Why did he have the strangest feeling he might regret this....

But he was hardly about to back out of anything now; good judgement or poor, Emet-Selch was committed to the path ahead of him, and that path apparently involved getting designs painted on him.

Blue was a favorable color at least, for all that you'd be hard-pressed to tell, given his continued apparent mood, particularly in response to that smile. "So long as it looks roughly like what everyone else is bearing, I have no particular interest in the design."

A dangerous amount of freedom given, perhaps, but he is undaunted.