SIde note I also had issues trying to remove slightly pointed ears - standard said "but so and so already has slightly pointed ears!" and original did absolutely nothing.

The character I shifted didn't want to cause a fuss and said it was no big deal. He was one of the new ones, and wanted a simpler look. I'm -pretty- sure I've shifted other new model characters to absent without any problem, and I know I've changed the look just fine. And you're right original would be original, but I used eye shape absent.

My Empath is still a little smallish and sort of new to shifting. If you happen to fail a shift you feel the link slip away, right? Or can you fail to even notice it fall?

Ok, did a little more testing and it seems that new character manager Elotheans have somewhat buggy eyes. It's worked fine on new manager S'kra, leaving their eyes slitted and with an absent shape, also fine with older Elotheans, ending up with thick-lashed almond-shaped eyes.

We started off with tilted almond-shaped silver eyes, had a couple Empaths try to shift them absent with all the proper sucess messages but no change. Tried shifting other areas and they worked fine. When I tried changing the eye shape to thick-lashed, it worked but did away with both the tilted and the almond-shaped part. After this, I could shift her to have just silver eyes, which I don't think is right for an Elothean. I put the almond-shaped back on her after the fact, and it did accomplish the goal of getting rid of the tilted part, but there were a few hoops to jump through to get there that seem pretty unrelated.

I assisted IG and was told it was probably a quirk and to post and see if maybe Melete had any better info.