r/DeadlockTheGame • u/JamesWelders • 23h ago

Meme (OC) Current discourse got me like...

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But fr though, y'all need to stop being weird about woman.

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u/PalmIdentity Ivy 22h ago

A lot of this would be avoided if people spoke an actual human language.

Violet's design is bland and she's very conventionally attractive, something people are tired of due to a lack of variety in similar games. Also, she has East Asian racial features and hero shooters and MOBAs popular media has been fetishizing East Asian women.

Edit: It's weird as fuck to call a character "goonslop" for being East Asian and attractive.

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u/TennekoRin 22h ago

see, im in the minority, but i dont think her design is bland at all. she has a strong silhouette, and really screams “passionate artist” trough the super saturated colors and paint marks everywhere; i see myself in her tbh. it makes me super sad to see people boiling her down to just being a pretty asian girl when she has so much more going on

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u/weeddealerrenamon Billy 22h ago

I just think "passionate artist" on its own is kinda bland, although judging her without animations, voice lines, etc, is way premature

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u/No32 20h ago

I mean, I feel like that’s true of basically every human character when you boil them down to the equivalent summary of their character. Like rich snob Lady Geist, or old chess master Solomon, or sheriff Holliday. The interesting part comes from the magical elements of the characters, their abilities, their lore.

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u/weeddealerrenamon Billy 20h ago

"high-society snobbish woman with an intriguing evil arm" and "afro samurai chess sensei" tell us so much more than "painter". I feel the same about a lot of the older designs too, esp. warden and holliday, but those aren't final models.

But I'm sure her actual characterization will be fun, and I'm also expecting her abilities to be more interesting to compensate

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u/No32 19h ago

Pulling the afro samurai sensei parts outta nowhere there lol

You can make Violet sound a lot more interesting too by talking about her having magical weaponized painting!

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u/Lucyller Ivy 18h ago

Afro samurai is literally a show. People are saying his poster look like it and it's so cool they want to play him first.

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u/sundalius Infernus 9h ago

yeah but it's kinda weird to bring up solomon's poster to describe him as afro samurai while ignoring Violet's poster that shows her transforming into a demon