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This is an easy question to answer - Lily is racist.View attachment 6197925
Straight women liking edgy white men is very problematic, unlike Lily's fetishization of edgy black lesbians. Seriously though, what's with Lily's seething over these types of characters?
I only know little about Astarion but the general consensus I've stumbled across if I find him online is he's charming and funny and the delivery of his lines really help his character, and I generally agree that he seems like a fun character. In a similar vein, Hunter is praised for his characterization and how he was written as an abuse survivor which, as I've mentioned, is far more explicit here than you normally get from a cartoon. People eat both up like crazy.
There is legitimate appeal to these characters, and usually it's just the fact they're written well or have a charming personality. But that never fits into the narrative of how racist the fandom is for liking the white character. People like Gwen Stacy but far more love Miguel, Miles, Hobie, and Pavitr. I'm not gonna assume the fandom just hates women, it's just the other characters have far more appeal.
You'll often notice how the criticisms for these types of characters is always race-based and an attack on an entire group's character. If you were to switch the roles and say people only like a Black Astarion because of woke culture then that sounds pretty stupid, there's a myriad of reasons he would be a beloved character, so why jump to race? Racism against white people is still racism regardless of what Twitter told you, Lily.
It's also not progressive, shocker, I know. It never sat well with me that to praise black people she has to punch down on white people which makes us look better by default. We're doing fine, Lily, we don't need you to white (lol) knight us. I don't need every black character to be popular solely because of their race, that's, shocker, racist and patronizing. If you like the character, fine, but don't like them just so it makes you look good. Nobody who's not chronically online actually cares. There's actual racism to combat and you won't win it in a Twitter argument against someone who plays Baldur's Gate.
Last point here but at least when characters like Astarion or Hunter are liked it's usually because of their personality. Lily's fetishism towards black characters has nothing to do with their characters, it's just the skin tone and hair and nothing more. Not the culture, not the personality, literally nothing than the surface-deep bullshit. Her insistence that Skara, a background character who had a hard time saying no to a bully, had an arc going on more than Hunter, an abuse survivor and child soldier, did always spoke to me like she was only fond of Skara solely because of her skin tone. And would you look at that, I was right, because Hunter's criticisms are far less about how he was written and much more about his skin tone.