Jynx is fun imo and I'm not shitposting when I say that. Ah may jok roun fuh da whyt folk roun hya o lawd chille.....but I always found her genuinely interesting as an ice/psychic hybrid. Also I like her design. The purple works better for her too. I still think she's based on the yamma uba ladies of Japanese myth mixed with the gangoro trend.
That IS what her design is based on. It's skin color was made purple because people mistook Jynx for blackface.
We talked about this earlier in the thread, but the tl;dr is that Jynx' design is based on a lot of unrelated things that all work surprising well together while aditionally having small details that lead to a very interesting, and creative design. Unfortunately, it's one of those small creative details that unintentionally ended up being a problem.
She's supposed to be based on gangoro, yamma uba, yuki onna, and the Nordic goddess, Hel. The all-black face was not an accident, although it wasn't supposed to represent racial blackface at all. The intention was to show that Jynx does not actually have physical body, but is instead supposed to be an entity possessing earthly objects like wigs to disguise that fact.
This is why Jynx does not have footprints, and why it fades away leaving only its blonde hair when it faints in the Stadium games.
Unfortunately, the design does look a lot like a racial stereotype, so they had to change it. It's one of those shitty coincidences that just happen sometimes in the industry. It sucks, but it is what it is.
Despite all this, the design still works as Hel is described as having bluish-purple frost-bitten skin. The only downside was that the hidden meaning of the design was lost, and much like Porygon, Jynx has been virtually abandoned by GF because of the controversy.
