Clarification Post

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

If there is a possibility that your nominated character or group doesn't appear to qualify based on a quick google search, or if you expect there will be questions about your nomination, please leave a comment here with the necessary context.

For example:

"I'm nominating Nick Fury under Marvel's Ultimate Universe. The search results might be confusing since there are so many Nick Furies, but the Ultimate Universe version of Fury is Black."

Or:

"I want to nominate James Nichols from Eric Flint's Ring of Fire books. Since he might not come up on google search, I wanted to let you know he's canonically Black."

Comments

[leahandillyana]

We have not started nominations yet, but I wanted to anyways clarify the characters I want to nominate:
-Serge Battour from Kaze to Ki no Uta is a Roma pianist; since he's a manga character, his ethnicity is not reflected in the way he is drawn
-Dick Grayson from Batman comics is canonically of Roma heritage, although he wasn't brought up in the culture
-Damian Wayne from Batman comics and some cartoons is a boy of mixed Jewish, Arab, Chinese and WASP heritage; he isn't usually drawn to reflect that
-Cassandra Cain from Batman comics is, depending on canon, either mixed WASP-Asian girl or an Asian girl; while it is usually aknowledged in the stories, it may not be obvious from the art
-In most instances of Voltron, Allura is (more or less ambigously) white, Hunk is either Japanese, Latino or white, and Haggar and Lotor are purple space aliens. However, in Legendary Defender Allura is a Black elf, Hunk is a mixed Afro-Pasifikan teen, Haggar/Honerva is a dark skinned elf, and Lotor, being her son, also seems to be a man of color, especially since the narration codes his experiences as such. Takashi 'Shiro' Shirogane is a Japanese man who has not made an appearance since the original Golion. The ethnicity of a few other characters is left ambiguous, and given the show was animated in Korea in anime style and even normal humans have strange eye and hair colors, they may easily be interpreted as characters of color.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for this detailed comment. All of those have been noted and you should be able to nominate them without issue next week!

[ashling]

I am nominating Antoinette Conway. She is canonically mixed-race; [SPOILERS] while she does meet her biological father, who is nonwhite, she ends up rejecting his offer to restart a family relationship, and thus we never find out his exact name or nationality. That said, she is decidedly not white passing and there's a plot component to it too, as she deals with a lot of harassment within her squad and it's generally implied that part of that is due to her being the only nonwhite person on the squad.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for the comment. Your nomination has been accepted!

[ashling]

Just to save you the googling:
Mobeen Deen from Man Like Mobeen is Pakistani

Annie Grant from Sam Wyndham Series is mixed-race Anglo-Indian
Surendranath "Surrender-Not" Banerjee from Sam Wyndham Series is Indian

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for the comment. All three characters have been accepted!

The New Mutants (2020)

[sirvalkyrie]

While I nominated it separately, the New Mutants is in the same universe as the other Fox mutant related movies. However, it doesn't really interact with any of them despite one character being related to another from one of the other movies. If you decide to merge with others that won't bother me.

Re: The New Mutants (2020)

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for letting us know! I'll keep it in mind as I approve nominations today.

[leahandillyana]

I have a question - would characters from a fantasy setting inspired by Greece apply to the exchange? In Castlevania series, Hector is portrayed as significantly darker than other European characters, and in Captive Prince series, northernly characters often note the strikingly different appearance of the fantasy Greek protagonist Damianos.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Damianos would definitely qualify. That nomination will be accepted without issue.

At this time, our policy is to err on the side of being more inclusive than less inclusive. If you feel that Hector's portrayal in Castlevania qualifies him as chromatic per the rules, we'll trust your judgement and accept the nomination.

[leahandillyana]

Thank you! I nominated Damianos under his English name Damen as well as his children.

[leahandillyana]

Additional characters - the way Connor Hawke is drawn differs massively depending on the artist, but the character canonically has Korean, Black American and WASP heritage and grew up in South Korea. Djinn, The Aerie and Osita are of ambiguous heritage,the first two being ambiguously human, but all are visibly not white. Xiomara Rojas is an alien adopted by a Mexican American couple and until recently considering herself to be a mutant Mexican American girl. Pearl Pangan is a Filipina, Amka Aliyak is Inuit, Raz Malhotra is Egyptian, Cindy Moon is Korean American, and America Chavez is Latina. In She-Ra universe, Micah and his sister Castaspella are fantasy Asian, making his daughter Glimmer a mixed race girl. I *think* Frosta fits too, based on culture and character design clues.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Perfect! All those nominations will be accepted once properly formatted and/or a mod is able to see them in the interface.

[pegasus143]

Putting a clarification here for this nom due to there being a lot of racial ambiguity within premade characters in The Sims series, plus potential difficulties in finding info on characters due to differences between series installments. In The Sims 2, Lilith Pleasant (and her twin sister Angela) are white-passing mixed-race girls, as their mother, Mary-Sue Pleasant, is pretty clearly intended to be East Asian. The Dreamer family is pretty clearly non-white, though racially ambiguous.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for letting us know. Your nominations should be approved shortly!

[flowersforgraves]

I'm nominating some characters from the video game Blaseball. None of them have canonical races, but in fanwork the characters I'm nominating tend to be portrayed as people of color.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Thank you for letting us know. We'll trust your judgement that the characters nominated under that fandom fit within the rules.

[facethestrange]

Since I see that these two of my nominations were "left behind", I want to explain them to save you further googling. :)

Hope Quentin Adiyodi (The Magicians TV) - She's newborn on the show and only appears in one episode, but her father is Penny Adiyodi played by Arjun Gupta. Her mother is also played by an actress of color (Stella Maeve), but the character (Julia Wicker) may or may not be meant to be white.

Group: Beth Marcus & Daniella Marcus & Zoe Marcus (The Magicians TV) - Zoe is portrayed by Yetide Badaki, and Daniella is portrayed by Sola Bamis. Beth is their sister who died pre-canon (there is no implication that she could be anything other than black).

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Perfect, thank you! Those nominations will be accepted shortly.

[pegasus143]

I wanted to double-check that a particular character would be allowed before commenting on the extra nominations post. In Detroit: Become Human, Alice is portrayed as white in the game, but in her concept art she's portrayed as black. As a result, she's sometimes portrayed as black in fanworks. She's not a popular character to create fan content for, so it's hard to tell how many of her fanworks portray her as such, but her race in the concept art is pretty common knowledge, so I think it would be fairly obvious to anyone in the fandom why she would be included in an exchange like this one.

[chromaticcelebrationmod]

Yes, that sounds like Alice would fit for this exchange! Thanks for the heads-up.