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Yearly overviewShow timelines (Timeline of RLBFDIRLBFDIA • RLIDFBRLBFB before and after the split • RLTPOTExtra scouting) • General timelines (pre- and post-1950)

Differences from Pencil 2.OAestheticsMethodology (NamesNationalitiesHeightsAgesColours • AccessoriesTeam portraits) • Beyond the 64

TL;DR: InfoTimeline of the final project (part 1part 2part 3)

The (slightly un)official RLBFB yearbook! (Alternate takes)

Alternate title: How I Sent DeviantArt Almost a Hundred Search Queries All Because I Wanted to Look at Humans.

Note on charts[]

If "0%" is in white, it means that no artist has given this particular (skin/eye/hair) colour to this particular contestant. If "0%" is in black, it means that at least one has done so, except that the percentage of the total is rounded down to 0.

Lastly, not all totals will add up to 100 due to rounding.

The quest for knowledge[]

Well, it wasn't just DeviantArt, it was Google Images and a bit of Reddit as well.

This was admittedly one of the more fun, if time-consuming, things I had done in developing RLBFB. In fact, it's the thing that inspired me to start this whole mini-series when I saw what other people had done.

It was the end of 2020, the tenth year of BFDI's existence, and a huge community had formed from it. So much art had been done of every character in BFB, but what interested me the most was the most variable theme of all: 擬人化. This could come in many forms, from fan fiction to multimedia presentations (oh, they're out there). But what I wanted to focus on was the drawn art of the anthropomorphized versions of the objects and what people did with them.

I had no intention of copying their style or anything (I cannot draw humans for the life of me), but just wanted to analyse the general direction of trends in BFDI-related artwork. I just looked at what appears at the top of Google Image Search when I searched "BFDI/BFB human", or just "human" if I was on the BFDI subreddit.[1] I did the same for my search in DeviantArt, but since there are 64 contestants—21 of whom participated in BFDI—I had to do a large number of searches,[2] not to mention my looking at the top 10 or so pages of "BFDI/BFB human" just to record my observations. And what I found was shocking.

Results after 87 searches[]

Clothes[]

Click here for the CLOTHING COLOURS section.

Skin[]

As you may have seen in the "nationalities and ethnicities" section, my headcanons about the appearance of the contestants are pretty much immutable. But with looks come stereotypes, especially in relation to skin colour. It's important to know that not all Irish people are pale and not every Kenyan is dark black, and while some of my nationality headcanons match those of with others, there are other artists out there who want you to know that too.

The following table refers to the Fitzpatrick scale, which is used to determine the sensitivity of different skin types to sunlight. It is also used to quantitatively measure a person's skin colour, and that's what I did with every drawing of a 擬人化-passed contestant I came across. There are many examples online.

Fan-determined skin colours of the BFB contestants
Contestant #S Avg. Wh.

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

Bk.

