Tuesday: Characters of Colour/Color

Can't believe it's already Tuesday. Sorry about the mix-up yesterday. I'm ahead of America and scheduled the time wrong.

✎ Today's theme: characters of colo(u)r. 

Our BIPOC characters have thankfully had more and more deserved recognition over the past few years. It's time to shine the spotlight on them once again today, whether they're protagonists or minor characters. 

You are absolutely free to write and/or request white characters as long as your fill/prompt also stars one or more characters of colour. 

Grey areas: 

Namely:

1) racebending 

2) ambiguous skin tone (i.e. the character's skin colour and/or ethnicity isn't clearly stated or shown by the creators). This is often an issue in older fantasy books.

I'll leave this to your discretion, because these are sensitive topics. I'm certainly not going to police people wanting to write Indian Harry Potter, or something.

A few rules to keep in mind:

✦ No more than five prompts in a row per day✦ No more than three prompts in the same fandom per day✦ If one or more of your prompts is filled today, then you may prompt again✦ Use the full names of the fandom(s) and character(s) in your prompts✦ For prompts, no spoilers until one month after the release date (use a spoiler tag to hide part or all of the text)✦ For fills, warn for spoilers, and either leave blank space before the text or hide the text under a spoiler tag✦ Include a warning in the subject line for any possible triggers

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