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[poisonousflame]

[Oh hey, it's that insanely spiky-haired redhead again.]

This keeps coming up, so I've gotta ask.

[He points to his hair.]

On exactly how many of your worlds would this be considered unusual?

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[cmdr_renegade]

I've seen blue women, giant bugs that spit acid, and I've eaten purple monkey jerky and your hair is still bizarre.

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[poisonousflame]

[DOT FUCKING DOT.]

It's stranger than purple monkey jerky?

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[cmdr_renegade]

Yeah, it really is.

[PAUSE.]

To be fair, the monkey was only purple before it was jerky.

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[poisonousflame]

That's ... a little better. I guess.

[He scratches the back of his head.]

So, what makes it so weird? The color? The spikiness?

[notsoloyal]

[Hold on give him a second, he's thinking about all the information he's absorbed from television. BECAUSE IT IS A GOOD CULTURAL STUDY FORM. There's a lot of things that would be classified as "unusual" on television. So. What does classify as unusual?]

... Should it be?

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[poisonousflame]

Man, I don't know. No one ever thought it was 'til I got here.

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[notsoloyal]

It is just red. It is not that uncommon of a hair colour.

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[poisonousflame]

See? That's what I thought. I get that it's bright and all, but you'd think I'm flashing lights at people.

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[manipul8trix]

All trolls have 8lack hair.
Unless you're a poser douche8ag who dyes it like a complete fucking tool!
So I gueeeeeeeess you could say it's pretty unusual.
8ut no weirder than most of the aliens here, so whatever.

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[poisonousflame]

The color wasn't exactly run-of-the-mill where I'm from, either. But it didn't make people stop what they're doing to stare.

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[manipul8trix]

So people staring at you is a 8ad thing now?
Man. Just em8race it!
Work your freakishness. May8e put some ri88ons in your hair or something.
If people stare, it means you're getting allllllll of the attention.
Which in turn means you're doing it RIGHT! 8888D

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[poisonousflame]

[Quickly:]

I'm not putting ribbons in my hair.

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[a_perfect_end]

It's not that unusual. Are you a...[competitor Program] fighter, on your world? They tend to have--flashier avatars. Entertainment and interpreter matrices, too.

[Too srs about abandonment? Nevar.]

You're not alone. You're never alone.

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[poisonousflame]

Yeah, you could call me that. [No, he's not specifying which "that".]

[And wow, "never alone" sounds a little ominous. But is Axel letting that get to him? Nooope.]

Hair-wise, I'm starting to think I'm in a minority around here.

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[qcksilverspear]

A little I guess, yeah. [Hasn't ever really been too aware of hair or styles, but yeah, it is a little odd.]

video; wooooow wrong icon that first time

[poisonousflame]

Just a little bit, though?

["A little" is better than Shepard's take on it.]

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[qcksilverspear]

Well, people do strange things to hair, so the idea that someone had strange hair ... isn't really all that strange.

[Purple monkey jerky? Reallt??]

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[poisonousflame]

Guess that makes sense.

But you would call it "strange", huh?

[Axel was very 'whaaat'.]