Lack of diversity in character portraits

Look I don’t know if owlcat reads this subreddit but the diversity of character portraits is a real problem. I love owlcat games and this problem existed in WoTR and Kingmaker too.

There are 12 female portraits:

10 of these portraits have the exact same skin tone: pale white.

Of those pale white characters there may be 2 characters that could possibly be something outside of European.

Then you have 2 black female characters.

I’m black so I’m used to not having options but tan people exist. Outside of the 2 black options, there isn’t a single female character portrait that is as dark as Jae. This is so disappointing for a game that came out in 2023 with 12 female portrait options.

If you’re going to release a game with 10+ character portraits and limited customization worldwide, there needs to be more options than 10 white women. Even the voidborn are cyberpunk white women. If you have 12 portraits put on a skin color gradient and work down the gradient when making the portraits so people feel equally represented. Because blond white woman, brunette white woman, and red head white woman cannot be the full gambit of artistic creativity.

At this point I would pay for official portrait dlc because I’m limited to playing on console.