Sparkle is getting Canceled for being Racist | Honkai Star Rail

Some drama floating on twitter about how Sparkle is a racist and a piece of shit, dunno about you buddy but I think that's what a bad guy is supposed to be
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[@streetwiserhapsody]

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[@AC-ut3nk]

Imagine try to canceled a fictional character, Their life must be so boring.

[@GoodGlaux]

Well… atleast they found a hobby.

[@plsguidemethroughtheabyssmona]

That true? I was waiting for some screenshots to pop out of here

[@Ealdor-Bana]

It’s the same simpletons who say games cause violence & lithium batteries are good for the environment. All they do is spout regurgitated nonsense that someone else said on X. It’s funny because they call us sheep while they are the biggest sheep on X.

[@darkcastle85]

Exactly like this is so pointless because this only makes her more popular as a character lol

[@theturtle8869]

They’re also extremely stupid

[@binny2688]

Pretty mellow reaction tbh considering he stalked her for 40 minutes before this cutscene

[@illuminati3561]

45* but yeah lol.

[@tuna1051]

Makes sense though since she could be the leading cause to robin's death

[@Gheniel_]

​@@tuna1051 it was probably that monster who killed Firefly that did the same to Robin too

[@zxlucasxzz]

Kinda hypocrite of her since she stalked mc and firefly some moments before. Actually everything she got mad about aventurine's "race" she's doing 24/7 (lying, manipulating...).

[@Gheniel_]

@@zxlucasxzz its because she doesn't like the IPC employees. And she may have some bad experience with those Sigonians to call it out like that, since she said their reputations is of liars and manipulators. She will be racist to mock them she doesnt care, she is a antagonist so who cares bro

[@razorfin_]

Truly a Aha moment right there

[@monkekryu]

If she sees herself being cancelled, she prob do be laughing in her chair from how many people she is angering for her own ego and 'fun'

[@phoneguy8428]

@@monkekryu she may even create more account just to ignore more people lmao

[@SimonPetrikov12]

I'd let her take on me

[@yooonavarro309]

​@@monkekryuthen aha gives powers to those who cancel him because it's hilarious 😂

[@bazo8478]

​@@yooonavarro309ah, yes, real life Mourning Actor lol

[@yootopia9196]

oh woow a villain is being meaaaan wooow WOOOW who would have thought -_-

[@clementine5366]

being racist ≠ being a villain. that’s just racist it’s bad enough

[@FireflyIsSamusAranSister]

⁠​⁠@@clementine5366nah i agree there is nothing to be offended but that is a villainous trait, its evil to discriminate someone just because they are different. Even if there is a reason for it it doesn't justify it.

[@dylanpalton3331]

​@@clementine5366you seem to be under the impression that can't be racist. Because I got news for you, they absolutely can. Because villains are meant to be bad people.

[@user-uh2sr1bt7g]

​@@clementine5366remember hit*er? yeah he is villain

[@hanbaebummie3215]

@@clementine5366Literally a fictional character who isn’t real, it’s ok to not like her but people are going to far and this is coming from someone who also doesn’t like her…

[@rio4727]

since when did people cancel a fictional villain for doing things a villain is supposed to do

[@philmybeloved4214]

being a villain doesn't make it right to make her racist boo 😊❤

[@Taiyunn]

@@philmybeloved4214bro is a fictional character, Kafka has killed people, but i don’t see y’all say shit about it and killing is bad, so respectfully stfu honestly

[@nemesis8222]

@@philmybeloved4214 exactly, a villain doesn’t do what’s right?

[@greemrye2756]

​@@philmybeloved4214🤡

[@pompompuririn.]

​@nemesis8222 the word she said just now is a racial slur against romani, they aren't even trying to hide it here. Romani had to literally experienced getting called A SLAVE for 5 WHOLE CENTURIES, whats worst they still have to face this over and over every day, dehumanizing them, it shouldn't be use for a plotline for a lit fantasy race, DERIVED FROM AN ACTUAL RACE, it affects people in real life.

[@patrickrogers9689]

The stellaron hunters are literally terrorists, but everyone loves them. Aventurine is a villain too (even more so than his colleague Topaz), anybody canceling his ass? The things people choose to get worked up about SMH.

