Fav POC in pokemon?

[_Izzy_]

I love Jacinthe alot (might be spelling her name wrong), i just love how cutesy she is and her vibrant color pallet, i think she's really cool because Pokemon is a Japanese franchise so seeing a rlly dark skinned person represented so creatively is really cool to me. i could honestly yap abt alot of characters bc there's genuinely so many good POC designs which is why i made this post

[saphirecrown1]

i hate nemona as a rival and love her as character, meaning only ONE THING... imma go read some one-shots

[A Former User]

i lowkey like dawn and she's my favorite gen 2 character oat

[saphirecrown1]

@ghøstfacejxdi gen 2?

[A Former User]

@saphirecrown1 nah i lowkey forgot what pokemon generation she's from i'm dyslexic as hell

[_Izzy_]

@ghøstfacejxdi dawn is another non-POC but i like her hat, her whole fit is tough

[_Izzy_]

@saphirecrown1 based

[saphirecrown1]

@ghøstfacejxdi nah u good it's gen 4

[A Former User]

@saphirecrown1 thx twin

[_Izzy_]

sun and moon not being mentioned is crazy like i know its based in Hawaii but it literally had so many baddies and id personally count them as POC since they're literally dark skinned

[saphirecrown1]

@_Izzy_ no offense, but it was kinda just mallow and illima

[_Izzy_]

@saphirecrown1 we also had Olivia????? And Hou??? (i might be spelling it wrong)

[_Izzy_]

woah not that Hou is a baddie or anything he's just a cute POC design. anyway @saphirecrown1 the fact that you said that is genuinely disheartening to me as a person who like rlly appreciates representation (not that everyone should care or anything i just like it personally)

[_Izzy_]

i feel like its more disheartening bc i tried to like share my passion for these characters i value and ppl keep mentioning the most pale characters when i literally specified characters with darker skin tones (dont even have to be that dark but like DAWN? shes actively PALE) but thats what i get ig since like obviously not that many ppl will care abt a minority

[_Izzy_]

sun and moon was based off Hawaii theres a few POC (though i wouldn't consider all of them to be black but i said POC so like professor kukuwi (BUTCHERED the spelling) i head cannon him as like Polynesian so id call him a POC even if he's technically not what i usually mean when i say POC

[_Izzy_]

also black nurse joy from pokemon legends ZA is easily one of my favs

[Johnny.SS]

@_Izzy_ “i headcannon him as Polynesian” you’ve gone so far 🥹

[Johnny.SS]

@_Izzy_ I feel like there’s something to be said about the fact that this post was unironically colonized when it is clearly supposed to be a safe space for black people but that’s what I meant earlier when I said that talking to you actually makes me actively think about these things bc it is ac so common that it’s not seen as a problem even to mr wokepants mcgee

[_Izzy_]

the way ppl just....dont care abt POC characters TvT

[_Izzy_]

theres literally SOOO many good poc designs like sw and sh also had Bea and Rihan (might be spelling it wrong but you know who i mean)