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tinolqa · 2 months ago

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every time I see a non-elezen player describe duskwights as primarily defined by having dark skin, I kind of wince

because no actually, not every elezen with a dark skin color is a duskwight! carvallain and jannequinard are wildwoods! marcechamp, from tailfeather? wildwood. lucianne from the archers guild? wildwood.

and sure, there are a couple of prominent duskwight characters with darker skin- grinnaux (who is technically a modified wildwood with the duskwight version of face 1’s scars) and foulques. but. it’s a weird misconception to have when characters like liavinne, shale, jandelaine, mother miounne, and ysayle exist.

and when the character creation can be accessed by anyone to check this. the only playable race in ffxiv that is divided into clans with dark and light skin colors is viera. elezen have the same range of options as miqo’te! but somehow I never see keepers of the moon described as being distinct from seekers in terms of skin color in the same way as elezen.

#ffxiv #elezen #it just bothers me to see this weird misconception #because it feels rooted in weird mainstream racism about how elves can be portrayed #you don’t actually have to perpetuate that #you don’t have to repeat the idea that by default elves are pale #and that dark elves are when elves are brown #because quite honestly that’s terrible and not even something ffxiv perpetuates #this is all to say it’s strange to say Elvaan are similar to duskwights #they have default warm brown skin. which isn’t very duskwight at all.#like if you’re going to touch on that at least bring up Taznavia #which IS a predecessor to Gelmorra narratively in some ways

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