Not in women and not like there are in Melanesian cultures. African are more like scars, and more deep and not usual in women. However, I only did few lessons from this in the college in Sociology class so I could he wrong
The scars you are referring to is Scarification and it is a form of tattooing. They had many intricate designs and women had them too. I wish I knew how to post pictures but it’s pretty cool.
Apparently Eritrea has a very rich tattoo culture, and for centuries it was all the rage for women to get crosses tattooed to their foreheads, both to show they were stylish and also as a sign of beauty.
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I totally regret looking the term up now… Also, the Wikipedia page for scarification shows a woman with extensive aesthetic scarring. I can’t share the pic since it’s rather NSFW 
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Lol omg, I just came in here to tell everyone not to look it up. It’s full of boobs and ass on Google images. I found one that I thought was nice and it’s PG.
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Oh, great I didn’t know that. So I suppose the only weird stuff is hair and eyes that could be easily explained because of daddy Ares. I still prefer Melanesian because I had the mental canon of Calypso mother coming from a mythical Polynesia war clan
That’s the African tattoo style i studied in class while melanesian are with some kind of ink and not so deep
That’s pretty cool way more than people go for where i’m from 
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Yep. It may not be with ink but it’s still a form of tattooing that many people of all races still get today.
Calypso tatoos in text are normal tatoos not scarifications.
I thought those were a type of branding tattoo
She could still have regular tats and be African. If the author states she is Black then she is Black. My original point to you was that tattooing has always been a big part of African cultures. It’s just a different kind of tattooing.
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And who knows, maybe there’s an artistic side to Calypso and she’s actually an expert henna tattoo artist. Maybe her tattoos change ever other day or something XD
It sure would make tattooing “Ares’s kid” on her forehead easier and less permanent 
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It wasn’t black African until last update. I had a mental image as melanesian and now It is difficult challenge change it for me so I will still with my Melanesian Image who is similar
Think Patti from Doug😂
My computer has a virus that does not allow me to log onto it, and when I do all I am presented with is a black screen and unconvincing errors. Since I cannot access my CoG files and don’t have them saved elsewhere, I’m forced to factory reset my computer and hope for the best.
I’ll keep you updated.
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Oh no… the files aren’t in the cloud somewhere? 
If all else fails you can go to the source code of the game (right-click + “view page source” on Chrome). You’ll have to unpick the code, which might take a while, but at least it’s all there (as of the last update).
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I told you so!!! But yeah. DC is beautiful when it’s not a raging tourist-fest. If you can (and this goes for everyone who has yet to visit), go on, like, a Wednesday in the middle of March. You get the nice, pleasant weather, it’s not busy because Wednesday is like the ONLY day of the week that is never part of the weekend…You can meet Congressmen and -women on the street…Sometimes, if you eat lunch at the right places, you overhear lobbyists talking about things you probably shouldn’t hear (lol when I was 17 I overheard talk about bills that ended up going into Congress six months ago – I am 21)…
ANYWAY, I’M GETTING SIDETRACKED, BC I’M A DC-GIRL. And I know that the Holy Roman Empire took over everything, but hot damn if it doesn’t bother me. It is the most heinous form of cultural appropriation I know of, and my blood just boils every single time.
Generally speaking, I enjoy Roman history and have a lot of respect for the progress made by Rome…but their usage of Greek…pretty much everything (style of government, religion, mythos…) always grinds my gears.
Also, it isn’t uncommon for black people (I say black, because not all black people are from Africa) to have blond(e) hair. It’s actually pretty common, particularly for mixed children. And I think I know more black people with gray eyes than I do white people (coming from a white person with gray eyes). I don’t know why we, as a society, still get surprised by it, when it’s actually really, really common.
And why should Cally’s race need to be mentioned more than once? Adonis being Asian (and, I presume Korean, just because of how he is described) is only mentioned once, but we all remember that.
Maybe, @Rohie, what you could do to appease the masses is to mention it subtly in descriptions while the MC is interacting with people. EG: “The heat from the sun causes sweat to pour down Calypso’s tan skin.” or something? idk.
Also, @Rohie, don’t you have the WIP on dashingdon? Or at least a version of it? You could obtain the files from there? Or from dropbox. You should definitely be able to redownload from dropbox.
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Eh, I feel like cultural appropriation is the go-to means for the “winners” to mollify the “losers” in history. Gotta use what you can to pacify the masses 
And the hair color and eye color bit could be because most people who have darker skin due to their melanin count also have them darkening their eye and hair color. Genetics definitely play a factor, however.
Errant thought: I just realized how “melanin count” sounds a lot like “midichlorian count”. Instead of giving one Force powers, melanin gives darker coloration
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