
WHY IS HE WHITE

"It would be weirder if he was brown or black where the sun doesn't fucking shine" do yk how skin colours work..? They don’t need the sun to have a darker skin tone, it’s all in the genes. It’s kinda logical to expect a dark skin coloured character to have more melanin when having a "human skin tone"

It's in the genes, because of evolution. Evolution depending on the people being exposed to varying degrees of sunlight. Which they do not have any of, as there is no light at the bottom of the ocean.
Am I talking to an elementary school kid?
And no, it's not logical to expect that, when he didn't have a "darker skin tone", but an "unnatural skin tone". One thing has nothing to do with the other.
Wait, do you also think that Panthers have black skin, just because their fur is black? Kind of feels like you would be disappointed by that as well.

His "unnatural" skin tone is still a darker one, he could have had a light blue tone which would make it just as unnatural but a lighter skin tone. I do know that what I said was dumb lmao I realised that after but these are literal mermaids, I don’t think that normal world rules could apply on that but that’s on the author/artist ig

The "normal" look didn't need to mean as white washed. He was already normal, I love his dark skin tone, dude looked majestic and it fucking sucks. It isn't weird for him to have dark/tanned skin just because he is a being of the sea. If he was shown dark/tan on the book cover just to be changed immediately in the story; what was the point of having his skin dark if it was gonna be switched. Again, I love his original skin tone and him being white doesn't work for me.
This is so peak, she's such a baddie