[@yaelz6043]

What terrorist things do the hunters even do anyway? I thought they just took stellarons which everyone wants gone anyway.

[@edthecrazyboy]

@@yaelz6043they basically portray themselves as the villain, but in reality they more or less helped sort out the entire situation

[@patrickrogers9689]

@@yaelz6043 you mean like besides unleashing the antimatter legion on Herta station and killing a lot of people? One of Kafka’s primary powers is mind control and she’s very not shy about using it. We know that they have the ultimate goal of trying to stop the destruction, but they are willing to do anything in the furtherance of that goal. In a literary sense that probably makes them antiheroes. But strictly speaking, they are very much terrorists.

[@BlazeSwigglePlayzMc]

@@yaelz6043 While on the surface yes, most worlds actually don't know they have a stellaron to begin with thats going to kill them alleventually. The stellaron hunters basically force thier way into a planet to take it away, in some ways this either cause wars or revolutions as seen in kafkas animated trailer. Not only that but the stellaron sometimes is hidden or is named differently for example on one planet the stellaron looked like some really high end expenseive gem and the people who had it had no idea it was world ending thing, so in thier eyes the stellaron hunters literally "Just came in and stole a high value gem and ran away" that same animated trailer shows even more example but at the end they always end up painted as villains cause of all the colateral damage caused in the process.

[@McBoolatron]

I mean are they not allowed to not like certain characters or not?

[@Ealdor-Bana]

People want to play as villains yet don’t want the baggage that a villain comes with??? Did they grow up in a white room with static sound playing as a kid.

[@Zliarx]

and then people proceed to bully the voice actors after seeing sparkle being racist.

[@clementine5366]

well that’s only some of the people. anyone else upset by this at least had a conscience to not go as far as that

[@Zliarx]

@@clementine5366 you underestimate mentally ill people

[@zanga5408]

Has this actually happened or is this another case of a group of people complaining and the situation being blown out of proportion?

[@Zliarx]

@@zanga5408 hasnt actually happened...yet. Its a possibility that is going to happen.

[@hanbaebummie3215]

Which I find stupid, voice actors aren’t their characters people need to separate the two.

[@luisreynamboarcos2958]

I don't see the racism here, she is using a stereotype to insult him as a way to gain control over the conversation. The point of every insult she throws at him is that he is untrustworty, manipulative and deceitful, and she would never work with somebody she already knows only wants to use her, exploit her and betray her later. We also know that the ICP is a hypercapitalist institution without scruples, so while we don't know if Aventurine's race does live up to the stereotype, we know everything she said to him applies to the ICP, so she isn't wrong to use that way of speach to reject him. More over, the insult is not that his people are manipulators and traitors, but that HE lives up to the stereotype, being the one that brings shame to his kind. Sparkle right now is the most ambiguous character in the story, and she was a total Asshole to Sunday by moking him right after the death of his sister, but racist? That´s a streatch

[@clementine5366]

she is racist though…and yeah she did say that he lives up to the stereotype but right before that she literally said *“you sigonians”*. the way she worded that was already weird especially if someone spoke like that about a real race….people feel weird about it since sigonians are based on the romani people (look up the word sigonia/sigonian and avgin), who have had stereotypes exactly like the ones sparkle mentioned. you can’t really blame people for feeling uncomfortable. and yeah she did say she dislikes him bc of the ipc but you can’t deny that it was kind of unnecessary for her to bring up his race/ethnicity and talk about it like that lol (and this is us talking about the english version. the original chinese text isn’t any better)

[@angelprinz]

If you saw the leaks a user mentions that Dr ratio and sparkle treat aventurine differently due to his people. And apperantly the tattoo on his neck translates to "slave" and that he's on death row or meant to die.

[@cursey7304]

​@@clementine5366 so what if she's racist? She's a literal fictional character.

[@BlazeSwigglePlayzMc]

@@clementine5366 Its still a fictional character though and knowing that she´s meant to be a troll/asshole/villain it makes sense for her to be rude. Whats the point of having a villain if they are not allowed to do bad shit? People are just snowflakes now a days.

[@clementine5366]

@@BlazeSwigglePlayzMcshe’s not even a traditional villain there was no reason for them to make her say that lmfao

[@Bravo_0-7_Ghost]

NGL, Sampo looks like a saint compared to Sparkle

[@yaelz6043]

So that's why the fools keep her around despite hating her. To look good by comparison.

