Why bother explaining? We already know why.
It's because they want to rub 'muh brown girl power!' in everyone's faces. That's why it's not enough to racebend a character, they have to try and uphold their racebent variant as the best most awesomest version of the character.
They try really really hard for you to like these characters.
And they fail, because they simply do not understand why nerds ever liked this fantasy shit in the first place. In their mind, people like fictional characters for their fictional achievements. They think they just have to show a character defeating the baddies and being the strongest smartest bestest ever and that will make them liked.
They don't understand that a character's interactions with the rest of the cast are more important than any part they play in defeating the big bad.
Why bother explaining? We already know why. It's because they want to rub 'muh brown girl power!' in everyone's faces. That's why it's not enough to racebend a character, they have to try and uphold their racebent variant as the best most awesomest version of the character.
Mary Sue fanfic shit.
They try really really hard for you to like these characters. But obviously, most reject it.
And they fail, because they simply do not understand why nerds ever liked this fantasy shit in the first place. In their mind, people like fictional characters for their fictional achievements. They think they just have to show a character defeating the baddies and being the strongest smartest bestest ever and that will make them liked.
They don't understand that a character's interactions with the rest of the cast are more important than any part they play in defeating the big bad.
The "Big Bad" was really the friends we made along the way.