#*clapping hands* clothing swap clothing swap clothing swap!! *places Themes and Narratives over there on the shelf for later

[sattinshore]

This is called "I finished my replay of RF1 and my watch-through of RGU on the same night," aka "girl help I think the surface-level similarities I'm noticing between two characters may actually be shared racist tropes except only one of these stories uses them intentionally to build up to that character's eventual self actualization and liberation and it's NOT my favorite farming sim."

Bonus:

beat his ass, jasper

#revolutionary girl utena #rune factory #rune factory 1 #rgu #anthy himemiya #utena tenjou #tabatha rune factory #bianca rune factory #*clapping hands* clothing swap clothing swap clothing swap!! *places Themes and Narratives over there on the shelf for later #but god yeah can we talk about tabatha for a second. can we talk about tabatha and bianca. #i was trying to piece together a 'ten years in the future' type conversation with them... something with tabatha serenely acquiescing and #bianca being very stuck on the idea of Tabatha being there because she wanted to or because she had to.. as maid and lady or as friends #and tabatha asking. are we not friends miss bianca? #and bianca being Distressed. #but idk if it's right you know? i struggle with tabatha's character i struggle with the way dark elves are written in rune factory #in general. reserving full judgement bc i haven't played frontier so i haven't met minerva #and i know im not the first to say any of this but the maid shit sucks. rune factory having like five characters with darker skin sucks. #having two of them be maids who ~love~ their work sucks absolute ass #having two of them dress in revealing clothing is weirrrrd and having the fifth one #be the only character to speak in an animalistic language is upsetting #like none of those traits are bad on their own but these are the *only* characters with darker skin tones in the whole series #that's crazy right? like that's crazy #aaaaaaanyway... im thinking about tabatha. tabatha enjoyers please send me your thoughts and fic recs