Topic on Talk:Goodwin Morin

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Hi! For the record, I am a garages fan of color. It's my understanding that you're conflating two different interpretations of Goodwin Morin - one in which she killed the sun in Dark Seattle, and one by waveridden (IF-3.703) in which she is Indigenous which is to my knowledge not connected to Dark Seattle at all. These are separate interpretations.

To clarify further: to my knowledge, there are zero indigenous interpretations of Goodwin Morin among garages fans where she wields a spear and kills gods. It was always very heavily emphasized in garages chats to avoid the spear-wielding native woman AND the magical native woman tropes.

I apologize on behalf of the team for the harm done to BIPOC in the community by this miscommunication. I don't believe that it's necessary to delete the entire lore, which many people of color worked on and care about, due to a misportrayal of the character. I do agree that "kill all gods" is something that has gone a lot further than its original intention (which was to my knoweldge about killing the gods in Blaseball) and is something that ought to be reworked to be less hostile to real life religions. But I do not think conflating two different character concepts into a racist interpretation that the creators of one concept were always intentionally trying to avoid means that that entire concept needs to be deleted.

The only solution I can think of that keeps the interpretation and avoids the racist connotation of a savage spear-wielding native is switching to a full-page IRM, so that waveridden's Snoqualmie interpretation is not placed directly below the explanation of killing the sun, making them seem connected.

I'm going to ping the mods in now because I want to know what they think should happen to the lore on this page. @Nesblitt @Inumo @Sav