Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6986530-20191121043451/@comment-108.224.53.188-20191121044106

1. I feel that it's a little misleading to call Elphe marginalized in this context--what happened with Riliane was a single event, and it happened almost half a century before this point. They do face economic oppression from the Freezis Foundation, but this could be to provide similarities to Germany's own economic crash as a result of their WWI reparations.

2. Being fantasy Japanese doesn't seem to have any impact on her racial experiences save for being a bonding point with Nyoze. She is treated as though she is Elphe and behaves that way too.

3. Nemesis has multiple inspirations, it's true, but a large bulk of it has parallels to Hitler. This is not to say that she is being equated to him as a person, but historically that is where she fits (and note, while I am not a huge history buff and so don't know all of the facts in great detail, I suspect mothy didn't do a huge amount of research either). She spends time in prison, and becomes a popular figure during that time in prison (same as Hitler). She becomes the leader of the Tasan party, which campaigns on a platform of fighting a corrupt government and uplifting the Elphegortean people economically (which was something that the Nazi party used as part of their propoganda campaign). She is referred to as Fuhrer, which is specifically what Hitler was referred to while in power (and this part's kind of damning because who else could they mean?). The actions that Elphegort takes are clearly inspired by what Germany did in WWII, and she is the leader of it as Hitler was. She is not the Axis powers in general because there is no clear and obvious correlation to any figures in Italy or Japan that she specifically represents.

It's like saying that Riliane is inspired by Marie Antoniette. They are not at all the same people (in fact I would say comparing them is a disservice to Marie) and there are points where they differ or take inspiration from something else, but this is the direct historical parallel mothy is making when it comes to the actual wrath event. I feel it's disingenuous to behave as though he isn't specifically saying that, even if it's in poor taste. The trivia point even brings up areas that she is not like him (such as not having an ethnocentric and racist ideology).

4. I'm not sure what you mean is being censored? Octo did not remove any of the stuff added about Nemesis having multiple inspirations.