this turned into a weird rant so I'm putting it behind the snip but not taking it down
what does it even mean when people say "you can see it in their eyes" about any personality trait (particularly, but not only, evil. or "deadness" when not literal. or "craziness" of course)
like, it can't be the face structure because that's permanent? but it can't be the pupil dilation because that's involuntary? so I guess it's the contraction of the muscles around the eyes? people just walk around with their eye muscles held in the evil position? dang, I hope I'm not doing that. I'm just trying to see things.
edit: I've thought about it some more and I think "deadness" is when your eyes don't move much, "craziness" is when your eyelids are very wide open, and "evil" is when you've already been caught doing something bad and some dingding wants to claim they "always knew" so they can keep their just world theory propped up on the idea that victims are incompetent at eye magic
