How Dark Skin Characters are Portrayed

catwantssleep · February 15, 2019, 12:27pm

As a fellow bisexual Catholic, I agree 100%!

ShanniiWrites · February 15, 2019, 12:36pm

Thank you! It’s so nice to know I’m not the only one out there

catwantssleep · February 15, 2019, 3:31pm

Seriously, why can’t people make dark skinned characters without resorting to stereotypes? I can’t stand the excuse “I don’t know how they think or act.” They’re people, Karen, just make them like you would make any other character!

lexiplaysepisode · February 15, 2019, 3:37pm

Literally just like everyone else! They have different personalities ,skin color does not determine anything about the type of person you are

catwantssleep · February 15, 2019, 3:38pm

Ikr?!

loveyourself · February 15, 2019, 4:11pm

Colorism.

lexiplaysepisode · February 15, 2019, 4:15pm

At it’s best

loveyourself · February 15, 2019, 4:18pm

At its finest, but very true.

Trying_To_Help · February 17, 2019, 1:41am

My dad has never been to Canada, that is why. : P

MauriBlaze · February 17, 2019, 3:49am

According to this one story I was recently reading, the look I usually give my female character could have her mistaken for a lesbian.

Only thing different is the clothes

Willowbean · February 17, 2019, 5:09am

Shes so cute
Getting edgy sweetheart vibes not lesbian.

NelidaU · February 17, 2019, 5:11am

It’s because of the haircut. That’s why people say that. X’DDDDDDD

Of course, #notall but a lot of lesbians sport shorter hair shrugs so it became a stereotype.

Januva · February 21, 2019, 7:33pm

beep

Minoesje · February 21, 2019, 7:35pm

my mind: whut?..

btw she’s adorable

Greebabubba · February 22, 2019, 1:19am

In stories with CC I usually give my character the mocha skin tone and the mocha lip color, with dark eyes and hair, but a lot of the time the family would have the same skin tone but light colored lips, hair and eyes! She would also have short hair most of the time, but in some stories, she would come out of a shower or something with long wet looking hair. That happened once in a story where I made her have no hair, but after that there was no way to get rid of the hair so she was stuck with hair.

MauriBlaze · February 22, 2019, 6:12pm

The story is about a girl with a tomboyish behavior so potent that she’s mistaken for a boy (and the fact that she’s a lesbian). When making your character they only let you choose hairstyles that a lesbian would wear apparently.

lanafrazer_episode · February 25, 2019, 10:02pm

bump

amik · February 25, 2019, 10:09pm

For my story, I’m allowing full customization. But there is no mention of family or anything though so this situation doesn’t really apply but in another story I am writing w/ full customization the family members also change their hair color, eye color, skin tone and mouth color to match the MC. It’s not that difficult to add in, it’s the same code as the MC just with the family members’ names. I think this is just the author being lazy cause it is possible and yeah it takes time but if you’re willing to code and entire story, you should be able to add a few more lines of code for the customization

EX064IG · February 27, 2019, 6:25am

That’s true where I live. There’s only one or two black people in my school of 1500.

loveyourself · February 27, 2019, 6:23pm

Mouth color? Natural colors or matte colors?