Wednesday, January 8, 2014

It occurred to me I never discussed skintone headcanons here

Update Dec 2014--updated pictures w/ more accurate versions + if you want updated notes on skintones and body build check out each character's character profile

I did discuss it on tumblr tho so if you read that you can probably just ignore this post since I don't think I'm going to say anything new
(oh but there are pics this time around)

I'M SORRY TO LIKE SPAM YOU WITH POSTS but here's a link to ASAS ch60's commentary. Not that it was incredibly important

Also I don't THINK I posted this here but for some reason I remember talking about it??? My memory may be playing tricks on me.
I'm sorry if I am talking about it again but at least this way it can go in the "fun facts" label
(I won't go back and label anything for that I don't know where to LOOK for anything. Like it'd be easy as pie to mass-label stuff but I'd have to figure out where the fun facts ARE first and that's the hard part so)


ANYHOO

I'll do like eyecolor too while I'm at it and maybe a bit on appearances in general so I guess this will be different from the tumblr post

ACTUALLY ALSO GUESS WHAT I HAVE PICTURES



Sora 

SORA HAS REALLY SORTA DARK SKIN prbly darker than what I color it with ((I haven't been able to get dark skin to work for me when coloring bleh)) but this gives you a good idea

Like since I'm borrowing from Kat's headcanons I'll link you to a few of her pictures. Actually just this one which is actually of Xion but Xion and Sora have the same skin tone so. THIS ONE IS THE MOST ACCURATE FOR WHAT I'M THINKING IN TERMS OF SKIN. (If you wanna see the skintone on Sora go here but it's still not 100% what I was thinking I was thinking that Xion picture.)

And of course there's that scar across his face blah blah blah

HIS HAIR is still that chocolatey brown color it was in KH1. The original KH1 before they changed his model. Y'know? Yeah.

His eyes are the most intense blue possible like pure blue. You can't see it too well in this picture but it's literally the purest blue you can get--maybe take the shade down to a bit darker just so you can stand to look at it.

I COULD TALK ABOUT BODY SHAPES AND... STUFF BUT I HAVEN'T SOLIDIFIED THOUGHTS FOR EVERYONE YET SO WE'LL WAIT



Kairi



She's mixed race so her skin is darkish but not as dark as Sora's ((think: black person and white person having a kid))
Her mom is the foreigner who came from some other world and it'd make more sense if she had the red hair and pale-ish skin that Kairi inevitably inherited.
Like I guess Kairi's skin isn't as pale as you'd imagine since her father is an islander in my canon so it's a little darker than like canon-Kairi's skin but it's nowhere near as dark as Sora's.

WAIT HOLD THE PRESSES I FOUND A GOOD REPRESENTATION OF WHAT HER SKIN LOOKS LIKE IN MY HEAD right here folks yeeeee

Also Kairi has freckles because she looks really good with freckles. Here are a few examples.

HER HAIR IS OF COURSE LIKE THE SAME RED IT IS IN KH1. I hate what her haircolor became in KH2 it was suddenly brown and. No thanks?? Tbh I prefer everyone's KH1 hair in general.

Her eyes are actually purple like. Purple isn't a natural eye-color but it's basically blue that looks like purple in almost every single light? Idk this is complicated. They're purple.
I guess they're indigo sorta but they lean more towards purple than blue like literally all the time.


Riku



RIKU IS REALLY REALLYR EALLY PALE partially because he's a Replica partially because he was literally raised without sunlight not to mention has spent the past five months in CO where there's, guess what? No sunlight.
(Funfact: he burned really really really badly within his first week in this universe because Islands and lots of sunlight that his skin wasn't used to)

Also idk I imagine Vexen's really pale and if he transferred that to his Replicas I wouldn't be surprised. (Kat said this thing about Xion somewhere that part of the reason why her skin is so dark is because Xemnas had his hands in making her and so gave her a similar skin color to his own it was really deep I wish I could find the post again.)

Riku's hair is still silver that's no surprise.

RIKU'S EYES ARE THIS REAL BRIGHT BLUE like most people seem to prefer green or blue/green (the blue/green especially) but I like blue because I like blue. I mean I guess it can be that "cyan" color which (is actually the color of Miku's hair and) is a mix between blue and like sea green but. Whatev.


Namine



Have a pic of her looking BA and frustrated with everything tho the lines are real thin for some reason?? Huh.

Anyway her skin is basically the same shade as Riku's which comes largely from being a Replica built indirectly from his data. Also canon!Namine is really pale it comes from staying inside so long. My Namine wasn't inside nearly as long but still it comes from being built from Riku
(I bet she burned pretty bad too. Alternatively Riku anticipated it happening and made sure she wore sunscreen haha. Either would've happened really)

Her hair is--I can't describe what color but what's in that pic above is real accurate. Just in general.

Her eyes are as you can see in the picture a really really really pale blue which I'm not entirely sure how she got? Some of it is again being built from Riku's data but if that were 100% the case you'd assume they'd be the same color as Riku's but they're not. They're a looooott paler.
(Tbh they're the same color as I'd imagine Ven's would be? Hmm.)



Shad



Okay so like Shad is a special case you can't even say he has the same look as Vanitas because in reality he doesn't. Van actually has really really really pale white skin (according to Kat anyway and I'mma borrow this) and it'd be logical if Shad did due to him and Van basically having the same ties in the Dark Realm and no sunlight so you're really pale
but Shad is actually a little darker because of his ties to Sora and the fact that he's not even a real Shadow tbh. He is a Sheto in the traditional sense but his existence and creation is not that of a Sheto at all.

(His creation is like Van's and in fact I imagine Van could get pretty dark if he actually exposed himself to sunlight but he wore a full body suit literally 100% of the time so he's really white instead.
Also Van is pale like Ven is pale but Shad would be dark--ish like Sora is dark. That is a great analogy.)

Shad's hair is jet black wow boring

His eyes aren't gold either they're yellow? I put it like they're a gold-yellow to represent his ties to the Heartless as opposed to them being the gold-orange that Norts have. That should make sense.
Like they're still fundamentally "gold" but they lean more towards yellow than like any other KH character with gold eyes


Roxas



Roxas's skin is actually darker than canon!Roxas's but this is because he's more... reflective? Of Sora? It has to do with him being a Replica of Sora as opposed to being a Nobody so he ended up inheriting the dark skin.
Like I don't think it's quite as dark as Sora's but it's still pretty dark.
(like say what Sora's skin looks like in this picture--of course Sora's skin is more of the color of that Xion picture I linked you to lol)

His hair is still that golden yellow color

And his eyes are the exact same shade as Sora's


Xion



Xion is a little more interesting her skin is the same shade as Sora's if not slightly darker. She also gets freckles like Kairi does. They aren't terribly noticeable because her skin is so dark but she definitely gets them.
((this picture is not the best picture of her, largely because I can't seem to get dark skin to work for me, but reference this pic for dark skin + freckles which I completely forgot))

Her hair is still that black color but it's actually closer to brown? Like a real dark brown that looks basically black but isn't a pure black like Shad's. If I'm making sense. I might not be.

Her eyes are an indigo color sorta like Kairi's are but instead of leaning more towards purple like Kairi's do they lean more towards blue. But they still look purple in certain lights.

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