[@kidsIIIII009]

Yea. It also explains why Sampo hates her. It’s honestly serious whenever Sampo doesn’t sound Goofy when Sparkle is around with him

[@backpackpepelon3867]

Sampo is at least still have a functioning moral compass.

[@pixelrose_]

sampo at best is literally just scamming, unlike sprinkle

[@viceroycat6376]

​@@backpackpepelon3867lmaooo have you read like half his texts he sends you? My boi is a serial scammer and doesn't show signs of stopping any time soon. Cunning and sly.

[@AceKite00]

We have reached a point as a society where a casual conversation in a video game brings people emotional turmoil. May god, if there is one, help us all.

[@FilmFlam-8008]

Nah. It’s not emotional turmoil. Just a tantrum for attention.

[@lightbringer502]

Twitter users have problems thinking critically about a lot of things, especially when they aren't being told how to think. It's likely not solely an issue of Sparkle being evil, it's that they want to play as her but cannot justify themselves playing as a person they don't completely empathize with and support. They do the same thing to authors who write about controversial topics, assuming that because someone has written about the issue they must also believe in and support that same viewpoint. In their eyes, anybody who plays Sparkle is agreeing with how she treats Aventurine and any other horrible things she does in the story, and are therefore horrible people themselves.

[@long_dennis]

Twitter users have problems thinking

[@p1p3B0mber]

She also upset a Pepeshi by laughing at his height. Anyway, I'm still getting her. She's great for my teams, she's pretty, and an entertaining villain. Despite that, though, she deserves a beating for sending Trailblazer and Firefly to Something Unto Death, impersonating the dead, and for being a bigoted jerk.

[@IlGreven]

@@Nasipadang1da No, she did...it just wasn't created by her...

[@kidsIIIII009]

Imagine Sparkle laughs at Fu Xuan but turns out they’re the same height

[@hanbaebummie3215]

I’m skipping sparkle for Aventurine

[@backpackpepelon3867]

She's the first true evil character that we can play with in HSR too. Ruan mei is kinda evil too, but her's is more from apathy, while sparkle is her by her intent.

[@April-xl1ht]

Dont cancel her. Not because she doesn't deserve it, but because it would stroke her ego 🥶

[@yanfei36]

I love Sparkle sm!! 1. Her insults are #1 2. Her playstyle is so good for Dan Heng :D 3. She has Yanfei's eng VA 4. She's pretty 5. She's sassy. Ik she says some insulting stuff, but it's not like she's the only character like that. I personally like her attitude.

[@DCminh-pe9wf]

Sparkle is a GAMER????

[@leonardmanolache1291]

Yeah a kassadin main

[@maybeasked]

a COD player too

[@andyluan7183]

She spent her childhood in cod lobbies, ofc she’s racist

[@cursey7304]

​@@leonardmanolache1291Katarina main*

[@gustavju4686]

Now I wanna see SW vs Sparkle 😊

[@f4llenleaves]

Context: Those people are mad not because Sparkle is racist, but because she used a real, straightforward slur for Romani people in (only) the CN dub. Basically they're mad because HYV could've made up a slur for Aven's fictional race instead of letting Sparkle use a real one. I know this because I actively browse art on TikTok and come across these controversies as a side consequence 😂 I wanna hear all your thoughts now that I said it cos most of you seem confused where the racism/slur is. It's not in the EN dub this video is showing. Edit: My opinion is that the reactions are overblown. However, it could've been more immersive if they made up a slur since HSR race logic doesn't resemble the real world's. Sparkle is downright a villain but I guess hearing a real slur directed to a fictional race that doesn't resemble the real race does sound kinda strange and detaching not in a moral, but rather in a storytelling perspective.

[@FilmFlam-8008]

Honestly, the real life slur would hit harder. Thats the point. One of the Penacony side quests has you go through the life of someone that killed millions. Another is assisted self-deletion. There is discussion of prostitution. The issue isn’t the use of a slur. It’s that the people reacting to it aren’t mature enough to recognize it’s just art. It’s just a game.

[@BoothillsStrayBullet]

@@FilmFlam-8008could you still say that if it was the n-word? The f-slur, t-slur? My issue lies with people defending her behaviour, yes you’re allowed to like her but don’t go acting like she was just being a little silly.

