i'm gonna copy my old comment here first for reference

i don't hate it but i don't really like it? or i guess more accurately breadavota does it like steven universe where it's not "actually" about colonizers but is instead about personal trauma where the characters being alien colonizers is just the backdrop. i don't expect the story's going to be all that consistent about one or the other and think it's going to suffer from the same whiplash homestuck did where child abuse was an ironic meme until it wasn't

although i know rpp has some particular beliefs about the topic that relates more to ph politics and they said at some point that they avoid dealing with the topic seriously because the readers are probably going to be westerners who don't have that context

> Sar implies Anselir was culturally genocided so I also think the reason Anthony hated Jacques is because the Passrynians got to keep their culture.
i haven't thought about that angle but it would make more sense than anthony hating jacques only because he's a prude

> is it confirmed anywhere if Jacques has an accent
iirc the last time anything was said about it is that jacques has a french accent