#i have a chart

[solarsavoy]

My World Monday, Theran Attributes

Considering that Thera is on the northern most part of the planet at all times, I had to consider different physical attributes than Earth. Interesting fact, roughly 70-79% of Earthlings have brown eyes and it's estimated that 85% of Earthlings have black hair. Yeah. Turns out that while there are many different kinds of people, most of us actually share similar traits, but I wanted Thera to be different.

I considered where the highest concentration of redheads, blondes, blue eyes, hazel eyes, green eyes, and any other "rare" attribute is on Earth and most are concentrated near or north of the arctic circle, where Thera would be. Another interesting fact, people don't have the red pigment capability to have red eyes and albinos have the appearance of red eyes because they lack any pigmentation at all and what you're really seeing are the blood vessels in their eyes.

So, I decided to make Thera different, naturally, by swapping what we consider rare with what we consider common. I'll post a picture of my chart. Yes, I have a chart. You should know this about me by now, I'm a little eccentric when it comes to worldbuilding.

The most common attributes which cover at least half of Therans are: blonde or reddish orange hair with hazel, red amber or silver/grey eyes. Oh, unlike Earthlings, Therans do have the red pigment in their genes.

There is a correlation between red heads and the amount of vitamin D in their system when it comes to Earthlings and since Thera has two suns, I figured it wasn't unreasonable to say they simply developed the color red for other attributes. Another thing I considered was skin tone. While a lot of Therans are pale due to living under a thick forest surrounded by mountains which creates constant coverage, those native to Marka tend to have a more golden tan color similar to Eskimos on Earth, because of the perpetual sunset they live under.

Then there are royal only attributes which are the rarest and automatically mean someone is a royal. This includes green eyes, purple eyes, black hair, and dark brown hair. So naturally, if a Theran came to Earth, they'd think just about everyone was a royal. 😅

Here's the chart.

So no one thinks twice about Deshi's hair and eye color, because while it's somewhat unique, 4% of Thera shares those traits with him. Compared to Earth where the same traits are much less common to be seen together. 10% of Earth has blue eyes and only 2% of Earthlings are natural blonds. Even if blonds often come with blue eyes as well, it's not even half of Thera's percentage. :/ Meanwhile, Stag is Thera's rough equivalent of Earth's blond hair and blue eyes.

Sidenote: This always trips me up. Whenever I try to visualize what people look like, I tend to fall under what I call an "Earth bias" where I automatically imagine them with more Earth standard attributes. This often happens with Rom and Meck. In my head, Rom will have light brown hair and blue eyes where Meck will have dark brown hair and brown eyes, but not only are those both rare, but I've always hated the cliche of people always having rare features in stories when there's all kinds of people, which only got worse when I saw just how many people have black hair and brown eyes on Earth and I feel there aren't near as many people with those features in stories in comparison.

It's grown a lot better the last decade, but a lot of 90's stuff featured the blond hair blue eyed protagonist with the blond hair blue eyed antagonist (thinking the popular girl in school as there's a lot of high school drama stuff during the 90's-00's) and the handsomely blue eyed love interest OR the girl with red hair and stunning blue eyes like the sky. 🙄 This was a big factor in me really thinking about the attributes of Therans. Like, if everyone's going to have blond hair and blue eyes and no one has brown/black hair and brown eyes, there's going to be a reason, okay?

Anyway, Rom actually has blond hair and hazel eyes and Meck has light brown hair with hazel eyes. I always saw Meck with a darker hair color and neither had red. I do this automatically though. I often forget that King Solara has blond and not medium brown hair like in my head and Astor has dark brown hair and dark brown eyes, but he can't because he's not a royal, so I often have to alter the color scale in my head so it's not Earth biased. Let's see if I remember this for all the people in the background when I make the comic for Krystar. 😅 Hence the chart. I'll probably be using it a lot.

Possible future My World Monday topics: -The Council of Marka -Economics of Thera -Dynamic of Hummes (the city) -Dynamic of Kares -Dynamic of Marka -Dynamic of Estes -Dynamic of Solara -Education system of Solara - including Earth age comparisons -Fighter types among the kingdoms -Traditional vs non-traditional children -Hummes/Solara conflict -Magic system

Thanks for reading.

[semegane]

Need to find someone w the same crazy niches as me so I can start telling them about THIS and not feel like I'm speaking in tongues to my oomfies who dont

[bottombaron]

The scarest thing about Nandor being actually smart in all things Guillermo is that this is the reason why he'll never make the move to be with him:

Nandor already knows how he feels about Guillermo.

He's not even repressing it. He's just made peace with it. Because Guillermo was never an option.

Guillermo is human. He'll choose to stay human. He's fleeting. He'll always leave in some form or fashion. Nandor doesn’t choose to act on his feelings for Guillermo for the same reason why he never turned him. It would just be a curse.

[puppyeared]

horrible truth bomb dropped on my head 20 min ago

[ariaste]

Me: [sees everyone talking about how Assad Zaman was "literally" coming up with RPF about himself and Eric Bogosian in an interview]

Me: ah, fandom's doing its little "interpret an innocent comment in Some Kind Of Way" thing again, let's go find the video and do our own critical thinking about what was actually said here--

Assad: What would happen if I said-- [words that cannot be interpreted as anything but RPF fanfic]

Me:

Me: ok fandom gets a pass on this one actually

[ciderjacks]

despite Laios low self esteem making him think that if he’d been eaten, Chilchuck and Marcille wouldn’t have helped Falin,

theres a small part of me that thinks the reason Chilchuck stayed with the party and went back in the dungeon in the first place was because he didn’t want to leave Laios alone. That Laios was moreso the reason he stayed.

[beybuniki]

:D

[arttuff]

tim your swag is too bodacious. tim they'll kill you

[themultifanshipper]

At any given moment, George is riding the line between either looking like Mister Darcy or a Lesbian, and boy does he ride it hard...

[ajwahoocrowley]

[wistfulwatcher]

forever grateful for actors who look at their scene partner's mouth when they talk. they're really those little hand hold supports on the indoor rock climb that is fanon shipping

[devilstruly]

i have nothing else to say

[myriadmythology]

Who’s a good boy? Who’s a lil’ shit?

[omchar]

annnnndddd day 3!

[kroosluvr]

maybe, if we had met on a fateful summer's evening...

[k-kaez]

ah, a 10 foot tall ocean queen warrior who is the prophesized blue axolotl, is strong and canonically a powerhouse of pure power and her husband who is a good builder ☺️