I know white authors have a habit of describing dark skin tones with food or beverages and I don’t want to do that.
Cocoa, caramel, coffee, etc. I’m not much of a fiction writer but I am running a dnd campaign with POC and don’t want to be a stereotype lol
Edit: various soil types is a promising contender added by my partner
https://soils.uga.edu/files/2016/08/Munsell.pdf
Using the munsell scale in ways never seen before lmao
Hahahaha holy shit this is an incredible crossover
“Their gleyed complexion indicated prolonged period without oxygen; I’d finally caught the autoerotic asphyxiation bandit”