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Genshin Impact | Ajaw & Kinich

Like cuties but seriously 😑 where are my darker natives/Latinos

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Yeah I totally understand your point OP. It's just that having the representation in skin tone and what not is part of giving credit to usually unrecognized groups of people.

So although I can already tell the devs have done their cultural research and hopefully won't write anything dumb into lore, it would still be cooler to see a playable character in a darker skin tone. Although I'm not Brazilian myself I hope to see some positive native rep in lore.

"wHy ArE tHeY wHiTe?" "ArEn'T nAtLaNs sUpPoSeD tO Be bLaCk"

Have yall seen the graffiti?

HAVE Y'ALL SEEN THE FUCKING GRAFFITI???

BECAUSE I'M PRETTY FUCKING EXCITED ABOUT THE GRAFFITI!!!

I don't think yall understand how I, a brazilian, feel seeing graffiti absolutely EVERYWHERE in Natlan

In brazil there's a city, São Paulo, thats get called the graffiti capitol

Do any of you guys know how its like to see your country get represented in an INSANELY POPULAR game??? for the first time EVER??

And the cherry on top, without a stupidity obvious xenophobic stereotype?

On a racist xenophobic scale from Average US TV Show to Actual Latam:

Natlan is a solid 7/10 they lose 3 point for not having the entirely of the skin colour spectrum

Natlan still sounds like a win to me

Worst part about Natlan is that no one will actually give feedback because the majority of people are busy thirsting over their new white twink 💀

Please sing if you can!

Reminder that your voice has an affect on the world around you. Email Hoyoverse, leave feedback on surveys, and give the app one star. Not only does it show incredible levels of racism for all the Natlan characters to be lightskinned, but they are also misrepresenting real people’s culture by dressing the characters in the clothes of colonizers. It’s not acceptable, and as long as we have a way to encourage them to change it, we should put as much pressure on them as possible.

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My current theory is that he is a reignited soul but IDK if that will hold

hey do you guys think that xbalanque is capitano's real name and that's why he didn't appear in the trailer

For ref

Natlan World Exploration Guide

Hello, Traveler!

The journey to Natlan is about to begin. Let's explore the interesting gameplay features in the new area together!

man..

Natlan characters nationality headcanons

If your girl…

Is a hydro character from Genshin Impact

Is from Natlan

Is friends with Kinich and Kachina (probably¿)

Is shark-themed

Has been nerfed many times in beta

Is the sweetest, most beautiful girl ever

Then that's not your girl, that's my wife.

ORORUN REDRAW GUIDE !

i think we’ve all seen the atrocity that is genshin’s unreleased character, ororun. the entirety of natlan is a mess really, but as a yoruba person myself i CANNOT keep quiet about ororun specifically.

outside yoruba mythology, in yoruba, ‘Olorun’ (the name ororun is based on, pronounced o-law-roon , with o pronounced as in orange and the ‘roon’ pronounced shortly, not dragged on at all) is actually the same word we often use to refer to God in Christianity. Christianity is the primary religion among us yorubas so honestly, i was kinda glad they misspelled his name. it would feel SO disrespectful referring to whatever that thing is with the same word we use to refer to God who we actually worship. religion aside, genshin’s depiction of Olorun (cultural god, not Christian one) is downright disgusting. i’d never paid too much attention to genshin and its poor representation, but now that my culture has fallen victim to it, i completely understand all the outrage.

edit: please note that while we use ‘Olorun’ to refer to the Christian God, Olorun is just a general word for ‘god’ itself ! for example if i say “God in heaven” and “god of thunder” we know i’m referring to two different beings, in yoruba it’s the kind of the same—the same word is used to refer to both the Christian and other gods, but we know it’s different, even though olorun can be capitalized regardless of what god we’re talking about (unlike english where the Christian God is capitalized and other gods aren’t) at the end of the day though, when we say “olorun” even without context, we are usually referring to the christian God !

1. PLEASE DO NOT DRAW HIM WITH ANIMAL EARS !

i’ve noticed that hoyoverse has this nasty habit of portraying every dark skinned character as wild or animal-esque. kaeya seems to be the only exception to this. even xinyan, though lacking any animal features, has this wild energy to her. some might call it a stretch, but i feel like her features are pretty feline in comparison to other liyue characters.

