Quote Originally Posted by Sairys View Post
The real difference is that if you're right and she's a gyaru then there's a similarity to Jynx which leads down a road to potential comparisons/associations with blackface and the character being changed in the future to distance from that, most likely by her just like... "not dying her hair any more".
It's also... just an assumption that she's meant to be a reflection of that culture/fashion when it's really only two traits that are present across the Viera race, and she seems to lack other markers such as the high contrast makeup and the actual clothing fashions given she just wears the Garlond Ironworks uniform.

Overall, the simplest explanation really seems to be she's just a dark-skinned Viera who either has naturally light hair or dyes it.
Your "simplest explanation" does not exist, and even if I were to try and follow it, it would still make no sense, because FF XIV is a Fantasy game. Next thing you're gonna be saying that Green skinned Roes are Martian representation... ROFLMAO. What about the pink skinned ones? Are they Hello Kitty representation? Are they POC too? The only reason you're arguing is because her skin color is chocolate brown, if it were to be Blue or something else nobody would care.

GTFO mate, seriously. Stick to twatter for your racial cruzading.