In the canon I'm developing for my OCs, gargoyles share a common ancestor with wild goats the way humans share a common ancestor with great apes. I didn't think about it until recently, but I hadn't considered whether goats are able to see colors the way apes can. Humans and their closest cousins (chimps) are both trichromatic, meaning they can perceive red, green, and blue light. Goats on the other hand are dichromatic, specifically protanoptic, meaning they can only see green and blue. Now, the words red, green and blue in this instance don't literally correspond to the colors we think of; the three types of cone cell in our eyes are sensitive to a broad range of colors that just happen to peak at red, green, and blue. People with protanopia, lacking red-sensitive cones, actually see yellow and blue rather than green and blue. To them and to my gargoyle characters the world is blue/grey and yellow/brown (very mustardy).
Karmerant would see herself the closest to how trichromats see her (though less orange), but Grott would see himself as a REALLY dull blue-grey instead of purple. McCobb would see himself as a mid-2000s first person shooter greyish brown.
I'd like to incorporate this into their stories going forward.
