He doesn't feel that he's wrong, he probably doesn't even feel that Pia or Chandra is human in his eyes. He might even believe inflicting suffering on them is just, balancing the scales on the pain and damage they have caused. But what he is doing is sadistic.
So he's got them in a trap which is set to slowly kill them...and then walks away?
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How the hell do fiction writers still make that mistake?
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
So he's got them in a trap which is set to slowly kill them...and then walks away?
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How the hell do fiction writers still make that mistake?
Unlike most scenarios like this Baral has no reason to think they can escape. His counterspell enchantment is strong enough to stop the magic inside. And it's probably not that slow of a kill. We didn't really get a sense of how much time passed after he left. Probably a minute or two. And since he doesn't know they're planeswalkers he can't know that they have any means of escape. The only problem with it for me is it seems like he'd want to stay and watch. After all these years and all his suffering because of Chandra you'd think he'd want to watch and taunt her.
There are guards around the trap and like it was said, Baral probably doesn't know about the nature of planewalkers and is most likelly Ajani's Impeccable Timing that they escape this.
It was okay. Second week in row that Nissa didn't annoy me, though I thought it was back to "Ashaya, why have you left me?" whining again for a moment. And by now I know they can write interesting mono colored characters, so why do they have to be so in your face with with the Gatewatch characterization? I get it, Chandra is red. Really, really red. The reddest of them all. But there have to be more nuanced ways to get that across.
The "They just don't want to escape this death trap" explanation is fine once, but I'm afraid we might see it more of often in the future everytime they need them to stay in place to advance the plot, when they could just use their powers.
Hm, I sound more negative about this weeks story than I intend to...
This week's story just seems to highlight the problems with the characterization of the current Gatewatch cast for me. Chandra isn't honestly allowed to be a red character because there's little to no depth written for her. Literally everything she does is impulse and emotion. That is red, true, but that doesn't comprise all of red. We get to see little of red's creativity and outside of a few Nissa interactions little of red's empathy towards others' emotions. I want to love Chandra as I find myself very much as a red-aligned personality, but she's written into one corner so far I doubt I ever will.
Nissa is another issue. I don't hate Nissa. She's just not for me. The whole withdrawn things makes sense and is relatable to many, I'd venture to guess, but then where is a foil for her in green? Do all green walkers have to be that way, because Garruk and Ajani seem to indicate otherwise.
I guess I just feel like Wizards is working so hard to fill out mono-colored walkers as the faces of the story and game but they've given them little to no depth and have shoved other characters out of those colors. Nissa is fine for green....so long as Garruk or another character is given some of its other aspects. Chandra can be impulsive red so long as Koth can be the defiant and more resolute red. Liliana can be self-interested anti-hero or anti-villain black so long as Ob can be the pure vengeance-based evil black. Problem is the Gatewatch shoves everyone else mono-colored out of the story altogether, and that's the issue. Either the characters need more depth or more characters are needed than the current 5.
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Decent story, although it felt a bit... in-between, I guess? Like, last week was a big story beat, and next week will be a big story beat, but this was just kind of there because they have to get from point A to point B.
Also, I'm honestly not sure whether they're actually trying to write Nissa as gay, or if they're trying for a friendship and just overshooting it really really hard. I mean, either is perfectly fine (I mean, obviously if it's the latter I'd hope they could at least dial it down so you could know what they're going for), but hoo boy does Nissa ever come across as gay.
So he's got them in a trap which is set to slowly kill them...and then walks away?
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How the hell do fiction writers still make that mistake?
What's he supposed to do? Go in the cell to personally execute them, one by one? That seems like the kind of dumb move that would be likely to result in their escape, much more than what he did. He had their cell filled with poison gas, that's hardly a slow and elaborate method of killing them. If anything, it's probably the fastest and most efficient possible method, at least without compromising the trap. It's not like he left them alone either, he left a contingent of guards outside the cell to make sure they don't escape.
