You know, I’m gonna come out and say it:

I’m no longer that excited for Sumeru.

Sure, mih.oyo might change and new characters might/will come out, but the initial leaks? not amused even a little. why base a region off of black/brown culture and have all the playable characters - save for a lightly tanned one - that are leaked be pale af. ( and we ain’t even gonna mention the possible dendro archon. ) and leaking the npcs that are ‘darker’ - and by darker i mean lightly tanned - didn’t help either. So you put in the effort for npcs but not playable characters?

I know like Collei is from the manga and Al-Haithem or however you spell it is like an easter egg from honkai, but the others? absouluty no excuse. of course it’s nothing new with genshin given the constant whitewashing of kaeya and how little xinyan content we get, but just... i’m so tired and disappointed. and if this is how sumeru is, god knows i’m scared for natlan.

it’s just at this point, it shouldn’t be something that people have to tell others about. add black/brown characters to stories especially if you’re using our culture. it’s really not that fucking hard.