The Blanketfort (crying and throwing up) - The Official Solas Thread [Spoilers]

 Still reading through posts and catching up, but this bothers me so I will address it regardless. Pardon if someone has already posted about it.

Quote: "Briala is depicted as white in Inquisition when her description is that of a woman of color."
Based on the descriptions above. PoC is NEVER implied. Every description is pretty imagery and numerous ways for an author (who likes to expand and use words beyond 'brown' and 'tan') to paint a picture of their character.

Your first highlighted, I'm sorry but there are many shades of 'white', tan included, and not every white person has light/fair hair. Our hair comes in deep browns (nearly black) and in some cases, god forbid! black.....(that's sarcasm since your posts have taken a tone of implying white people can't have dark hair)
Second highlighted- Ummm...think of the culture (very reminiscent of old Europe aristocracy) brown hair would be considered 'ugly' and not desirable for someone of noble birth, just like how not being pasty as shit would mark you as low-born. Why? Due to it automatically marking you as working class.
Third highlighted- I believe my last sentence explains this pretty well but I will say it again. Working outside, being a servant= darker skin. NOT because you are a PoC but because you're not a little vampire and the sun has had a chance to touch you.
Your other highlighted are once again, pretty descriptions of stating tan skin is clashing against ghost-white fabric and ghost-white lover. Any hints of gold/brown/etc. in your skin when placed against pasty/ghosty/fair as hell/whatever you want to describe it as, WILL make you look dark.

Apologies if this was addressed already or it sounds dickish, it just bothers me when labels such as that are placed where they shouldn't be. It is just a disservice to the author who went to the trouble of creating a setting only for it to be warped solely to push an issue that is not even there.

Edit: Balls, of course it made top...

Pffftt....I don't know where to even begin....so by your definition anyone who isn't described as having ghost/porcelain skin is a PoC. Aiya...well I was pretty thorough in my basis for each of your highlights and considering I have now caught up on the thread, I will end this here. You obviously haven't read many books that use imagery otherwise you wouldn't harp so adamantly on Briala being anything but a PoC. There have been posters before me who have discussed and refuted your argument with logic and sound reasoning yet you are beating this non-existent horse quite determinedly. At this point anything I write is basically like speaking with my carpet. I know when to spot individuals who refuse to yield or admit they may be wrong even when mountains of facts and examples are lain out to them.      

*gasp* the anime disease!

TME stated Briala is black? I haven't gone through TME so I apologize. I only posted in relation to your quote.

Edit: Actually I retract this because there is no actual basis for your claim. It's still you just pushing an agenda.

If by "rebuked" you mean you provided absolutely no evidence that MLK was against diversity in entertainment, then sure.

You know there are many skin tones in what one could consider a white person, and some of those can be dark when up against pale white right?

For example: 
 These two ladies are sisters and both white, and yet Ashley looks dark compared to her sister Sarah. 

Except we're addressing Briala, whom Celene (in TME) described as having "dirt brown" skin. I guess I'm less inclined to go through ridiculous lengths to say that a character who is specifically described as a woman of color is actually white because, while Inquisition depicted her as a white woman, TME described her as a woman of color.

"Dirt brown" was a description of the color of Briala's hair, not her skin, in the quotes provided.

Her elven lover made soft sleeping sounds, and Celene stroked her hair absently. The black curls lightened to gray with the pre-dawn light, then slid to the light brown of cinnamon as the sun brought colour to the room.

Dirt-brown, Celene had called it, when Briala had waited upon her as a girl. Horse-dung brown, an ugly shadow of Celene’s spun-gold locks.

... Guys, this is going round in pretzels now and it's obvious that nobody will budge from their position. Apparently all "darkskinned" people are POC, logic be damned, etc.

This is really not worth those few pages - you'd better try and invent what else is there that we can actually talk about that we haven't talked about ad nauseam

To be fair, Hanako is replying to your direct argument that Solas, Sera, AND Briala were supposed to be PoC even though your basis of Solas being PoC was due to some CONCEPT sketches. Concepts change all the time, it's why they are called concepts. By that same token why aren't you rambling in circles about Solas being bald? How dare the developers ignore us hairies???!!

Did you say pretzels so I wouldn't do this again? Because I'm gonna do this again because pretty colors.



And Solas!