yes, but why blue?

[incandescens]

Can anyone think of a good reason why you'd design a race of underground miners with bright blue skin?

Other than that, nice peaceful day.

13/20K done.

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Do I really inspire this sort of frothing desire from the female masses? -- Miles Edgeworth

Comments

[boymonster.livejournal.com]

Xvarts?

[incandescens]

Zvarri!

[dreamlessness]

...bioluminescence?

[incandescens]

Unfortunately the characters aren't described as bioluminescent, or it would make so much sense.

[joasakura.livejournal.com]

dreamlessness beat me to it. the first thing I thought of was bioluminescence as well

[tammylee.livejournal.com]

I third the bioluminescence.

[incandescens]

As above, unfortunately the characters aren't described as bioluminescent, or it would make so much sense.

[incandescens]

Unfortunately the characters aren't described as bioluminescent, or it would make so much sense.

[archangelbeth]

They're actually albinos, and have a copper-based blood. (It can be blue as well as green.) Without skin pigmentation, the blue shows clearly.

Add biolumins to taste.

[incandescens]

Hm. Let me think about that one.

[evil-kat.livejournal.com]

Maybe they're chronically deprived of oxygen? rOr maybe it's a mutation?

[incandescens]

Mutation sounds plausible.

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Does there need to be a why, grasshopper?

[incandescens]

Alas, I have picked up a chunk of freelance rpg writing which involves expanding on existing text that described a race of deliberately altered humans who lived underground and mined, and who were specifically altered by their masters to be this way.

Now I can justify the night vision. I can justify the claws on their hands. I can justify the resistance to cold and the tough skin. But what I'm having trouble justifying is why their masters would have given them bright blue skin.

(Alas, if they had been bioluminescent then it would already have been mentioned in the previous detail, so I can't use that.)

[mvrdrk.livejournal.com]

Decreased radiation from the skin, helps with resistance to col.

[incandescens]

Hm. (makes note)

[acern.livejournal.com]

Well, if they're a slave race, it's like putting them in orange uniforms- marks them, in case they try to escape.

...Also, YES, MILES EDGEWORTH, YES YOU DO.

[incandescens]

Hm. Good point.

[summer-queen.livejournal.com]

I'm with acern, I think it's so they're easy to spot.

[incandescens]

Makes sense, plus lets me put in a new bit about character.

[nagaina-ryuuoh.livejournal.com]

I was going to say 'high cobalt concentration in their diet' but 'easy to spot' works just as well. Though given the number of designer races with blue skin in Exalted, it could just be a particular Solar kink the likes of which no one wants to think about too deeply.

[incandescens]

"So, about this idea you've got for a musical performance delivered by blue-skinned mimes . . ."

"Let's not go there."

[flemmings.livejournal.com]

Smurfs!!!!

[incandescens]

"My name is Gargamel. You smurfed my father. Prepare to die."