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Tremmor19 reconsidering from bunker in the everglades Since: Dec, 2018 Relationship Status: Too sexy for my shirt
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#1: May 4th 2023 at 1:09:33 AM

The description for In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race specifies that it refers to humans in the future all looking "the same". However, many of the examples (I dont have a formal wick check, but it's a decent percentage) describe a scenario where humans are varied in skin tone and appearance, but the concept of distinct races has disappeared, basically making us one race, with skin tone just another variable feature like height or eye color.

Right now, some of these examples are listed under ambiguously brown, which seems like poor placement as the characters arent meant to be ambiguous, and some are listed under In the Future, Humans Will Be One Race, which is technically misuse. Rather than creating a third trope covering this scenario, we could expand ITFHWBOR and just let it cover something it's already being used to cover, mention it in the description as a trope variation.

I do not have a formal wick check here, since what I'm proposing is actually expanding it to cover a gap between this and another trope. If I still need one I can add it

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#2: May 4th 2023 at 1:14:01 AM

~tremmor19 — we're going to need a Wick Check to see how this is being used, so declining.

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