>>37141889Oh, changed your mind on making the brrats humans with rat-like accessories? Nice. Being smaller would help with the subterranean lifestyle. Also, flexible rat thoracic cages are great for spelunking.
>>37151452>wake up>we finally have brown elvesYay! I thought I'd have to wait until we got a bakatare rep to get them.
Fun fact, a reason some polar populations have darker skin is because of the snow, surprisingly enough. In most regions, the ground is dark, and the sky is bright. But in place with a shit ton of snow, a big fraction of the sunlight is reflected from the ground instead of being absorbed, which results in people there being actually exposed to more sunlight than people living in temperate regions.
I think I already mentioned my "Getting a sunburn in my nostrils on a glacier" anecdote, kek.
High protein diets are also supposed to have a correlation with higher melanin content, but I don't know what's the mechanism behind that.