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And by aracial I mean that the characters' appearances are more based on their personalities, themes, and types they train, and not on real life genetics and races. Including also more fantasy-like skintones. So maybe humans including the player are classified by "types" not "races".
Like this:
Or maybe its already aracial and I'm just projecting races on characters? Like, if Pokémon was realistic I'd imagine the Striaton Triplets and Elesa as nordic-like white people, Skyla as mediterranean-like, Shauntal and Brycen as Poké-East Asian... but then again I used to think Zelda Mae and Cycl0n3 Sw0rd were some kind of east asians when it is just the flat-faced artstyle, so maybe I'm just weird at giving races to pixels.
Like, if they only make 12 generations so they could have all the chinese zodiac as the fire starter, then only the 12 regions are canon. That's like, huge swatches of land they won't cover. Most of the regions have huge climate variety due to Pokémon type variety. For example a desert, icy mountain, tropical island, forest, all next to each other.
So it makes sense that the same region has characters whose lineages stretch there millions of years, and some are blond blue eyed with really pale skin, others black hair black eyed with really dark skin, and others have blue skin with purple hair and eyes.
So maybe it should tend to more fantasy-ish skintones with each game.
Like this:
Or maybe its already aracial and I'm just projecting races on characters? Like, if Pokémon was realistic I'd imagine the Striaton Triplets and Elesa as nordic-like white people, Skyla as mediterranean-like, Shauntal and Brycen as Poké-East Asian... but then again I used to think Zelda Mae and Cycl0n3 Sw0rd were some kind of east asians when it is just the flat-faced artstyle, so maybe I'm just weird at giving races to pixels.
Like, if they only make 12 generations so they could have all the chinese zodiac as the fire starter, then only the 12 regions are canon. That's like, huge swatches of land they won't cover. Most of the regions have huge climate variety due to Pokémon type variety. For example a desert, icy mountain, tropical island, forest, all next to each other.
So it makes sense that the same region has characters whose lineages stretch there millions of years, and some are blond blue eyed with really pale skin, others black hair black eyed with really dark skin, and others have blue skin with purple hair and eyes.
So maybe it should tend to more fantasy-ish skintones with each game.