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by mattwad 4288 days ago
It seems mean to give her a transparent skull, if that's the final product! I mean, it's pretty cool but not if you want to feel "normal" :)
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I'd like to think they preserved her scalp / kept it in circulation and returned it to its position, but I have no idea if skin can be kept alive across this surface. Maybe that's what those holes in the printed piece are about, though? Or are you concerned that even with skin on top it'd alter the appearance due to different subsurface scattering?

Edit: Some additional info (note the English captions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXcz3OdHSHk

Yeah, I'd be incredibly shocked if they didn't preserve the scalp.

On the other hand, if she did have an exposed skull, I think there's like half a century or more of media which says you pretty much have to leave it transparent. You can always wear a wig or a baseball cap, but how else will people know you as an incredible (evil) super-genius without the exposed brain?

The obvious counter-argument is you couldn't walk in bright sunlight. Beam of light at the wrong angle...

Then again that's probably why supervillains have dark lairs.

Neither she nor anybody else is going to routinely see her skull, so I don't understand why you think it would make her feel abnormal any more than an opaque one would.