Today I learned that people really think being brown and being tanned (i.e., your skin was made temporarily darker by exposure to sunlight) are the same thing, and that someone who's a light shade of brown isn't a different race from 'white'. There are people out there (I know, hard to believe) that are Not White but whose skin is still quite light and can even be considered 'white-passing'. That doesn't make them white though.

My point is, a character having darker than White skin isn't just 'tanned'. Why are you so afraid of a character existing that isn't white. You say you don't care but you're all so insistent on saying she's white or very fair-skinned. If you didn't care, why are you here?