unit-1312 said: yeaashhhh idk why she did that 😅 like its clear from kabru she can draw a perfectly fine dark skinned person so???? but also there’s cithis who’s regular dark-skinned so???????? maybe they’re supposed to represent dark elves which is a whole nother box to unpack because-im-freaking-greed said: There’s also regular dark skinned elves because-im-freaking-greed said: There’s lore in the adventurers bible, but basically the elf queen always has this phenotype, so the throne is passed down like that instead of direct lineage (this specific character is a cousin a few generation removed to the current queen, and one of only 3 candidates for the throne). It’s probably a condition analogous to hypermelanism, but also another way in which elves are sincerely biologically different from other human races because-im-freaking-greed said: Also, this isn’t what dark elves are in dungeon meshi, dark elves are a tallman/halffoot superstition from the early days of their recorded history; early on certain elves were very actively helpful out of some mixture of genuine altruism and infantilization, so would basically go Gandalf at them for a while, which then lead to tallmen and halffeet encountering elves that weren’t like that, getting rebuffed or into conflict because-im-freaking-greed said: And going home and telling stories of elves with darkness in their hearts, aka dark elves
This is giving me flashbacks to Her Imperious Condescension tbh. But whatever is going on (hyperpigmentation?) I do not think taking elves with the same features as the white elves and dipping them in ink is the #diversity win that one post I saw thought it was.
