I Cannot Deal With The White-ification Of Porter. I CANNOT. He's Lightskin, Sure, But Some People Look

I cannot deal with the white-ification of Porter. I CANNOT. He's lightskin, sure, but some people look like they're drawing some guy named Parker Gabe instead of Porter Gage 😭 You see the tan skin, flatter nose, and those DENSE ASS CURLS ON HIS HEAD and think "yeah hes a paper plate" FUCK man oh my god. It makes me so sad when people erase those features off of him or bleach him. He's not a white guy covered in dirt holy shit. You cannot wash off that mans melanin.

The eyepatch thing makes me more disappointed than angry. Once again, yes his in-game model doesn't have anything under there- but what other characters have defining features like that?? Almost all of the other companions models are made with the regular character customisation options and just have unique outfits. (and not all of them even have that) The only companions with somewhat unique body models is Nick and maybe Hancock but idk if thats just the normal face sculpting with the ghoul skin over it. Everyone else is just the normal human, super mutant, or robot models. They don't get unique scars or anything.

The reason Gage has nothing under his eyepatch has nothing to do with him trying to "look tough" because hes trying to prove himself or something. Its because Bethesda is LAZY. Fallout 4 is particular is extremely lacking in unique character design features compared to the other games.

All of the main factions are exclusively human aside from the institute- and the synths are humanoid already and half of them are indistinguishable from regular people on top of that. The railroad has an assaultron that doesn't even look unique compared to other assaultrons other than the text on her chest. The only really unique designs we get is DiMA, Swan (boat arm), the drinking buddy (?), and maybe a few others. Not even important story characters like Kellogg get distinctive scars or other features that aren't available to the player. EVERYONE JUST GETS FUNKY CLOTHES. GAGE IS THE ONLY ONE WITH AN EYEPATCH. WHY WOULD THEY GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO GIVE HIM AN EYEPATCH IF HE DIDN'T ACTUALLY NEED IT.😭😭😭😭

i started ranting about porter gage again sorry guys

this is not directed at anyone because i see this all the time (i use “you” as a general thing) but it is SO annoying seeing people call gage ugly all of the time, in fanart and posts and whatnot. i love that he’s a grimy little raider as much as the next person but that man is not ugly! unconventionally attractive sure but who isn’t in the apocalypse. and it’s fine if you think he IS ugly because people are sometimes and there’s nothing wrong with it, but why is that the only thing you can call him..

seeing people bash on him for being unattractive mixed with how often people draw him without any of his defining features also feels so GROSS and not in the “i should block and move on way”. you find the black raider character and decide actually he’s a white man with a straight, more “attractive” haircut with a beard, he doesn’t have his big downturned nose, and decide that’s how you’ve “cleaned” him up and then talk about how gross he is in game. does this feel weird to you?

even if we ignore the possible racist undertones because it really does feel like no one realizes that… that is not a white man. it’s still so frustrating. why don’t we talk about the things we like about the character we like!! no im not liking your fanart when the caption is calling him a ugly fucking freak. i don’t even wanna talk about how ppl just assume that because his ingame model doesn’t have a unique texture under his eyepatch means that. his eye is just fine under there? where is your creativity or just draw the eye patch because its CUTEE and yes its “stupid” yes his outfit/armor is “stupid” because he’s a FUCKING RAIDER!!! you choose to just ignore the things he wears because they’re unconventional instead of thinking about how he went through the effort to paint them a bright yellow because maybe that’s his favorite color. maybe he wears that big cage because it’s convenient to hang things off of when he’s working on colter’s power armor or other mechanics. maybe he keeps his hair in that short little mohawk because he doesn’t wanna go through the effort of dealing with his curls.

where is your fucking whimsy people. call gage a nasty raider because he’s an asshole and doesn’t shower but leave all the fun about him alone. that right there is a big beautiful dorito-shaped southern man and obviously no one knows how to behave around one of those so i will be keeping him in my house