{"id":44976,"date":"2017-07-11T12:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T16:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44976"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:50:53","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T16:50:53","slug":"why-is-ahri-x-d-va-a-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=44976","title":{"rendered":"Why is Ahri x D.Va a thing?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If I can sound like a bitter old man for a minute (again) here, naturally it was through social media in which I first saw fan art, then obnoxious cosplayers of this bastardization\/hybridization between League of Legends\u2019 <\/em>Ahri<\/a> and Overwatch<\/em>\u2019s D.Va<\/a>.\u00a0 Taking Ahri\u2019s tails and slapping them onto D.Va\u2019s body, taking the D.Va facial makeup markings and putting them onto Ahri, and all sorts of other combinations that blended the two characters together, and I\u2019m sitting here thinking: whyyyy????<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

My knee-jerk cynical reaction is that it\u2019s a bunch of nerds who want to really hammer home the notion that they are versed in both<\/em> League and<\/em> Overwatch, and they need<\/em> to let people know that they\u2019re so hip to both that they can acknowledge such strange abominable mash-ups.\u00a0 And then cosplayers who are so attention-starved see something that\u2019s trending and immediately start a rat race of who can do the first make-up test, who can finish the costume and wear it to a convention nobody knows of, and then who can do the first sexy-boudoir-lingerie photoshoot of it before jaded curmudgeons like me get wind of the whole thing.<\/span><\/p>\n

My curiosity wishes to know why such a combination exists at all?\u00a0 Both are undoubtedly popular and relevant characters in their respective properties, but why are they being shoe-horned together?\u00a0 Naturally, my assumptions go towards one of the worst possible reasons: MICROAGGRESSIVE RACISMMMMM<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahri is a character borne from Korean fairytale.\u00a0 D.Va is a Korean.\u00a0 THEY\u2019RE KOREANS SO LETS MASH THEM TOGETHER ARR ROOK SAME PLS LIKE<\/span><\/p>\n

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But yeah, my thought is that this all started because both are Korean and some retard thought it would be \u201ccreative\u201d and \u201cunique\u201d to combine the two, naturally not thinking that the logic wouldn\u2019t be a little micro-offensive because the importance of farming likes on the internet.\u00a0 And so we get D.Va suit ambiguous dark-haired girl with nine tails and pink face paint and fox ears who is now neither Ahri or D.Va and some genetically engineered artistic abomination because people on the internet are stupid.<\/span><\/p>\n

Under this logic, I feel like I should just start combining characters from completely unrelated properties for no other reason than the colors of their skin:<\/span><\/p>\n

Ken Masters<\/a> x Johnny Cage<\/a>, because they\u2019re white guys from the US<\/span><\/p>\n

Guile<\/a> x Andy Bogard<\/a>, more white guys<\/span><\/p>\n

Lucian<\/a> x Doom Fist<\/a>, because they\u2019re both black<\/span><\/p>\n

Hanzo<\/a> x Hanzo<\/a> x Hanzo<\/a>, because there\u2019s no other Japanese name in the world<\/span><\/p>\n

None of these would ever really take off because they\u2019re not female and nothing farms attention like scantily-clad bitches, but mostly because they\u2019re completely stupid and absurd mash-ups.\u00a0 My point is that the principles behind something like Ahri x D.Va are obviously done in the name of fun and people trying to be cute, but could also be perceived as something of a microaggression.<\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah I know how stupid it sounds that someone like me using such modern and seemingly made-up lingo like microaggressions, but I can\u2019t really say I\u2019ve felt like I\u2019ve really comprehended or felt microoffended by anything before until I started seeing garbage like Ahri x D.Va. It\u2019s almost as microoffensive as asking a Pakistani person in Nevada if they know a Pakistani guy in Connecticut solely because they\u2019re both Pakistani.<\/span><\/p>\n

Are people so starved for attention or notoriety that they become so dumb?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If I can sound like a bitter old man for a minute (again) here, naturally it was through social media in which I first saw fan art, then obnoxious cosplayers of this bastardization\/hybridization between League of Legends\u2019 Ahri and Overwatch\u2019s D.Va.\u00a0 Taking Ahri\u2019s tails and slapping them onto D.Va\u2019s body, taking the D.Va facial makeup … Continue reading Why is Ahri x D.Va a thing?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[45,76,154,103,91,89,156,146,19],"class_list":["post-44976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-fail","tag-geeks","tag-league-of-legends","tag-motherland","tag-pf","tag-racism","tag-social-media","tag-triggered","tag-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44978,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44976\/revisions\/44978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}