What color would your ikran be?

[prowler]

This is a hard question.. i really like Tsu'tey's ikran.. and Neytiri's so maybe a mix of those two

[Human No More]

Mostly blue, with some green and maybe a little bit of reddish on the edge of the wings

[Hunter of the Glade]

I don't settle for Ikrans. I aim for the Toruk instead

[Tey'Kan]

Mine would be mostly black, with flecks of bright red, orange and yellow, and her name would be "Jaden". She'd be a real beauty.

Tey'Kan

[LOVEavatar]

Originally Posted by Hunter of the Glade

I don't settle for Ikrans. I aim for the Toruk instead

If that's the case, then I'd choose Toothless

[Marley]

I'd like mine to be a green and a faint black striped Ikran.. But of course, the Ikran must choose me too!

[Human No More]

Originally Posted by Hunter of the Glade

I don't settle for Ikrans. I aim for the Toruk instead

Kehe

You still need an ikran too

[misstammie]

That is a tough question and something to think about. I really don't think you would have a choice in the picking since the ikran picks you essentially. I wouldn't care to be honest but if I had to pick colors I was say blues, pinks, purples and maybe a touch of green and yellow thrown in for good measure. HAHA Cool question.

[LOVEavatar]

Originally Posted by Tey'Kan

Mine would be mostly black, with flecks of bright red, orange and yellow, and her name would be "Jaden". She'd be a real beauty.

Tey'Kan

I like it!

[Raiden]

Hmm.

Well, if Ikran are anything like Earth reptiles, then different populations of them would have different colors depending on where they lived, a la population genetics.

For example, a red or orange Ikran is possible, if they lived near red or orange rock formations, because then they could blend in better than others, and avoid predation. This would then skew the entire population towards the red/orange colors, since predators would eat anything that stuck out from the crowd.

But, for myself, I would look for unusual color morphs. Color morphs are when an animal has genetics that alter its normal pigmentation, and cause it to look different. This happens to be especially common in reptiles; I have an albino leopard gecko and an albino corn snake. These are very rare in the wild, but artificial selection has allowed us to draw them out through breeding.

So, if there was a color morph for an Ikran, it would be possible that the darker colors were switched with the light colors, as sort of an inverse albino.

I would want mine to look like that; an all-black Ikran with light turquoise stripes, and perhaps a yellow chin crest instead of red.

[Grif]

Black like my dark inner self. (My inner inner self is a good though)

[Susano'o]

Na'vi blue - my favourite colour.

[Nìmwey]

Originally Posted by Raiden

Color morphs are when an animal has genetics that alter its normal pigmentation, and cause it to look different. This happens to be especially common in reptiles; I have an albino leopard gecko and an albino corn snake. These are very rare in the wild, but artificial selection has allowed us to draw them out through breeding.

Morphs is only what we call it in reptiles, all the different colors we see in dogs, cats, horses, guinea pigs, rabbits, hamsters, rats etc. - all are "morphs" we have created, that would probably have gotten the animal killed off in the wild.

And it is one thing that's always been one of the greatest mysteries in Avatar for me... JC has gone so far to explain everything, and make everything plausible, but I don't know of a single species in the world where color varies greatly among individuals, in the wild. Wild horses don't count, they are only domesticated horses that have gone wild again.

I mean, wherever you look, animals of the same species/subspecies in the same location, have all the same color. (Except perhaps differences between male/female.)
So why/how do the Ikran sport all these strange colors? Green, blue, orange, purple... take a close look at the background Ikrans during both the "taming" scene and when the Ikran clan ride out, and you see a lot of different colors.

And again, I have never seen a wild, undomesticated species with such great variation in colors. Animals use to have colors that serve a purpose like camouflage, or for sexual selection. So one species/subspecies use to have only one color.

[apache_blanca]

Mine would be the same colours as the ToS background (excellent for hunting cos he'll merge with the forest). When I'll see a ToS colour ikran, he'll definitely choose me, too

[EywaBlessMe]

It would have to be a dark green, like the font, with deep blues, and red highlights, but I'm not prepared to choose a name...