[2553] "We'll both go, okay?"

[imaginaryfriend]

Dec 5, 2021 5:31:34 GMT blazingstar said:

I also find it interesting that a blush means all of the new bodies have reddish fluid of some type that acts like blood.

Not sure about that. Might be an entirely different mechanism replicating the blush response. The tissues might extrude or retract nanotubes to change color, for example, red for blush or irritation, red, yellow and blue for bruising and suntan, etc.

Dec 5, 2021 5:31:34 GMT blazingstar said:

We know curly-red-haired New Person has read all about human bodies in books, but...where did they learn to make a sexy pose like that?!

Before the internet was a thing people had to make do with sexy images in books and periodicals. Strangely enough, the letters to the editor pages of magazines of culture read much like typical somewhat-moderated posts often found on the internets today, just a bit less so.

Dec 5, 2021 3:27:26 GMT saardvark said:

Dec 4, 2021 19:35:20 GMT imaginaryfriend said:

There was a tab for eyes back during character generation and we see the eye color changing in the different panels. Original robot eye colors were an option, at least at that point. Kat mentions keeping the randomizer parameters to certain limits later, seemingly in reaction to robots choosing random bodies.  The randomizer may have been tweaked to make original robot eye colors and other robot-like features more rare, possibly.  If so that would mean that original robot eye colors might be more common among those who customized their bodies instead of hitting the randomizer button.

so far we have:

Albert.          chosen.   fluorescent robot green
library-bot     chosen.   bright pink
pipe-bot.       random.   fluorescent robot green
clipboard-bot.    ?          red

so whether chosen or randomized, all NP eye colors are robot/non-human so far.  If there is a 50-50 chance for a selection (however made) to go typical/non-typical color, 
there's only about a 6% chance that the first 4 we see are all non-typical. Eye color might have been a choice, but maybe the range of valid choices was constrained. The randomizer might have been weighted towards non-typical colors.  We clearly need more data though to be more sure if something is weird...

Pink is a naturally occurring color. So is green though not fluorescents, but not sure if the robotish colors are actually that bright or if it's like Zeta's eyes... a stylistic choice for the readers' benefit, to remind us of their origin.

But even so, I think you are right... Looking at our very limited data set the eye colors probably weren't weighted to human norms, at least not at first. They actually couldn't be if the possibilities included non-human colors. Might even have been the case that the earlier NP(C?)s who chose random bodies had an equal chance of each possible color. Makes me wonder if heterochromia was a possibility then, or now.