Eye colour *SPOILERS*

[RegionalDialect]

When looking around the gallery in Clash in the Clouds I noticed on the character statues that Booker's eyes are green, while Comstock's are blue.
This seems like quite a large developer's oversight, but do you guys have any other thoughts?

[Killbunny]

One reason for this could be down to the fact, although they are technically the same person, they come from to different reaities so they could have different eye colour. They can be very similar but all the Bookers/Comstocks from each reality will be slightly different, either physically or enviromentally (the experiences they have) or even both.

[Bester]

Constants and variables!

[Drizzt]

There are an infinite number of Bookers/ comstocks and Elizabeths many will have different physical differences, there are probably realities where Booker/ Comstock are women, and Elizabeth is a man.

just like the Lutece are the same person, but different genders

[RegionalDialect]

But how could the decisions you make affact your eye colour?
And at the Sea of Doors sequence, every single Booker looks identical.

[FreeToaster]

Something like eye color would be a variable.
As far as we know Gender itself is a variable, So eye color really isnt outside the realm of possibility.

[RegionalDialect]

Originally posted by FreeToaster:

Something like eye color would be a variable.
As far as we know Gender itself is a variable, So eye color really isnt outside the realm of possibility.

I guess, but I would have much preferred it if Booker and Comstock had the same eyes

[ʕ⁠ •⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ]

what you're saying makes no sense, Booker can't be a woman, neither can't Comstoc. They timeline starts at the baptism, and if he had blue eyes there, they can't turn green or pink later.

[RegionalDialect]

Originally posted by Splinter:

what you're saying makes no sense, Booker can't be a woman, neither can't Comstoc. They timeline starts at the baptism, and if he had blue eyes there, they can't turn green or pink later.

Yeah that's what I was thinking when I made this thread originally

[Drizzt]

Originally posted by Splinter:

what you're saying makes no sense, Booker can't be a woman, neither can't Comstoc. They timeline starts at the baptism, and if he had blue eyes there, they can't turn green or pink later.

No, their timeline did not begin at the baptism, they didn't just puff into existence at that moment, they had lives before that, and in alternate realities their lives were different, so their parents in a different reality could have had a girl instead of a boy, and instead of being Anna's father booker could have been her mother. and the story at this point could have been different.

Just like with the Letece's, one is male and the other is female, but they are the same person, just from alternate realities where one was born male and one was born female, but they both became scientists studying the Rifts. and used those Rifts to find each other.

[Drizzt]

Forgot to mention: as for the eye color, it's possible for them to be different genders, different eye color is trivial compared to that, Booker and comstock are the same person, but they are from different realities it's not hard to imagine that one of them had a different parent that had a different eye color than the other ones and passed on a different eye color to one of them.

[Drizzt]

When the Letece's mention "constants and variables" constants meaning some things will always be the same, like with the coin toss that always comes up heads, and variables means some things will be different, like when choosing the bird or the cage pendent, or in this case eye color or gender.

[ʕ⁠ •⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ]

I don't even
How can Booker be the same person if had different parents, can you listen to yourself? He'd be a completely different person.
Booker/Comstoc's timeline started at the baptism, and that is a fact, everything prior that already happened, Booker always fought in War, always had a wife, and his WIFE always gave him a DAUGHTER.
What you're saying about Luteces is different, and doesnt concern Booker/Comstoc story

[ʕ⁠ •⁠ᴥ⁠•⁠ʔ]

Though you may be right in lots of places, I still think there's a lot of stuff, that developers didn't do right concidering the story. It's not surprising though, they dont have degrees in that field

[rpg_dragon_s19]

I personally chalked up the difference in eye color to the effects the Luteces' tear device had on Comstock's genes from excessive use. From the voxophone "On the Entropy of Genes:"

Comstock seems to have been made sterile by simple exposure to our contraption. A theory: just as sexual reproduction can de-emphasize the traits of each parent, so goes the effects of multiple realities on our own. Your traits dissipate, until they become unrecognizable, or cease to exist.

Using the device to look into various realities for his "prophecies" gradually warped his genes, causing alterations to his physical traits both major (his cancer, impaired reproductive ability, and aging) and minor (eye color and probably some other things, too). It's possible that Booker's eye color is a constant, but Comstock's use of tears effectively made him a different person biologically, exempting him from that. Of course, the simplest explanation is as a way for the story to hide his identity until the end, but that wouldn't be any fun.

[RegionalDialect]

I'm pretty sure that the game goes on the assumption that up to the baptism, Booker and Comstock's lives, and themselves, were identical.
But I could be wrong
That's just how I interpreted it