Oth.
8-Ball 9 8D8253 0% 22% 0% 0% 22% 11% 11% 22% 11%[3]
Balloony 12 E9BB91 0% 25% 33% 25% 8% 0% 8% 0% 0%
Barf Bag 17 E9B286 0% 12% 35% 29% 0% 15% 3% 0% 6%[4]
Basketball 11 C18E67 0% 18% 9% 18% 27% 0% 27% 0% 0%
Bell 9 D2996D 0% 11% 33% 11% 11% 22% 11% 0% 0%
Black Hole 11 7C604D 0% 9% 9% 9% 9% 9% 0% 55% 0%
Blocky 18 EFC094 0% 33% 33% 11% 11% 11% 0% 0% 0%
Bomby 12 A76D45 0% 17% 8% 0% 0% 50% 25% 0% 0%
Book 27 D8AD82 0% 26% 11% 22% 19% 6% 7% 2% 7%[5]
Bottle 17 F8D8B4 0% 47% 35% 12% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6%[6]
Bracelety 14 ECBE92 0% 43% 21% 7% 14% 14% 0% 0% 0%
Bubble 57 EBC7A2 1% 38% 25% 9% 9% 9% 0% 0% 11%[7]
Cake 16 996745 0% 13% 6% 13% 0% 25% 44% 0% 0%
Clock 10 F7DCBA 0% 60% 20% 10% 0% 0% 0% 0% 10%[8]
Cloudy 8 FBE5C8 25% 50% 13% 13% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Coiny 24 F0C296 0% 38% 25% 17% 13% 8% 0% 0% 0%
David 17 FAEAD6 41% 35% 12% 6% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6%[8]
Donut 13 E7C8A7 0% 38% 38% 8% 0% 0% 0% 8% 8%[8]
Dora 12 FADBB5 0% 67% 25% 0% 8% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Eggy 13 ECBE92 0% 38% 23% 15% 8% 15% 0% 0% 0%
Eraser 15 F4CBA2 0% 47% 27% 13% 7% 7% 0% 0% 0%
Fanny 23 E2BB95 2% 35% 13% 22% 9% 4% 9% 0% 7%[9]
Firey 43 ECC299 0% 30% 30% 21% 7% 2% 5% 0% 5%[10]
Firey Jr. 12 DEAC82 0% 33% 17% 8% 25% 8% 8% 0% 0%
Flower 42 F1C69C 0% 33% 33% 12% 10% 2% 0% 2% 7%[11]
Foldy 10 F7CCA0 0% 40% 20% 30% 10% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Fries 9 D7A277 0% 22% 22% 11% 22% 11% 11% 0% 0%
Gaty 14 E2B184 0% 29% 7% 36% 14% 7% 7% 0% 0%
Gelatin 18 D3A87B 0% 22% 33% 0% 11% 17% 11% 0% 6%[12]
Golf Ball 32 F0D0AC 0% 53% 16% 9% 9% 3% 0% 0% 9%[13]
Grassy 10 C78F64 0% 30% 10% 0% 10% 40% 10% 0% 0%
Ice Cube 42 F6D8B4 0% 62% 21% 12% 0% 0% 0% 2% 2%[8]
Leafy 90 DDC08D 0% 27% 30% 11% 10% 7% 3% 1% 11%[14]
Lightning 17 D2A079 3% 6% 29% 18% 6% 18% 12% 0% 9%[9]
Liy 33 F1CEA6 0% 42% 27% 15% 12% 0% 0% 0% 3%[15]
Lollipop 35 B47C55 0% 9% 14% 9% 17% 23% 26% 0% 3%[8]
Loser 17 EEBC8E 0% 24% 29% 29% 6% 12% 0% 0% 0%
Marker 5 C7956D 0% 20% 20% 20% 0% 20% 20% 0% 0%
Match 41 F5CAA0 0% 32% 44% 10% 10% 2% 0% 0% 2%[8]
Naily 18 EDCAA5 0% 44% 28% 11% 6% 0% 6% 0% 6%[8]
Needle 28 FBDCB7 0% 57% 29% 11% 0% 0% 0% 0% 4%[8]
Nickel 10 DCA070 0% 20% 20% 10% 20% 30% 0% 0% 0%
Pen 37 F0C69C 0% 43% 19% 22% 11% 3% 3% 0% 0%
Pencil 49 F7D2A8 0% 37% 37% 18% 0% 2% 0% 0% 6%[16]
Pie 25 E7B183 0% 24% 28% 16% 12% 20% 0% 0% 0%
Pillow 23 E6C2A4 0% 48% 22% 9% 9% 0% 0% 9% 4%[17]
Pin 44 EAB596 0% 30% 34% 16% 5% 7% 2% 2% 4%[18]
Puffball 18 F5CEA7 0% 56% 11% 17% 6% 6% 0% 0% 6%[19]
Remote 23 8E664D 0% 4% 13% 4% 0% 22% 30% 13% 13%[20]
Robot Flower 12 F4BB8E 0% 0% 58% 25% 0% 8% 0% 0% 8%[19]
Roboty 7 EDA186 0% 57% 0% 0% 0% 14% 0% 0% 29%[21]
Rocky 18 E5C5A2 0% 61% 22% 0% 0% 6% 11% 0% 0%
Ruby 27 D8AD8A 4% 33% 11% 15% 11% 4% 15% 0% 8%[22]
Saw 19 F8D0A4 0% 42% 21% 32% 5% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Snowball 27 FBDCB9 11% 48% 30% 7% 4% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Spongy 18 FAD3AA 0% 44% 31% 22% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Stapy 8 B68C6C 0% 25% 25% 0% 13% 0% 38% 0% 0%
Taco 25 E4B389 2% 28% 32% 0% 20% 12% 4% 0% 2%[23]
Teardrop 47 EACDAC 3% 35% 23% 11% 13% 2% 0% 0% 13%[24]
Tennis Ball 20 E8C099 0% 25% 30% 25% 0% 5% 5% 0% 10%[10]
Tree 31 BA8F65 0% 10% 13% 19% 16% 10% 19% 3% 10%[25]
TV 5 F4CEA4 0% 60% 0% 20% 20% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Woody 29 F9D4AD 3% 41% 41% 10% 0% 3% 0% 0% 0%
Yellow Face 5 FBDBB3 0% 60% 20% 20% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

Eyes[]

They say that eyes are the windows to the soul, but I ain't getting any of that when I stare at those black ovals that (most) object show characters have as looking-holes. Probably no one else is either; that's why many artists, when creating their 擬人化 forms for the contestants, have them looking all pretty with eye colours that hardly anyone in our world has.

Here you will see the average eye colours assigned by these same artists to all the BFB contestants.

