"Divided to the Vein"

I let people decide what color I am by the colors of my skins in SL

Wot?

my main avatar (well my first main, i have four or so that i consider all 'mains') looks as much like me as i was able to make it. he has occasionally worn darker or lighter skins from goth to Egyptian bronze but his/my natural color is what you get when a southern bred heinz 57 doesnt get any sun because all the UV i get is whatever my monitor gives off lol ... the skin i use is Abyss Origin

the other males, one is the same approximate color, the other is more pale but i wouldn't exactly say white, i'm sure most of you have seen the Eclipse Dystopia skin

the female is the one most likely to wear different shades from time to time and has been anything from the palest goth to the darkest African but most 'tan' skins dont really suit her, except the ones from Dulce Secrets

as to translating or transferring my sensitivities, i do in a way especially with that original main i mentioned, but it isn't always that it reflects reality in the literal physical appearance sense. different looks each of them have and do use have to do with how one of them feels, and i mean deeper stuff than moods. i mean if one of them is depressed or angry or about to deal with a difficult situation or, well you get the idea but it means things that go deeper than the words imply and i dont know how to adequately express it ... well maybe their 'gestalt'? if that changes they change eyebrow shapes, their AO, sometimes a little fudging in face sliders etc, clothes, whatever, to reflect their whole state of being and sometimes it also means a skin change sometimes not. they are all aspects of me but i am a Gemini and that means each one of them is also a Gemini so whatever any part of me feels i usually feel both extremes of it at the same time in some way and they express that, its like, idk, naturally occurring bipolar cubed? lol anyway any relation to ethnicity is only an incidental thing not really something i think about neither for myself and my avs or when looking at anyone elses ... when i'm in world i'm -very- immersed, i dont even really acknowledge that there is a such thing as rl in terms of it influencing how i relate to anyone, their avatar is them and i dont even think about the existence of a human behind them, i dont even think about not-thinking-about it

hmmmm

In RL. My skin is white ( dont tan much burn more then likely and when the burn leaves I am still well white with barely a hint of sun) I am blonde and blue eyed. Have freckles. Mom told me once we are all Heinz 57 a mix of many, and I like that statement.

In SL I started being the pastie white blonde blue eyed with freckles. A RL friend tried to match me to how I was in RL so I would feel better about being here wish I had kept them pics now.

But then well hmmm something happened hehehe. I began to come alive and living! And now I am tanner and I am brunette. Still blue eyed and a few freckles. I like being tanned and I am still pale by some but to me I like it. And brunette I love it I just dont have the guts to do it in RL and no I never will. I hope that one day I have that cotton white hair like my grandmother had.

Now mind you I can also be a tiney, hmmm been in a pink skin hehehe. Tried Blue skin. And well I have tried tatooed skin. Been a mermaid too... Trying to think of others I have been.

But in the end I am me. No matter what skin I have on.

Huggles to all!

I'm blond, green-eyed and fairly pale - look like Jeff Bridges as a Viking, I'm told, for whatever that's worth - but my avatar is rather darker, with tanned skin and very dark brown eyes and hair. Someone told me he looks Persian or possibly a pale northern E. Indian, as I gave him very high cheekbones and the outer corners of his eyes slant up very slightly so his eyes are a tiny bit almond-shaped although without an epicanthic fold (but he could also be southern European, like Greek or Italian, mixed with maybe 1/4 E. Asian).

I also have a Na'vi skin for him, so in that of course he's blue with yellow eyes.

My fave skins in SL are fair, with freckles - kinda like my RL, except I don't have freckles in RL anymore.

I feel comfortable in most though. I have a whole range of skin colours, and change between them easily, depending on what I'm wearing. It also depends what mood I'm in.