Significant day-to-day impact of having eyes on palms of hands?
I'm creating a world my protagonist will visit with humanoid inhabitants that have a peculiar feature: their eye sockets are in the palms of their hands, not unlike the Pale Man Pan's Labyrinth.
The big difference is that they are not evil. They are regular people in a regular society just like humans, except they have this one distinct feature.
What are some unique differences in day-to-day living they would experience?
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Hands are now useless.
We use our hands to carry lots of things. This generally involves curling our fingers around something, which in turn blocks the palms of our hands.
If we had eyes on our palms, they would be blocked whenever we need to use our hands for something. Meaning that we wouldn't be able to see. This is not something that is acceptable. Therefore, these people will have to significantly reduce the amounts of things they do with their hands.
I prefer to see when I drive a car. Not being able to see generally leads to people dying.
Image taken out of context from A Double Shot of Recovery, a blog that's completely unrelated and was only found by me ~30 seconds before adding this picture.
You can either give up using your hands or give up vision. The choice is yours.
Random other things I thought of later
- Injuries to hands (e.g. burning, lopped of limbs) would severely hurt or blind eyes
- Your hands may be more sensitive, because of more nerves in the area (just a guess)
- It's much easier to get dirt, dust, etc. in your eyes
- Glasses are much harder to wear (are monocles all the rage now?)
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