by nickjr » Thu Apr 03, 2025 8:21 am
I say this specifically because of my background as an American-born-and-raised Chinese gal whose parents immigrated to the US from mainland China when they were adults and whose mother still keeps up with and talks about stuff happening in China and what Chinese culture and society was like when she was growing up and what it's like today:
I'm pretty amazed that we're actually getting decent disability representation in Genshin, a Chinese game.
I'm convinced that someone at Hoyo with influence definitely either has a disability themselves or a loved one with one. I'm grateful they're there, because the kind of characters I expect from people who aren't jerks but don't actually know what's what in the disability area are Glory, Childish Jiang, and Avin (the girl from Yoimiya's second Story Quest)...
Not the absolute gems that are Collei, Dunyarzad, Dulphy, Ororon, or Iansan. We don't GET gems like these characters from anyone who doesn't actually get what's going on for us.
Iansan in particular is interesting from a character design perspective... I can definitely understand if people take issue with her. However, the bar is all the way down in hell even in the US, and Iansan isn't just on the floor, she's above the floor! (For comparison, Glory, Childish Jiang, and Avin are lying down on the floor.) Not to mention that it's impossible to have perfect rep* with one (1) character, because whatever is being repped in any area you can think of spans a huge gamut, so you need multiple characters for good rep--and I think Collei, Dunyarzad, Dulphy, Ororon, and Iansan span a pretty good range for rep.
A decent range for disability rep including playable characters in my cool, big name fantasy game made in China? I'm SO happy. Obviously I want more (it's awfully convenient that out of those in the "above the floor" rep list, everyone except Iansan the dark-skinned gal has an invisible disability/condition!), and I'm sending in feedback about wanting more, but this is already literally beyond my wildest dreams, and I hope more people can recognize that instead of angrily taking up arms against Hoyo because it doesn't meet progressive American expectations.
* assuming it exists (it doesn't--obviously we should strive for it, because shoot for the stars and you'll reach the moon, but if anyone tries bringing up the concept of "perfect representation" as if it actually exists, they don't know what they're talking about)
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