Is Lyse ugly?

[Tsiron]

I wish Lyse looked at all like the people she supposedly belongs to. Her father's dark-skinned (tho he was also blonde with blue eyes) and she popped out the most blindingly white character there ever was? C'mon...

[Lauront]

[Kolsykol]

I wish Lyse looked at all like the people she supposedly belongs to. Her father's dark-skinned (tho he was also blonde with blue eyes) and she popped out the most blindingly white character there ever was? C'mon...

I don't think we've seen her mother, and the divide in FFXIV is far stronger in terms of nationality than skin color.
There is a bit of a divide in terms of average but I really get a bit tired of this constant harping on about how Lyse is '' white ''.

There are plenty of dark-skinned characters in regions where most people are light-skinned, and I see no one complain about that.
I can't really remember anyone being racist due to skin color alone it has always been nationality or race in a more literal sense so Hyur being in a relationship with an Elezen for example ( which is historically how it mostly worked ).
So I don't exactly see why it's so crazy for Lyse to have light-skin supposedly because of her mother.

People shouldn't look at a game like FFXIV full of fantasy races like it's real life where people obsess so much about the color of your skin, because people in the game don't actually seem to do that at all.
Like I don't see anyone treating Gaius badly because he's dark-skinned, and Garleans are pretty damn racist and most of them are light-skinned.
But they don't seem to care what matters is that he's Garlean.

Edit: To be clear I am not saying that she '' should '' be light-skinned, just that I think it's both dumb and pretty questionable to argue that she '' should '' be dark-skinned.
This isn't a historical medieval simulator, and contextually there is no '' should '' here it still makes perfect sense.

[Enkidoh]

I wish Lyse looked at all like the people she supposedly belongs to. Her father's dark-skinned (tho he was also blonde with blue eyes) and she popped out the most blindingly white character there ever was? C'mon...

That's a legacy of version 1.0 where Yda was first introduced. It's the same reason Minfilia is light skinned and blonde haired as well despite also being Highlander by descent - namely, in 1.0 Highlander hyur were exclusively male only (specifically as player characters), so any hypothetical female Highlander characters used Midlander hyur female models instead, and this extended to NPCs.

ARR corrected this and gave actual female Highlander models (and roegadyn female models at the same time), but they did not correct the discrepancy with Minfilia and Yda due to the game reusing their old 1.0 models for consistancy's sake. It's a necessary handwave unfortunately.