Now, at one point Block describes Vixanne as being pale, but she also says this about Dirk, about Duck, Coyote, about Raphael, and about Angel Juan at various times when they’re not feeling up to snuff. Now, Dirk is at least 1/3 Middle-Eastern (Arabic paternal great-grandfather, ethnically Jewish mom). Raphael is half-black, half-Chinese. Duck is suuuper tanned. Angel Juan is Mexican. Coyote is Native American (although they never specifically say what kind). I’m pretty sure she (Block) just uses “pale” to describe someone who’s not as dark as they’re supposed to be normally, usually because of sickness.
We also know Vixanne lives a very unhealthy lifestyle just from the glimpses we get when she’s with Witch Baby, so that doesn’t surprise me at all that she’d be an unhealthy pallor. Also, Vixanne appears in another book when she’s younger as she’s described as like, “dark but pale” or something. Again, possibly Block’s way of saying dark-skinned but obviously needing to get some sun or something.
Now, My Secret Agent Lover Man isn’t white, either. He’s at least ¼ POC of some kind based on his physical description (also Dirk’s great-grandfather says Witch Baby has some of his kind of blood in her, and My Secret Agent Lover Man says later that she got it from him, which means he’s at least ¼ if not ½ Arabic). And we also know Witch has very curly, very thick, black hair that she got from her mom, hair that shares a tendency with mine and my sister’s - when it tangles, it snarls up into little balls that have to be picked out either with a pick or fingers. So with all of those things, Witch Baby is definitely mixed to some degree. I’d even go with like, 1/3 black, 1/3 Arabic, 1/3 white or something. ¼ black, ¼ Arabic, ½ white even.
Also she’s supposed to be Cherokee’s “photo-negative,” so where Cherokee is all platinum hair and paleness, Witch isn’t.
Duh. Gonna wait a couple days and copy to Tumblr so that dipstick can see this now.
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