Olorun in our culture is the supreme god of the heavens. In my opinion, it is disrespectful to liken him to something akin to an animal. normally i wouldn’t even mind that much, but with how hoyo makes its few dark characters more and more like animals, i can’t help but feel weird about it. its really off putting.

2. HIS HAIR WOULD NOT BE CURLY !

majority of nigerians have 4C HAIR. not wavy hair or loose curls. some have 4B, but 4C is the usual here, that is, kinky or coily hair. Olorun is often portrayed as bald in traditional art, but trust me if he had hair his hair would resemble his people’s, not Tyla’s.

DREADLOCKS ARE A YES ! outside nigeria, locking hair is pretty common, but in nigeria a lot of people have locks naturally. our hair sometimes just grows out that way, no treatment no nothing. dreads are 100% an appropriate style, they look good asf too.

3. PLEASE USE CULTURAL FABRICS IN YOUR DESIGNS !

when i saw ororun’s outfit, i almost started crying. they couldn’t even bother to dress him up a little. they really dressed my brother in a scarf and cape and called it a day 😭 upon how fashionable we nigerians are know to be, hoyoverse still made it their mission to embarrass us stylistically. God knows my people have suffered man 😭

ankara is a traditional nigerian fabric that features bright colors and lots of patterned designs. see below:

here in 9ja, we love our ankara. it’s a big part of our fashion here and trust me it would look excellent in your designs. it’s perfectly fine to draw ororun in normal fabrics since he’s a deity and it’s not like ankara existed back then, but if you really want to represent nigeria, ankara is a must 🙏

i’m going to address another fashion piece because if you search up nigerian fashion you’ll see it a lot: beads.

these orange beads are igbo (another tribe here in nigeria) NOT yoruba. does this mean you can’t use it in olorun’s design ? no ! let me explain. tbh, here in nigeria there’s a bit of...tension between clans. it’s not that common, but older people are definitely a lot more tribalist. as a yoruba i love my igbo brothers and sisters, i truly believe they’re the most fashionable clan and i adore their festivities, they always go over the top. please, just look at them:

(only one image because of image caps, ugh)

anyway, we yorubas wear beads too. but the specific way the beads are worn around the head and in multiple layers round the neck is igbo, not yoruba. though i personally wouldn’t care too much if i saw olorun with igbo beads since all i want is for him to at least look nigerian, at the end of the day he is a yoruba deity. it might be disrespectful to dress the god of one clan as if he belongs to another, especially since there is so much historical ( and very slight but uncommon present ) day tension between both clans.

here’s a more yoruba outfit. sorry yall, it might be hard for you to distinguish if you’re not yoruba or igbo, but a lot of nigerians can tell the difference at a glance. ( actually nowadays, there is so much overlap between yoruba and igbo fashion, but there are many specific styles that may be associated with one tribe and not the other, for example how beads are worn in the above paragraph ) please do your research, he’s not only a nigerian god, but a yoruba one.

one more thing, because i know it will start discourse : skin tone.

nigerians have a very diverse range of skin tones. some of us are so pale, if not for our afrocentric features we could maybe pass for another race. however, ororun is yoruba.

light skinned nigerians are usually igbo. not to say that yorubas can’t be light skin, but here in nigeria if you saw a light skinned person, we’d automatically assume they were igbo. igbo people usually have lighter skin tones. majority of yorubas fall on the more milk to dark chocolate end of the skin tone spectrum. i’m saying this now because i know a lot of people are going to start arguments over ororun being redrawn as ‘too light’ or ‘too dark.’ i don’t really care about complexion, but i thought i’d help you all get your facts right.

that’s it ! if you read all this i’m super thankful. i don’t usually post about this kind of stuff but i honestly love my country and could go on about it for days. nigeria is such a beautiful place with a diverse range of cultures— from hausas to fulanis to so many more. natlan was supposed to be Africa’s time to shine, as well as latin americans, but hoyoverse said fuck you and your people. they did this to an extent with sumeru but natlan was done straight up dirty—not a single melanated character in sight, and the only one who does have melanin, iansan, looks so desaturated you might as well call her grey. i saw someone on tiktok call mualani a dark skinned character—it was at that point that i knew genshin was done for.

please REBLOG this post so it reaches more people and artists in the fandom !! this is literally the third time i’m making this post because tumblr refuses to show it in the tags for some reason 😭 i encourage other cultures who feel misrepresented to make posts like this too. it’s a perfect opportunity to educate and inform people about the diverse cultures genshin has once again failed to represent properly.