Before I begin, a note: The colours come in thirty-seven categories, but because I realized I couldn't fit that many columns into one table on this wiki, I've decided to split them into as few categories as possible.

Legend of categories
  • Brown and related colours
    • Light brown (LBr.): Light brown , dark orange (half), hazel (one-quarter)
      • …ish: Light orange (half), orange (half)
    • Brown and dark brown (DBr.): Brown , dark brown , dark orange (half), hazel (one-quarter), dark grey (one-third), black
      • …ish: Dark red (half),
  • Green and related colours
    • Green (Gr.): Light green , green , dark green , green-grey , hazel (half),
    • Green mixed with blue (half green, half blue): Light cyan , cyan , dark cyan
  • Blue and related colours (Blue): Light blue , blue , dark blue , light blue-grey , blue-grey , dark blue-grey
    • …ish: Light purple (half), purple (half), dark purple (half), grey (half), dark grey (one-third)
  • Other colours
    • Red (Red): Red , dark red (half)
      • …ish: Light purple (half), purple (half), dark purple (half), pink , magenta , dark magenta
    • Yellow (Yell.): Golden , light yellow , yellow , dark yellow , light orange (half), orange (half)
    • White (Wh.): White , light grey , grey (half), dark grey (one-third)
Fan-determined eye colours of the BFB contestants
Contestant #S Avg. LBr.

DBr.

Gr.

Blue

Red

Yell.

Wh.

8-Ball 9 543B3B 0% 78% 0% 3% 3% 6% 11%
Balloony 12 5E9960 8% 25% 63% 4% 0% 0% 0%
Barf Bag 14 997328 7% 54% 11% 0% 7% 14% 7%
Basketball 10 AF8542 25% 40% 0% 0% 0% 25% 10%
Bell 7 8C7E3D 36% 29% 14% 7% 0% 7% 7%
Black Hole 8 622B61 0% 63% 0% 13% 13% 0% 13%
Blocky 14 991510 0% 50% 0% 0% 50% 0% 0%
Bomby 8 5B4E47 0% 71% 0% 15% 0% 0% 15%
Book 22 43756B 5% 33% 34% 27% 0% 0% 2%
Bottle 16 58919D 0% 25% 9% 50% 0% 0% 16%
Bracelety 4 0CB1A1 0% 25% 38% 38% 0% 0% 0%
Bubble 51 2C9CB9 0% 17% 21% 56% 3% 0% 3%
Cake 16 9E724E 19% 56% 0% 3% 9% 0% 13%
Clock 11 627A9B 0% 30% 0% 67% 0% 0% 3%
Cloudy 11 69808F 0% 39% 5% 35% 0% 0% 21%
Coiny 22 B37F40 20% 43% 0% 5% 2% 18% 11%
David 18 876F80 0% 39% 0% 33% 8% 0% 19%
Donut 12 735B26 17% 69% 1% 1% 0% 11% 0%
Dora 13 6B3E23 8% 85% 0% 4% 4% 0% 0%
Eggy 13 B4B418 0% 31% 8% 0% 0% 62% 0%
Eraser 13 BA5598 0% 19% 8% 12% 62% 0% 0%
Fanny 22 5586AD 0% 27% 2% 59% 2% 0% 9%
Firey 39 AA8E36 17% 38% 4% 1% 0% 31% 8%
Firey Jr. 10 987036 20% 55% 0% 0% 0% 15% 10%
Flower 38 B9877A 5% 22% 10% 7% 36% 11% 9%
Foldy 9 50887F 0% 33% 22% 22% 11% 0% 11%
Fries 9 8D4A19 0% 33% 22% 22% 11% 0% 11%
Gaty 13 675451 8% 56% 0% 22% 4% 8% 3%
Gelatin 17 63A663 0% 24% 76% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Golf Ball 32 7A6F6A 2% 48% 5% 18% 2% 2% 24%
Grassy 10 638262 0% 40% 50% 0% 0% 0% 10%
Ice Cube 41 56A7A7 0% 24% 22% 43% 2% 0% 9%
Leafy 84 63955E 2% 27% 62% 3% 2% 1% 2%
Lightning 15 B1CC60 0% 13% 23% 7% 0% 47% 10%
Liy 30 5D6A89 3% 37% 2% 47% 2% 0% 10%
Lollipop 34 9E32AD 0% 29% 3% 28% 31% 0% 9%
Loser 17 A6A247 3% 41% 3% 3% 0% 50% 0%
Marker 4 900EA8 0% 25% 0% 38% 38% 0% 0%
Match 38 A92E31 3% 32% 4% 8% 54% 0% 0%
Naily 17 8E8E9B 0% 25% 6% 28% 9% 0% 31%
Needle 22 8D8690 0% 29% 0% 33% 2% 0% 36%
Nickel 13 7D8672 0% 33% 4% 29% 0% 8% 26%
Pen 37 3E7683 3% 45% 5% 42% 0% 0% 5%
Pencil 44 AE865C 15% 27% 9% 6% 22% 14% 8%
Pie 19 645A8A 11% 28% 0% 49% 5% 0% 7%
Pillow 18 9A709B 0% 33% 3% 22% 14% 6% 22%
Pin 42 9B4039 0% 43% 2% 8% 38% 2% 6%
Puffball 15 A874A9 0% 20% 15% 15% 43% 0% 7%
Remote 19 794D45 0% 65% 0% 7% 11% 0% 18%
Robot Flower 10 7B4947 10% 50% 0% 10% 10% 15% 5%
Roboty 6 3D8642 0% 33% 67% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Rocky 18 3D8642 0% 39% 3% 31% 0% 0% 28%
Ruby 23 AA4644 0% 33% 2% 11% 46% 0% 9%
Saw 17 A7737A 6% 43% 0% 8% 26% 0% 17%
Snowball 25 7C9197 0% 33% 4% 33% 0% 0% 29%
Spongy 16 5E976A 0% 38% 19% 22% 0% 19% 3%
Stapy 8 D44F6D 0% 25% 0% 0% 63% 0% 13%
Taco 26 6E694A 8% 48% 13% 15% 10% 2% 4%
Teardrop 48 219095 0% 30% 23% 44% 0% 0% 2%
Tennis Ball 18 79A652 0% 28% 27% 3% 0% 22% 0%
Tree 26 4D823E 4% 42% 54% 0% 0% 0% 0%
TV 5 6F6464 0% 60% 0% 10% 0% 0% 30%
Woody 26 7C7131 25% 54% 12% 6% 0% 2% 2%
Yellow Face 5 BFBD04 0% 20% 0% 0% 0% 80% 0%

