Im going to assume that they were "bred out". For example Indigenous peoples (e.g. Australian Indigenous) were subject to being put into camps and were tried to be "bred out" by colonisers/white people. Its horrible :( but it makes sense if something like this happened to her people. But I totally agree that a dark skinned protag would be amazing and impactful, unfortunately the author didn't go this way.
It bothered me too
It also bothered me that they used a slur that is used against Romani people in order to describe their race.
The whole borderline beastiality thing bothers me a bit too
Its meant to bother you. Human history is filled with similar problems.
So I've only just started this manwa and the art is amazing so far, I'm only on chapter 2 ahaha. But my issue is the subtle race problem? Now I'm sorry if I'm wrong but, the Gypsy people were basically hated for having dark toned skin and were killed off because of racial slurs from the other kingdoms? And the only way for them to survive was to over time genetically change their skin tone to white ?? I know this is only a story but I'm not feeling to good over this ahaha and perhaps if the mc was of darker toned skin I'd feel the mc would be a bit more impactful but again I haven't read through this entirely so I'm sorry if I have offended anyone! I'm v sorry but I just feel this has to be brought up.