>>31197063>His dad is paleIf we are going by NPC parents then Calem and Serena are black. The player character of gen 6 had a pale mother and the child could be pale or brown. The mother in gen 7 is brown and can have a pale or dark child. They use random NPCs for parents, to save money.
>He's named after an Hawaiian treeThe mesquite tree that he is named after was introduced to Puerto Rico and Hawaii as well as New South Wales and Queensland in Australia and is now naturalized in those places. His Japanese name mentions fruit and fire. Many characters have Hawaiian names in gen 7, Sophocles, and Lana have hawaiian related names, but people see them as white and asian without any problems.
>Practices fire dancing which is a reference to Polynesian cultureAncient Aztecs performed a fire dance in the 14th to 16th centuries, today this ritual is often performed for tourists in several countries, by students at many collages, and other hobbyist.
>trains and battles near a volcano, uses fire type mons because his skin is "burnt"Blaine also trained near a volcano and used fire types and he was pale, your point is invalid.
>looks like a black guyHe does, he is drawn similar to Grant.
>Marlon looked like a black guy until people noticed the tanlinesMarlon always looked non white, but not black.
>You aren't really proving anything just by merely saying "he is black".I think I have provided enough.The reasons you are using to say that he is not black isn't valid. If you look at the overall character designs you see that they try to show a variety of people living in Alola, asians, whites, blacks, and other. He is a black character.
