Alright monster high tag I’m going to explain you about racial coding because some of you still can’t understand how a cartoon character can be a monster and have a “human race” to go along with it.
So first off we do not live in a bubble. Nothing created exists in a bubble. It is all influenced by the surrounding culture. Black children are going to look at Honey and say “hey, she has hair like mine” and relate to that. Mexican children will look at Skelita and recognize the sugar skull and be drawn to her. Things do not exists in a bubble.
Now for racial coding. Racial coding is when you take a non-human character and code them as a specific type of race, or ethnicity. Now, sometimes racial coding can be racist. Examples:
All these characters are very obviously supposed to represent a certain race even thought they re non-human. The problem is they are represented racistly.
Now on for some good examples!
Luigi is a car, we all know he is Italian.
Flow is a car, we can still tell she’s black.
Eduardo is a imaginary friend, we still know he’s latin@
Wilt is an imaginary friend, we can still tell he’s black
Jinafire is a dragon, we all know she’s Chinese
Marisol is a Maricoxi, she is still obviously South American & Latin@ (tbh she reads as Peruvian specifically to me)
Hello Kitty is a cat, because she is created in Japan and is often displayed as participating in Japanese culture we know she’s Japanese.
P.S. I will not be responding to racist trying to defend themselves.
Wilt is black?
Yes he is! they’re not even subtle about it in the show, but let me give a few examples from least important to most important.
Wilt’s voice actor is Phil LaMarr
The kid (pictured: man) who created wilt is Jordan Michael’s… an obvious Michael Jordan parody.
He was created in “The Hood” and this was his surroundings.
Most of this can be found in the wiki for Good Wilt Hunting. but the strongest piece of evidence for Wilt being black doesn’t come from that episode but it is directly related to is how he sees himself.
and that is the prop arm he wears over his stump to prank little kids in the Halloween episode.
Black skinned props and prosthetics aren’t exactly easy to find. (there’s a joke about this in the movie Bad Santa where the black elf character has to wear elf ears that are white skinned because they don’t make black elf ear props or if they do they are extremely hard to come by.)
which means Wilt had to activity search that prop out or make it himself because that is how he seems himself. His creator was black ,his neighborhood was black so even though he isn’t human. he feels black.
So if he was human, he would be a black human.
A good explanation for what we mean by “coding” in regards to non-humans
Okay so here’s an awesome idea from theghostof-sherlockholmes after my actual deer Dipper art, where Dipper, feeling guilty for the monster accident, makes a deal with Bill to turn everyone back to normal except him. “
But the deal doesn´t include him, he´s stuck, or so he thinks. But of course Bill messes with him and Dipper slowly turns into a full little Deer, including his instincts growing and his human part fading until they lose him completely. So Mabel and the whole town try to save him and somehow undo Bills Deal, accepting to become monsters again. So everything turns back to monster-normal.
I think it would fit Dippers guilt and the solidarity of the town. Also it would give us some nice parts in this AU with Mabel-angst-fluff about her actual deer brother.
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I really love this idea and I will draw about it more, thanks a lot for this even if I made myself sad…
Personally, my favorite Duckmancer class spell is “vomit ducks”. It’s pretty versatile (does swarm damage, is immune to water spells) and it adds a lot of flavor to a campaign.
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