Quote Originally Posted by blueruckus View Post
Here's the problem with black and white.

White is easy. You just add a lot of the LIGHTENS color fruits. Snow White on the RGB scale is all + all RGB and there isn't another dye color anywhere near it.

Soot Black, however, isn't a true true black so it isn't as easy as just "MINUS ALL THE COLORS!!". Ink Blue, Deepwood Green, and Kobold Brown are all in the same value range as Soot Black, where Ink Blue is actually the lowest in terms of RGB value (which is why it actually looks darker than Soot Black). Another difficult part of obtaining Soot Black is that while the LIGHTEN snacks all do +color, the DEEPEN snacks do what seems to be + primary color and - on the other 2. So it's a more complex balancing act in comparison to going White.
This is right... kinda. Just like the DEEPEN'er fruits that give + to one color and - to the other two colors, the LIGHTEN'er fruit works as its polor opposite.

If you go by color values, Ink Blue is indeed deeper than Soot black in terms of values being closer to zero. To achieve Soot Black, you'd need to feed the Chocobo a number off all three Deepen'er fruits (that give + to one color, and - to the other two). That will transform your bird into the Ink Blue, which then you'd need to feed it a very few trio of the Lighten'er fruits, which will raise all the values evenly up to the values which match closer to Soot Black.