Hey Bro I Just Wanted You To Know That Roger Is Pretty Much Canonically Black, His Complexion Description

hey bro i just wanted you to know that roger is pretty much canonically black, his complexion description is swarthy and he’s so dark he actually doesn’t tan on the island. just a heads up lmao

Hey man! You’re totally right to bring this to my attention and want some clarity on this. I just wanted to explain my design choices up as well as what influenced them for rogers design because I kinda did go off the cuff on how the fandom usually designs Roger.

FIRST: this is gonna be so lame, but I watched the schooling online video before reading the book a year ago (and they made him ghostly pale) so that really influenced how I saw the characters in my head.

SECOND: While it is implied that Roger could be black, it’s never explicitly stated. The most we are given is that he’s moody and has a darker complexion in the book, but a race is never stated other than that. I do not have the book on me right now, but I’m pretty sure most of the language is vague there? I have to check. Okay well anyways, it’s kinda my bad that he’s not as dark in my design cause I kinda omitted a lot of character descriptions in my head while reading and cause of that damn schooling online video. Right now, I designed Roger to be Cambodian because it mixed fandom design and my own personal touch on it (I’m viet and viets and Cambodians are pretty closely associated). I’ll tweak the design in future drawings of Roger to keep true to his swarthiness soldier 🫡

I like talking a lot sorry 😼😼😼 lmk if there’s something else I need to explain or what your thoughts on this are cause I can’t think for myself there’s a worm in my brain