Also, I'm fairly sure that they only reason Chandra and Nissa will survive is because they're planeswalkers, and Baral has no way of knowing that.
So he's got them in a trap which is set to slowly kill them...and then walks away?
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How the hell do fiction writers still make that mistake?
What's he supposed to do? Go in the cell to personally execute them, one by one? That seems like the kind of dumb move that would be likely to result in their escape, much more than what he did. He had their cell filled with poison gas, that's hardly a slow and elaborate method of killing them. If anything, it's probably the fastest and most efficient possible method, at least without compromising the trap. It's not like he left them alone either, he left a contingent of guards outside the cell to make sure they don't escape.
Also, I'm fairly sure that they only reason Chandra and Nissa will survive is because they're planeswalkers, and Baral has no way of knowing that.
He should've probably stuck around himself. If he sees them die: Great, he's accomplished his goal. Any random schmuck guard can go and deliver the news to whoever it needs to be delivered to. If he sees them escape: Alright, setback, but at least he's seen first-hand what he's up against instead of having to rely on reports. He also seems to be quite a standout mage himself, so in the event of the prisoners escaping, it'd be wise to have him on hand instead of Guards Nr. 195, 228, 374 and 550.
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Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Also, I'm honestly not sure whether they're actually trying to write Nissa as gay, or if they're trying for a friendship and just overshooting it really really hard. I mean, either is perfectly fine (I mean, obviously if it's the latter I'd hope they could at least dial it down so you could know what they're going for), but hoo boy does Nissa ever come across as gay.[/quote]
I think somewhere in between, that Chandra is gay/bi/pan, and just sort of suppressing her feelings for Nissa, and Nissa is simply trying to make friends, but has no social skills and so accidentally keeps leading Chandra on. Baseless Speculation: I feel like Nissa will inadvertently end up scorning/friendzoning Chandra, only for Lilliana to use that to seduce and manipulate her.
Though I understand how Nissa's flowery and dramatic internal monologue can be read as such, I don't see any overt or repressed romance between her and Chandra. The former's Kaladesh arc appears to concern growth of her weirdly aloof empathy to non-Forest, non-Plant permanents and the latter appears concerned with geographic and familial belonging above all else (Nissa and Liliana would be great and terrible surrogate siblings, respectively).
Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I think that we're collectively too eager to project sexuality onto characters who're otherwise strangers to it. Besides, with how ham-fisted the Story writing tends to be, I'd expect a Chandra with sexual feelings for Nissa to have closed out the current article with: "Well, we may as well go out with a bang!" Chandra squealed and pounced Nissa droolingly. "Is that...an explosion pun?" asked Nissa. "Naw, I mean...bang. Like...y'know...banging?" replied Chandra, but Nissa did not know.
Re: Baral - That was a classic supervillain mistake, but to be fair he's obviously not aware of planeswalkers and he's likely used that trap more than once. If it weren't for Chandra and Nissa being planeswalkers, they wouldn't be able to escape.
As it is, they assume he's piping in poison, but what if he's just piping in a sedative to keep them complacent. That would explain why he's comfortable walking away, and why neither Chandra nor Nissa try to escape to get help or break them out from the outside.
Re: Nissa and Chandra - these are both very lonely people. The theme of today's story was that the Gatewatch is a pseudo family for all these otherwise disconnected people who've been looking for belonging. The story is explicitly trying to connect them as friends. If you want to ship them, fine, but there hasn't been much more implication there.
I don't mind characters as they are so long as growth is coming. I think Chandra's interaction with Liliana (black) and Nissa (green) makes sense color pie wise. Liliana is encouraging Chandra to act on self interest while Nissa wants Chandra to think of bigger picture, this is a good chance for Chandra to become... less boring.