[@wingedflyingforce5139]

What exactly are "Romani?" I don't get.

[@raindrop4308]

​@@BoothillsStrayBullet Gonna cry about it?

[@llama6394]

​@@BoothillsStrayBulletwhats the t-slur?

[@saltybalot3021]

Them: Sparkle is meanie and racist Me: *That's the best part I like about her*

[@hazzer6617]

So fucking true i love dark humor xD im geting her and her cone for sure for that funny drama alone 😊

[@nonoaal]

@@hazzer6617dark humor unless its towards white people

[@hazzer6617]

@@nonoaal i dont give a .... you can lough at me as much as you whant i would not cear and yes im white

[@BoothillsStrayBullet]

@@hazzer6617so you like dark humour at the expense of other races? K.

[@hazzer6617]

@@BoothillsStrayBullet yes

[@bacongl]

I literally see nothing wrong with anything she said. I think she is great. I'm pulling for her just because she is sassy. The Twitter Genshin mob is utter trash.

[@-irene-29]

theyre acting like this is a real person that offended them

[@clementine5366]

⁠​⁠@@-irene-29people can still feel uncomfortable with fictional characters hello 😭 are you new here??

[@clementine5366]

look at the original chinese text. that’s what made people realize how bad it was because the english version always waters things down

[@melodiasrojas8428]

​@@clementine5366yea and that people need to grow up. 😂

[@TheRedJadex]

​@@clementine5366There's nothing wrong with that. In fact, that's good, and probably what the writers wanted. It would be a waste if a fictional character's actions didn't make people feel anything.

[@neo.3]

twitter bros be cancelling a fucking drawing when there are actual real life evil people worth cancelling like the israeli army and the american government OMEGALUL honestly if anything i love her even more now 🔥🔥 it's not a crime to like a villain/"enemy", so haters stay mad 🗣️🗣️

[@ok4405]

they cannot cancel them lol.

[@Ealdor-Bana]

@@ok4405no that would take effort to actually do something good. People on X are just sheep with no individuality when it comes to actual politics.

[@refuze2quit603]

@@ok4405 So they vent out frustration against something that has nothing to do with the real problems? 😅

[@ok4405]

@@Ealdor-Bana nah it will take more than effort on the internet to stop the US.

[@sharisadonovan7954]

You're pretty contradicting. Seems that you shouldn't be judging what is evil when you seem to like villains/immorality, but it is very telling about your character. Also, if it's just a drawing you wouldn't be getting this hyped up over it. Don't bring REAL life politics into your justification of a video game character as if there aren't REAL people WHO suffer ON all sides of war. Seems like you actually don't truly care about real people unless it fits your narrative.

[@rosirumenova287]

I love honkai for being more free compared to genshin, which is much more restricted in terms of wording, death cutscenes, etc. IDC about the rest of the world. The internet for some reason feels like bad-commenting everything that's not going with the flow, and it's rly annoying....I personally like how Honkai is turning out :3

[@crossanddream2]

People on Twitter are pathetic, literally trying to cancel a character?... They put so kuch effort in being toxic and trying to cancel anybody but they can't put the same effort in there real life. Its crazy.

[@KalraSura]

I dont think shes actually racist/actually believes in what she said. I feel like she was saying that just to insult him as well as we dont know if its actually the "real her" talking or one of her many personas

[@thou_narsty_gremlin]

it makes sense that, a morally & ethically loose character, like Sparkle, throws racially charged remarks and insults at people. She seems to only care for her own mirth; she's clearly not above making jabs and overgeneralizing the species/races in HSR, long as she gets the last laugh. eh, People can debate whether she's a racist villain, whether she deserves to be cancelled, and all that, but at the end of it-- I see her as a contemporary symbol for The Bully (TM). Bullies come in all forms, even a sparkly silly waifu, and despite her peppy and childish demeanor, her self-interest shines through every step of the way. That's cool. She's not presented like Phantylia, an obvious big bad boss. She's like that coworker who acts nice, but talks crap behind your back. That person who presents themself as popular and quirky, but you just get a yucky vibe from them when you see them covertly climb over & manipulate others.

