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In this particular instance, we come to the intersection of Clan and race again, which is where it becomes a problem. On its own 'a supernatural entity's spiteful death curse is coming for you' is a cool concept - we've had it in plenty of films and novels in one form or another (the X-files episode 'Drive' for one particularly oWoDy example) because it is essentially just an invocation of nemesis in a rather dramatic and literal way. If it applied to the Ventrue rather than the Roma-coded Ravnos, I don't think we'd have the same 'oh gently caress's sake' issue, but there's legitimacy to critiquing the Clans on the basis of their ties to racial stereotypes and this is precisely one of those cases where the specific application falls straight into some very sticky and problematic territory even if the underlying device could be cool.
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Yes, being chased around by a curse is cool. But, "no, it makes sense, because it is a magic curse" does not really free you from the burden of having your writing read and interpreted. In particular, I would expect or at least not even blink at a Ravnos curse that had to do with their antedeluvian founder being loving Dead, but they reaaalllly blew their opportunity to do something cool or interesting with it. Ferrinus fucked around with this message at 05:50 on Apr 25, 2024 |
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