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[genshin-stats]

On Natlan Characters' Skin Colors

I sampled the skin colors of all of the characters in Genshin Impact with unique models, as well as the upcoming Natlan characters. I didn't include NPCs as there are over 3,000, guaranteeing neutral lighting is difficult, and this blog is a side project. I tried to get the lightest part of the face from the character cards where I could, but there were some cases where I had to find another spot (for instance, Raiden Shogun's face has a purple tint due to her artwork featuring her pulling out a glowing Musou no Hitotachi, but her thighs do not have such a tint). Then, I looked up a list of various foundation brands (listed in the tags), with a focus on getting a wide range of shades. This let me sample the colors of foundation offered (as a stand in for real life human skin tones).

I then took the hex code samples online and calculated the relative luminance of that particular color. Luminance is a measure of reflectivity or brightness of a color. It's a weighted average of the red, green, and blue components of a color. True White (#FFFFFF) has a luminance of 1.00 and True Black (#000000) has a luminance of 0.00. With the luminance of all skin colors calculated, I then graphed it based on luminance. The graph is shown below.

These figures have the top 25% of the sample represented by the line on the top, the middle 50% represented by the box, and the bottom 25% represented by the line underneath. For example, with Liyue's sample size of 20, we would see that the top 5 luminant skin colors range from roughly 0.96 to roughly 0.91 or 0.92. Then, the middle 10 luminance values range from 0.91 to 0.86. The lower 5 luminance values range from 0.86 to about 0.47.

Looking at these graphs, I can only draw one conclusion, especially with the small sample size of Natlan characters right now. They are darker than many of the other nations' characters. They still look very light, however. That may be due, in part or in whole, to the fact that the Natlan characters really start to show up in the same range as the lightest foundation shades I examined (and not for lack of searching!).

There are two issues at play here, ones that became even more noticeable with the release/marketing of Sumeru and Natlan characters.

The skin colors are over-all very light. The lightest foundation shade I found has a luminance of 0.86, while that the 25th percentile for the luminance of Genshin Impact characters.

Hoyoverse has a very strong bias towards making their characters lighter skinned.

Issue 2 is somewhat visible in the graphs shown above, but it's better illustrated in this one below.

[By "% Lighter" on the y-axis, that is the percent of the sampled population that has a greater luminance than the position on the x-axis. For instance, going up from 0.20 luminance on the x-axis, we see that 70% of foundation shades sampled were lighter than that.]

For the makeup, you see that it decreases fairly steadily, showing a reasonable distribution throughout. Genshin Characters, on the other hand, show a steep drop around 0.85 luminance to 0.95. That indicates that the majority of the over 90 characters used for this study are around there. Again, 0.85 was the very highest end for the foundations.

I have a few other graphs I made while making the other ones that can help illustrate just how much lighter Hoyoverse's characters in Genshin Impact are in comparison to a real human range.

Focus is on Natlan right now, which is fully understandable, but the issue is much deeper than just them. It's all the characters from all of the nations. The only solution is to bring all of them to a more human range, and add more variety.

[clouvu]

Cooking up an older Clervie outfit design so I don't have to keep drawing her looking like her child self but Long

[ellimiku]

[lyss-sketchbox]

Them with each other's catalyst

[lovesickeros]

now that natlan is out it's tsaritsa yearning hours again because i am one nation closer to either being horribly disappointed or foaming at the mouth!

creator!reader w a little side of conflicted tsaritsa is such good food I can't not yap about it. a woman who has dedicated so much of her life to severing herself from "love" of all kinds and succeeding and. just being so confident that when she meets you she's bitter and angry and mean. because she can't stand you. she isn't supposed to love yet you worm your way into her heart anyway and you don't even know it.

especially in smth like an imposter au. she tells herself your just a tool for her to use but your treated like the Divine you really are, pampered and spoiled every step. tells herself it means nothing when she indulges you – let's you hold her hand in private, eventually let's you move aside the veil, just a little.

and she hates it. hates how easy it is to let you break down the ice she's built up for years.

all you do is smile and she feels like she can't breathe. because despite how violently she rejects love in all aspects, it always bleeds through eventually. she despises it but the way you brush your thumbs over her cheeks makes her bitter and warm and it infuriates her to no end.

she hates you and she loves you and she can't stand you and if you were ever taken from her she'd destroy every inch of teyvat if she had to go get you back.

and ironically enough I think she'd also be the one to initiate any first kiss. maybe she's still trying to convince herself it's just a fluke and itll make her realize it meant nothing, it means nothing. desperate to fix whatever you've done to her and instead it just makes it worse.

a horrible mess of a woman who gave up on love just to be confronted with it when she finally accepted it's absence.

[aphel1on]

i have to say. scarabedo canonically entering into some sort of weird coparenting situation was NOT on my 2024 bingo

[onkpilled]

GENSHIN IMPACT ANGSTIEST SHIP STATISTICS

(A ship appearing here does not mean that I ship it. Please do not harass me.)

Based on % of AO3 fics tagged as angst per ship. It's only the top 50 ships in the fandom because I'm lazy. (x reader excluded)

[bambooshuohuop]

i'm a genshin player,

of course I continue to upgrade an artifact that keeps upgrading the HP substat hoping that it'll go to the surrounding good substats in the next upgrade.

HBU??????,,

[fevekko]

warm ups from the past 2 days 💪💪

[snowshinobi]

burned 3 of my 4 sanctifying elixirs to craft a Kaveh circlet ...

... which thankfully rolled alright (:

here's his build rn:

[pcktknife]

what do you think about the newest penacony story patch in hsr?

penacony numero uno. actually the best arc out of the 3 so far but sunday should kill himself*

[genshin-stats]

I have spreadsheets where I track all the character's nationalities. I have a couple characters where I'm not sure how to classify them though. One of them is Arlecchino (link here), and the other is Wanderer (this poll).

Currently, I have Wanderer listed as an Inazuman. His clothing style, backstory, and special dish are all Inazuman. Additionally, his backstory gives him strong ties to Inazuma as well as having shaped how some events occurred. When he tells his backstory, the cutscene is in an art style primarily associated with Inazuma.

On the other hand, his vision shape and local specialties are from Sumeru and cannot be dismissed in the same way that Arlecchino's might be. Additionally, Wanderer is now associated with the Akademiya more than anything in Inazuma.

Whichever way this poll determines, however, I will follow through and update my spreadsheets accordingly.

[shunachii]

Drunkard Trio VS THE Diluc Ragnvindr

[dkettchen]

me looking up this genshin ship bc it's the only middle eastern/north african rep in my top ship data and I just- I just wanted to see smth:

genshin:

me: ye no I figured that

[harbingersglory]

everyone talks about arlecchino breeding kink (it's me I'm everyone) but where's my transmasc arle w a breeding kink frustrated abt not being able to breed you representation huh

[chuluoyi]

how do you all pass the deepspace trial open orbit lv. 50 😭