>I was re-reading the CSI stories today (working on X-Eve, one needs a
>distraction), and I noticed something.
>
>Does the color of a Lens signify anything? Gryph's is red, but most
>of the others seem to be green.

Nothing really concrete, no. They seem in some way to key on colors significant to their owners, but there's no solidly definitive rhyme or reason to it in-story - they just kind of happen that way. Out-of-story it's a bit of passive, sometimes not-entirely-conscious, character design on my part.

Kei's, for instance, is/was also red, while Juri's and Shiori's ended up sorta-wine-colored and orange respectively; Saionji's is green for obvious reasons, and if either of the Kaoru twins had one it'd probably be blue. The members of the Hanagumi have Lenses that go with their uniform key colors, Utena's is (unsurprisingly) rose-pink (actually, if you look at it very closely, it's a very finely tessellated, constantly changing interplay of red and white), and Skuld's is red because red, white, and black are her signature colors as well. Grissom's is green but then so is his lightsaber, and that's probably because green is, for whatever reason, a recurring theme in the presentation and packaging for the original CSI series (so if Horatio Caine had one, it'd probably be orange). Corwin's, oddly enough, is black, while Nikola Tesla's is a sort of electric-arc blue. And so on.

(Tac Div and Support Division IPO Lensmen are called "blue Lensmen" because of the color of their uniforms, not necessarily their Lenses.)

If I recall my Doc Smith correctly, the canonical Lenses are all multicolored, since they're not really one gem so much as a matrix of jillions of tiny ones.

--G.
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