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RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Val - 04-23-2015
Like Faye, I base my character on their background/where they were raised. I don't really care about color or anything, and I'm pretty pale IRL.
It's never really been a concern to me. Val is tanned because he spends most of his time outdoors. Melfice was white, but darkened himself to have a more exotic look. Vallois has a naturally tanned skin and Cyrus is pretty pale.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Seye Qhesu - 04-23-2015
Irish/English. I can't tan. I was mocked during basic because I was told not to wear a Road Guard vest at night since I glowed in the dark anyway ;-;
Bri is tan. She is the tan I wish I could be! Though after all of her history happened (fall of Ala and death of brothers/father/rebel forces) she took to the desert to be a loner for a bit; thus her tan.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - DeathGodSkeith - 04-23-2015
Zy is a pale young lady and I am a brown skinned dood. I like to roleplay something different, keeps life interesting
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - SunTzu7 - 04-23-2015
Artemis has something of a tan, which as a British person, and a Scotsman in particular, is something I can never experience.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Aaron - 04-23-2015
Lol im butter caramel ish irl and Aaron is pale.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - cuideag - 04-23-2015
My two ladies are significantly darker skinned than me. For Delial it was more of an aesthetic choice - I personally find dark skin to be hella foxy - but for Jajara, being one of the last of a long line of desert dwelling nomads, having dark skin just fit.
Hroch and Harvard are both lighter skinned than me. I fit in that "too white to be brown, too brown to be white, not yellow enough to be yellow" category.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - FreelanceWizard - 04-23-2015
I'm fairly dark skinned for a white American (convertible + easily tanned = darker skin), but L'yhta is significantly darker skinned than I am. She spends a lot of time outdoors and I somewhat arbitrarily decided the branch of the Vipers from which she came happened to be fairly dark skinned.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - allgivenover - 04-23-2015
![[Image: PAubTRR.png]](http://i.imgur.com/PAubTRR.png)
Yeah... let's please be careful about this one.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Cato - 04-23-2015
I'm British and with a pale skin-tone at that. I don't really base my characters off of my myself and I go with what makes sense for their in-game background. In Graeham's case he grew up in La Noscea and so he boasts a notable tan.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Parvacake - 04-23-2015
My characters are usually fair or tanned while Im easily tannable but mostly pale since I lived up north. Slowly working on a tan since I moved to Phoenix.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Lekka Meyren - 04-23-2015
Similar to many others here; Lekka is dark skinned and I'm "Norwegian White". (The distinction is I have such a low D-vitamine intake I need pills in winter)
Mostly aesthetic choice, She looks amazing in yellow.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - SicketySix - 04-23-2015
If a male character, I always play my skin color, white but very tan.
If playing a female it's all about that chocolate!
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Hyakki - 04-23-2015
I'm a mutt of Pacific Islander heritage and therefore, not as pale as Seiko.
(04-23-2015, 03:29 PM)Flashhelix Wrote: i, like the fat cat, am striped
WRONG! Fat cats are calico-spotted, there has never been a striped fat cat. You're a bad roleplayist for disregarding the lore.
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Harmonixer - 04-23-2015
I myself can vary a bit. I tan incredibly well, I can get really dark, but I stay a relative lightish brown tone I suppose. I'm Thai/Puerto-Rican irl.
My characters tend to have very dark shades. Currently I have a duskie. Before that, I had a very dark highlander. In other games that have odd shades, I usually do darker shades of purple.
I have a habit of making my characters generally darker if I can help it. I think it started with the fact that I saw it less often. Unless you count the every popular color scheme of black and red, but that's usually armors. I myself favor golds and yellows. Originally it was just to be 'different' and had little to do with my own appearance, even if I do stand out somewhat compared to some of my friends. As time went on, it's just what works for me.
I do have a few pale characters on other games, but it's lore reasons. I'd argue I'm not picky when it comes to myself, but I know that I'll always pick darker skin out of habit.
Which is funnier yet to me, because I find pale skin really attractive for some reason. A contrast thing maybe?
RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Cliodhna Eoghan - 04-23-2015
when i first made her, i had planned on clio being in ul'dah so i gave her a bit of a tan....honestly i think the tan shows up more in the art than the actual character but that's okay. living in florida as a transplant form further north (michigan) i usually end up with a tan most of the year as well just from being out and about (with sunscreen on a daily basis.) sooo overall it's pretty close.
youkio, my rarely used alt is a bit darker but that was more a ascetic choice cause it looked good with the hair color o3o