[@papuripapapuri]

Sparkle isn't a villain, she is elation

[@woriw2531]

How is that racism? People are so fragile these days

[@KennyakaEike]

For me Aventurine is the Villian and Sparkle is more like Yae Miko and not the Villian dunno she has some Joker vibes and does Chaos for fun but not in an Evil Way....

[@IlGreven]

She's like if Hu Tao merged with Signora...

[@KennyakaEike]

@@IlGreven Thats also okay, as long as she just trolls and doesn't kill anyone and is more like Star Treks Q i like her and don't see her as Villan but Aven gives me vibes of an evil doer^^.

[@herrdehringe]

yeah idk what people are getting worked up for. the IPC are definitely not some good guys in general.

[@xzil2167]

Yeah she's literally like sampo

[@clementine5366]

sparkle is literally shown as the villain….

[@kyarumomochi5146]

Litterally bottom barrel life holly hell Imagine wanting to cancel a fictional character lmaooo

[@hsJoo343]

cancelled as in... twitter(X) or character release or which?

[@eternity4470]

Twitter(X) so not really anything to worry about, they complain about everything.

[@Xenoray1]

you know the answer..

[@_Meeii]

X

[@herrdehringe]

twitter. what i heard is that at least one person was also doxxed (a 17yo at that) but don't know if true. tho bunch of people who like her were at least harassed.

[@darkcastle85]

What a bunch crybabies honestly 😂

[@dantehades2553]

LOL Seriously!! Really!? Sparkle & Racist lol? Some people simply can't understand the characters' stories and then jump to idiotic conclusions. Really I am not have word's. For me it's joke

[@after9485]

lol You totally right!

[@iforgormyname978]

Sparkle is literrally me frfr

[@Aventurine_is_my_pookie_bear]

Same bro I won the 50/50 while getting this sassy child

[@user-mm8xt4wn6j]

@@Aventurine_is_my_pookie_bear Lucky! I lost to freaking Clara and already have Clara C6!! T-T

[@commandopea9765]

Imagine if Sparkle sang we got to celebrate our differences, then Hoyoverse would get sued

[@len_0377]

How do you cancel a fictional characters like genuinely 😭

[@justashzz]

I really can't tell if it's a joke or people are legitimately upset The world is THAT crazy now

[@Booga04]

She seems interesting to me. I’m not at this part in the story yet because I’ve been busy with work but I tend to like villain characters. They’re supposed to be mean so what’s the issue lol

[@parsafakhar]

why do we keep cancelling based people?

[@captive8670]

Getting canceled is probably an award for a follower of the Aeon Aha

[@thewizof0275]

I hope people realize that basically no one is actually trying to cancel Sparkle. "Some drama" on Twitter is usually like five people and then everyone else blowing up about it.

[@UltimateTheaterFreak_777]

Me realizing that her VA is the same as Pomni and Yanfei 😭🫶🏼

[@timuito243]

actually, since both Dr. Ratio & Sparkle seems to have some prejudices against Sigonian, I'm curious about whatever the f they've done lol

[@patrickrogers9689]

I don’t know that Dr. Ratio said that because he’s prejudiced, more like reminding Aventurine that Ratio is not someone who can be fooled, and whatever plans Aventurine has, Ratio is already ahead of him.

[@Gheniel_]

​@@sharkzzzrgreat yes Topaz development was actually great, I hope they do the same for Aventurine or at least explain his purposes and motivations

[@kawaiitoiletpaper6908]

dr ratio doesn't have any prejudices against Sigonians. He has prejudices against everyone.

[@shadowwearwolf4891]

people who call that racist need to learn what an exonym is, strange that people in different countries have names for people of other cultures

[@mochi_aster]

"it's not the vibe, stawwp" -Aventurine 2024

[@dontusethesamenicknameonthenet]

i still love them both no matter if they are "eViL" 😔❤️❤️ I WILL GT YOU STARKLE AND YOU AVENTURIENEE

[@starpeep5769]

SAMEEE

[@justsomeguyworkingatmcdona6817]

Scaramouche: First time?

[@BlackVortexx_]

Okay at this point everyone is trying to cancel everything or anything. 😂

[@hwh7097]

In 2024, being cancelled sometimes means u are based, though not saying all cancellations are invalid

[@buffchicken8201]

These people are coping hard 💀💀💀 like bro, she's a villain. A fictional, batshit crazy type of villain. She's 100% the kind of person to call someone a slur. The thing these people are forgetting is that the VA isnt in control of the scripts. Hoyo is. Don't hate the character or the VA. Hate hoyo.

