As a brown girl IRL I GOT WORDS.
For introduction sake this is me at the absolute palest I will ever be, link here!
And this is J, link here!
If your immediate assumption is that I choose Miqo’te so that I could play a roundface browngirl you are 100% correct.
Often times I feel like when you’re a brown girl you get typecast into either the sexless fighter chick (who is also from a tribe if you are in a fantasy world) or a sexy bellydancer. As someone who follows a pretty strict “write/draw what you wanna see†policy I can’t really complain about that and then play a myriad of pale characters. So generally I play characters closer to my skintone or darker in different roles. Usually nerds. Or mages. Or both.
Listen ok, I have a type.
There’s definitely a lot of nuances I’ve picked up from my skin color and how I identify with it to how people write about it. For instance I’ve noticed that for a lot of people “dark skinned†is closer to how I immediately identify “pale skinâ€. Or people will write about how J is “exotic†when I tried to make her features (save for her eyes) very boring and nondescript even if I changed her skin color.
For introduction sake this is me at the absolute palest I will ever be, link here!
And this is J, link here!
If your immediate assumption is that I choose Miqo’te so that I could play a roundface browngirl you are 100% correct.
Often times I feel like when you’re a brown girl you get typecast into either the sexless fighter chick (who is also from a tribe if you are in a fantasy world) or a sexy bellydancer. As someone who follows a pretty strict “write/draw what you wanna see†policy I can’t really complain about that and then play a myriad of pale characters. So generally I play characters closer to my skintone or darker in different roles. Usually nerds. Or mages. Or both.
Listen ok, I have a type.
There’s definitely a lot of nuances I’ve picked up from my skin color and how I identify with it to how people write about it. For instance I’ve noticed that for a lot of people “dark skinned†is closer to how I immediately identify “pale skinâ€. Or people will write about how J is “exotic†when I tried to make her features (save for her eyes) very boring and nondescript even if I changed her skin color.
