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>Laird had sort of as a first pass design pictured like his then mixed race Asian girlfriend, but Eastman literally never imagined her as anything but white especially with her surname
I think you got your info mixed up. April was originally asian within Peter's notes, but her being white was pretty much set in stone within his sketches. The only thing that was undecided for her at that time was her name. Ironically, Baxter was the one where they didn't know what race he was going to be at first. As for Kevin's part, he has stated multiple times that she was only named after April Fisher, while also further adding that she didn't start looking exactly like her until later in the original mirage run.
