[ SECRET POST #2389 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2389 ⌋

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

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

So would you be okay with someone casting a white dude to play Fat Charlie from Anansi Boys, on the ground that even though Mr Nancy is a black god from the Caribbean, his children could be any race?

Seriously, though, I think that's fine to say that Odin and Odin's kids could be any skin color, but I also think it's a fairly reasonable and intuitive thing to assume that because he's a Norse god, that he's going to appear Norse (in the same way that the Egyptian gods are probably going to appear Egyptian and Mr Nancy is going to appear African) and that his kids are mostly going to take that trait on from him. I think you can definitely justify all kinds of other things but I don't think that's a harmful or unreasonable default assumption? I guess? Is my point here?

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AYRT

Let me be clear about this: I think Shadow is dark-skinned like his mother. His father being Odin, is his "half-divine" part, which doesn't include the skin colour, in my thinking. I have stated repeatedly this may just be my own particular weird way of looking at the book, and may have no basis in reality, and I will state it again.

As for Mr. Nancy...from what I recall of the legba/loas they can possess anyone, which means they can inhabit anyone of any ethnicity. Fat Charlie just happens to be the particular ethnicity of the particular people Mr. Nancy and his pals possessed on a regular basis.

Again we are getting into the takes the human bit from the mother and the divine/god/god-like bit from the father, which I always read as a recurring theme in Gaiman's work. (Which, yes, I could be wrong about.)

.....aaaaaaaand I need to stop arguing about this now. Sorry! :-P