I wanted to ask- what's racist about Aeon's hero name?
Here is the dictionary definition.
“used in reference to the phenomenon whereby a computer-generated figure or humanoid robot bearing a near-identical resemblance to a human being arouses a sense of unease or revulsion in the person viewing it.
"anyone attempting to build a believable human facsimile also has to beware of the uncanny valley"
It’s, simply put, the name we’ve given to when you see a robot or an animated character that’s supposed to look human, but something is just slightly off, so instead of coming off as cute or funny, it’s just straight up creepy.
By naming her, a Black girl, Uncanny Valley, they are literally saying that she is inhuman and repulsive and inspires instinctive fear and distrust in anyone who sees her.
It’s the fancy equivalent of naming her Inherently Viscerally Disgusting.
It’s just further dehumanizing her more than she’s already been from the start, because they made her into a robot, and a robot literally created to serve humanity.
And god even her civilian name, Aeon, is fucking racist as shit. Oh my god. It’s clearly a reference to Final Fantasy X and the thing it’s referencing literally just compounds all the racist shit into being even more racist.
Making her a robot is bad enough. Making her a robot created to serve humanity is worse. Naming her uncanny valley is disgusting. And naming her Aeon on top of all that? AND WHITEWASHING HER IN HER HERO OUTFIT??
Dear fucking god these people aren’t even pretending not to be racist.
Also this is the part where I have to inform everyone that these writers literally named a Black man Ghetto Blaster and blocked people on twitter when they complained.