Hair[]

I've saved the best for last; this is the least varied—but coolest, nonetheless—of all characteristics.

The whole reason I did my own 擬人化 version of BFB entirely in the style of the 1960s was this section. And I'm not talking about that American tribal love-rock musical. I don't think there's ever been a series of drawings by an artist who didn't use any fantastic hair colours for any of the contestants. That should bother me deeply, but it's actually a good thing, in more ways than one.

In a few cases, a contestant had not one but two hair colours (shocking!). If this was the case, I took the average between the two by adding two-thirds of the points from the primary colour and the rest from the secondary colour to the total.

I have divided the hair colours into thirty-nine categories—an artist can choose any colour they want and call it so, but for simplicity and so that you don't have to scroll down while looking at a table, I have further simplified the categories for the percentages.

Legend of categories
  • Hair affected by old age
    1. Greyish (Gy.): White (half), light grey , grey , dark grey
  • On the spectrum of natural hair colours
    1. Blond (Bd.): White (half),[26] Light blond , blond , dark blond , light yellow , yellow , dark yellow
    2. Brown (Br.): Light brown , brown , dark brown (half)
    3. Dark (Dk.): Dark brown (half), black
    4. Reddish (Rd.)[27]: Red , dark red , light orange , orange , dark orange
  • Outside the spectrum of natural hair colours
    1. Green (Gr.): Light green , green , dark green , green-grey , dark green-grey
    2. Blue (Bl.): Light cyan , cyan , dark cyan ,[28] light blue , blue , light blue-grey , blue-grey , dark blue-grey
    3. Violet (Vi.): Light purple , purple , dark purple
    4. Pink (Pi.): Pink , magenta , dark magenta
Fan-determined hair colours of the BFB contestants
Contestant #S Avg. Gy.

Bd.

Br.

Dk.

Rd.

Gr.

Bl.

Vi.

Pi.

