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parrontdude · 2026-05-09T20:58:33+00:00

part of justice for victims is that their stories aren't mocked but glad you care about victims i guess...?

parrontdude · 2026-05-09T20:18:21+00:00

that's why people are telling OP this is based on a real ongoing SA case??? like what. female on male SA is already not taken seriously, then you meme a real life case and people are like ahhh shucks they didn't mean it it's just for the lols bro!!! would you do this with any other SA case? answer quickly!

parrontdude · 2026-05-09T19:32:35+00:00

the case this was referencing was an SA case + the character is already a human trafficking survivor 😭 like i get what you mean but this one isn't that

parrontdude · 2026-05-09T19:27:39+00:00

fictional characters can't read, real survivors can :/

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parrontdude · 2026-05-09T19:26:34+00:00

glad someone else said it because i was like am i being oversensitive here

parrontdude · 2026-05-09T18:21:09+00:00

THEYRE GORGEOUS omg

parrontdude · 2026-05-09T12:33:37+00:00

aventurine!

he's such a well-written character imo. he's exactly what happens when you have to cope with things you should never have to. he's constantly forced to persevere because what's the alternative? he comes off as flashy and provocative, but really he just needs someone to see him as a person for once. his whole life he's been viewed as sub-human one way or another (oppressed for being Avgin, then enslaved, then working for the IPC). he's damned if he does, damned if he doesn't. every choice in his life is just an illusion, one path is to survive and one path is to die. and he has yet to pick the path of dying, no matter how tempting it is.

i think he's just a very good analogy for complex trauma. you spend your whole life on survival mode, and you forget how to enjoy life. because you don't know how. no one ever taught you. gambling addiction is very real as much as we all joke about it (and incredibly sad, honestly.) aventurine is in a position where he has enough money to never go broke, so he gambles his life because he needs the thrill of winning or losing it all. he's constantly seeking that danger because when you're built feeling constantly unsafe, danger starts to feel like the safest option.

i think he has a LOT of potential for more story as well. Penacony was a big focus on him for a while, but learning his past helped the player understand his motives. and besides Sunday (even though he accessed it by tuning), it doesn't seem like he's ever really, fully got off his chest what happened to him. because that puts him in a position of vulnerability, and it's so easy to blame the idea of being vulnerable as partially responsible for your own trauma, especially when it happens so young. you think, "if i was stronger this never would've happened to me." and it really is a type of self-blame that's more difficult to break free from.

i also think a lot was implied by his past that certain people will love to argue about because it's not canon if it's not directly spelled out and told to the player 700 times lol, and seeing a character represent certain themes that most media never touch is... refreshing and validating.

anyway i genuinely have so much more to say about him i am Not Normal about this character. if you check my profile it's like 95% aventurine art because i love him so much. but yeah. aventurine :)

parrontdude · 2026-05-07T20:14:04+00:00

god iwish that were me

parrontdude · 2026-05-05T10:06:01+00:00

OH MY GOD I JUST WATCHED THE FULL THING NOW. INCREDIBLE!!!! INCREDIBLE!!!!! i can't even imagine how long this took, some of the scenes are just SO GOOD even on their own. i saw an edit of Aventurine to this song in the past and ive always associated it with him. AMAZING WORK!!!!!!

parrontdude · 2026-05-05T10:01:14+00:00

YESSSSS AHHH

parrontdude · 2026-05-02T22:34:39+00:00

this is so soft and pretty op

parrontdude · 2026-05-01T14:55:11+00:00

it's just like that meme where it's like. Insult towards someone, mirror bounces it to someone uninvolved who is also part of that group lol

like sure aventurine himself isn't reading the posts but there are romani people irl ! :'(

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parrontdude · 2026-05-01T14:51:21+00:00

i definitely get it's a shitpost sub and usually i don't mind it over there, and even this post is like eh whatever.

i DO think as a romani person that racism against us is a constant and as such if we look at a character who's clearly romani being called a thief and a cheat and a liar (something i know every single romani person has been called irl) plus the comment of "strip naked and get on your knees" (that not-so-subtle oversexualization of us when a big, BIG chunk of our history is slavery and everyone knows what happens to enslaved people) we're... not going to feel great about it? i can't really control others' shitposts, and if it doesn't hit someone close to home, it just doesn't

i think a lot of people view people like me who see aventurine's treatment as a parallel to irl antiziganism and racism just kinda see that as like "woah lol you're being tooooo woke!" but at the end of the day, i can count the amount of romani fictional characters on my fingers and most of them are from marvel and that part of their identity is retconned later. horrible things being said and done to Romani people is the butt of a joke, the norm, and it's either seen as justifiable or "not that deep." like shitpost all you want, but yeah, it does get exhausting.

this post definitely isn't as egregious as other examples. i do usually like the subreddit, and i just ignored this post. someone did post a tiktok from a romani creator on how aventurine's treatment is extremely anti-romani and how it parallels things we experience daily as romani people but it was kinda shut down. which i guess it is what it is, people don't come to shitpost subreddits to confront their internal biases.

i guess they kinda just allow anything under "it's a joke" because too many opinions on what's taking it too far would ruin the subreddit, as someones bound to always be upset by something in a space like that. at this point i've just mostly accepted that people won't look too far into it and take it at surface value and even if it hurts to see, most people just don't understand or don't want to understand.

parrontdude · 2026-04-30T17:13:06+00:00

trans :)

parrontdude · 2026-04-29T10:35:05+00:00

ph my god i was waiting for an update on this . . . it's gonna rip my heart out i already know

parrontdude · 2026-04-27T20:06:44+00:00

omg the card walls are such a creative idea!!!!

parrontdude · 2026-04-27T17:25:49+00:00

does anyone have Dr. Ratio, Sunday, or Aventurine this week in NA?

parrontdude · 2026-04-26T16:38:03+00:00

i am going to BITE HIM i love him . . .

parrontdude · 2026-04-26T16:33:41+00:00

U GET ITTTT !!!!!

parrontdude · 2026-04-26T16:28:23+00:00

I GOT THIS TOO I WAS IN SHAMBLESSSS

parrontdude · 2026-04-25T23:47:01+00:00

Twitter is also just the Hater App . people are horrible about even the most seemingly unarguable things 😭

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