She's cute and beautiful!

fingers cross for cloud next lol

if you mean in dissidia - yes. in fact, all games with BRDF metallicity does this because that's how it is in real life. all metals are naturally black until shone upon unlike dielectrics.

Have a like.

Question about the 'black default' of the texture, is the reason because how the engine handles the lighting and textures by default?

Great job!