So I was up late one night and I recalled the one prompt that was like "AU in which the world is black and white until you meet your soulmate" And I thought of Snakus. SO HAVE SOME SNAKUS.
Samus Aran was born not being able to see any colors but dull shades of black, grey, and white. Her family didn't freak out, of course. It was normal. But what frustrated the young girl at the time was how even after hours of her parents trying to explain the bright 'blonde' of her hair, the 'brownish color' of dirt, or the 'dark green' color of the forest.
At times, she would lay on her bed when her parents thought she was asleep and try to use all the willpower in her mind to just imagine what 'refreshing blue' looked like, only for her mind to result in the same greys, blacks, and whites she saw daily. She would groan into her sheets in annoyance, and then eventually sleep.
But that didn't matter after the turning point of her life. When Ridley and the space pirates had attacked, leaving her the only living person in the dark, cruel world her homeland had become. She had shivered under the derbies she had tucked her 5-year old self under, when a faint light had greeted her face.
The Chozo had been kind to rescue her, even kinder to teach her all she had learned. She had grown from accepting their help because it was the only thing she could do to accepting it gladly, willingly going through training that would usually be refused out of pain and tiredness of a normal human.
And during the time she was trained and later fighting space pirates, there was no time to worry about color.
So yeah... That was the intro. She was five when she was attacked here, probrobly old enough to think and comprehend certain things.