kicks open a door ok sera and merrill race thoughts gimme pls
omg omg omg meg i have so much salt on the matter like a whole rock salt mountain maybe… like, the entire elven narrative of race-wide trauma and the incredibly long timespans of slavery and displacement and the erasure and dilution of their stories. that’s a narrative that’s intensely aligned with people of colour and it absolutely confounds me why… there are so few elves of colour. especially especially for characters like merrill and velanna whose entire stories are about elven stories and history (velanna more about creating and merrill more about reclaiming) like… whereas zevran (canonically brown elf) has a story which isn’t really about elven history at all, it confounds me that with elves whose stories are explicitly about elven history, which are fundamentally and blatantly meant to be an equivalence to the histories of people of colour… bioware could possibly make them white, or meant to be read as white?? it’s so. ignorantly colourblind that it makes me furious. anyway i think merrill and velanna are both native hehe. brown merrill is best merrill tbqh!!!
omg and on sera’s end!! i love black sera i’ve seen black sera around, but also asian sera (obviously not mutually exclusive but)!! sera’s story is like. someone alienated from her people and at odds with the culture that she’s technically from but is also forcibly associated with. so like, that’s… not the story of a white girl to me, that’s immediately identifiable to me as the experiences of diasporic/immigrant poc living away from the “homeland”, and as the experiences of transracial adoptees!! asian adoptee sera is super important tbqh,,,,,, and things like her carer being like, “(dude from town) was awful to you specifically because you are an elf” becomes so much more valuable and resonant if sera is also a young and small brown girl. also like… sera is Tall For An Elf, so sera being a tall asian girl who is consistently told she is Too Big for who she is. be still my gay heart
everything is so much better tbqh if you read it as the coming of age narrative of a queer girl/woman of colour though…………. i have a lot of emotions for say like. liara and tali’s character arcs in mass effect to be read as the character arcs of young queer girls of colour who come to terms with themselves and become queer women of colour! at least liara and tali are not blatantly the Wrong race in canon. you sent a really short ask but my response was long and salty and gay. im so sorry,,,
