The reason why her kids were "white as hell" is because they don't have the blessing of the dark spirit king, same reason why her skin turned white for a bit is because she got the light spirit king's blessing; you even said this point yourself so I don't know how you didn't figure it out from that.
I do agree that this whole thing
funny how you think using in story mechanics doesn't make the writer racist as fuck , which is my main point
Here's the thing, I accidentally hit the post button and I tried over and over again for like an hour to delete the post so I could finish what I was typing. Just a heads up, if your reply totally this is something along the lines of "I ain't reading all of that", then don't post such stupid shit without considering most of the facts and only looking at it from one angle.
Heres what I was gonna say:
I do agree that this whole story was colourist though (this is literally the only line I could remember from what I was gonna say from before).
After reading your reply, I disagree with the fact that the writer is racist, I do see how it would off that way though. If the writer was racist she wouldn't have ended the story with her marrying the Prince (the prince ended up liking her first and only seein her for who she was rather than what colour her hair and skin was), also several people would have been against them marrying (had the writer written it like that). But the writer decided to give them a happy ending anyways, she got married and had kids, and the fl has friends she can turn too and she is slowly starting to interact with her mother again. We barely get enough dark skinned fl, and the way this story was written overall was not that bad imo.
If it was you writing this story, with the same characters and with the same premise where your physical appearance changes depending on what kind of spirit you get, how would you write it any better?
Every story has a plot point that readers aren't ever gonna like, just like how most stories you see these days include a lot of death, murder and a lot of others things that would just not be socially acceptable. Yet you see people still watch/read it. From the logic in your reply, when a writer writes a story where the murder was one of the plot points, does that make them a murderer? If a writer wrote about one of the plot points being pedophilia does that make them a pedophile? And if a writer wrote about one of the plot points being, one of the characters were gay/bi/lesbian and were criticised, does that make the writer automatically homophobic?
in my second comment I doubled down on the writer being racist and I still feel this way.
First, genuinely are you dark skinned because you asking how I'd write a story with such a premise is wild because such a premise should never have existed tbw.
Having someone change skin tones based on power (especially dark and light magic) is an inherently racist concept and no positive outcome can make it not not that.
Oh so the dark girl is worth loving, look she got the prince, and wow he can't see colour unlike everyone else.
Do you see how patronizing it sounds?
Each "genre" you mention has their taboos and connotations and each decision in story making shows the writers hands. I feel like it should be obvious how having homophobic characters or murderers etc. isn't the same as making the plot in it self perpetuate racist beliefs even if the ending is positive. Like now I just feel like you're being facetious.
Just because representation is hard to find doesn't mean we should all just accept every kind. A great example would be call me by your name, A film praised by many and won multiple prizes and yet is such a scourge in lgbt representation.
One things for sure, If you don't see why I think the writer's racist then there's no convincing you and will never be my goal and that's ok.
Having lived in an Asian family where my skin was/is darker than all of my family, there were parts where I felt sadness and anger for the fl. Like, I said before every story has
(I did it again, and dropped my phone on my face that time)
A plot point people aren't gonna like and I don't see how I was being facetious at all, that part I'd like an explanation to. Because if we look the the dictionary definition of the word it says "treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humour", when did I say anything that would imply this?
I read the first part and thought about it again and I get what you're and I now agree with you on that.
About her marrying the prince part that you wrote about, there were many more people and not just the prince who saw her for her.
And for the last part, you are right, it seems we will never agree on that.
If not, it's peak colourism, the summary was already sus but that first chapter is so nasty. I have no patience for stories like this so I went to the comment section to find a redeeming quality and I can't make this shit up "her skin changes to light because she now has light powers". And to make shit funnier, her kids are white as hell.
The writer is a very wicked person.