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{{quote|''With her deep tan and her curly blond hair, [Annabeth] was almost exactly what I thought a stereotypical California girl would look like, except her eyes ruined the image. They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight.''
|'''Percy Jackson''', ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|The Lightning Thief]]''}}
{{color|gray| '''Gray eyes'''}} tend to reflect inner calm and strength and often hint at healing powers. They are the color of metal and stone and are associated with coolness, resilience, and stillness. This comes in several varieties:
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* Pulp heroes tended to have blue-gray eyes—blue to indicate their heroic nature, steely gray when they were angry or determined.
** Playing off this (the Kinnisons from the [[Lensman]] series and the Carters—either [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s Randolph Carter or [[Edgar Rice Burroughs]]' John Carter, or both—are explicitly mentioned), [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[War of the Dreaming]]'' has gray eyes as a sign of [[King Arthur]]'s line.
* Since stoicism is the norm for heroes in the Tolkien universe, gray eyes (said to be a [[In the Blood|racial trait]] of, among others, the [[The Beautiful Elite|Noldor elves and the Númenoreans]]) take up a very large chunk of the ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' goodie population. The fact that Tolkien's beloved wife Edith was gray-eyed was probably also pertinent.
** A chunk so large, in fact, that Samwise Gamgee is possibly the ''only'' goodie who is detailed to have anything else (brown, in his case, probably because working-class Sam is closer to Earth.)
* From ''[[Harry Potter]]'':
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* The Regional Fairies who [[Metamorphosis|become humans]] in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' have gray eyes as a sign of their origin. They're strong-willed, but hardly cold or unapproachable (and certainly not stoic), varying in their personalities between smiling tricksters and borderline-psychotic [[Tsundere]]s.
* In ''[[Drowtales]]'', members of the [https://web.archive.org/web/20091231074004/http://drowtales.com/~wiki/index.php/Val%27Beldrobbaen Val'Beldrobbaen] clan often have gray eyes. They have a [[Goth]]-like attitude.
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* ''[[Homestuck]]'': the [[Troll]] race as a whole has gray eyes in childhood, and maybe two or three of the twelve child trolls encountered in the story are even vaguely calm. They look like [[Eyes of Gold]] most of the time, though, as the whites of their eyes are yellow, so you can only see the gray irises under [[Art Shift]] conditions. As they mature, the irises fill out with the [[Alien Blood|troll's blood colour]].
* In ''[[Ears for Elves]]'', Kanryl's pale gray eyes show that he's somewhat cold and aloof, often alone except for his animals. The artist exploits their piercing quality by having his face on the "donate" button!
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