Question about a muslim character

So, one of my background characters is inspired by a rl friend of mine. She wears a headscarf but almost never long sleeves, just over the shoulder, since she kinda shaped her religion in her own way… Now I showed one scene with her character involved on the episode forums and I right away got someone telling me that the characters should wear long sleeves. I don’t know how to solve this situation since I am scared more people will give me that kind of comments, and I noticed I lost motivation to write just because this situation is rather complicated… I mean I don’t want people to feel like I am being disrespectful while I just show a realistic, modern and strong moslim character… I thought about writing her background story so perhaps people understand, but it’s so not matching with the rest of the story since the character is just a background character with barely any scenes in the story…

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I’ll tag the people who can help you with that:

@PensiveShadow, @liyahsdiamond

Note: it’s “Muslim”, not “moslim”.

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Thanks for the tags! Ohh, yeah I just noticed… Dutch auto correct sucks on an English forum :roll_eyes:

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We do not wear over the shoulder tops with Hijabs. We wear elbow length sleeves to long sleeved with Hijabs. I don’t know who your friend is but that is high inappropriate to wear with a Hijab.

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(Short sleeves too but only if it’s not to the shoulder)

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Yeah I know it’s really not common at all, and I do realize people find it inappropriate… She usually wears something that’s like one third covering the arm, so a little shorter than elbow… But I guess I will take the character out because I feel like too many people find it inappropriate even if I would explain her background story…

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You don’t need to take her out, just dress her correctly.

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Don’t make it complicated. It’s an easy fix.

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Yeah but if it’s based on my rl friend I don’t want to make her someone she isn’t, I don’t feel comfortable with that, so then I rather choose to replace it with another character :thinking:

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Okay.

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Is that all?

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Yeah, thanks for replying!

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Question has been answered! :heart: