I need opinions on a new character that I am developing for a story.?

Question

A Chinese girl, about the age of 19, has an incredibly strong accent, but her English isn't too bad. Her father's parents were both Japanese, but his father was half white with green eyes, and his mother had dark brown eyes. They, of course, grew up on the island, but traveled to England to have him, where he grew up with and English accent along with dark brown hair and brownish-green eyes. The nineteen-year-old's mother was half Chinese half European with blue eyes and dark brown hair, and also a unique Chinese accent. The nineteen-year-old's parents had her in China, where she developed the accent, for her father was a traveling psychiatrist, and thus, she spent most of her early years growing up with her mother and grandfather. So ...

Does it make sense for the nineteen-year-old to have dark brown hair, blue eyes, plus an accent?

Answer 1

No.  First of all, she's Asian, not Chinese -- not if she's just 1/4 Chinese -- unless her first memories are of China and that's the culture she identifies with.

If her father's parents were both Japanese, and he's half white, her grandfather had better have a long talk with her grandmother.  Even the Ainu do not have green eyes, as far as I know.

The mother would not have blue eyes, either.  Blue eyes is a halfway recessive trait.  One parent with dark eyes would prevent the daughter from having blue eyes, but her eyes could be somewhere in between -- a light hazel brown, perhaps.

Children who learn their languages young learn them without an accent.  It's the languages that we begin to learn as older children and as adults where we have a terrible time getting rid of the accent.