mr convergence
this goes twice as hard for the streamed riptide episodes!! there is nothing more disheartening than having the episode stream when i'm asleep, waking up, checking tumblr and getting frame one spoiled. pleeeaase please please tag your spoilers 🙏
All canon characters of color in JRWI!
(if i don't provide a source/proof for the character being a poc, it means it's from an in-episode description!)
PCs
Vyncent Sol - East Asian
honorable mentions:
- Harlem Shade's skin is described to be "tan". It's unclear whether that means he is a person of color, with the color of his skin being "tan", or if he is white with a sun tan.
- As Tide is canonically black, this also makes all of his siblings, who appear in the Elementals oneshot, black as well.
NPCs
Lizzie - Black
Jasmine Drake - Black
Marshall John - brown-skinned, exact race not confirmed
Ensa - South-West Asian/Middle-Eastern
"Ensa" is an Arabic name
Tide - Black
Olgart - brown-skinned, exact race not confirmed
Biyakuro - East Asian
Strangle Macock - olive-skinned, exact race not confirmed
(Strangle was, unfortunately, drawn significantly lighter in the thumbnail art than how he was described in the episode)
Xylan - Black
honorable mentions:
- Despite being a frog person with no applicable race by our standards, Felipe's name might imply him to be Latina-coded. There was also a joke made in one of the episodes about Felipe's feywild name being "doritos locos tacos" which, offensive as it is, furthers the implication.
- In more recent art, Drey Ferin has been drawn as having brown skin. However, Drey's brother, Jayson, is significantly lighter in skin tone than him, as well as has red hair, which is highly uncommon among poc. This could either imply they are children of and interracial couple, or that Drey is just more sun-tanned.
I encourage you all to read this twitter thread by a black jrwi fan talking about his thoughts on the poc rep on the podcast!
Happy Pride! Here is all canonically queer jrwi characters :))
Player Characters:
Gillion Tidestrider - Asexual
Jay Ferin - Bisexual
William Wisp - Bisexual
Rumi - Queer, unlabelled
Peter Sqloint - Queer (exact sexuality not confirmed)
In episode 11 of Apotheosis, Peter was revealed to have feelings for Rumi.
Kian Stone - Bisexual
Shilo Bathroy - Aromantic
In episode 7 of the Suckening, Bizly responded "he's not really capable of that" to Grizzly asking if Shilo has romantic feelings towards Edward Twilight after drinking his blood.
Br'aad Vengolor - Gay
Taxi - Pansexual
Kasper - Gay
Honorable mentions:
- Vyncent Sol is implied to be romantically interested in William Wisp, who is canonically bisexual. It's unclear whether or not it's just a running joke, or genuine subtext. Additionally, in the same stream in which Condi confirmed Jay to be bisexual, he also mentioned Vyncent "doesn't have a canon sexuality".
- Arthur Morgan developed some feelings for Deacon Keller after the blood exchange between them. However, since it was a result of vampire magic, it's hard to tell whether any genuine attraction was involved.
- Velrisa Grayrock was implied to be bisexual by her player, Wheatie, in one of his streams, around a year after the Fated campaign was cut short.
- Charlie once jokingly said Br'aad has a vagina when someone in the (now deleted) JRWI discord server compared the kazoo strapped to Br'aad's side to a tampon. This was most likely a joke, but it could imply Br'aad to be a trans man.
NPCs:
Lizzie - Lesbian
In episode 101 of Riptide, Lizzie has been confirmed to have dated a woman in the past. In addition to this, the beads in her hair in her official design are the colors of the lesbian flag.
Ezme - Genderfluid
Jasmine Drake - Trans man
(also there is canonically no transphobia in the Riptide world!)
Le frog - Queer (implied mlm)
Le Frog and Pencil Man being together has been a common joke between PD fans for a while, Bizly acknowledged it a few times as well and seemed to approve.
Honorable mentions:
- Queen uses any pronouns.
- The God of Charisma uses he/they pronouns.
- Pencil Man is implied to have been romantically involved with Le Frog before the events of the Prime Defenders campaign.
- Deacon Keller has developed some feelings for Arthur after the blood exchange between them. However, since it was a result of vampire magic, it's hard to tell whether any genuine attraction was involved.
- Strangle MaCock was implied to reciprocate Kasper's feelings.
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guys being dudes
happy lesbian visibility week jrwi enjoyers - lizzie is semi-canonically lesbian!
slash lighthearted joke
wodnikszuwarek reblogged
never actually seen this brought up on tumblr before so here goes: please do not sexualize jrwi characters! do not make suggestive fanart, do not write smut and do not make jokes that go further than what you'd see in the actual episodes!
it's rude and disrespectful to the crew, doesn't matter if they see it or not! please be mindful of this
insane that this even has to be said but: don't do it to the crew themselves either! what the fuck!
jrwi fanartists remember to keep this in mind when drawing marshall john!
so good news - they're real! (the snippet is from grizzly's discord message in which he expresses his thoughts on shipping)
now that parts of the prime defenders are public i need you guys to know that dakota is semi-canonically autistic!
grizzly took inspiration from autistic people in his own life while creating dakota's character! dakota isn't 100% confirmed to be autistic, but the neurodivergent traits he does have are there on purpose
wodnikszuwarek reblogged
if anyone is behind on riptide now might be a good time to catch up, since there will be no new episodes for quite a while!
so yeah, bad news: no riptide for the entirety of december. good news: non-patrons will get to enjoy some prime defenders! pog
oh and also-
if anyone is behind on riptide now might be a good time to catch up, since there will be no new episodes for quite a while!
so yeah, bad news: no riptide for the entirety of december. good news: non-patrons will get to enjoy some prime defenders! pog
spoilers for jrwi riptide episode 55!
ezme - the ghost npc, captain tastrius's partner - is canonically genderfluid and uses any pronouns!
though at first ezme's pronouns were meant to be exclusively they/them, grizzly later specified that they use any pronouns!
at the time of the episode ezme's pronouns and identity weren't made clear to the rest of the jrwi crew, and so grizz also commented on the situation saying this (scroll down for a tl;dw):
tl;dw: grizzly said that he didn't make the fact that ezme was genderfluid and used exclusively they/them (at the time) clear to the rest of the crew, because their identity and pronouns weren't meant to be the most important thing about them, as well as he just generally doesn't do that. he explained that any misgendering was unintentional and apologized for making people feel like ezme's identity was being erased or disrespected, and asked that people stop being negative to the crew about the matter. it was never their intention to misgender ezme or make anyone feel uncomfortable!