Not a big deal tbh, but I can see why we are surprised. I’m not used to seeing characters with grey skin/undertones, it’s usually either brown or light toned.
No, I see it so much, so I’m not suprised(looking at you hoyo…) but it’s just so ugly. Like it’s not that hard to give people proper dark skin tones, and some people draw darker people ashy brown cause of racism, so I get why it’s kind of a big deal to some people.
I’ve seen dark toned people in manhuas so I didn’t think too much of it. There’s also characters with different skin that isn’t the norm, so grey wasn’t really something I hate on. I just think of it as something fantasy-like. I’m POC and have dark tone, I get called too dark or tanned by my own people.
When you said Hoyo, I immediately knew lmao. Honestly even this character in this story is darker than their characters combined. I saw the debate and argument with the skin tones there. That is completely understandable, I get where the anger is coming from.
Who can define proper in fiction? That’s my point. Here it’s just a story the author made, we don’t really know if this is a pattern in author’s works. But hoyoverse is literally basing places off reality and the people too, like Sumeru for example, but the skin tones aren’t diverse which is misrepresentation.
Why is he grey, like hes not even an ashy brown but GREY