>>13857846If anything NY would be an argument against her being black. You do realize there's TONS of ethnicities packed onto NY don't you? Her being a lighter skin tone could go either way, but I look at it this way. Look at the actual black characters in Pokemon. The game lets us know they're for sure black, so why would Iris be left open unless she wasn't intended to be black in the first place. Hell, she's Brock's skintone, so unless you think Brock is black...