#((If anyone calls Aventurine weak for not standing up for himself when such shit happens i will smite you))

[celestial-narwhal]

On Stereotypes and Aventurine

Gotta get this out of the way before I start using my Aventurine more because it is an important part of how I will play his character.

Aventurine is rarely ever genuine. He plays to the role people expect him to be, or to the role that will get him the best cards in the deck. If people expect him to be a flirt, he will flirt. If people expect him to be frail and naive, he will be frail and naive. If people expect him to be intimidating and a threat, he will be a threat.

He is a social chameleon, and no, it is not because he is Sigonian, but because he grew up in an environment that forced him to be like this.

Stereotyping will always have a profound effect on a developing person, and when a child grows up hearing that they are scheming, untrustworthy, and manipulative without any other lens to say otherwise, it is highly likely that they will grow into said lens. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There must be a reason people look at them and assume so, after all. Their words must be true. Why would the majority say so otherwise?

So, just as a child who's been reminded constantly that they are bad, Aventurine became "bad".

It's tiring to a waste your breath and prove otherwise. Especially without a community left to uplift and support you. To remind you that you are more that what people assume you to be. A person. A person who's culture is fated to be written over by the winners of a war, and those who held grudges against them.

"Aventurine" plays up to stereotypes, because that is what got him to where he is now, and is what everyone told him he had to be. It keeps people at arm's length, keeping them far, far away from █████████.

█████████ can't be hurt anymore if he doesn't come up to the surface, after all.

#AventurescentReflections (Aventurine HCs) #InclusionsofGold (Aventurine) #((me ringing my thematic racism in Aventurine's story bell)) #((They write it well and it hits a lot of personal notes for me as someone who has been at the receiving end of many many stereotypes)) #((If anyone calls Aventurine weak for not standing up for himself when such shit happens i will smite you)) #((imagine being the only person left of your entire culture and having to defend it on your own)) #((after years and years of systematic abuse)) #((It's not as simple as you would think)) #((especially when you were conditioned for a majority of your life to hate yourself)) #((survival's guilt is a nasty disease and Aventurine is barely keeping himself above the surface))