Talk:Ciel Soleil/@comment-28388209-20161209211909/@comment-25936766-20161210123737

@Spirit: "There was just as little evidence that Yang or Neo had special eyes, and yet everyone jumped on it and dismissed the Ruby theorists right out of hand."

Not really. The Ruby theorists were dismissed for good reason: Occam's Razor. Nothing ever implied Ruby's Silver Eyes had any sort of special power. And the "bits of foreshadowing" we got lead to more reasonable conclusions, some doyllistic and others in-universe.

Basically, the only special thing about her eyes was the Silver color. And since no one after V1 ever even mentioned them in passing, it was reasonable to say they weren't even that special. (And due to the lack of metalic shine, like you said, some people may have thought they were just True Gray eyes, which do exist in RL).

Meanwhile, Yang's eye color changes everytime she uses her Semblance, which is unique. And when Neo appeared, not only can she do the same (with a better explanation behind it), but her eye colors are brown (common), and pink and white (both being as rare as and unique as Silver. Fox doesn't count, he only has Prophet/Cataracted eyes.) Hell, just having 3 different eye colors was unique enough.

So we did have evidence that their eyes were special, while for the Silver eyes we had no good evidence of it.