AU where your eyes change colors depending on what emotion you’re currently feeling.
this doesn’t actually make it easier for people to read your thoughts and feelings, since the general person won’t remember what a color means besides probably the basic ones. (yellow is for happiness, blue is generally sadness, orange is anger, purple is fear, green is more complex emotions such as nostalgia or bittersweetness, pink is for caring about someone, red is love, etc).
a very specific shade is usually a different emotion, but it will still be related with the base emotion; for example, yellow-green is for the happiness you feel at the memories of your past. in this case the difference is subtle enough that most people won’t notice, unless the colors in your eyes are similar (if your eyes are blue and yellow-green, people are most likely to think the second color is just yellow. but if you have yellow and yellow-green, the difference will be more noticeable).
however, sometimes a slightly different shade will also just mean the same emotion, but on a varying scale (more intense / less intense).
there’s no way to control it (besides training yourself to not feel anything, but that’s not very healthy), so to hide it people can wear sunglasses or colored contacts. black, brown and grey are the most popular ones since they’re considered neutral colors (grey is more for when you’re bored, whereas brown/black is for when you’re not specifically feeling anything).
depending on cultures, hiding your eye color(s) can be seen as suspicious, but in others it’s just the social norm and not hiding it is usually for children only. however, the exception everywhere is generally made for celebrities, since media will often obsess about trying to get shots of a popular person with every possible eyecolor.
again depending on cultures, looking at other people’s eyes can be seen as perfectly normal, or as extremely intimate and a sign of trust.
if someone is feeling many emotions at once, their eyes will just keep filling in with more and more colors. usually it’s pretty evenly distributed in both eyes, but some people have heterochromia, which means when they’re feeling a new emotion the color will go in one eye entirely instead of mixing up.
some people’s eye colors don’t change at all. in older times, this was perceived as a sign that the person didn’t have a soul or was evil, and they were generally killed. nowadays, most people know better, but in some cultures it is either still taboo or a sign of bad luck.
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