This i prettt much my problem with the idea behind changing a character to the Extreme of race and gender. If your not gonna bring more to the table then I donât see the point of your exisisance and prob not gonna spend my money on you.
I just remembered a great example.
King Aurthor. Everyone knows him but most people prob are not aware of the many many many many âremakesâ of his story before it became very well liked as a story about a dude pulling a sword from a stone (which was not even in the original depiction) most fo the biggest changes to Aurthor involved a lot Drastic thematic changes, instead of being welsh he was now British; but that was ok cause the British story was intresting and combined pegan and Christianity in this oddly well working world. Then came the romance of gewn and lance whom was exploring the ideas of âlove for the sake of loveâ where Gwen and lance had sex and Aurthor chilled in the background.
Then they got a bit more religious and lance and Gwen became less good and more of a betrayal story. Eventually Morgana became less of a random NPC and more of a main villian. All these changes obviously changed the story and some people liked it- some people didnât, but I think the difference here is that people wanted to say âWhat ifâ and then wrote actually Intresting versions of what could happen to these character's
Now hereâs an extreme of the king author story that I took me some getting used to. Fate Zero where king Aurthor is a WOMEN. It was weird and I didnât like it cause it raised a lot of questions about her relationships with gewn and lance........ for obvious reasons (But itâs fine cause the wizard turned her into a dude for a night and had a baby who became Mordred).
Ignoring the confusion that would occur with this gender swap it took a very long time for me to get over it. The oribional writer didnât want the gender swap, they wanted the main character to be a lady and author to be a man but people told them âno one is going to buy a game where the main character is a womenâ and also âadd sex scenes or no one is gonna buy it.â
BUT thing is, they actually put a lot of work into trying to adapt arthor into a women - and truly- thatâs not what the story was about, especially in Fate Zero (which is supierior to day stay night @ me I donât care) where the story has way more to do about the actual games being played for the holy grail and the espionage and the betrayals and the deaths and the sadness that is this type of story.
Was the gender change forced and weird? Yes, was it nessessary? Well never know cause the games become sussessful enough to have its own show, well never know if normal king Aurthor and lady main character would have been as popular. But what we can say is that itâs not as important for the story being told. Author being a man or a women has nothing to actually do with the story at hand which is about a bunch of mages being mages and lots of murder murder death party. So itâs really hard to get mad over that, especially since the writer did their best to make sense of the change and even did thing like use the battle dresses that existed back in those times.
Overall my issue with it is - donât just change the gender and race just to do it, actually put effort into how this changes the characters personality, cause no matter what you wanna say, peopleâs veiw points are gonna changed based on how they look to other people. An Afrian amarican Spider-Man is gonna have a diffrent life then peter Parker and you should actually take advantage of that! Bring something new to the table,
donât just color swap sonic and change nothing about him then say original character do not steal!!1!1!