As I said, I would likely regret my outspoken nature before long, and I rather do. I guess my post really should have only said something such as, "when I make a character no matter her or his race, it is a character portrait model, it is not intended to be a one size fits all racial archetype, since I leave that to Zygote who gets paid to do it ;P" I just so would hate to see this place devolve into a place were we nitpick one another to death, on something so minor and really silly as a shade of skin chosen by a portrait character artist. Fair skinned non-white people such as myself must feel just wretched all over the world when they constantly lately hear the opinions that they are not dark enough (maybe therefore not of their race). On the other hand, I know dark skinned people too suffer hurt when they see fair skinned folks glorified by the model industry, hollywood, etc as somehow being "prettier". It is a terribly difficult situation. Do not let racism into this place. Here we are our characters and we are text. We are not any color.