This comment may be removed, as it falls under "regarding inaccuracy of character portrayal by skin tone" but I wanted to note that while it is very important to me to have the fact that Korra is a person of color acknowledged and represented--Due to the disproportionate amount of white representation in popular and especially children's media, and that it is consequently so important, from a racial politics perspective, to have approachable, popular, well-developed characters of color like Korra, Katara and the rest of the (Asian) avatar cast--I believe you were right not to "tan" your model. False skin tones is far too reminiscent of blackface to be an appropriate solution. If racial accuracy was the chief concern, no one should play Katara or Korra that isn't of inuit decent... Which, obviously, excludes quite a bit of her fanbase. One of the beautiful things about this show is how widely it is loved (and from a racial politics perspective: how many people of different races are identifying with a non-white character). Cosplay is one of the ways in which fans show their love, and I believe anyone should be able to without being shut down, regardless of the inaccuracies. I've seen some awesome female zuko's, black Toph's, human momo's you name it.



That said, I have zero tolerance to people trying to deny that Korra and other water-tribe characters are not of-color, or that the avatar cast is not all Asian. Nor do I have much patience for white-washed art. You can find the color brown in your crayon-boxes, people; there really are no excuses there. Do not even get me started on M. Night Shyamalan's casting.