traceExcalibur: idk, those features look fine to me. and I've never really understood the problem with making the Strilondes black; hair dye is a thing, not to mention they were all created out of green fuckin science sludge so normal rules don't have to apply.
traceExcalibur: I just don't see how people can accept everything else that happens in Homestuck and yet recoil at the thought of a character being black with blonde hair. like???? why is that, of all things, so objectionable????
Anonymous4: I think it just makes a lot of people feel uncomfortable because it is near genetically impossible to have red eyes and dark skin since pigment concentration is generally constant across the body. Doesn't mean he couldn't use contacts though, but that then raises the question of why. Dave expresses a lot of insecurities, so why would he go out of his way to make himself seem even stranger? The whole thing just makes people feel uncomfortable because it feels like you've skipped over the characters more appropriate for multiracial representation and gone straight for a character who has genetically albino features in canon. The depiction of any of the strilonds as PoC just feels weird to me.
I can say "fine" to the people who like to portray Jade, John, Jake, and/or Jane as black, but Dave? Really?
Gtfo.
Blonde people have black skin now.
And they don't have negroid facial features either.
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But all the kids, barring john, have naturally exotic eye colors.