Nissa's discomfort with people is a green trait where "they tend to be reclusive", so her trying to make connection with others is obviously very new to her, but the same could be said about Chandra who mentioned in the story that she has yet to find connection with people besides her parents. I think Chandra commenting about Nissa's parents is a good turning point for Chandra to start thinking about others' wellbeing before acting all red. I see potential in a Chandra and Nissa romantic relationship, but remember neither of them is particularly good with people, this may very well be them testing water, attempt to befriend another person without being awkward, (since they are at least friends, and Nissa is an empathic and forgiving person).
He should've probably stuck around himself. If he sees them die: Great, he's accomplished his goal. Any random schmuck guard can go and deliver the news to whoever it needs to be delivered to. If he sees them escape: Alright, setback, but at least he's seen first-hand what he's up against instead of having to rely on reports. He also seems to be quite a standout mage himself, so in the event of the prisoners escaping, it'd be wise to have him on hand instead of Guards Nr. 195, 228, 374 and 550.
Fair point, but even so, I don't think Baral did anything particularly stupid or careless. This was the closest thing to a summary execution that he could manage, given the circumstances. It's hardly some overconvoluted Bond villain deathtrap. (Now Ob Nixilis keeping Gideon, Jace, and Nissa tied up in a cave to torture them, instead of just killing them when he had the chance - that was a real example of Bond villain stupidity.)
I think somewhere in between, that Chandra is gay/bi/pan, and just sort of suppressing her feelings for Nissa, and Nissa is simply trying to make friends, but has no social skills and so accidentally keeps leading Chandra on.
That's exactly how I see it too. Chandra is almost certainly bi/pan (she's definitely attracted to guys, and it's very strongly implied that she's attracted to girls too), but Nissa seems more asexual than anything else. She's just very socially awkward and doesn't have a good understanding of other people's boundaries, plus she's still getting used to working with people on a regular basis again. Today's story made it clear that she's struggling with the idea of having friends, and still isn't sure how much she should open up to them. It's important to remember that she was a loner for much of her life, anyone who spent that much time away from other people is going to seem a little off and have difficulty expressing their emotions.
I enjoyed the story, but I find that there seems to be an inordinate focus on Nissa rather than Chanra (given that they're after Pia on Kaladesh). I expected more Chandra focalization.
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Wow, Nissa's just a barrel of awkward, isn't she? If that weren't enough, the Gatewatch keep dragging her to planes where she can't get her nature fix.
Todays story was eh to me. Not great but I had a hard time caring until near the end. If Nissa and Chandra don't have non-platonic feelings, their relationship is setting up to be very weird.
On the Baral thing, a little cartoon yes, but last time he had to deal with Chandra, he got in some trouble with his bosses for trying to kill her in person IIRC so this time I'm guessing he is just following orders.
And next week I'm hoping for;
Ajani!!!!!!!!!!!!
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It was ok. They went a bit overboard continuously describing Nissa's thoughts, worries and emotions. We get it, she is the Emo/Hippie of the group, let's get on with it.
Chandra is very red, I wonder if she will lose her powers if she ever matures?
As one of those who can some-sort-of-relate to Nissa, I found this article great. Not the best, of course, but really solid in several aspects.
People bash Jace often for that "emo-aspect" he represented visually, but considering what he went through (from Agents of Artifice to Emrakul), he wasn't really permitted to reflect the "weakness" of the archetype (plus they wanted him to represent the confident, cool, intelligent mage as he went on to become more-or-less the face of the current game). Nissa represents exactly that - sure, instead of the classic "lonely edgy teenager/shut-in" description which Jace initially had visually, we got a cover of a tree-loving elf, but that cover aside, they managed to nail the underlying emotions underneath. Instead of locking oneself in a literal room, Zendikar was Nissa's room (as though that wasn't obvious enough) and Ashaya is in the sense the "imaginary friend" one makes in solitude (figuratively Ashaya as a friend is still "imaginary", despite literally existing...)
