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RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Mae - 04-23-2015

Kara -- dark
Gardener -- light
Mallow -- dark
Tinne -- light
Whisper -- black
Eltanin -- light
Luc'a -- grey/blue
Swyn -- grey/blue

... I think I just choose what looks good for the character I'm making. But I guess if I had to come up with some connection between Kara's skincolour and my own, Kara has approximately the same tone I would have with a light tan before I got sick.

These days, I'm... beyond pale. They don't make foundation/concealer pale enough for me, so I have to water down white-base.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Kyrio Lamansque - 04-23-2015

I have a fairly decent complexion, being Germanic/Slav in blood, and enjoying being outside. But that kind of dusky skin that Kyr has.. I'm not entirely sure how one naturally gets it in the first place, in IRL terms.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Meena - 04-23-2015

:3 I have charatcers of multiple skin tones, some pale Caucasian colors while the others are relatively dark skinned or a Mediterranean tan. In reality i'm a olive skinned Caucasian woman.

._.

So..

No? and Yes?

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Wymsical - 04-23-2015

I'm "go get some sun, geez" white, and my characters usually tend to be in extremes; very dark or literal white, usually with grey/purple/blue undertones. I also generally make characters with more caucasoid features; partially because I'm way better at making them with sliders and also just general personal preference. I used to have a pretty even split in what shade I used for what gender (lighter for women, darker for men) but in the last three or four years I've switched that up more. Sometimes I feel bad that I have very particular 'face structures' that I gravitate towards but hey, everyone's got what they like. 

I always like seeing the variety around me in the world, though!

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Gone. - 04-23-2015

Never really thought about this before, but I'd say both Vetiver and Foxglove are close in paleness to myself IRL, though Vetiver is a bit more peachy and Foxy more creamy. Not sure if it's subconscious or just a coincidence. Could be both? Who knows.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Arelian - 04-23-2015

I'm a mixed guy myself (Slavic Jew and Hispanic) so I'm either super goddamn pale or fairly dark depending on how much I get out of the house during any given season.

My character's tend to have skin on the darker side of the spectrum for much the same reason as Ette, at the end of the day. I'm interested in exploring things that aren't typically portrayed in media for a darker-skinned character. Like being a turbo-nerd, magician, scholar, potential (non-violent) sociopath. That sort of thing. I wanna see more characters that have a depth outside of their "exotic" natures for having a skin-tone that fits a certain stereotype, whatever it may be.

Though I also take into account the region of the world they're supposedly from and that individual character's particular habits. My highlander, for example, wasn't terribly dark-skinned but he was fairly tanned because he lives in the middle of the goddamn desert. 

Thinking about it, being pale in Ul'dah is probably a sign of obscene wealth and/or privilege. Same with Limsa Lominsa, to a degree.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - BearCave - 04-23-2015

Hm. To weigh in on mine, I have characters that tend to run the gauntlet of skin tones that I've played in the past. My current character is a tan Elezen, due to him travelling quite a bit and spending more than a small portion of his life away from Ishgard and the business up there. So he tends to stick out like a sore thumb amongst other Ishgardian RPers, which amuses me to no end. 

Ultimately as others have pointed out, I tend to go with what makes sense for the character and his background. My hangup in character creation is height, as I refuse to play short characters or characters that are shorter than me. I have no perspective for it. That however, is a discussion for another thread.

Edit: For clarification sake, I'm a rather tall and bearded ginger.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Edgar - 04-23-2015

Both Edgar and I are relatively pale, though obviously Edgar is practically anemic in comparison to a stereotypical human being. Don't get me wrong, I don't get a lot of sunlight, but Ed looks like he's been locked in the closet for 20 years and fed a low-iron diet.
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Koporo has the same complexion I get when I'm exposed to sun for too long, thanks to my anti-inflammatory medication (Rheumatoid Arthritis is a bitch). Not quite sunburned, but obviously well beyond tanned. If one takes a good look, they'll see he has dirt patches on his face at all times.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Kellach Woods - 04-23-2015

I'd aloofly point to the one IRL pic I've put up to say I am far, far, FAR whiter than Kellach is, but instead I'll just state it here.

I'm as white as Kellach is black.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - myahele - 04-23-2015

I  am browned skin IRL. My 1st character has the same shade as me (infect I made him look as much as myself as possible).

Then I decided to make him really pale with light eyes but that hurt my eyes if was in the open world.

Now the skin color is somewhere in between. A nice darkish tan. I'm currently roleplaying as a Ala Mhigan refugee and it seems like most refugees have the same skin color that I'm currently using. Though my character was a shade darker, but not willing to spend $10 just for that

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Jana - 04-23-2015

I'm a bit brown IRL, but my character is much darker (and with that touch of grey Keepers get).

While I don't limit my character creating by human skin tones much, I generally stay away from red/green skin in my player characters. I'm not sure wwhy, I guess I just tend to like what looks like a regular human skin tone.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - D'aito Kuji - 04-23-2015

I'm east asian (Japanese) and on the darker side, even more so when I tan.  I've always tried to make my characters represent my own ethnicity (with varying degrees of success).  I do this mainly because I prefer to represent and I think representation is important.  My characters often have Japanese names for this reason.

But I don't think it's all that obvious in-game (in FFXIV anyway).  None of the stories I've encountered make much of skin tone.  I think in Eorzea the differences between the lalafell, miqo'te, hyur, elezen, and roegadyn, are plentiful enough to cause all manner of discord in the realm. 

As D'aito is from the deserts of the Sagolii, it makes some sense that her skin would be darker.  But the U tribe is not noticeably darker.  But D'aito loves to sun bathe.

I've played lighter skinned characters too.  My City of Heroes character was very pale because the sun's light could not penetrate her nigh-invulnerable skin.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Goodfellow - 04-23-2015

My alts will typically be all the bizarre, inhuman colors that I don't get to see in everyday life, but my mains tend to (tend to, mind you) be a sort of darker olive which, incidentally, is my skin color.  I'll almost never play regular "human" races (no offense, hyurs; I still love you), and don't necessarily gravitate toward characters of my own sex, but skin (and to a lesser degree hair) do resemble my own more often than not.  I don't know if it's simply what I most identify with or that that's what I find most pleasing, aesthetically speaking (no offense, friends of other colors, shades, and hues; I really, really love you), but there it is.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - Erik Mynhier - 04-23-2015

Well my ethnic background is dutch, icelandic, and german. I am so white I vanish in snow. Erik I gave lighter skin even though I notice most highlanders had darker skin because he has wildwood blood and I wanted that reflected subtly. Its mostly coincidence that we have similar skin tones. His is a bit darker then mine.

RE: Your skin colour versus your character's skin colour - thesunalsorises - 04-23-2015

I'm Puerto Rican (i.e. mixed race,) so T'khai is pretty close to my skintone in the summer, though I'm definitely a lot more olive and if I'm careless about sunscreen I can get really dark. Ophelie on the other hand is extremely pale.