Meta: Let's talk about Yusuf for a minute

[effex]

dhobikikutti requested that I crosspost this, so here we are. Hello!

Hey, Inception Fandom. Let's talk about Yusuf for a minute.

To be blunt: fandom is taking the only brown character, one of only two characters of color (Saito gets better treatment but not by a lot), and turning him into a caricature. Warping and dismissing his character when its not ignoring him entirely.

Which, just. No. No. We can do better than this.

It’s an easy fix - we get about the same amount of information for him as we do for Arthur and fandom has shown that is plenty. Let’s sit down and go through it.

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[devilc]

While I still don't feel comfortable enough with the characters' voices to dip my toe into writing fiction (yet), my own personal head canon is that as a small child Yusuf was playing with superstructs or tinkertoys and one of his relatives, an older cousin perhaps, chanced to mention that the thing he'd just built looked an awful lot like a caffeine molecule.

The same family member got him this book when he turned 10.

And the rest?

Well, that's a dream come true.