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hannahchronism · 7 years

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Now That’s What I Call Visual Character Development™ (pls full view)

I couldn’t stop thinking about that hair dye(ing) post I made and I couldn’t sleep so I was warming up with some sketches and.. then this happened. The focus was (obviously) on her hair but you can see some other changes as time moved and idk I just really like how this turned out??

Some (and by “some” I mean “a lot of”) thoughts & notes about the colors/styles under the cut!

1. This is (roughly) immediate post-escape, just her natural color but dull (and really it should be duller but..i love..bright colors) because she spent literally four years inside and didn’t exactly have good nutrition or a way to take of herself at all. It was probably kept around this length just to keep it from being intrusive (although she’s probably lucky they didn’t just shave it off tbh.)

2. The original Tech design, ladies and gentlemen. If you go find my dA (which like..pls don’t lmao) you can find evidence of my very early tablet days, and my very bad art of Tech with this hair. Speaking story-wise, this was Tech’s first steps into embracing that Killjoy Aesthetic, which happened about a month and a half after she hit the sand. It was when she was living with the traders -Keeper actually helped her dye it uwu- and so it was... sort of a right of passage? Her first hair dying was also right around when she picked up the name Magpie and it was all just very find-yourself-in-the-chaos kind of thing. This is also when she discovered makeup and had just no idea what to do with it. Lots of dark eyeliner and bright eye shadow happened in this phase. In copious amounts. (Also that sunburn, what a baby, she was a zone baby) This hair lasted for a good while until

3. The infamous, lasted-forever-beause-I-Kinda-forgot-I-did-it pink hair. It was actually an in-RP thing, where Tech was feeling restless and wanted to do something “crazy” and well.. she sure did this. I don’t think I’d call it crazy, but she did it. While it was -obviously- impulsive I think it was kind of also a really neat thing because it sort of reflected a point of change for her (it wa actually roughly around the time I was really starting to RP with y’all instead of my old group -if you go find the post where she dyed it in the archive, you can see her introducing herself to Mouse on like the same day !) And after that it sort of entered limbo because I got so wrapped up in writing I low key forgot about it which leads to

4. The grown-out, faded pink. It was never a like, directly addressed thing, but I do know I intentionally grew her hair out here, and she probably didn’t keep re-doing the pink or dye over it, so it stands to reason she ended up with something like this which I think looks really cute. Hippie Tech. Again, it wasn’t so much of a totally intentional thing, but it’s neat because at this point she was kind of in a good gear of growth. She had a lot of support and was starting to strike out on her own. She made a lot of dumb mistakes but also she was learning from them. Starting to figure herself out, y’know? And all during this her hair was getting longer and showing her old (true) colors and.. I dunno, it’s just sort of a fun visual storytelling thing. And it probably stayed like this all the way up to until when I went evil and decided to dump her in reeducation.

5. The Re-Ed chop & dye, and the point where she lost those signature scars and..well, a good bit of her mind and a greater bit of all that growth. She was figuring herself out and they stripped it right out of her head and right off of her skin. I mean, speaks for itself, right?

6. the Muddy Green of Instability. This is a shade she went to..I wanna say about two, maybe three months after she got back out into the desert? I have a love/hate relationship with this hair. It’s really cool cause it’s a kind of callback/parallel to her first hair-escapade, where she found herself tossed into the chaos of desert life with so much confusion and newness and she just. was trying so hard to find her place in it. I hate it though because it’s not like, a choice choice of hers. It wasn’t about being bright or identifying herself it was just that she could not stand having the brown anymore. She dyed it literally the first color she could get her hands on, and I’m half convinced she only got ahold of it so easy because nobody else wanted it. It could arguably be the same brand/color she put in her hair the first time, too, but she was so impatient and out of it she really she dumped it on her head without prep, so it came out really muddled and dark and blegh.

7. Another fun parallel, she went pink again around the time she was working out all the ways her broken memories fit together. Like the first time, the pink was a time of growth (though, this time around, she did keep her hair on the shorter side.) It started to even back out and it didn’t look like the way BLI cut it but it wasn’t her old look either. Something both new and old as she tried to blend the trauma and the “old her” into something that felt right. This is also, as you might be able to see, when she got stupid drunk and let Viv peirce her nose.

8.Current (give or take a centimeter of roots) and she’s got it all pretty decently worked out, probably. In any case, she has her memory back, and she knows what she likes and who she loves, and that seems like a pretty solid foundation of an identity. She’ll figure the rest of it out eventually bit by bit (one silver flash drive at a time.)

#tech #my art

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