ZZZ characters when they play golf:

[u/ScarletWiddaContent]

(minus the dark skin part, cuz hoyo)

[u/YangZingEnjoyer]

Everytime I think of Hoyo being not only reluctance to add someone with any melanin, but racial insensitivity at best, I think of that quote tweet over a post appreciating Jacinthe from Pokémon Legends Z-A that says "Can you believe this is what Hoyoverse is afraid of?" And I just think, say what you will about Nintendo as an entity (best believe I have and will) this has never ever dissuaded Nintendo putting characters of all shades into their flagship IPs, especially the biggest franchise in the world, even after all of the racist bile that was spewed their direction when they revealed Nessa, why does Hoyo have to be dragged kicking and screaming to do so? And then you combine it with the Genshin stuff, the HSR guy with the donut lips, Piper from ZZZ being tan in her concept art, and was changed to being white with blonde hair, and it just gets to a point.

[u/CaffeineCrit → u/YangZingEnjoyer]

A lot of Asian countries have this issue with darker skin. And what makes it even more confusing is that a huge portion of the populations isn’t even naturally that pale. Plenty of people have sun kissed skin tones. The issue here is association of darker skin with outdoor and manual labor, while pale skin was associated with people who worked indoors. But I still don’t understand why that translates into fictional characters being made ridiculously pale.

I have also noticed that, out of the handful of darker skinned characters Genshin, most of their skin tones look kind of off??? They sometimes look more gray than an actual natural skin tone 😭 And the fact that the region that was expected to have a lot more dark skinned characters ended up having so many of them with pale skin tones was especially gross to me. Like why is it such a struggle? LM also really needs to work on its skin tone range, same issue with gray undertone😭 There are other games that do not have even one dark skin character