Quote Originally Posted by Lunaxia View Post
Looking through this thread, it makes me sad that we don't see much in the way of variety in skin tone and appearance in the MSQ cast. There are some really beautiful characters here.
This has honestly been something that people have been talking about for a long time. A lot of people joke around about their non-white wols being the diversity hires of the Scions, but it's exhausting - especially when you pair that with how the existing darker skinned characters are treated in the story (the answer is Not Well, seeing as there are at least 3 black men referred to as The Bull, which is based in some really racist/dehumanizing stuff). It's disheartening to think, too, that your character would never even be a consideration for a design just on the basis of not being pale (but especially not being white or east asian). It was nice seeing Thavnair, but why was it so white? All the darker npcs didn't have speaking roles and you can't even select them. The ones that do speak are white, and even Ahewann was paper white. And that's not even getting into the Twelve who - if they're supposed to be a cumulation of the faiths of all people - are all white with European features sans Nald'thal - the god of Ala Mhigo is white? The only dark ones are monsters like Zodiark. And that says something to players, especially to players of color who are frequently told that the divine is white and european but the fell is dark and suspiciously afrocentric and takes a lot of cues from tribal caricatures (see: Zodiark's mask, or the Nibirun of the Dead Ends (antagonistic in Omicron quests) and look up Ligbi horn masks). It's...a lot deeper, but the most visible issue is definitely the distribution. Because if the CC was truly random, why is everything so white when there are so many other options?

Quote Originally Posted by vanillavanitas View Post
Will they do anything for palms? The palms of the hands and soles of the feet of anyone with mid to dark skin in real life are always lighter, a fact which is not replicated in game. Considering that they will be doing the above for the tips of elezen ears, can they fix how the palms and soles look for any darker skin in the game?

I'd also like to reiterate what an earlier post said: please do tests on darker skin tones, including all non-human skin tones! The 2B outfit and Gaia's outfit both faced problems with the sheer on darker skin tones and non-human skin tones when initially added.
Yes! Exactly! Like I didn't even get the Gaia set because of the disaster with the tights!! And PLEASE let us have depigmentation for our palms!!! TToTT it looks so weird without it! And also do it appropriately (which is a gradient at the edge of the depigmentation, not a harsh line/hard transition).

Also Y'shtola should get her melanin back, because her becoming white like that was behond egregious. She became important to msq, and then she was suddenly super pale? Put it back!!!