I love it that the entirely of Innistrad and likely Kaladesh feels like as though a bunch of extroverted friends dragged an introverted Nissa out to one party... and then to another after-party... when all Nissa wants to is to go home. She's an introvert through and through - social interactions sap her of her energy instead of replenishing it (I don't believe it's solely due to the environment, since the environment is usually a support point in real-life cases).
Chandra, on the other hand... actually when she just hugged Nissa still showed she still can show her emotional outburst positively, but even that was overshadowed by ANGRYBURNANGRYBURNITSBARALREALLYANGRYBURNEVENMORE that she showed and Nissa was right... can someone really be that bad at focusing all her power into a precise blade (of revenge)? Well, perhaps the way I can relate to Nissa while others can't, I really can't relate to Chandra, that one can be so angry (all the time) to the point you can't concentrate that anger at a precise point so you could achieve the goal to sate that anger. Or perhaps I'm really justified that Nissa's (extreme) introversion isn't a pure G aspect of any sort and therefore is more realistic, but Chandra's anger is R through and through to the point it cannot possibly be realistic, since in reality, characters are varying shades of all colors.
I think Chandra is entirely justified in the way she's acting now. I mean I'm not an emotional person but you hunt me down, kill someone I love, make me think you killed another, then try to kill me, THEN just as I find out that one of those people isn't dead you lock them away and try to kill me again? Yeah excuse me if I'm so busy shaking from rage I find it hard to keep myself focused. It's not like Chandra is angry all the time. Just right now in an entirely understandable situation.
Chandra, on the other hand... actually when she just hugged Nissa still showed she still can show her emotional outburst positively, but even that was overshadowed by ANGRYBURNANGRYBURNITSBARALREALLYANGRYBURNEVENMORE that she showed and Nissa was right... can someone really be that bad at focusing all her power into a precise blade (of revenge)? Well, perhaps the way I can relate to Nissa while others can't, I really can't relate to Chandra, that one can be so angry (all the time) to the point you can't concentrate that anger at a precise point so you could achieve the goal to sate that anger. Or perhaps I'm really justified that Nissa's (extreme) introversion isn't a pure G aspect of any sort and therefore is more realistic, but Chandra's anger is R through and through to the point it cannot possibly be realistic, since in reality, characters are varying shades of all colors.
I don't think Chandra is unrealistically angry, here. If you've experienced rage or trauma, unreasonable levels of anger aren't 'unrealistic'. Especially with how traumatic Chandra's early life was.
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How the hell do fiction writers still make that mistake?
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Unlike most scenarios like this Baral has no reason to think they can escape. His counterspell enchantment is strong enough to stop the magic inside. And it's probably not that slow of a kill. We didn't really get a sense of how much time passed after he left. Probably a minute or two. And since he doesn't know they're planeswalkers he can't know that they have any means of escape. The only problem with it for me is it seems like he'd want to stay and watch. After all these years and all his suffering because of Chandra you'd think he'd want to watch and taunt her.
Impeccable Timing that they escape this.
It was okay. Second week in row that Nissa didn't annoy me, though I thought it was back to "Ashaya, why have you left me?" whining again for a moment. And by now I know they can write interesting mono colored characters, so why do they have to be so in your face with with the Gatewatch characterization? I get it, Chandra is red. Really, really red. The reddest of them all. But there have to be more nuanced ways to get that across.
The "They just don't want to escape this death trap" explanation is fine once, but I'm afraid we might see it more of often in the future everytime they need them to stay in place to advance the plot, when they could just use their powers.
Hm, I sound more negative about this weeks story than I intend to...
Nissa is another issue. I don't hate Nissa. She's just not for me. The whole withdrawn things makes sense and is relatable to many, I'd venture to guess, but then where is a foil for her in green? Do all green walkers have to be that way, because Garruk and Ajani seem to indicate otherwise.
