Talk:Sophie and Fitz/@comment-24.115.246.196-20181214032353/@comment-34218125-20181214160506

I would guess the probablities are 100% teal.

Here's why: I'm pretty sure the blue-eyed trait (and teal-eyed, because it's a kind of blue that some elves have) is dominant. There's no way that it got passed down through all the elves miraculously even though it was recessive. SO. That means that the brown-eyed gene must be recessive, in which case Sophie has two brown-eyed genes and no blue. I'm also sure that Fitz has two teal-eyed genes and didn't get a random brown-eyed gene from either parent, if on some crazy strange chance he did the possiblities would be 50% brown 50% teal, but aside from the crazy strange chances, the possiblities are 100% teal.

Okay. Let's consider something else now. Sophie was given alicorn-like traits that's what gives her the brown eyes, so she has at least one brown-eyed-alicorn gene but she is still an elf (even though she has the alicorn genes) which makes me guess she would have one blue-eyed-elf gene, but if she has both, that means the brown eyed trait is dominant. As for Fitz, I would have guessed the teal-eyed gene is dominant because it's so strong in the Vacker family, but it's also possible that it's recessive and homologous in each family member, but is it really that way for all elves? The blue-eyed/teal-eyed trait is recessive? I find that hard to swallow. But let's pretend it is. Then the probabilities would be 75% brown and 25% teal eyes for Sophie and Fitz's children. But since it's so unlikely that the blue-eyed/teal-eyed gene is recessive, I think the first theory makes more sense.