Talk:Lie Ren/@comment-128.151.150.18-20170220171437/@comment-4010415-20170503041828

1. But if Yang, Tyrian, and Klein's eye colors can change with absolutely nothing to do with illusions, then why can't Neo's eyes naturally change between brown, pink, and white?

2&3. Agreed. My point was simply that she can use her Semblance to make illusions for her clothes, eyes, and possibly hair, but in volume 2, we had only seen her make illusion walls. The illusion in Painting the Town wasn't just her and Roman, but rather an entire wall, considering even the environment around the fakes shattered as well. We saw her blink away the green and magenta eyes, so we know those weren't just contacts.

It is possible that she had washable hair dye and costumes (like how Cinder even got costumes). I'd hope that she disguised her hair and eye color when she infiltrated Ironwood's ship because the whole point of the disguises was that she had been witnessed assisting Torchwick and her Neapolitan-colored hair would be a very distinguishing part of her appearance.

That is, if RWBY is operating by the idea that the hair and eye colors we see are what everyone in-universe sees them as. I know that some anime have characters have crazy hair, and maybe eye, colors to us, but in-universe, they actually have black hair and brown eyes. It's apparently part of some really ancient method of differentiating characters from storytelling way back when drawings were less detailed or something. Over time, Japan even ended up developing tropes for certain hair and eye colors, even way back then, and these tropes are sometimes still used today.