Reilith
Sage
This is a pretty straightforward one. I am interested to know what is your go to hair colour for your MCs, male or female; do you keep it simple or like to add in some crazy colours etc. Feel free to elaborate
Absolute garbage, I'm perplexed.
I think anything else (blue, white, whatever) is silly unless there's a specific in-universe reason for it. I'm curious as to where this "unusual hair color for the MC" convention comes from. I suspect cyberpunk and the punk subculture in general.
I guess it can come from any medium where hair colour does't have to be explained. Look at manga and anime for example. I love unusual colours, I've had almost all of the colours of the rainbow on my head, but in fantasy the farthest I'd go is deep red, coppery orange and silvery white. Unless we're talking WoW type of fantasy, which still needs some explaining.
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Most anime come from manga, which are usually published in weekly publications. The manga authors, to save time drawing the characters, usually had a few stock faces they used for all the characters and used the hair to tell them apart from one another.
I study Japanese language and culture, I know a lot, but this is interesting bit of information. I never considered from where they pulled the references for hair colours.But most manga is in black and white. The hairstyles tell them apart, not hair colors.
A lot of Western artists do that too. "Sameface syndrome", I've heard it refer to.
I'll stand by that technicolor hair is a punk carryover. I'm thinking anime artists back in the 80's wanted their work to appeal to younger people (teens mostly) so they give their characters "punk" hair. And that convention stuck so now it isn't even a matter of appealing to demographics.
Also, most anime is based on video games, not manga. And most anime is 13 to 26 episode straight-to-video or TV filler that never really makes it to the west (neither do the video games they're based on). The stuff that makes it to the west tends to be based on manga.
So, there's a little trivia for you.