[ SECRET POST #2808 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2808 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Daria]


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03.
[Hannibal]


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04.
[Breaking Bad]


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05.
[Pride and Prejudice]


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06.
[James May from Top Gear]


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07.
[GentleWhispering]


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08.
[Little Women]


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09.
[Psycho-Pass]


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10.
[johnny's entertainment / j&a]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 01 pages, 023 secrets from Secret Submission Post #401.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

02. http://i.imgur.com/RlSycaL.png
[Daria]

Ineteresting headcanon.

[(Anonymous)]

As long as you don't call everyone who doesn't share it racist, have fun (there will be some people who won't share it for racist reasons, but that isn't most people).

[th0rns_n_r0ses]

I always head-canoned them as half-Japanese.

[(Anonymous)]

Same here! I definitely always thought of them as at least part Asian.

[(Anonymous)]

Another one here. I always thought they were half-Japanese.

[(Anonymous)]

Never watched this, but I would have thought they were Asian too, based on the picture. I thought so many white cartoon characters with straight black hair and almond-shaped eyes were Asian as a kid.

[dahli]

Oh yeah me too, OP. I thought that was really cool and then... nope, they are neither.

[(Anonymous)]

I swear I've seen this secret before.

[(Anonymous)]

We have. The picture is different, but the text is almost identical.

[(Anonymous)]

Huh, I remember the subject being brought up a few times on the PPMP. The consensus was that it had more to do with the limited style of the animation, but we had some fun theorizing about how it might have worked. Like the Lanes having an open marriage and only one of them being a parent to Jane and Trent (probably Vincent, since he has more of a resemblance to them). Finding this other parent might have made for an interesting episode.

Also, it wouldn't technically break canon for Vincent to be mixed, making Jane and Trent a quarter Asian or Hispanic.

[diet_poison]

Never watched that show, but from the pic, I can see it. I definitely wouldn't call at least the two on the sides white if I had to guess.

[(Anonymous)]

Protip: The lady in the middle is their mom. Their dad looks like them. Pretty much all the characters eyes look like that. It's the style of the show.

[(Anonymous)]

Hey same. I've kind of stuck to that, at least partially.

[neoyi.livejournal.com]

I like to headcanon them part Asian, too. But I admit this is bias because I'm Korean and I relate to Jane a lot. (I'd even say my best friend is a pretty good shoe-in for Daria.)

[heystasa]

I think a lot of people assumed that they weren't white - I certainly did, and have seen discussions where plenty of other people agreed. The black hair, the surname, if it wasn't for dvds allowing I'd still be under the assumption that they were Asian now.

[(Anonymous)]

This is probably an ignorant question, but how does the surname suggest them being non-white?
My first thought it that it sounds very British. Now that certainly doesn't exclude the possibility of them being non-white, but I don't follow how it's an argument in favor either.

[(Anonymous)]

[excuse anon posting, I'm not logged in on this machine]

"Lane" just sounded like it could be Asian (Korean, Chinese maybe?) to me. Possibly I'm influenced by Lane Kim from Gilmore Girls? I've never thought that deeply about it, tbh. But Lane Kim + a simple one syllable name + Jane and Trent's design all just melded together into "possibly Asian" for me.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, according to http://www.surnamedb.com/Surname/Lane

Lane is from English, French or Irish. So they aren't necessarily white, because they could be Black Irish: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_people#Black_Irish (note this is not the same as Black-Irish which is African American, only for Irish people).

And if you all thought I was trolling, then shame on you for thinking Irish people only have a single ethnic group and it is gingers. Who's racist now?

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, what? I don't think anyone thought you were trolling. The black Irish was strong in my dad, for example.

Also, just because they have a European last name doesn't mean they're not Asian - just that at some point someone in their family married someone called Lane.

Also, Trent and Jane could be adopted, to throw another theory out there...

(I personally think Jane's blue eyes clearly indicate that the creators thought of her as white, but my personal interpretation of the series is that she and Trent are Asian)

[(Anonymous)]

People generally start accusing of racism and trolling when you mention that there are Irish ethnicities that aren't white. It goes back to the old "no dogs, no blacks, no Irish" thing. They forget that for the Black Irish, Irish Travellers, and the Red Irish, they were deliberately excluded from having white privilege for a very long time. Some might say that in the UK, in large parts, they still don't have it. They still are not regarded as white, which just goes to show how stupid racism is. The only Irish that are regarded as white are those with stereotypical anglo-norman features, and even then they lose that status if they keep their accents. The black-irish, the travellers, or the lumpy-featured red-curly haired "red" Irish (yeah, I know that sounds clumsy, but basically just look at Colm Meaney, him, he's red irish although not overly so) are just an example of how white privilege is so ridiculously attributed.

[(Anonymous)]

As the anon who posed the question and hasn't posted in this thread since, I'm just confused who this discussion is going between now. Because I forgot to check back to be a part of it.

[(Anonymous)]

I always thought they were half-Asian, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Me too, OP!

[litalex]

I've always thought they were Asian, too.