Can fandom please finally agree to stop depicting Nea’s original body and his brother as white guys?
Because please, seriously- we have a color image of his brother in human form- he’s not white. We have that volume cover that was supposed to be Nea (albeit in Allen’s body) – they showed it was him by making him not white. We also have the time Nea reacted to seeing Allen’s face in the mirror which summed up as pretty much “holy shit this guy is really white” – which would be a weird thing to say unless your old body wasn’t white. How much more evidence do you flipping need to get it that the Campbell kids aren’t white?
“But if they aren’t white, then why aren’t they always shaded in!” – gee I don’t know, to save on shading? Timcanpy isn’t always shaded, yet somehow none of us forget the glorified Snitch is gold.
Though seriously, before you start pulling up your evidence and theories about why they could be white, you should probably ask why it’s a problem for you for them not to be white.
well it’s not people’s fault to think they are white. The story happened in Europe, England to be specificied, they have Europian names and there is nothing to indicate that they are not white. Hoshino stated very clearly that Lenalee is Chinese & Lavi is mixed blood so if there is something that needed to be known about Nea & Mana Hoshino would have stated it. And the reason Nea said “this guy is really white” COULD be because Allen has white hair, like really white! normal people, especially teenagers don’t have white hair like that, so it surprised him :
and lastly, i think there are more important things to discuss about the story than the characters’ skin color. usually japanese authors dont pay much attention to that kind of thing so there is no use in arguing over it
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