@spicyyeti

Well based on your own examples you seem to agree that these archetypes exist. The differences are subtle, but they're there. And perhaps those nuances are more easily ignored in a webcomic, and people can imagine the kids as any race they like. Like if you're not familiar with Hussie and his background, or the retcons made to any mention of race in the comic. You can also be ignorant of the voice actors and their ethnicities. Like, what's hypothetically stopping someone from just interpreting the characters however they like despite the casting?

Of course, that's a completely different conversation. We know who the cast are. I think we agree that in some way, the casting delegitimises certain interpretations at least to some degree. But that wouldn't be exclusive to white voice actors. Indeed, giving a character a black voice actor would equally exclude a non-black interpretation of that character. If you really must undo the fact that these characters were de facto written to be white, I don't think VAs are the solution. It's just a voice at the end of the day. But if you're already at the point where you think some of the ambiguity should be done away with, then why not go all the way?

@Sword
I'm confused, I thought we wanted black coded Dave? Your cultural background informs your identity. You can argue for edge cases, but without literally giving the characters physical racial characteristics there's not much of a point. Dave and Bro draw inspiration from an archetypical kind of white guy from the 2000s. A kind of white guy that Hussie was, and habitually drew (look at tso or AIDS). This is inherent to Dave's character, that he was written as an irony poisoned white kid obsessed with hip-hop. That's without mentioning his straight blonde hair. He's not even necessarily bad at rap so I don't know what that's about. Yeah I know, maybe you interpret the characters however you like, that's good. But this isn't a piece of fanart or something, this is official Homestuck media, and what you're seeing is Hussie's non-commitment to "racial ambiguity" fold in the face of what is necessarily a less ambiguous medium.

Let me flip your logic turnways. Besides like, giving a black voice actor a job, how is a character made more black by having a black VA perform him? Does something about a black person's vocal chords instill the character with more blackness?

I feel like you're intentionally taking me in bad faith, and conflating how these characters were written with how I think they ought to be. I don't think I've ever even heard of "Polish background headcanons" for the kids, much less for you to assume I or anyone else in this thread have different standards for those. Why is it complicated to expect good representation from the credited writers? Well, I only really recognise Andrew Hussie, and Andrew Hussie is quite literally the kind of person you accuse me of being. And I'm not guessing that, I have like two decades of his works to inform me.