#that black mask of shadow? you're at the wrong angle for the blue to refract that's just melanin babey

[sigmastolen]

shower thought: for blue mutants like beast, nightcrawler, mystique, is that blue from pigment? or is it structural? like, there are only a handful of animals that produce an actual blue pigment and iirc they're all butterflies; any blue animal "with a backbone," as NPR put it, uses structural coloration

so if their blue is structural, is it pretty stable, like a macaw or a blue jay? or does it change from different angles, like a morpho butterfly or a hummingbird's gorget?

specifically: what if kurt has been iridescent this whole time ???

#hear me out i think this could be implied by the way his shadows are characteristically drawn #that black mask of shadow? you're at the wrong angle for the blue to refract that's just melanin babey #disclaimer i am not a biologist or a physicist i am but an illiterate musician #i also have not kept up with x-men comics in y e a r s and did not even attempt to look this up #thinky thoughts #kurt wagner #nightcrawler #thrilling picture narrative #sworn to protect a world that hates and fears them #wow maybe i do need a nightcrawler tag #science!!!!