8-Ball 10 090F1C 0% 0% 0% 90% 0% 0% 10% 0% 0%
Balloony 12 29E920 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 100% 0% 0% 0%
Barf Bag 18 C7A04A 0% 48% 37% 9% 0% 0% 0% 0% 6%
Basketball 11 AF7E25 0% 0% 5% 32% 64% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Bell 9 E0B03E 0% 22% 61% 6% 11% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Black Hole 10 141B28 10% 0% 0% 80% 0% 0% 10% 0% 0%
Blocky 19 CD1F1A 0% 0% 8% 13% 74% 0% 0% 0% 5%
Bomby 10 4E4A41 40% 0% 10% 50% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Book 26 25B879 0% 4% 6% 2% 0% 47% 41% 0% 0%
Bottle 19 8AEAF4 21% 16% 0% 0% 0% 0% 62% 0% 0%
Bracelety 14 25C8D7 0% 7% 7% 0% 0% 0% 86% 0% 0%
Bubble 60 4AC8E4 3% 2% 2% 5% 0% 0% 87% 1% 0%
Cake 16 D2B7A8 31% 27% 23% 8% 0% 0% 0% 3% 7%
Clock 11 6286C7 2% 2% 5% 5% 0% 0% 86% 0% 0%
Cloudy 11 C5F1ED 27% 36% 0% 0% 0% 0% 36% 0% 0%
Coiny 23 EAAF37 1% 13% 35% 0% 51% 0% 0% 0% 0%
David 9 D6C6A6 39% 28% 33% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Donut 12 F8ED93 4% 96% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Dora 13 976D1E 1% 1% 72% 26% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Eggy 12 E2DE98 25% 67% 0% 0% 0% 0% 8% 0% 0%
Eraser 13 F995C8 0% 0% 3% 0% 3% 0% 0% 8% 87%
Fanny 14 3A87EE 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 0% 94% 0% 4%
Firey 45 F4C638 2% 37% 1% 1% 57% 0% 2% 0% 0%
Firey Jr. 12 FDBC26 24% 0% 0% 0% 76% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Flower 43 F593B8 0% 10% 2% 2% 0% 0% 0% 2% 83%
Foldy 10 1FD9D9 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 10% 90% 0% 0%
Fries 9 E7D466 6% 81% 4% 4% 6% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Gaty 15 A7C7DC 23% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0% 73% 0% 0%
Gelatin 18 3CD330 4% 0% 0% 9% 0% 87% 0% 0% 0%
Golf Ball 34 B4B3B1 88% 0% 3% 0% 3% 0% 6% 0% 0%
Grassy 9 41DB34 0% 0% 11% 0% 0% 89% 0% 0% 0%
Ice Cube 40 58E1E7 3% 3% 3% 5% 0% 0% 87% 0% 0%
Leafy 89 3FD23C 2% 1% 4% 1% 0% 89% 0% 1% 0%
Lightning 16 F9E969 1% 95% 4% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Liy 32 83B8DC 1% 4% 0% 0% 0% 0% 95% 0% 0%
Lollipop 33 BD15E6 0% 0% 0% 4% 0% 0% 3% 90% 3%
Loser 16 F7E883 0% 97% 0% 0% 3% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Marker 5 9508B6 0% 0% 0% 20% 0% 0% 0% 80% 0%
Match 40 D92B32 1% 3% 1% 1% 80% 0% 8% 0% 5%
Naily 19 C0BAB8 78% 6% 3% 3% 0% 0% 5% 3% 3%
Needle 29 BABCBF 92% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 7% 0% 0%
Nickel 12 B0B0B0 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Pen 38 41617C 5% 7% 11% 30% 0% 0% 46% 0% 0%
Pencil 49 F493AC 2% 3% 1% 2% 14% 0% 0% 3% 76%
Pie 22 B4B19A 6% 51% 15% 0% 0% 0% 25% 3% 0%
Pillow 25 CFCAE5 31% 16% 0% 0% 0% 0% 29% 16% 8%
Pin 46 DF2E29 12% 1% 4% 1% 80% 0% 0% 0% 1%
Puffball 17 FE97C9 0% 0% 0% 0% 2% 0% 0% 0% 98%
Remote 24 2D282B 25% 0% 1% 73% 1% 0% 0% 1% 0%
Robot Flower 12 F170CA 6% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 25% 69%
Roboty 8 EE343F 0% 0% 0% 0% 75% 0% 0% 0% 25%
Rocky 20 959794 88% 0% 0% 10% 0% 2% 0% 0% 0%
Ruby 27 E01F1F 2% 2% 0% 4% 89% 0% 0% 0% 4%
Saw 19 C2C0BC 82% 7% 3% 8% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Snowball 27 D8DDDC 57% 28% 2% 2% 0% 0% 11% 0% 0%
Spongy 20 F1E74E 5% 90% 0% 0% 0% 5% 0% 0% 0%
Stapy 8 F83956 0% 0% 0% 0% 58% 0% 0% 0% 42%
Taco 28 75CE37 1% 8% 5% 2% 11% 73% 0% 0% 0%
Teardrop 50 22A8D7 2% 0% 3% 4% 0% 0% 91% 0% 0%
Tennis Ball 20 9FF966 11% 19% 0% 0% 0% 70% 0% 0% 0%
Tree 31 27D22D 0% 0% 5% 0% 0% 95% 0% 0% 0%
TV 5 666666 60% 0% 0% 40% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Woody 30 D0AA3E 0% 33% 54% 8% 4% 0% 0% 0% 0%
Yellow Face 5 FFE91D 0% 100% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0%

"Realizing" the process[]

I made this image in December, shortly after I created the XKCD-styled timeline of RLBFDI hairstyles (still unfinished, but explained on the AESTHETICS page). It's pretty inaccurate considering that the RLBFB contestants' backstories were explained, thus rendering many colours inaccurate or inappropriate.[29] I'm posting it here only to show my attempt to make the fan-determined hair colours and eye colours more realistic, not for the 1960s (that part of the timeline was done later), but for the "present day", whenever that should be.[30]

BFDI human stuff part 2

In 2021, everything became Japanese, hence my use of gijinka instead of 擬人化.

