Rosesonapond

the rwby fandom using monty as a gotcha against people talking about how orientalism features heavily in rwby, especially the v3 - 5 era is hilarious cause like. what happened to the rule of not bringing up a dead man?

do you think just because he was chinese / japanese / vietnamese & cambodian mixed that he could speak for all asian countries, when there are 48 countries in asia currently? or that he could recognize the sexualization of asian women?

or the fact the amount of dark skinned characters can be counted on less than two hands in his era of writing the show where a majority of the “asian” characters are light skinned? that the asian characters in the show are mainly east asian with one dark skinned south asian woman in sienna & she’s on the bad side. where’s the north asians, southeast asians, south asians, west asians?? where’s the darker skinned rep considering colourism is an incredibly large problem across asia? where’s the individualistic rep, not continuous amounts of white characters dressed up in orientalism or east asian characters that’re blindingly white.

“stop using a dead man as a gotcha” only works when it goes both ways.

Adam taurus Christmas icon

I like their relationship in the early volumes, and wonder about the alumni that came before rwby. I wonder what their relationship was like during their beacon and atlas academy days.