#i probs would have spent the whole night research vision science both human and feline and hair color sciences and genetics and shit

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okay so weird tangent but THIS had me wondering if cats are colorblind, since i was wondering if they would see the colors of their hair differently. Which apparently cats have vision comparable to humans who are red-green color blind, meaning they see blues and yellows best. Which is to say I have NO idea if Charles and Edwin's hair would look more or less similar with that colorblindness in mind. But this popped into my brain the idea that, is the Cat King colorblind?? I know Dunsmore said he's dressed in more goldish hues to represent his villiany like the Night Nurse and Esther. But this makes me actually appreciate the fact that he IS dressed in colors he could see better. Like it was clearly not intentional but in an objective way it makes sense for him in the STORY. Like of COURSE he would wear more yellowy-gold colors because he can actually SEE them. I need to analyze his outfits more now.

To answer the hair color question though I did more googling and apparently cats vision range is just like kinda muted for most colors and they have less cones than rods in their eyes so they really don't see reds and pinks or oranges well and they appear more brown, or greenish. Sooo maybe they struggle seeing the difference between their dark hair colors?? I'm really not sure. Idk ANYTHING about what undertones dark brown and nearly black hair have and idk if the undertones affect what different visions are capable of seeing. This is too complicated for a random curiosity about what's very likely just a word choice error

i have to point out something that's a really silly mistake/continuity error in ep03! the cats that are watching edwin talk about charles and crystal, and one of them says "do you think the girl and the dark-haired one are gonna hook up?" we all know she's referring to charles, but he and edwin are both dark-haired, so that doesn't actually make sense as a descriptor lmfao