[@melonetchi2884]

the thing is, the slavic word that Sigonian is based off of(tzigan) is not a slur like the g word. It can have negative connotations, but some romani people actually prefer to be called that way, and the roma that don't want to be called that do so because it's an exonym and not a name given by themselves. It's like when the Netherlands didn't want to be named Holland.

[@gnoot50]

huh?? i didnt even think of anything when i saw this scene

[@_Kasa_Kun_]

She still says rock but now the subtitles say mute

[@ilovechuuyaa]

can someone give me the timestamp

[@kinasakuraba]

I got so distracted by her tearing into the IPC I promptly forgot she said something like that 😅

[@playerphantomaid3n]

Watching this makes me wanna re-play honkai star rail.

[@playerphantomaid3n]

Update: I’ve continued my story and manage to pull sparkle 😍

[@wdestroarchive5934]

someone really doesn't have a life first shenhe, now sparkle

[@imperatoraugustus9970]

Sparkle gets better and better with every appearance she makes.

[@rakhaanantabaskoro4461]

I honestly don't give a damn. I'll call Aventurine an Avginistic Sigonian as much as I want!!

[@nitroblaze6696]

Just wait until we meet aha, twitter is gonna go tactical nuke mode

[@siema14123]

A villain is getting cancelled for being a villain? common twitter W

[@cakey6636]

Let people write mean and fucked up characters without acting like that’s the actual worldview of the writer ffs 💀 this fandom is braindead

[@whizzermania]

looking back after 2.3: this scene is so pointless. i mean i get it: she's a villain but the racism felt completely unnecessary to add in if she's insulting the IPC. why would sparkle insult aventurine's ethnicity if she knows the masked fools fought alongside penacony: who were oppressed from the IPC? if she knows about sigonia, wouldn't she also know about the bs aventurine went through? i'm sorry, but i still think this is dumb.

[@diapason89]

She can't be a villain because she's playable.

[@captive8670]

Bro never played an Honkai game

[@diapason89]

@@captive8670 I did. I just like to reject that reality and substitute my own. 😀

[@sergeanthuman]

The stelleron hunters are playable

[@xAznSkyxx]

Niloupar: "OUR BATTLE WILL BE LEGENDARY"

[@TheCrossKnight]

that guy dancing in the background at the end made me laugh

[@Rqbins]

It's been so long, and nobody still realized it's the developers that added racism to her dialog which made half of the community hate Sparkle😂

[@mrrawcursededitor]

Developers don’t write dialogue, writers do

[@RukuBao]

This is just a convo two Eastern Europeans from different countries would have

[@mkdock]

True

[@irondesagitario]

they won't survive villains on other media

[@beauuuuu5874]

He’s clearly not ashamed of where he’s from, he clearly states “I’m an avgin” without hesitation when asked if he’s from sigonia.. he doesn’t seem offended. I see people talking all about sparkle, but so little about what Dr. Ratio said. To be fair, I think what sparkle said is worse, but in the end, these are pixels on a screen, not real people. And, BOTH of these characters are clearly villains.

[@danbo7907]

Peeps must be hella bored out of their mind to be triggered by a fictional anime villain doing their job.. being a villain.

[@ganpsao]

Didn't she call him a peacock cause of the way he dressed??

[@nova22194]

I don't understand what people are upset abt if anything that was funny

[@hazzer6617]

So true many people are just snowflakes thay cant take any dark humor

[@idkthisyy]

If the problem that she call aventurine sigonian which sound like racial slur in cn version, then why no one cancelling Dr. Ratio, he also call him sigonian (ppl just hate women fr)

[@leobuana7430]

Nah more like no one realize insult is insult, Sparkle insult boil down to Aventurine really live up to the negative stereotype

[@233reree44]

She got assist from that memory meme monster 💀

[@raisou9750]

Blade: Finally, a worthy opponent! Our Battle will be Legendary!

