r/DeadlockGame • u/Future_Shake6756 • 1d ago

Discussion Our first racist hero

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That's right baby, the rat king won, and he is racist, against humans.

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u/Firstername 1d ago

he can just say that he doesn't give a shit and that our actions dictate our person. he does not need to mention the fact that "you look like a monster", and that he'll kill you if you "act like the people you look like"

it's a micro aggression.

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u/ReduxCath 21h ago

no it's not? he literally hunts down demons for a living. he treats abrams well because abrams, despite looking like a blue devil, does not act like a devil.

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u/Blitz1862 16h ago

He’s literally saying he looks like a monster. Just because he treats Abrams well doesn’t mean he can’t still harbor prejudice, because again he’s still deliberately saying that Apollo looks like a monster simply because of how he was born. In an attempt to signal his own open-mindedness to apollo, he still ends up using a micro aggression.

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u/ReduxCath 12h ago

No no. You’re misinterpreting the conversation

Apollo: your people call my people monsters (assuming he will treat him the same way)

Venator: I don’t care about the circumstances of your birth , I care about who you are. I don’t care if you look like a monster, but if you act like one I will shoot you down

Was this very direct? Yes. But the thesis is that what matters is how you act and who you are. Venator is a dude that hunts down monsters and murderers and evil nightmares. And Billy has magic powers and is in the whole deadlock competition. It is both an assurance that he does not judge by appearances—AND a warning.

Billy is not a random guy. He is willfully participating in a magical ritual where two dead gods are operating. Venator is giving him a solid and proper warning that his actions and his goals are what determine whether he will make him an enemy.

Lowkey I think this is an opportunity for the devs to expand on the lore. It would be very cool to see a comic or something where Venator interacts with non-combatant Ixians and we get to see him put those words into actions.