POC representation

[Antonio_Xul]

Does this really matter that much..?

Not really. I just wanted to point out what the main poster was talking about. I don’t think people may have notice what some do, so I provided some visuals. It’s all good, though. It don’t bother me. I enjoy it as is.

[Antonio_Xul]

That's a non-issue in a game with a character creator. People can make all the diversity they want.

The OP wasn’t talking about what we can make. They were talking about main characters in the story and advertisements. We can make anything we want, but that wasn’t the point.

[TheMightyMollusk]

He’s clearly a dark skinned Caucasian. Skin color doesn’t tell you what race you are. Your bone structure does and his face is clearly Caucasian.

I just facepalmed so hard that I'm fairly sure it's gonna leave a bruise.

[Antonio_Xul]

Dark skinned Caucasians are in Southern Europe and Mediterranean. Also people can tan you know. Skin color does not make a race.

[Lersayil]

Straight into a fire.

We can only hope...

Could someone pass me the lala-crisps?

[Edax]

Notice how all the Scions are all Caucasian looking with light colored hair despite being of different fantasy races. This is probably what the Original Poster means.

They’ve been doing this since the beginning of Final Fantasy. Despite blonde hair being among least common globally, the main heroes will usually be blonde Caucasian.

How dare Japan culturally appropriate Caucasians! Justice for honkies! /s

[Antonio_Xul]

How dare Japan culturally appropriate Caucasians! Justice for honkies!

They can do what they want. It’s their game. Just displaying what OP is saying.

[Theodric]

I'd consider the Scions to all look very different from one another, with the exception of Alisae and Alphinaud by virtue of the pair being twins. Even then, it's not hard to work out who is who even if the game plays it up as a joke from time to time.

[Averax]

[Morningstar1337]

Not really. I just wanted to point out what the main poster was talking about. I don’t think people may have notice what some do, so I provided some visuals. It’s all good, though. It don’t bother me. I enjoy it as is.

For all its worth I also understand where OP is coming from. It seem to be mainly a coding issue the like of which plague stories like X-Men and Detroit Become Human (especially the former).

I'd say this is somewhat mitigated by the existence of Asian coded cultures like in Hingashi and Othard, among possibly others but that still doesn't excuse that the protagonists tend to be white-passing.

Of course coding is a problem in the fantasy genre as old as the genre itself (and prolly older outside of it). this isn't to excuse it but rather point out that it might be a subconscious systemic thing (especially if it was combined with the whole Mukokuseki thing)

That is all I'm gonna say on the matter