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The difference being Alyx and Eli are actually fleshed out characters with strengths and flaws, and mesh well with the rest of the dystopian Half-Life world that has plenty of different people of various qualities, including high and low quality white people.
contrast this with today's DEI inserts, where the chosen races are always the voice of reason and the best people, and the rest are dithering idiots no matter what position they hold.
Yeah. LithoLaunch kind of missed the mark on this one. The problem isn't that minorities exist in a story. The problem is that minorities get shoehorned where they make no sense, and are made to be blatant Mary Sues that can do no wrong, further highlighting their out of placeness.
unless, you know, somebody is actually paying attention...
most of these characters are absolutely awful people, it's just that nobody ever seems to notice or call them out in universe about it.
That's just standard Mary Sue writing. Perceived as flawless by the writer while any reader with a brain can see how unpleasant they are.
this is true.