I guess I just feel like Wizards is working so hard to fill out mono-colored walkers as the faces of the story and game but they've given them little to no depth and have shoved other characters out of those colors. Nissa is fine for green....so long as Garruk or another character is given some of its other aspects. Chandra can be impulsive red so long as Koth can be the defiant and more resolute red. Liliana can be self-interested anti-hero or anti-villain black so long as Ob can be the pure vengeance-based evil black. Problem is the Gatewatch shoves everyone else mono-colored out of the story altogether, and that's the issue. Either the characters need more depth or more characters are needed than the current 5.
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Also, I'm honestly not sure whether they're actually trying to write Nissa as gay, or if they're trying for a friendship and just overshooting it really really hard. I mean, either is perfectly fine (I mean, obviously if it's the latter I'd hope they could at least dial it down so you could know what they're going for), but hoo boy does Nissa ever come across as gay.
What's he supposed to do? Go in the cell to personally execute them, one by one? That seems like the kind of dumb move that would be likely to result in their escape, much more than what he did. He had their cell filled with poison gas, that's hardly a slow and elaborate method of killing them. If anything, it's probably the fastest and most efficient possible method, at least without compromising the trap. It's not like he left them alone either, he left a contingent of guards outside the cell to make sure they don't escape.
Also, I'm fairly sure that they only reason Chandra and Nissa will survive is because they're planeswalkers, and Baral has no way of knowing that.
He should've probably stuck around himself. If he sees them die: Great, he's accomplished his goal. Any random schmuck guard can go and deliver the news to whoever it needs to be delivered to. If he sees them escape: Alright, setback, but at least he's seen first-hand what he's up against instead of having to rely on reports. He also seems to be quite a standout mage himself, so in the event of the prisoners escaping, it'd be wise to have him on hand instead of Guards Nr. 195, 228, 374 and 550.
Chandra, Torch of Defiance - Oops! All Chandras.
Prime Speaker Zegana - Draw for Power.
Pir & Toothy - Counterpalooza.
Arcades, the Strategist - Another Brick in the Wall.
Zacama, Primal Calamity - Calamity of Double Mana.
Edgar Markov - Vampires Don't Die.
Child of Alara - Dreamcrusher.
Also, I'm honestly not sure whether they're actually trying to write Nissa as gay, or if they're trying for a friendship and just overshooting it really really hard. I mean, either is perfectly fine (I mean, obviously if it's the latter I'd hope they could at least dial it down so you could know what they're going for), but hoo boy does Nissa ever come across as gay.[/quote]
I think somewhere in between, that Chandra is gay/bi/pan, and just sort of suppressing her feelings for Nissa, and Nissa is simply trying to make friends, but has no social skills and so accidentally keeps leading Chandra on. Baseless Speculation: I feel like Nissa will inadvertently end up scorning/friendzoning Chandra, only for Lilliana to use that to seduce and manipulate her.
Maybe I'll be proven wrong, but I think that we're collectively too eager to project sexuality onto characters who're otherwise strangers to it. Besides, with how ham-fisted the Story writing tends to be, I'd expect a Chandra with sexual feelings for Nissa to have closed out the current article with: "Well, we may as well go out with a bang!" Chandra squealed and pounced Nissa droolingly. "Is that...an explosion pun?" asked Nissa. "Naw, I mean...bang. Like...y'know...banging?" replied Chandra, but Nissa did not know.
As it is, they assume he's piping in poison, but what if he's just piping in a sedative to keep them complacent. That would explain why he's comfortable walking away, and why neither Chandra nor Nissa try to escape to get help or break them out from the outside.
Re: Nissa and Chandra - these are both very lonely people. The theme of today's story was that the Gatewatch is a pseudo family for all these otherwise disconnected people who've been looking for belonging. The story is explicitly trying to connect them as friends. If you want to ship them, fine, but there hasn't been much more implication there.
