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The fact that you assume someone knowing the MC is from a Spanish speaking family would imply you want the MC to be Hispanic shows you know that information would influence a player into making a Hispanic MC. Note that I didn't say that anywhere in my comment.

I Can't do anything I want with my MC because canon information like them being from a Spanish speaking family exists. I could keep the Korean name and headcanon that they're adopted, but I can't play as them being from a Korean family. And that's a good thing if I was informed of it.

People make MCs based on some unchangeable facts the story provides of them. Those are part of a basic premise. The premise is already set. Informing people of the premise doesn't "force" them to do anything they aren't already forced to.

(This is "I", btw. From your server, if you remember.)

13Leagues36 days ago(+4)

What part of me telling you, "hey your family speaks Spanish", changes your character besides maybe the name? It doesn't change appearance, doesn't change personality, doesn't change anything but perhaps the name. But wait, there's something called cultural mixing. Swedish with Hispanic. AfroLatino. Caucasian and Hispanic. Asian and Hispanic. This isn't even hinting on the fact that a family could've just learned or grew up in a place where both English and Spanish are spoken together. Think Expanse Belter language mixing a hodgepodge of languages.

Literally at most, saying your family speaks spanish means that Moran is mixed. Which means, once again, they can have any name. So, no. You're assuming that I'm assuming people should make a Hispanic character. If that was true, I'd just say "Moran is Hispanic" and I'd actually make it a thing. It's not that deep, I promise you.

If that changes how you, as a reader, plays your character go for it. No one is stopping you from playing that path.

And yes, I remember you.

SabSab35 days ago(-2)

I've literally said it could be a mixed culture situation. And that I Could keep the name. You're the one who implied letting people know the family speaks Spanish beforehand sounds like you're saying " you better go and make them Hispanic". I did not say you're assuming people should make a Hispanic character. I said the fact that you assume that's what people would think reveals you know the information is something that would affect a person into making a Hispanic character.

You can't pretend this isn't information that affects an MC's identity. Something a lot of people would like to know about their MC before already forming an identity for them. If the family was introduced early on in the story, this would not be a problem.

As I said, it's a premise. All other premises is in the introduction of your story. You don't want to add that premise even as an offhand in the introduction part because you don't want to come off as saying "oh, hey you can speak Spanish so you better go and make them Hispanic". What I've said is it does not do that.

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