User blog comment:Thomasfan502/Season 8 Discussion Blog/@comment-24027341-20180316163135/@comment-29197449-20180318024643

I wouldn't really chalk up them brightening up Flora and Aisha's skintones to Stella's with almost all the recent stock art as different artists with different interpretations. Even with Sailor Moon, which had about 8 or 10 different animation directions with their own styles, Sailor Pluto, the darkest of the Sailor Scouts, never had her skin tone lighten up in any of the promo art or even in the show as far as I know.

It just kinda has me wondering why they'd design Flora and Aisha to have darker skin tones if they'd just brighten them up later. It's like if Stella, the resident blonde, kept having her hair darkened to the point of looking dirty-blonde instead of her usual, established bright yellow. It's just inconsistent and while Rainbow hasn't been consistent with most parts of the story, they have been with general character design.

Sorry for taking this off-track and if I sound apprehensive too. I'm just annoyed with how inconsistent they are with two of their main characters; two of the characters that have come to appear the most on merch and the like (Flora always being present with Bloom and Stella as Aisha who surged in popularity and importance since her debut).