I likened my character, Belinda to have no race, she's a human and that's all there is to it, I have never said anything in my writing to the likeness of her being white, black, or otherwise, do you want to know why? Because I want her to be someone anyone can relate to.
Belinda is the same age I was when I became an angry teenager, 14, she's the same as any other teenager. She can be anyone really, any group of people, she doesn't even have to be even 100% female, she can be nonbinary even. So look at it that way, I wanted a character who people can pick up a book and go, "hey wow, that's so me," and that's how i thought about my characters.
Heck, I have an openly gay couple in the story, Belsom and his lover, Quil, it isn't as if that's going to be a draw back, its a great characters for them too. They're average people, they work, they live their lives as normally as they can, they're not anything more than who they represent to themselves. They're people you could run into at any event or even a movie theater. So you can place them even if one is an elf and the other is a Cilf, you can tell they care about each other.
Does it matter really what a race is in general for someone? Why would a colour of a character's skin make them any less a person?
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