Small discourse from the Fortnite fandom

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.

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Well, this is related to Fortnite… anyway…

My nephews love Fortnite. I downloaded it in November after buying a new laptop so we could play it together, and at the same time give them the opportunity to practice their English with me while playing. Unfortunately, a week later, their dad made them delete me off their list of friends because he has this “Kids cannot play with adults online even if they’re relatives” rule. So, I decided to continue playing whenever I have a little spare time, and later get together with the kids and discuss it. They really love this game, and their faces always light up when we talk about it.
So I do not have the skins that you’ve mentioned because I didn’t start playing until chapter 2, season 1. I do know about Drift with the kitsune mask because the students I had last year were always asking me to bring them drawings of Drift.
One of the skins I wish I had gotten was the Catwoman one that came out in October, but it was no longer available once I started playing.
That Brite Bomber skin is really cool, by the way.

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