I don’t know if anyone here is as invested in Fortnite as I am, but I thought I’d post. Just for fun. Kind of. And ranting purposes.
Anyways.
This is Brite Bomber.
She’s a Fortnite skin. In Season 5, her and Drift get together, which has lead to a multitude of stories about them being together. But. There’s one peeve I have with a lot of the stories, it’s that people always seem to make Brite… white. I read one fic where her mother described her as ‘lightly dark skinned.’
And here’s some examples of art of her, where’s she’s been whitewashed.
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I guess this is small potatoes for a video game like Fortnite, but this gets on my nerves. Like, look at her. She’s not white. Is it that hard to portray her with darker skin? Ugghhh,
To a lesser extent, Drift has gone through this, too. I consider him to be Japanese, at least partly, but there’s not that much evidence pointing towards it so it pisses me off less.
The only evidence I have is the kitsune theme he uses and this official merch.
Drift kind of has his own problems with whitewashing in-game, even.
Anyways, thanks for reading my little rant, oof. If you have anything to add, please do.