What a frigid day, with sudden snow even though the weather said 0-10% precipitation max. Since it’s so cold, we’ll take a shallow glance at something warm: character design for Franz, one of our romantic partners.

One of the design questions we had to tackle was: Should we give the characters wacky anime-style hair (color, style)?

Originally, the answer was no. Our characters are NORMAL and RELATABLE, and people probably weren’t dyeing their hair hot pink or electric blue in the medieval age. However, Dovah loves to refer to characters by their hair color, so the question came up again, and we decided that it would be fine to have colorful hair.

Franz. Here’s his character description: Male, 25 years, 6’4, _____ hair somewhat cropped, tanned, traditionally masculine features with defined jaw, light stubble, dark brow, green eyes.

What color should his hair be??

I said YELLOW. Because the Franz in Gankutsuou has yellow hair. If you haven’t yet seen Gankutsuou, it’s great. Adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo, the textures they use are gorgeous…a really unique art style. But back to our Franz, Dovah said DEFINITELY NO. Because our MC is Blond, and yellow for Franz is apparently the same thing as Blond. Hmph. Another reason for NO to YELLOW hair was that Franz was definitely not a ganguro.

^Franz’s hair?

This conversation spilled over into our Discord, and someone asked “what’s wrong with ganguro?”

Someone else then decided to post images of ganguro-styled people that were, let’s say, over the top. The original asker kowtowed and begged for them to stop. The person posting images then asked: You tell me…what’s wrong with a ganguro?

Now, ganguro done right can be downright beautiful, but just like anything in life, if you go to the extremes, things start to head into the Disaster Zone.

Franz is now the very boring color of BROWN hair.

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