Of course, if you have purple hair in real life, your natural hair colour is probably anything, so I just went to the nearest realistic form to which I could convert each colour. Light green hair became blond, while dark red eyes became a mellower brown. I then took the average of those average colours.

Not only that, but I've also made the colours "culture-specific". For whatever reason,[31] it is less likely to see a darker-skinned person with light hair or eyes (although it is not impossible). I don't remember the exact method I used to get this, but I took the average lightness of each contestant's skin and gave separate linear-based probabilities for someone of that colour having light hair and eyes. That score influenced what their new hair and eye colour would be. And I have to say, I was fairly proud of the results.

I didn't use all of them in RLBFB because of conflicts with the contestants' origins—Pencil, a (black) Kenyan in the human universe, wouldn't have fairer skin or hair than Match, a (white) Ashkenazi Jew. But many colours were simply transferred from the originals, such as Lollipop with dark (not purple) skin or Fanny, Clock and some others with blue eyes.

Exochromic observations[]

Hair and eyes are not the only things people focus on when they make their 擬人化, hardly so. Just as people do in real life, 擬人化-passed contestants often use accessories to make their own appearance special. In other cases, they may not follow the common aesthetic trends that are common among drawn human beings, especially stick figures. All of these certainly has some significance among the detail-oriented folk on DeviantArt, so I have documented what they have done here.

Note:

  1. Some of the words I have used may not correspond to what the artist had in mind. I recorded this section in another language and translated it to English.
  2. I'm also using the percentages based on the number of skin-colour samples I collected, not the other measurements.
  3. The small text next to the percentages is the number of instances of a particular colour with (most) characteristics. Without a number, just assume one.

Accessories[]

Hair accessories[]