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While Chandra is very much a red character, I wouldn't mind her develop more traits from other facets, such as quiet but fierce emotion of Feldon of the Third Path and Urabrask the Hidden, leadership of Heartless Hidetsugu and Godo, Bandit Warlord, and hell even humor like Jaya Ballard, Task Mage (no one matches Jaya though). At this moment, I can see Chandra becoming more like Homura, Human Ascendant and Kumano, Master Yamabushi, discipline over power.
Nissa's discomfort with people is a green trait where "they tend to be reclusive", so her trying to make connection with others is obviously very new to her, but the same could be said about Chandra who mentioned in the story that she has yet to find connection with people besides her parents. I think Chandra commenting about Nissa's parents is a good turning point for Chandra to start thinking about others' wellbeing before acting all red. I see potential in a Chandra and Nissa romantic relationship, but remember neither of them is particularly good with people, this may very well be them testing water, attempt to befriend another person without being awkward, (since they are at least friends, and Nissa is an empathic and forgiving person).
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Fair point, but even so, I don't think Baral did anything particularly stupid or careless. This was the closest thing to a summary execution that he could manage, given the circumstances. It's hardly some overconvoluted Bond villain deathtrap. (Now Ob Nixilis keeping Gideon, Jace, and Nissa tied up in a cave to torture them, instead of just killing them when he had the chance - that was a real example of Bond villain stupidity.)
That's exactly how I see it too. Chandra is almost certainly bi/pan (she's definitely attracted to guys, and it's very strongly implied that she's attracted to girls too), but Nissa seems more asexual than anything else. She's just very socially awkward and doesn't have a good understanding of other people's boundaries, plus she's still getting used to working with people on a regular basis again. Today's story made it clear that she's struggling with the idea of having friends, and still isn't sure how much she should open up to them. It's important to remember that she was a loner for much of her life, anyone who spent that much time away from other people is going to seem a little off and have difficulty expressing their emotions.
On the Baral thing, a little cartoon yes, but last time he had to deal with Chandra, he got in some trouble with his bosses for trying to kill her in person IIRC so this time I'm guessing he is just following orders.
And next week I'm hoping for;
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Chandra is very red, I wonder if she will lose her powers if she ever matures?
People bash Jace often for that "emo-aspect" he represented visually, but considering what he went through (from Agents of Artifice to Emrakul), he wasn't really permitted to reflect the "weakness" of the archetype (plus they wanted him to represent the confident, cool, intelligent mage as he went on to become more-or-less the face of the current game). Nissa represents exactly that - sure, instead of the classic "lonely edgy teenager/shut-in" description which Jace initially had visually, we got a cover of a tree-loving elf, but that cover aside, they managed to nail the underlying emotions underneath. Instead of locking oneself in a literal room, Zendikar was Nissa's room (as though that wasn't obvious enough) and Ashaya is in the sense the "imaginary friend" one makes in solitude (figuratively Ashaya as a friend is still "imaginary", despite literally existing...)
I love it that the entirely of Innistrad and likely Kaladesh feels like as though a bunch of extroverted friends dragged an introverted Nissa out to one party... and then to another after-party... when all Nissa wants to is to go home. She's an introvert through and through - social interactions sap her of her energy instead of replenishing it (I don't believe it's solely due to the environment, since the environment is usually a support point in real-life cases).
Chandra, on the other hand... actually when she just hugged Nissa still showed she still can show her emotional outburst positively, but even that was overshadowed by ANGRYBURNANGRYBURNITSBARALREALLYANGRYBURNEVENMORE that she showed and Nissa was right... can someone really be that bad at focusing all her power into a precise blade (of revenge)? Well, perhaps the way I can relate to Nissa while others can't, I really can't relate to Chandra, that one can be so angry (all the time) to the point you can't concentrate that anger at a precise point so you could achieve the goal to sate that anger. Or perhaps I'm really justified that Nissa's (extreme) introversion isn't a pure G aspect of any sort and therefore is more realistic, but Chandra's anger is R through and through to the point it cannot possibly be realistic, since in reality, characters are varying shades of all colors.
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