Character William Evans, his relationship with Raj Rivera, and his backstory

The silver-eyed Raj Rivera is crying while glowing violet-eyed William is trying to comfort him, holding onto his arm while blushing heavily. William has long brown hair that's a little wavy, pale skin, and freckles. He wears an orange shirt with fuchsia v-neck lining and a fuchsia four-pointed star/sparkle on the chest. Raj has silver-white anime hair color and dark brown skin. The tears are noticeable on his face, even though he's smiling, and it spills over onto his black undershirt.

[from blue horizon: bright days, sad days comic 4.]

SO... REGARDING WILLIAM. As you might notice, I tend to see him with pale skin, and in truth, the cast tends to call him "white."

I'm not gonna explain his long-term character creation lore here for a while, BUT REGARDLESS OF THAT, people can think of him as mixed Southeast Asian [a few generations back] or not (whatever works).

I left it ambiguous (actually it's not even talked about in book 1 because I revised his intro scene), and I'll very likely leave it ambiguous.

I might write up a short story that goes into Will's family line (basically his great-grandma was friends with Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's great-grandpa but neither might know about this)... IF Will is directly related to her.

I made this with my non-dominant hand with my mouse:

weird family tree possibilities for will where one side says "pat only" while another side says "tran-pat" and "bebe"

Complicated stuff.

Relatedly, Raj's relationship with "Mystery Boy" (William) is the FB "complicated" sitch:

boys' relationship chart. . raj toward a face with question mark and smile with the moniker of "mystery boy" is 3 question marks, while the mystery boy has 1 heart toward him. diego is there but unrelated to the scenario because his main crush is fernando. however, now, there is raj's dark arm with a guy who has v pale arm.