  • Ribbons and bows
    • Hair ribbons: Bracelety (29%, 2 cyan, 1 dark blue, purple), Bell (22%, 2 black), Fanny (13%, 2 blue, 1 dark blue), Fries (11%, grey), Basketball (9%, black), Bubble (9%, 2 light blue, 1 green, white, grey), Golf Ball (9%, 2 dark red, 1 grey), Lollipop (9%, green, dark purple, white), Pillow (9%, 2 white), Bomby (8%, white), Bottle (6%, light grey), Gelatin (6%, black), Naily (6%, black), Pencil (6%, 3 grey), Puffball (6%, rainbow-coloured), Teardrop (6%, 2 black, 1 light blue-grey), Bubble (4%, 2 cyan), Remote (4%, red), Ruby (4%, red), Taco (4%, white), Leafy (3%, red, light green, black), Ice Cube (2%, blue), Match (2%, dark brown)
    • Hair bows: Bell (44%, 2 blue, 1 brown, light blue, dark blue), Saw (21%, 3 pink, 1 magenta), Pillow (17%, 2 light purple, 1 white, white and black), Taco (16%, 3 red, 1 grey), Cake (13%, pink), Puffball (11%, light purple, magenta), Pin (7%, grey), Naily (6%, pink), Teardrop (6%, dark cyan, dark blue, white), Remote (4%, red), Ruby (4%, red), Liy (3%, cyan), Flower (2%, yellow), Leafy (2%, green, light green), Match (2%, black), Pencil (2%, grey)
  • Hair fasteners
    • Hair-clips, or hair-pins: Gaty (43%, 3 gold, 2 sans couleur, 1 light brown), Cake (6%, grey), Liy (6%, 1 light blue-grey, 1 sans couleur), Lollipop (6%, light brown, light purple), Bubble (4%, light cyan), Needle (4%), Pillow (4%, light grey), Ruby (4%, pink), Pen (3%, blue), Flower (2%, yellow and pink), Teardrop (2%, cyan)
    • Scrunchies: Bomby (42%, 3 dark yellow, 2 black), Bottle (18%, 2 cyan, 1 dark cyan), Match (15%, 2 grey, 2 black, 1 pink, red), Needle (14%, 2 gold, 2 black), Fanny (13%, yellow, blue, purple), Loser (12%, yellow), Naily (11%, red, black), Basketball (9%, black), Balloony (8%, black), Pencil (8%, 3 grey, 1 grey and pink) Cake (6%, pink), Leafy (3%, 2 dark green, 1 dark red), Liy (3%, blue), Pin (2%, light grey)
  • Hairnets, or snoods: Basketball (9%, black)
  • Headbands
    • Headbands: Basketball (27%, 3 orange), Pin (20%, 7 grey, 1 dark red and black, grey and black), Taco (20%, 2 red, 1 brown, dark blue-grey and red, black), Pencil (18%, 8 grey, 1 dark grey), Flower (17%, 4 yellow, 1 yellow and black, green, black), Cake (6%, pink), Liy (6%, black), Puffball (6%, dark magenta), Teardrop (6%, 3 black), Ice Cube (5%, light cyan, white), Saw (5%, pink), Book (4%, green), Fanny (4%, light blue), Ruby (4%, black), Lollipop (3%, white), Bubble (2%, pink), Leafy (2%, black)
    • Bandanas: Pencil (2%, grey)
    • Browbands, or bandeaus[32]: Fries (11%, golden and red), Pencil (10%, 4 grey, 1 dark grey), Basketball (9%, black), Pillow (9%, light blue-grey, light grey), Eraser (7%, magenta), Pin (5%, dark red, white), Tennis Ball (5%, white and light green), Needle (4%, black), Remote (4%, grey and dark red), Leafy (3%, 2 dark green, 1 white), Bubble (2%, light cyan), Flower (2%, pink), Ice Cube (2%, cyan)
  • Object forms of themselves in their hair
    • Balls: 8-Ball (22%), Ruby (7%, pink), Cake (6%, magenta), Match (5%, 2 red), Book (4%, light grey), Bubble (4%, purple and orange, white), Pillow (4%, purple), Taco (4%, red), Lollipop (3%, purple)
    • Crowns, miniature: Foldy (20%, cyan), Taco (20%, 4 red, 1 red and green), Naily (11%, 2 grey), Dora (8%), Eggy (8%), Bottle (6%, light blue-grey), Flower (5%, golden, pink), Pencil (2%, light grey), Pin (2%, grey)
    • Flowers: Flower (40%), Fanny (13%, 2 light blue, 1 white), Black Hole (9%, dark red), Dora (8%), Robot Flower (8%, yellow), Lightning (6%, yellow), Needle (4%, purple and magenta), Pillow (4%, white), Ruby (4%), Lollipop (3%, red), Ice Cube (2%, white), Pencil (2%, grey), Teardrop (2%, light blue-grey), Leafy (1%, blue and yellow with pink)
    • Jewellery[33]: Tree (3%)
      • Gemstones: Ruby (4%, rubies)
    • Leaves: Tree (19%, green), Leafy (12%, green), Cake (6%, white), Match (2%)
    • Light switches: Liy (6%)
    • Pencils: Pencil (2%)
    • Remote controls: Remote (4%)
    • Saw-blades: Saw (11%)
    • Tips[34]: Pin (27%, 11 grey, 1 red), Roboty (14%, black)
  • Other hair ornaments[35]: Puffball (6%)
    • Animals
      • Fish: Taco (28%)
      • Rabbits: Teardrop (2%, pink)
    • Geometric shapes
      • Hearts: Cake (6%, pink)
      • Rings: Ruby (4%, gold)
      • Squares: Taco (4%, red)

Fashion accessories[]

  • Hats: Pen (86%, 12 blue, 8 cyan, 6 dark blue, 2 blue and cyan, 1 blue and white with black, blue and grey, white, white and light blue), Marker (60%, 2 purple, 1 dark purple), Clock (30%, blue, blue-grey, white and black), Snowball (26%, cyan, blue, light blue, dark blue, white and dark blue, grey, light grey), Cake (19%, white, white and magenta, white and red) Balloony (17%, light cyan, light green), Bomby (17%, dark green-grey, dark grey), Naily (17%, 2 grey, 1 pink), Gaty (14%, yellow, yellow and white), Taco (12%, dark green and dark red, cyan, light blue-grey), Bell (11%, light blue), Fries (11%, red), Foldy (10%, green and white), Needle (10%, dark red and dark orange), Pencil (10%, 2 pink, 2 grey and pink, 1 grey), Pillow (9%, white and purple, grey), Coiny (8%, orange, brown), Book (7%, cyan and white, blue and black), Woody (7%, 2 light brown), Golf Ball (6%, white, white and dark grey), Lollipop (6%, 2 purple), Loser (6%, blue and orange), Saw (5%, brown), Needle (4%, grey), Pie (4%, dark purple), Ruby (4%, pink and dark red), Leafy (3%, green and black, dark green, cyan and purple), Flower (2%, black), Pin (2%, dark brown), Teardrop (2%, blue and white)
    • Crowns, full-sized: Foldy (10%, cyan), Cake (6%, purple)
    • Bottle caps: Bottle (6%, light cyan)
    • Helmets: Roboty (14%, red)
    • Pillows: Pillow (13%)
  • Eyewear
    • Glasses
      • Conventional eyewear
        • Eyeglasses: Book (30%), Golf Ball (28%), Tree (16%), Roboty (14%, green), Gelatin (11%), Clock (10%), Foldy (10%), Tennis Ball (10%), Remote (9%), Donut (8%), Pie (4%), Pillow (4%), Woody (3%), Ice Cube (2%), Pin (2%)
        • Sunglasses: Eraser (7%), Lollipop (3%)
      • Goggles: Basketball (9%), Naily (6%, red), Spongy (6%), Pin (4%), Golf Ball (3%), Flower (2%)
      • Monocles: Roboty (29%, 2 green), TV (20%, blue), Robot Flower (8%, pink)
    • Blindfolds: David (6%)
    • Eye-patches: Taco (4%, light brown)
  • Other head clothing
    • Earmuffs: Ice Cube (2%)
    • Headphones: TV (20%), Lightning (6%), Puffball (6%, rainbow-coloured), Pen (3%), Pencil (2%)
    • Head-scarves, or head-wraps: Lollipop (3%, dark purple), Match (2%, dark orange)
      • Turbans: Snowball (4%, cyan)
    • Hoodies: TV (20%, dark grey), Eraser (13%, pink), Roboty (6%, black), Pen (5%, cyan, blue), Fanny (4%, grey), Pencil (4%, grey), Taco (4%, light brown), Lollipop (3%, magenta), Woody (3%, light grey), Ice Cube (2%, light blue-grey), Match (2%, dark red), Pin (2%, dark grey)

