Talk:Merli/@comment-196.1.138.9-20170926165719/@comment-53539-20170926205026

Actually she isn't brown as per say, but rather tanned like if you get exposed to the sun and your skin is browned.

The same theory behind her skin colour is behind Lapis' pale skin colour... Their common tropes about anime design. Merli is a antagonist and Lapis is a protagonist sort of anyway... Lapis's power of voice grants healing energy while Merli's voice takes energy whenever they sing. Their fairies.

Japanese skin tans similar to Europeon skin and if taken as a reflection of one's character. A lot of anime and manga is based on a trope system wherein you can "read" a personality of a character by looking at traits. Its not so 100% faithful as it was years ago, but for a good long time, you could tell pretty much a blond girl was going to be the dumb one, the red the angry one, etc, etc. It was pretty much paint by numbers. ITs changed over time a little, but you can still work out things looking at the characters. In Vocaloid, Nana and Petit's sisters the Coco twins abide also to the trope about skin and you can pretty much tell White and Black's characters by looking at the girls. It doesn't take much to work out the responsible one and the vein one of the pair. :-/