Hoyo has never been one to make customer satisfaction their top priority, but we’ve been able to call them out before and i truly believe we can do it again. Natlan is not poor design choice. it is blatant racism, a nation based on POC ethnicities with not a single colored character insight. Hoyoverse has been able to escape racism accusations for as long as i can remember, but natlan is the icing on the cake. we CANNOT allow hoyo to proceed as planned without giving them the appropriate backlash.

Also, if you redraw ororun using this guide, make sure to tag me here or on my main blog, @heartkaji !! i’d love to see all your redesigns. once again, thank you all for reading and have an amazing day !!

I was captivated by a gorgeous lady again

um… i hav no excuse for this one

at first i was like omg why are they white i really love chasca then i was like omg i really love mavuika x chasca then i was like omg i really love mavuika x capitano and so this thing was born

fuck genshin DIVERSITY ATTACK!!!

If Capitano doesn't look like this I'm going to rot

Considering that we're gonna be entering Natlan in the next nation of genshin. I have a few words I wanna say on it.

On one hand, I'm so happy we're finally gonna see Capitano and learn about all the new lore, ect!

But on the other hand, I'm really nervous on what hoyoverse is going to be doing with the people in the nation considering the treatment with Sumeru and the fact that Natlan is inspired off of West African cultures and Latin America.

But considering the character designs of Vannessa and Iansan, I have some(what) faith in hoyo (fingers crossed!)

Seeing the Natlan trailer made me drop to the floor il Capitano of harbingers you're my only saving grace of my hyperfixation on genshin still kicking

(Please no leaks in the notes about him)

I turned Genshin and Star Rail visual glitches into Memes

They’re kinda bad

Natlan OC troubles- can someone help me?

So this is going to be complicated and I’m not fully sure what I’m doing, so I’ll dive in simply. Whenever there is a character in Genshin or Star Rail that I tend to favor (they’re all female, barring Sugilite but I’m not going to explain him) I’ll create an OC to ‘date’ them. (Also all female, barring Rayven, but I’m not going to explain him either) However due to recent Natlan controversies I decided to take a crack at a Natlan OC. While technically she is classified as for Mavuika, she’s one of two OCs that is more tied to the lore than the love interest.

Natlan is a huge combination of a lot of different cultures, and for my OC I took a ton of inspiration from Mayan culture. This takes place in the form of the character, which I named Ixchel (after the Mayan goddess). Now since most of my information is from Wikipedia, I want to make sure I’m writing my character’s connections right. Unlike some of the characters in Natlan, I want my OC’s design to carry some of the meaning of the name. For this I decided to give her cheetah [or perhaps Jaguar as what I’m getting is contrasting info] (?) ears and a tail, and additionally have a pet snake (leaning towards a type of cobra). I already know I want her to be a healer, and I’m leaning towards Electro for her element despite Ixchel being the goddess of Rain in certain aspects of Mayan mythology. I was originally going to make her a claymore but am now stuck between whether I should make her a claymore or a polearm user. I am still leaning towards claymore, but I’m not sure if it fees right considered what I’ve learned from various online searches.

I know that I’m never going to get a character perfect. I know her story vastly differs, with her being a traveling healer who specializes in using a skill to take the wounds from others and inflict them upon herself, but if I’m going to use the name I want to at the very least make sure my design matches its meaning. I refuse to be like MiHoyo and only look into what sounds cool. So I turn to you guys for help in making my OC as close as I can get while still being unique in her own right.

Also, have her intended color palette:

Skin tone - #eab676 (I’m sorry it’s so light but around this shade is what fits best in my mind’s eye for her design)

Fur, ears, tail - #ebb678, #e07b39, #cce7e8, #80391e, #69bdd2

Hair color: #69bdd2, #44bcd8

General outfit color: #9444d8, #510096, #c295e8, #a8a0b1, #f1e449, #b19d25, #ffdb05, #f1eddb, #cbcbca

uhhh is it just me or is anyone else having a problem where kinich and kachina's voices are muted, but you can still hear xilonen and paimon??? Like i'm going through the archon quest that came out with xilonen and just started it, but kachina and kinich are muted for some reason. All my setting are fine, and I have kinich as a character, and I can hear him. It's just cutscenes. Any ideas why?

(I really hope this isn't an Argenti and HuoHuo situation again... hsr players will know)