Other hair[]

  • Facial hair
    • Moustaches: Clock (30%), Robot Flower (8%, grey), Eraser (7%)
    • Goatees: Clock (20%), Gelatin (11%), Eraser (7%), Snowball (4%), Pen (3%)
    • Beards: Eraser (13%, of which 1 is a chinstrap), Donut (8%), Snowball (4%, white)
  • Bald: David (59%), Roboty (29%), Black Hole (18%), Donut (8%)

Other skin[]

  • Freckles: Golf Ball (16%), Eggy (8%), Barf Bag (6%), Loser (6%), Naily (6%), Needle (4%), Remote (4%), Taco (4%), Liy (3%), Pin (2%)
  • Vitiligo[36]: Book (19%), Spongy (11%), Barf Bag (6%), Bubble (2%), Pin (2%)
  • Eye conditions
    • Eyes completely filled: Roboty (43%), Yellow Face (20%), Dora (8%), David (6%)
    • Eyeless: Black Hole (9%), Needle (4%)
  • Face conditions
    • Faceless: Robot Flower (8%)

Other other[]

  • Presented as an object, not a human: Black Hole (55%), Roboty (43%), TV (40%), Cloudy (20%), Yellow Face (20%), Remote (9%), Dora (8%), Robot Flower (8%), Bottle (6%), Cake (6%), David (6%), Liy (6%), Loser (6%), Firey (2%), Pin (2%)
  • Presented inside an object: TV (40%, in a television screen)

Notes[]

(Go back?)

  1. I analysed every post that had over 10 points in karma. This was December 2020, so there's a lot more now.
  2. Gaty BFB, Gelatin BFB, Ice Cube BFDI, Ice Cube BFB etc.
  3. Dark green (1).
  4. Pink (1).
  5. Grey (1), green-grey (1).
  6. Light blue-grey (1).
  7. Grey (4), cyan (2).
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 Grey (1).
  9. 9.0 9.1 Grey (1.5).
  10. 10.0 10.1 Grey (2).
  11. Pink (2), yellow (1).
  12. Light green (1).
  13. Grey (2), blue-grey (1).
  14. Light green (5), green-grey (3), green (2).
  15. Cyan (1).
  16. Grey (2), yellow (1).
  17. Light purple (1).
  18. Grey (1), light red (1).
  19. 19.0 19.1 Pink (1).
  20. Grey (3).
  21. Red (2).
  22. Grey (1), red (1).
  23. Grey (0.5).
  24. Cyan (4), grey (2).
  25. Green-grey (2), grey (1).
  26. Apparently white hair is considered almost the same as blond hair, just not exactly. I don't know the difference between "platinum blond" and related shades.
  27. Also known as "ginger" in some circles.
  28. Yes, it's true that cyan is meant to be right between green and blue, but most of the characters to whom cyan hair was applied were blue in their object forms.
  29. Not "dirty" or anything, just not fitting.
  30. I'm guessing when they were first drawn, i.e. the second half of the 2010s and most of 2020.
  31. Genetics, most likely.
  32. Called "sweatbands" in the modern era, these were quite popular in the early 1920s. They've apparently made a comeback during BFB.
  33. It might have got lost in translation.
  34. Not really common in our world, it's meant to jut out of the head much as do those of some objects.
  35. That's it; I've only got it written as "hair ornaments".
  36. More information here; I must admit that I did not know of this condition before.
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