🖊+ OC + hair! Idk;;;;; (dusked-arcane)
HELLO YOU HAVE STUMBLED UPON A TOPIC ABOUT WHICH I HAVE FEELINGS. time to ramble about my kids and their adventures in dramatic, ill-advised hairstyle changes.
hanami’s natural hair color is brown, but started dyeing her hair pink when she was like...thirteen. both of her mothers dye their hair (maki has purple highlights, shomi’s whole head looks like an orange creamcicle) and her older brother had red streaks in his hair, so it became a family tradition! she kept dyeing it until she was in her 30s; she stripped most of the pink out right before she and the scions sailed to kugane, both because she...really didn’t want to keep up with it anymore and because she didn’t really want to draw all of the attention that looking like a walking stick of bubblegum gets you. she still does double takes when walking past mirrors because it’s so weird seeing her natural hair. she cut her hair very short, very suddenly, after the prisoner exchange in doma; she’s never actually told anyone why but the general impression people get is that she was grieving and possibly a little drunk and did something stupid. she regretted it at first, but has since discovered that short hair is much easier to take care of.
haruki’s natural hair is black, but he dyes it a truly eye-searing shade of teal; unlike his sister he has no intention of going back to black, because he enjoys looking like a peacock threw up on him. he also keeps it in solidarity with a’dewah, who has some Hair Trauma.
elysa kept her hair long until the night that ala mhigo was liberated, at which point she chopped it off up to her chin--not for any particularly dramatic reason, she just did it on a dare from one of her squadmates. her new hairstyle does show off her clan mark on her cheek that she had covered up with her bangs previously, but she doesn’t mind.
and finally, the good captain yashtavi (my starfinder character) dyes her hair a nauseating shade of magenta, and prides herself on doing a terrible job. she likes to cultivate an aura of chaos and irreverence--intentional rips in her clothing, messy day-before makeup--which also means she fries her hair when she bleaches it and doesn’t try to do anything to fix it. the most ideal reaction she can get from a person meeting her for the first time is a quiet, horrified “what the fuck.” her dedication to her disaster hair actually saved her life, once; she and her crew were staying in a spaceport right on the edge of azlanti imperial territory, and azlanti spies hacked the sleeping pods they’d been given so that they would be trapped inside and have all the air vacuumed out. but the pods were high-end, and came with personal grooming services, so tavi opted to sleep on a chair instead of letting a robot try and mess with her hair, which meant she didn’t even know about the assassination attempt until the next morning. (it wouldn’t have killed her anyway; she’s got about a dozen ways to keep herself alive in a vacuum, and even more ways to break open a sealed pod.)
