#as the servile motherly archetype of a character played by a white man

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Also while I'm at it:

Can people please remember that Death is her own person and the only Endless to have two miniseries, a short film, and a manga? She is not simply a satellite whose every waking thought and word and deed is built on the needs of her little brother. She is perfectly capable of making decisions and interacting with him without it being a 'Dream of the Endless is Poochie' factor.

At most any motivation she had with Hob and Dream was maybe that Dream might find a friend, but given Dream is Dream she probably didn't have a lot of faith in that and nor should she. I tend to think that it was about Hob's attitude to life and that she did this for her own reasons and about Hob himself, Dream given the chance sto sink or swim on his own because she's his sister, not his mommy.

Their sibling relationship definitely has its toxic moments. He puts her on a pedestal her actions and her own POV show is unwarranted and never tries to look for or to connect to the actual person or to consider there is one, preferring a goddess on a narrow and tall pedestal to his actual sibling. She is much more feckless than he is about communication and their major interactions show it, which is a further proof that the pedestal is not the actual person because the person he believes Death to be could not repeatedly fail to connect to her sibling like that.

This is true regardless, but at the the end of the day, Death is not Dream's fairy godmother, she is a deeply flawed and complex character in her own right, and her biggest flaws and her worst failures aren't directly related to Dream at all. And yes, I'm going to go for the nuclear option, if they cast Death as the 'hot' 17 year old with the bone pale look, would people still try to make her a mother archetype like they did the 35 year old Black woman or would they just treat her as fetish fuel and none of the deeper problems or characterization matter?

#death of the endless #sandman meta #this actually gets extremely annoying after a while #dream of the endless #hob gadling #I still cannot decide if casting Death for the age Gaiman gives the comics character in appearance would have worked or not #looking at everything with Jenna Ortega's Wednesday does not indicate it would #but you'll be hard pressed to tell me there isn't some deep seated racism in treating a character played by a Black woman #as the servile motherly archetype of a character played by a white man #though I really don't think that 17 year old teenage!looking Death would fare that much better #more perving is not an improvement over more 'muh mom sibling who has no existence but to get Dream laid and to kiss his boo boos'