Darkest Space
Apr10
on 2017-04-10
at 00:01
Too Much Information – an online comic
An old house, a geek, a cute transvestite, a very tall lesbian, and at least one ghost–what could happen? – Adult situations and artistic nudity. Not suitable for children.
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If the melanin in X’s skin was replaced with Orion chlorophyll, (either all at once or gradually over time beginning when she started taking the “greenies” We don’t know everything about how that works) I don’t see how Ace or any of us could tell that she “was” (past tense) “black”.
She’s not a modern child of Africa, after all; Orions were taken from Earth by the Dilmun around the time Neanderthal’s were getting phased out (more specific explanation/theorizing elsewhere in the comic itself… still to come from this point, IIRC) So she wouldn’t have any reason to have the more distinctive African facial features, regardless of her skin tone (nor does she appear to have such on the comic page either. There’s a look at her younger, pre-greenie self coming up, and her facial features seem quite… I’ll go with “delicate” and hope it does not offend. Not very “African-like”, at any rate).
So, just to be clear to newish readers: X and Stormy saying they are “black” does not mean they are claiming African-American heritage. They’re are of an entirely different, Orion species sub-group known to them as “black”, in a strange (and likely not unintentional) parallel to human ethnic subsets of the same term.
From what is known now, European, African, and Asian humans split off prior to Homo Sapiens but were close enough that all were considered the same species. The progenitors of Asian humans appears to be Denisovans, Europeans seem to be descended from Neanderthals, and there were so many proto-humans wandering around at the same time in Africa there’s no telling which one led to H. Sapiens in Africa.