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THIS IS IMPORTANT AS F*CK. REBLOG THIS.

Let’s talk about how the Song family is written. Especially Linh.

I know it’s long but please try to read all of it

Shannon does not give the Song twins, or the whole entire family for that matter, a specific nationality. They’re described to look like Kpop models and anime (that comes from Japan), yet have Vietnamese names and a Chinese surname. On top of that, Quan (the father) is a Chinese name and Mai (the mother) is given a Vietnamese/Japanese/Chinese name (the origins are dubious, but Mai is also a romanticized spelling of a Chinese surname, transcribed in Mandurin dialect).

At this, some people are bending over backwards to remind the fact that “thEy’Re ELveS thEy DoNT hAVe a CouNtRy”. It still doesn’t excuse it much.

Throughout history and a few personal anecdotes, so many people do not understand the concept that different countries in Asia exist. Innumerable times I have been asked if I was Chinese or Japanese, and been told that all asian languages “are basically the same”, yet I am one of the lucky ones. As a Korean, a country who’s culture has popularly been introduced in the western part of the world, I do not experience as much erasure as others such as southeastern Asians. Southeastern Asians very rarely show up on media thanks to whitewashing and are even barely considered “real” Asians. But overall, the concept that the whole entire continent of Asia is the same has been perpetuated throughout the west’s culture of ignorance and racism. (And I can assure you, every single asian person who lives in America has experienced at least one of these incidents of racism and ignorance. Ask any asian. I’m serious.)

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The Songs’ last name was originally Tong, but it was changed due to the family’s profession; songwriting. It actually encourages the stereotype that Asians are supposed to be good at music. I cannot tell you how many times the kids at my school told me that it “doesn’t count if I’m good at music because Asians are supposed to be good at it anyway”.

And I am forever grateful that Shannon didn’t write in the typical “tiger mom” for Mai. The “tiger mom” stereotype is the concept of angry, harsh, and strict mothers in asian households, similar to the false notion of abusive black fathers with belts. But it’s still a huge stereotype that asian parents are conservative, strict, and sometimes abusive. Quan and Mai are a direct personification of that concept.

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Now, let’s explore Linh’s character. Linh is a quiet, kind, humble, and sweet person, often dubbed a “cinnamon roll” by the fandom. She is written not to be comfortable with violence, gore, blood, and war. She also takes on a very whimsical vibe, controlling water, usually having a calm demeanor, and having very light eyes compared to the fact that almost every single asian has dark colored eyes.

It’s pretty racist.

The western culture has a huge problem with fetishizing Asians, especially Asian women. Asians are so, so sexualized to the point where East Asian girls are specifically targeted by sex trafficking systems. Asian girls are stereotyped as bubbly, cute, innocent, sweet, and submissive. Linh is written as your stereotypical innocent, docile kawai uwu soft girl. She is every stereotype of an asian girl (while keeping it child appropriate) shoved into one arbitrary box of “representation”.

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Now, let’s talk about her appearance. Tam’s, too.

Despite the fact that almost every asian has dark colored eyes, typically brown eyes, Shannon makes sure that she creates the only asian characters with the lightest eye color. Tam and Linh are the only ones with a mutation in their hair (other than Marella with her braids and Livvy with her jewels, but Marella and Livvy are not main characters). Overall, Tam and Linh generally look much different than the rest of the group. It’s just another stereotype that Asians are considered to be exotic. When the twins are introduced, they appear to be malnourished from the poor food given in Exilium. They’re skinny. It’s yet another addition of Asia’s fat shaming culture leaking into the western areas of the world as an expectation of thinness.

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The whole entire Song family, especially the twins, and especially Linh, was just a poor attempt to engage in some “diversity” and ended up compiling every single stereotype of Asians and shoving them into Barbie doll package with labels slapped on their foreheads. The Song family is just “general East Asian”. The parents are strict and conservative. Tam and Linh are skinny and exotic. Linh is humble, cute, soft, whimsical, quiet, and not prominently present in many of the books. It’s all. Just. Stereotype. After. Stereotype. And I am sick of it.

