character the fanbase adores, are all discarded frequently in fan content. there is little desire to engage with any of them.
and I'm not saying you have to like the king, or fixate on the king, or even woobify the king. i like him a lot, but part of the reason i like him is because he is a nuanced villain who does bad things. what I'm saying here is that his interiority is almost always discarded, ignored, or treated as suspect by fans in ways that feel extremely dismissive at best of the fact that he is a diaspora character. it is in fact racist to view cultural grief as something that cannot be valid or sympathetic, even if the ways he acts on it do make him cruel to other people.
i would like the fanbase to do better, both by siffrin and by the king. though i am not a person of color, the island being lost is the element I loved the most about this game, and I am frequently bothered by how poorly it is often handled in fan content. silver has addressed some problems in their own post on the subject, but I wanted to put forward my own observations here. please do better.
Mirabelle Plums!! 🎀
My attempt at coloring Mira... i had no real direction for this until i looked up the actual fruit!
actually now that i think about it "the king knew euphrasie and wanted to repay her kindness which is why he froze her house specifically in time" just. slots so perfectly into the narrative and into islander euphrasie theories and gives her another connection besides siffrin and mirabelle its just a very nice headcanon
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I’ve been made aware that some people have flagged an issue with the ISAT merch from certain vendors where characters are showing up with lighter coloring than they have in the game.
First, I want to thank everyone for their patience while I spoke with the vendors (in this case, The Yetee) directly. I wanted to have all the information before I made a more direct statement, and I think it’s important to make this clear; I hear you, I appreciate this being raised, and I will be working with the Yetee to ensure the next round of restocks for all affected items don’t have this issue again, as well as any vendors I work with going forward.
Also, I want to make it clear that as a POC myself, I would not tolerate white washing of my characters! I have been very vocal and direct working with everyone around ISAT from merch to marketing and beyond in ensuring the cast is depicted properly. These are not white characters, and even in the impacted merch, that is abundantly clear. Further, as you can see, it’s something that is consistent across other aspects of the same impacted characters’ design, such as Mirabelle’s cloak. This isn’t isolated to skin tones.
To give a bit more detail on why the pieces of merch look lighter, it is due to the printing process. When producing printed goods, whether that's on paper, acrylics, or vinyl, the colors you see on screen are not always exactly the same as what gets printed out— if you've ever fiddled with RGB vs CMYK colors in an art program like Photoshop, you already have an idea of how finicky this can sometimes be, even with grayscale tones. This is why Pantones and set color guides are important when producing merchandise. Moving forward, The Yetee and I intend on reevaluating our ISAT color guides to ensure that characters' appearances are appearing physically closer to what you can see in-game.
I appreciate that people care so much about these characters and how they’re depicted. I want to stress that I would never move forward with anything (merch, marketing asset, whatever) that I felt was deliberately misrepresenting anything I made, or the characters in them.
Lastly, we appreciate The Yetee being so receptive and immediately proactive in wanting to fix this as soon as we reached out, and going forward we'll be more mindful with any additional merch partners to help ensure color accuracy/matching to official artwork. Thank you as always for your patience and understanding!!!
Quite interesting to put that in the replies so I'll do the honours and put it in the main post since it appears you're quite busy taking a "healthier approach" to the racism that you've contributed to, of all things
some people think loop should get siffrin's hat. others thinks bonnie gets it. i propose this compromise
Pro tip: blocking a black person for saying “hey your merch is getting whitewashed and I wish you weren’t vague regarding this because other people in the notes are genuinely getting confused and making light of the situation because of said wording” is not helping your case. Hello? How is that holding yourself accountable. In what way.
This is what I said regarding Adrienne’s response to her merch getting whitewashed:
This is because of different people in the notes making jokes, and assuming it to not be as serious or not specifically about whitewashing. I wanted to help clarify and was not meant to be hateful. Adrienne’s response was to block me and only me so that my post wouldn’t show up at all in the notes for other people. I wonder why that is:
This is not a cool response to have to someone politely asking you to not whitewash your black cast.
