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Eventually everyone will learn the hard way that the only workable solution to this sort of problem is the one discovered in Indian mythology: just give up and make all the heroes/heroines blue
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It’s weird how people will say it’s “unrealistic” to have people of color in period pieces set in Europe, but will find any excuse to make a white dude the protagonists in films about a Lakota Sioux tribe, feudal Japan, or 11th century Imperial China.
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Not quite. Krishna is dark-coded-blue, but no such tradition around Rama for eg. Shiva is not coded blue but has an actual blue backstory (his alt name is neelakantha, or blue-throat, from drinking the primordial poison). Kali (literally, “black”) is left black.