Mocking the White Savior trope.

[fayanora]

In my Lyria fantasy universe, I love mocking popular tropes. A recent episode of Game of Thrones inspired me to mock the White Savior trope. I don't have any ideas about how to do it, though. So if anyone has any ideas they'd like to run by me, I would greatly appreciate it. Thanks in advance

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[katrinathelamia]

I just have the Yeshua, Christ of Nazareth be black anytime she shows up.

Oh, right She-jesus, if you haven't read Trout Cave's Lit Brick http://litbrick.troutcave.net/

This on top of anybody correcting people on the pronounciation of "Jesus"... "It is pronounced [like] 'Hey-zeus'!"

I tend to have it look just casual and accepted in any of my works... as I'm aware the reader at home is more than intelligent to note how this is wild different and weird.

Though I think that is part of how my writing gets so surreal and weird compared to others.

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[katrinathelamia]

Oh right... it REALLY helps when the savior is completely unaware of the standard image of her... or maybe is aware, but generally apathetic to the whole thing.

Similar to how Alanis Mourisette is God... and plays her in the movie Dogma. Just walks around, carefree, and generally ignoring the stuff around her, until something small irritates her.

[christinathena]

Not so much a mocking, per se, but in my conworld, Empress Chara of the Kasshi Empire gave her younger sister Princess Waleth the position of Protector of Zobar. Zobar was a "protectorate" (AKA colony) of the Empire. Waleth, however, came to sympathize with the Zobarians, and ended up siding with the pro-independence leaders. She became a figurehead Queen of Zobar. Her being the Queen was primarily for several reasons: 1) to sidestep the issue of *which* clan would hold the throne, 2) to provide a useful spokesperson for dealing with the rest of the world, and 3) to make direct war against Zobar politically awkward for the Kasshi. Chara ended up tacitly recognizing their independence, but without any formal recognition for a couple of decades. It did make for an uncomfortable split in the Imperial Family, though ... the two sisters did not speak to each other for a long time after that.

[fayanora]

Neat!