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An Interesting Find!

Journal Entry: Wed Nov 21, 2012, 2:15 PM


While looking through my past drawings of a few years I found an OC I never got to use. Her name is Willamina Wakabayashi and she's an American of Japanese descent. Though her last name is Wakabayashi, she takes after her American mother.

I never really got to use her. Though recently I've gotten an idea of how to apply her. Since she looks more like her American mother she's under that stigma of being stupid because she's an American. When in reality she's no such thing. I see a lot of American OCs transferring into a Japanese classroom or in Japan in general. But they don't take into account Japan's Xenophobia. Nor do they take into account of the stereotype of Americans.

So I will be working on Willamina to give her a story and apply her to a fandom. Be on the look out for her! By then you'll have more information on her.

Hope to tell you more!

Edit: Here is her old look from a few years ago and her new look!





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Mood: Pride ~cuteharuna Nov 21, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
Can't wait!
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:iconserendipital:
That IS interesting! I can't wait to see where you put 'er.
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:icontuxedofedora:
*TuxedoFedora Nov 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I can't wait to get her out there to you! XD She's different than what I usually do!
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:iconserendipital:
Exactly. This is really interesting, too, because there is a lot of prejudiced against Americans and other races in Japan. They're either idolized or shunned.
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:icontuxedofedora:
*TuxedoFedora Nov 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
One thing I did have about Willamina that will cause trouble is the fact that she can easily surpass the English classes there because her first language is English. But she's failing that class though because she doesn't want to do the work if she already knows English. As for Japanese, she can speak it with ease, but she can't write it or read it well because of all the different characters that mean different things when together. On top of that she wears contacts. :3 So she's got a lot on her. Especially since I don't plan on having her stand up against the stigma. Since she'll go by "I already know I'm smart. I don't need a school system prejudiced against me to tell me I am." XD I plan on doing a test sketch of her today.
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:iconserendipital:
Oh, wow! That's so awesome! I love that she slacks off in English-I would too, and it really shows she's human. Yeah, Japanese is hard. I'm trying to learn it, but gah. And I also like that she doesn't stand up against the stigma, too. So it won't be a 'accept people for who they are!' kinda thing, I'm guessing, huh?
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*TuxedoFedora Nov 21, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Granted she still gets irritated by the stigma and voices how stupid the stigma is. But she doesn't go all out on a "accept me cause I'm not the stereotypical American!" It's one of those "I'm in a different land. They all see my this way, what's the point in wasting breath? Once I graduate I can get out of here." She prefers to move on since she's still in school.
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:iconserendipital:
Ooh, yes yes! Gah, this is perfect. I love her already.
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:icontuxedofedora:
*TuxedoFedora Nov 22, 2012  Hobbyist Digital Artist
XD I uploaded her design yesterday! I hope you can see.
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