#(yes hello this post was written in January before my brain flipped out completely and I never posted it lmao)

[undead-potatoes]

I was messing around with Aurora in the character creator and clicking through all the hairs when I remembered an idea I've seen floating around fandom where Kressa cut Durge's long hair off if it was in her way, and now it's one of those brainworms that won't leave me alone.

Like I can't resist a good hair journey, and it would be kinda symbolic to have her old hair and look be cut away for a fresh start. I just love a dwarf with lots of hair, which is why Aurora originally has long, thick hair down to her ass, but it's awfully tempting to fuck her up just a little bit more post-tadpole.

I don't think it would be shaved all the way down, since that seems too neat and high effort w/o electrical clippers, so I'm imagining around jaw length, where her myriad of braids have been hastily cut off as they came loose from her head. That also feels slightly more fucked up to me in a way since it's so obviously a hack job and a possible violation, as opposed to a shaved head that could have been a deliberate choice she just can't remember.

Her beard is also a little different. Pre-cult she used to have a beard pretty similar to her post-tadpole one, but during her cult years she started shaving to make herself harder to recognize by anyone from her old life. That's why her beard is suddenly so short here too - it's only starting to grow in.

Hopefully someone at camp would be able to help her to something resembling an actual haircut, and then she'd just let both her hair and beard grow out over the months until the hair was long enough to braid.

This does obviously flip some of her aesthetic on its head, and I'm not sure what she'd so with her hair while it grew out (gimme some of that hair grease, Astarion).

I haven't decided on anything yet but I am rotating it around in my head like a yummy little rotisserie chicken.