I cannot tell you how I happy I was when Neverseen came out with the introduction of Linh because finally, finally there was someone like me. It was at the time when I was still struggling with my internalized racism. I tried my best to project myself into Linh. I said she was my favorite character. I only drew her when drawing fanart. But at the end of the day, I was not like Linh, because I did not fall under the category of the picture perfect “China doll”.

I am not your China doll, and Linh shouldn’t have been, either.

✨*Non-asian keeper fans should reblog*✨

:0 Its so pretty!!!

Linh! But with short and curled hair :)

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tam & linh should dye their hair rainbow for pride reblog if you agree

one thing abt Keeper that I'm shocked no one rlly talks about is how the Keeper crew and the neverseen main members low-key parallel eachother in different ways,

Like Tam & Linh w/ Ruy. All of them traumatized and hurt from the treatment of Exilium and Elvin Society. The humiliation forming a hard defense that comes when they feel stinging again.

Maruca & Alvar are both motivated by family whether it be love or hatred. Both want to valued more, Maruca wanting to help more, knowing the hurt her family went through & Alvar wanting to destroy more after learning what his family has done.

Brant and Fitz and their unfiltered rage whenever someone hurts someone they love, its blinding. But it comes from the desire to help others, to find a answer thats been prolonged. They both hold this but one manages it and one basks in it.

Biana and Giesla, strong hardworking beautiful, yet majority of their lives were spent overshadowed by the men in their lives. Biana fought to be seen while Gisela stood down to downplayed. being underestimated was a constant for both of them.

Sophie and Trix being torn by the people they love, wanting to let out the frustrations, Their power is what makes people fear them and is prevents most from seeing whats underneath. People not only restrict their power but also their emotions causing them to slowly spiral into insanity and stress.

Fintan and Keefe are both desperate for something to fill the gaping hole in them, Fintan insane from the voices begging him for just one little spark while Keefe is begging for a voice, to guide him to assure him it'll be alright

ill add more later but for now this is good

edit- Y'all can talk you aren't on mute

One thing we as a society need to talk about more is the fact that elves only wanting one kid/not twins is super messed up and also extremely stupid.

The reasoning is the fact that the firstborns have the best genetics but this has been disproven. By Fitz being a telepath while Alvar a vanisher, and Tam and Lin being a Hydrokinetic and SHade. Thses are the ones that came in my head but like for the millenniums Elvin society has existed no one thought that MAYBE having more then one kid wasn't so bad. Like its not like the Songs and Vackers were the first and only siblings in Elvin society. In conclusion Elves are stupid

What if I said Maruca and Linh go on dates talking about their family struggles and dying eachothers hair...

KOTLC Favorite ice creams flavors!

Sophie-Rocky Road, I feel like Sophie was a sucker for chocolate and Rocky Road gives me Mallowmelt vibes, with it having marshmellows.

Fitz-Mint Chip, I think he'd like the fresh minty flavor and would hunt for the choclate chips like pirates digging for treasure with Biana (and Alvar before shit went down)

Keefe- Cookie's n Cream, seems like a guy with a huge sweet tooth

Biana- Green Tea, I feel like she'd want a nice calm earthy flavor to soothe her after all the shit going on

Tam- Chocolate, I feel like he'd have a basic ice cream flavor since it doesn't really matter that much too him.

Linh - Salted Caramel, especially sea salt, This girl also has a massive sweet tooth and indulges on any sweet food since that was her and Tam had least access to in Exilllium.

Marella- Mango Sorbet/Ice cream I feel like she'd like Sorbet more honestly but for the sake of the title, Ice cream. Its fruity, tropical and sunny, all stuff Marella would seem into (I was tempted to put Vanilla Ice cream for her but decided thats too basic for her.)

Maruca- Butter Pecan, she seems like a girl who'd like nuts (Pun unintended) Especially Pecans. I also imagine her family served something like Pecan Pie at holidays and had a secret family recipe of theirs.

