Talk:Ahtakakoop Family/@comment-1344907-20140119161055

So recently, I've been thinkin' back to the conversation below, and now I think maybe I shouldn't have made Shikoba a Native American.

I created Shikoba, after playin' some add-on for Fallout: New Vegas. There was this companion character in Fallout: New Vegas that I liked and wished that I could have spent more time with in the game.

So I decided to make a new character in Millard High based off of him, and made him Native American, since he was the closest real-world equivalent I knew of to the tribals in Fallout (but even then, I knew that's not a good real-world equivalent, seeing as this is a modern RP and contemporary Native Americans are pretty modernized).

In retrospect, I should've considered making him some fictional race instead of Native American, as I think this portrayal of Native Americans could be offensive to actual Native Americans. So yeah. Shikoba's already been in this RP for a while, though, so I had no idea how I'd go about changing his race at this point, but eh, you know what, who cares. Let's just pretend from this point on that Shikoba is not Native American, but some fictional race, and forget anything I made him say in the RP about being Native American. It's sloppy, I know, but it's better than nothing, I'd say. Well, 'less any of you have better ideas. I dunno.

Not sure what the fictional race would be called, but I was thinkin' maybe it could just always be left ambiguous, perhaps as a running gag and because I am too lazy to come up with a name for this fictional race. Whenever somebody asks him about where he comes from, he could either be distracted, or get his voice drowned out (e.g., by a car driving by, somebody else talking, a school bell, etc).

TL;DR Version:' I am totally retconning the fact that Shikoba is Native American. From now on, let's just say he's from a fictional race of people. Disregard any previous mention of his Native American ancestry in the RP. It's a lot to retcon, but oh well. This was bothering me for a while, so I felt I had to do it at some point.