Talk:Blake Belladonna/@comment-81.233.86.104-20161014155535/@comment-24198837-20161015001907

In my mind, art is freedom of expression at it's finest and artists can do whatever they want. It doesn't bother me. Honestly, they can, have, and will continue to do far more... provocative things with art than changing a character's race. Plus, even if it bothers someone, it's still an artist's right (at least in the free world) to make art. Sometimes it's meant to bother you.

That being said, I love my accuracy, so I'm more inclined to like fanart that has characters as originally depicted. If I drew fanart, I wouldn't change races up. But that's my decision.

As for movie/show adaptions of things, I don't think they should change race up unless the actor for the role was perfect - in which case, the best person for the job should get the role. I feel it should be more of a suggestion, like "It would be great if this guy was X because he's X in the comics, but if a Y guy can do it better than so be it",

In RWBY's case,  I think people draw the characters different races  because the show's design makes it hard to realize that everyone on RWBY bar maybe Weiss is supposed to be "asian", I think. A lot of people assume the main team is all white (I mean, they were quite literally white for a time), so artists make someone a minority for representation. I'm pretty sure that the reason Blake gets drawn as black more than the others is because of her character/backstory - I mean, seriously, RT could've been   slightly   more transparent in making the White-colored girl rich, haughty, and prejudiced while maing the Black-colored girl poor and a member of an oppressed minority.

Either way, I'm almost certian Ruby and Blake, at least, are supposed to be asian-looking. Raven as well, and Taiyang's name is literally chinese, so Yang's "asian" too, I guess? With the quotes being because Asia doesn't exist on Remnant, of course.

On the most recent point of harassment, like I said, I support an artist's right to produce the art they want - getting harrased sucks. But you'll always have the zelots who are violent and rude towards things just because they don't like them. It's how the internet is, and you honestly have to just ignore them and power on.

People are allowed to voice and express their opinions, but that should never stop the artist from making art.