I did not say that was what you said about Twintelle I said I am not sure if Twintelle does not fall under the same trope. You are clearly looking at the characters in ARMS much deeper though and you make your point well as to where you think Twintelle got her looks. The same way you have a different perspective on where Elma's looks came from. Your ideas on how those looks came to be are just as reasonable as anything I could argue.
I just have my own perspective and my own desire and hopes for where those looks came from. I don't like people dismissing Elma's blackness but every time I see the white hair on dark skin in Japanese creations I always feel it is a subtle dismissal of blackness to me. She really was not created for me my mind tells me, but I dream up that nah she is black. Thus the issue and the topic of this thread.
LikeRagnarokX posted above people tend to need a very darkskinned clear depiction of people of color so there can't be any guessing or doubt they are black or brown while Elma is clearly more subtle, I feel know what those artists wanted because I am a painter/artist myself and I feel I can guess the intention but I can still be wrong about Elma. Elma did not have a Japanese name in the JP version of the game normally that is a clue if another intention was the goal.
New Los Angeles and United States of America tells me Elma was clearly going for a Black Woman in the Lore of the game regardless of the spoiler she made a choice, that cooked and ate and live their lives in that game in those bodies. It was not fashion but a life and survival thing. Elma resonated with me. Would I have liked to have Elma without the white hair and more of an Afro to make it less subtle yeah. But does she work as a black woman? I think so. Do I feel some people might feel less inclined to support her as a hero of the game if the subtleness was not a huge part of her looks? I'm not that naive I think the whole white/hair dark skin thing works just as well on non-blacks as it does on me. A non-black person might just see Elma as something else. It is art and marketing, sales and profits first. It is easy to have another perspective on subtle things. I don't really agree that only the darkest skinned characters like inRagnarokXpost or DOC Louis as the only correct way to represent blackness or browness.
This is a topic the gaming community needs to talk about we have to look how the game has been played and see the subtleness at work. It may not be as innocent as most of us would want to think it as being.
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