The follow-up question

[james_davis_nicoll]

What is it with green-eyed Asian women in fantasy novels, anyway? Why green? It's not impossible (except under some sort of No True Scotsman rule) but green eyes appear to be very rare in Asian populations.

Not that they are exactly common in other populations (leaving aside the People Who Have Green Eyes group, which have a high percentage of members with green eyes).


[Added in a hurry]

That turns out to be something you shouldn't google for images of if you are at work.

Comments

[pixel39.livejournal.com]

My favorite paranormal fantasy heroine has brown hair and brown eyes but she's half Blackfoot so she's still technically exotic, although the author takes pains to point out several times repeatedly that she looks Hispanic and thus nobody considers her looks to be out of the ordinary.