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Esme Color blind?

posted 13 years ago by sadisticpumpkin
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I was wondering if the character Esme might have had some form of color blindness. He seemed very defensive about his paintings and the colors he used. Once when he was painting the flowers and Angel complained about his use of color he said that was the way he saw them and they were beautiful to him. Of course this can be taken as his artistic vision but it had me wondering if he was colorblind and frustrated that no one else saw things the way he did.

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[–] ryansassy1 11 years ago

Typically, colorblindness is associated with males (although it can happen to females as well) who cannot see one or more colors -- these colors appear as completely gray to them. Esme's paintings did correctly represent the colors, just very muted/murkey or toned down. A color blind person would not have seen those colors at all and would have mistakenly applied them to the incorrect parts of the paintings (i.e., red on the peacock where it should have been green).Esme did not make such mistakes, he did know where to apply the colors, he just made them very murky. Therefore, we can assume he was not color blind.
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