I agree that they shouldn’t change her and hope they reverse this decision. But when the line “Why can’t they just add some minority background characters?” is uttered I’m lead to believe you’d prefer to see the minorities in the background. And I wasn’t aiming my response at you per sé. It’s just that whenever a character is shifted (especially to black) there’s some huge dust up about it. For instance, Starfire is black in the Titans film and people harassed the actress so much that she had to disable her social media. On the other hand, pretty boy blonde Aquaman has shifted to a scruffy, tattooed, and bearded Samoan and there’s nary a peep. 

Look, I don’t want Jason Mamoa to receive backlash for being casted but that’s generally how it works. Black shifts are met with more angst/anger. But back to the topic. It’s dumb to change Ciri. And I hope they don’t because it’ll lead to the series losing fans for no reason which could lead to its failure. But from what I can tell you is that we’re very much used to seeing white casts in media and for the longest time we just watched and enjoyed it. Now they’re adding more minorities and some folks feel threatened by it. 

Bingo.

Right! lol

No I completely understand. And Blade is actually a black character who could shift to being a different race and not have it affect his story. Blade isn’t like Luke Cage or John Stewart Green Lantern. Both those characters are from rough, black neighborhoods that play a role in who they are. And you’re absolutely right about if it were the other way around those in favor would be pissed.

I was on the other side when they changed Johnny Storm. It just frustrates me that whenever a minority (usually black) character is added to something it’s always met with argument surrounding their addition. The Beyond Good & Evil trailer had a black female character who’s just there, they didn’t shift an old character. They just created a new one. People fussed about it. People gripes about Nadine Ross being added to Uncharted as an “SJW” move even though there’s been minority characters in every Uncharted game. Maybe my ill-feelings go deeper than what’s at hand but these things have occurred. But yeah, don’t change Ciri. If she’s anything other than what we know her to be then she’s not Ciri (in my opinion). 

No so “easy-to-win” as this sort of thing happens all over the world and the creators usually come out on top when they get sued for it. 

Well, gonna be hard to picture anyone who doesn't looke like the video game Ciri as her.

But otherwise, I hate seeing a race casting, hiring or anything where description is stating they want it specifically.

But, if they are going to do it, they better change up then the whole racial make up of the world. The emperor and his people will have ot all be the same race as her then.

Bolded = agree

And I let my anger get the best of me as well. My apologies if I came across as if I don’t understand. I posted a reply to another poster and I think the things I listed were in my head when I read the OP. And I do side with you when you say shows are allowed to have full minority casts and not be maligned like shows with full white casts. I think that bullsh!t when it occurs. Ciri being anything other than who we know her as isn’t right.

For the record, it’s like these studios are out of touch with blacks to be honest. If this show were full-on white I know I’d be excited as I am to watch it because I lobe The Witcher. Most blacks (not all) don’t care if something is all white. Epscially when the material suggests it should be. Like, we love Idris Elba, but if Heimdal were white we’d have still watch Thor. Sometimes I take it as a slap in the face to do this. Like we’re being thrown a bone because they want out cash. But on the other hand, the backlash that the internet throws out there can feel just as bad, most often worse. 

What do you mean by SJW? Because shoving minority characters into roles that don't make sense to them doesn't seem like social justice for anybody. Making Ciri non-white isn't just absurd and unnecessary. In fact, it erases the identity that fits Ciri better for the sake of a meaningless form of inclusion. Rather than write in an original character that actually represents the black community or the asian community, they demonstrate how little they care about those minorities by lumping them together under some ridiculous acronym. BAME? Really? So if your ancestors hail anywhere from Africa or Asia, that's fine? Does "minority ethnic" just mean not white? That acronym basically encompasses half the surface of the earth! And they're going to put them in a Scandinavian character? This is disrespectful to black people, asian people, and white people, and everybody really. I don't think it's fair to shove this on people that like social justice. SJW as a term implies that anybody that thinks society could be more fair than it is now is just some unthinking militant for a cause. What these people are doing isn't social justice. There's nothing just about lumping all minorities together like it's everyone vs the white people, and there's nothing just about erasing the history and culture of scandinavia for...what exactly? The ability to wear non-white skin like it's some kind of boy-scout badge? They think it shows that they earned their "racial inclusion" badge? Fuck them. Don't throw this on people that care about social justice, because aside from a few people that are too deep into a certain ideological bubble to be reasoned with, very few of us are on board with this crap.

I agree, don't change Citi... hell, don't change any established character, just create new ones and feel free to make them as diverse as possible :)

Yet rather than create a new, original character that represents black or asian people in any way, they just throw black or asian skin on a Scandinavian character. White people are so represented in film because Hollywood is the dominant film industry and it developed in a majority white (for now) nation. I don't like toxicity in the gaming community any more than the next guy, and I'm sure a lot of the backlash will be based in white identity politics or outright white supremacism rather than a backlash against identity politics in general. But this is a character based in Scandinavian culture and history, and it is no more okay to erase that than to erase a minority character. Not to mention, minority is only respective of US demographics. Imagine if Bollywood adapted Guacamelee into a film and made Juan the luchador played by an Indian? Would that not be just bullshit? Or would you say "what's the harm? How does it negatively affect you?" They would just be making one minority character into another, from the US perspective, so should we care? Of course we should! A luchador is Mexican, and the game is based in a fantasy world where everything is Mexico, called the Mexiverse (seriously, that's what the developer calls it)! It would be ridiculous for the entire cast not to be Mexican! Similarly, a game based in a fantasy world  where everything is medieval Europe should have white people, with maybe a few minority characters here or there, but the Scandinavian woman should definitely not be that minority character. It is not racist or toxic to suggest that. If there were a black wizard or something, that could happen, but they'd be their own character with their own identity, not a coat of paint over a Scandinavian woman. That's not even all that far from black face, really. I guess that's what we have the term tokenism for. And we should take it seriously. What they're doing here doesn't advance black or asian people, it just takes a beloved character and changes the character from what people who actually care about that character remember.