Here's the thing. This is partially based on a cultural misoncpetion.
Practically nobody in a Final Fantasy game is white. They're all Japanese.
Ask Nintendo, and I'd actually bet they'd say that Link, Zelda and the rest of the Legend of Zelda characters aren't white. They're Japanese.
When the Japanese make videogame or anime characters meant to be japanese they look white to us.
Ash Ketchum for example is totally japanese, his name is Satoshi in Japan. Hell Brock is almost definitely Japanese too and not Black.
Just from a different part of Japan where skin runs darker.
Mario is probably the only nintendo franchise that is full of white people. (And by full of I mean 6).
I mean, who are the recent additions to the mario Cast. Wario and Waluigi... yeah... you can't make characters whose main contribution is "like the main character but evil" a different race.
And Rosalina. So I guess you could of made her black?
Are we sure Rosalina is even white? Because keep in mind, in Japan this is Japan's idea of a japanese space princess.
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Honestly, who knows.
