doing character design for live-action characters is fun bc like. in mediums where the characters' physical features have already been chosen with an artistic goal in mind the color schemes are basically never ambiguous. nobody's staring intently at a screenshot of Usagi going BUT WHAT COLOR ARE HER EYES I JUST CAN'T TELL they're blue. they're unambiguously, boldly, very obviously blue, because the artists involved picked a very blue shade of blue so you can tell they're blue. but real people's eye colors simply do not work that way! that degree of saturation is super uncommon which makes it less clearly defined! ex. I would say my eyes are a light blue, but absolutely would not fault anyone for interpreting them as grey; I read Alex's eyes as green, so I give River green eyes, but in text Elizabeth is referred to as having blue eyes, so I give Elizabeth blue eyes.

this ambiguity of real life eye colors though means sometimes I'll have decided on, like, hazel or brown for a character's eyes and then a fic will be like THEIR BLUE EYES and I'm like their what now