[@AxelPlayzRDM]

"Sigonia is based of Romani people" Blud. Sigonia is one of the Six factions in HSR. Why do you make up shi☠️👊

[@user-rz9fi8wc5d]

sparkles if she ever saw the controversy she caused : - insert troll face phonk meme -

[@Haru-rs2su]

Hmm. It's true that she's being racist by that overgeneralization. Being a villain also doesn't mean you HAVE to be a racist. Her words are emotionally charged, probably influenced by past experiences, and therefore I see her as just any other person who would say something unacceptable because of their emotions. Does it make her good? No. Does it make it okay? Yes, because this is a story - you learn from stories, not harass actual people who only wrote and portrayed her. It is understandable to feel angry hearing what she said - that is the point of her characterization. Know your limits in your own actions though, or you'd be no better than her. Can we all agree on these?

[@WelfareCenter]

Imagine calling a character racist... who do you think wrote her lines...? The company that created the character....

[@alicialiu9412]

girlie has no filter and I LOVE that. Will pull.

[@beamiauu]

fr

[@KakoThePoet]

she makes fun of everything and they just used her to do some worldbuilding 💀

[@StranglerSix]

In the contrary, I think it's worth appreciating the realism the game takes in its world-building. The possibilities for character identities and tropes are vast, and it makes for unique interactions. Yes, Sparkle is racist, but that's about it. Letting that inconsequential fact affect how you play the game is unhealthy, esp. when there's a lot more acts in the game that we've come to desensitize (e.g., suicide, manipulation, murder, etc.). A bad thing happens. Acknowledge that that bad thing is bad. Learn from it. Move on.

[@RinneAmagisDefenseAttorney]

THIS IS REALLY RANDOM BUT I DONT PLAY THE GAME AND THAT WAS MY FIRST TIME HEARING AVENTURINES VOICE AND IM CACKLING BC HE SOUNDS SO FRUITY

[@hanbaebummie3215]

Not people trying to cancel a fucking character that’s not even real.

[@chocobro3198]

People are such snowflakes. They should just not play any games, not watch any tv, not use the internet, they should just... you know, not interact with anyone or anything ever at all, because God forbid, they might get offended at the way someone breathes.

[@Miya_Tokito]

What'd she say that was racist I don't understand 😭

[@UnfazedN]

They didn't need to make her racist to make her a good villain

[@PeruvianPotato]

Boohoo, a _villain_ says bad things! Lmao stop stressing this much over characters or else you're going to die by stress

[@UnfazedN]

@@PeruvianPotato nobodys stressing and like i said they didn't have to make her racist to make her a good villain but shes not even a villain she's a fool

[@user-mm8xt4wn6j]

where ven is the racist bit? There was nothing racist in there. And what do you have against my mentally ill girl?!

[@madalinnick2498]

0:14 So....Sigonians are the little hat tribe of Honkai?🤭

[@Rachata_S6421]

I love her so much, she so "brat" lol .

[@Gheniel_]

She needs that correction yknow

[@malikcutchin]

​@@Gheniel_ I knew someone was going to say that 😂😆

[@Gheniel_]

@@malikcutchin heheh 😂

[@TheRealTact]

@@Gheniel_she made me bust

[@Itotallyplayguitar]

They would not handle frieza 😭😭

[@McBoolatron]

You're allowed to hate frieza you know that right?

[@owo7824]

I call her the roast god. *RESPECTFULLY KNEE DOWN FOR HER*

[@captive8670]

She is a truly a low tier god, would love Silver Wolf

[@Z3roCat7]

Its like baizhu vs hu tao in genshin

[@pannacotta9493]

Oh it's about sparkle against Aventurine? Go girl, I hate characters like him with a passion. Use every insult Aha inspires you with.

[@FloofyYosh1]

"OfF YoU gO! 😠"

[@jokaroicabanes5421]

w sparkle w sparkle crimes

[@qualitigma7440]

Im only just starting off in the game but i will say, Hoyoverse is certainly cooking good with this dialogue

[@Kintah]

I think they censored it. I just played that part and it was all about the IPC. Maybe because I played whith Japanese audio.

[@darklegion7780]

The world is realy a crazy place . Today more than ever

[@DrAxolots]

The fact she was actually helping and this was a hint lol

[@neeiarayfa]

Hoyoverse game fans when an actual villain is given: 😤😤🤬🤬🤬😠😠

[@MGS-lore-enthusiast]

i got both in the same team