Mr. Forkle...-dirt

Umber- Toffee, likes sweet syrupy tastes like Toffee,. No need for spoons since she has shadowflux! She also likes to let it melt a little so she can drink it like a soup.

Trix- Pumpkin pie, Im getting lazy atp so yeah. (wrote this after the rest of them but wanted umber and trix to be next to eachother)

Fintan- Vanilla, if his fossilized ass is even aware of icecream, this dude is every bit basic and if he does know about icecream, he probably has nostalgia of collecting snow and shredding fruits on it from the 3rd century

Gisela- Coffee, she wouldn't have much of a sweet tooth in my mind honestly

Alvar- Pistachio, preferably with chocolate chips. Much like Fitz...Erm he judges people and shops on how good their Pistachio Ice cream is since he a connoisseur on this flavor. Will down a whole tub of this actually.

Ruy- Strawberry, he's not much into icecream so anything will do but he does a small preference for Strawberry since its nice and refreshing adn he likes fruits with a tang.

(This hurt my fingers)

kotlc ships that I physically need to happen vs what probably will happen part 1

Marelinh is all I am living for right now. They are otp and I love them so much. Like I want them to cuddle with each other, and to love each other PLEASE I NEED THEM SO BADLY FCYDGIUWLKHJDCE UWDJOSKLJEXKDWLS

I have a feeling however that if Linh ends up with anyone it's probably going to be either Wylie or Fitz. I think they just want us to pretend that Wylie isn't an adult and it isn't weird but no

Fitz and Linh ending up together would cause some drama with Sophie but also the way Sophie describes his fascination with her and her ability raises some eyebrows

anyways yeah if Marella and Linh don't end up together I am lobotomizing myself 😜😁😀

Sophie: Hey guys, wanna hear all my secrets?

Fitz: I DON'T LIKE BEING A COGNATE OR A TELEPATH

Keefe: Hair is terrible. The last thing I need to worry about is my hair. Besides, I look terrible.

Biana: Hey, where's my plain black tunic? And my black boots?

Dex: What? I can't work with gadgets. It's useless- Oh, Sophie can you die Iggy back to gray?

Tam: Ooooh where's the butterfly? I want a puppy! The butterfly and puppy can be friends!

Linh: GRR STAY AWAY FROM ME I'M HAVING A BAD LIFE

Alden: Everyone, THERE'S A REASON TO WORRY!!!!!

Linh: Keefe, why is Tam in the hospital?

Keefe: I DON'T KNOW. I SAID, "breathe if you like me."

THEN OUT OF NOWHERE TAM STARTED TURNING BLUE. AND THEN HE FELL OVER.

Oh wait, now I know why he went blue.

Do y'all remember when we all used to ship wylinh? wtf was wrong with us?

Do y'all remember when we all used to ship wylinh? wtf was wrong with us?

I hc that Linh is like 6 ft tall and Marella is like 5,2 and Linh teases her for being short all the time

sophie and the gang in one photo

kotlc characters playing among us:

sophie: literally sees someone standing over a body and still doesn't think it's them

keefe: gets voted out for spamming the chat with complete nonsense and wasting emergency meetings

fitz: actually tries but manages to vent in front of at least three people everytime

biana: is always finding dead bodies every two seconds

dex: manages to get tasks done in two seconds making him look sus even when not imposter

tam: the best imposter. no one suspects him.

lihn: has no idea what's going on

i tried to watercolor linh and tam but it clearly didn't work out that well lmao

kotlc characters as conversations i overheard at school

keefe: my sexuality is touch starved

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linh: DONT RUN AWAY FROM ME ITS NATIONAL HUG DAY

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grady to edaline: i want to stab everyone in this room.... besides you ofc

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fitz: jokes on you, my brother is bipolar AND a parasite to society

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sophie: so uh what's ur religion?

keefe: art.

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gisela: tyranny is hot.

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biana: if you have acne, you shall be eliminated.

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keefe: motHER TRUCKER!!!!

dex: hey hEY HEY we do NOT use that kind of language in here!

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linh: ugh my nat geo wild subscription is over dhmu