#andre tag

i. laila.

Her mother’s eyes. The darkest kind of blue. The kind that gets mistaken for black in the wrong light. The kind of blue that the sky becomes during a storm.

ii. troye.

Both of his parents have brown eyes, but when his mom’s eyes are narrower and they crinkle when she smiles and so do his, so he has his mother’s eyes.

They’re light brown, like copper, or coffee when you mix in milk and sugar.

iii. florence.

She doesn’t remember. They’re grey and cloudy and she doesn’t know where they come from, but they’re her eyes. She doesn’t remember, she doesn’t remember, she doesn’t remember.

iv. nerys.

Her father’s brown eyes, her fathers’ terrible vision, her father’s blonde hair, her father’s endearing dimples, and her father’s chubby cheeks that will hollow out with age. Mostly his eyes, though. Everyone points out his eyes.

v. andre.

Andre is the spitting image of his father, apparently. Save for the eyes. Save for the glasses. If his eyes were bluer and his vision were better, he could be a younger Jaque-Narcisse, but his vision is awful and his eyes are brown.

Just brown. Always brown.

vi. achilles.

Achilles has their mother’s eyes, according to everyone who has met their mother. Green and blue and shining. They try to imagine it sometimes, but they’ve inherited the blindness from their father and it’s not so easy.

They don’t mind, really.

vii. z.

Z’s mom has brown eyes, and Z has green eyes. It’s funny, too, because they look like Selma in every other possible way. They have her brown hair and her pale skin. They even have her dark, sunken circles around the eyes.

Yet they have green eyes.

viii. paisley.