Fifth floor common room [Tuesday afternoon]

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It had been snowing and Four was from a place where snow was, you know, normal. So he'd gone out on a nice, normal run (because he was a nice, normal guy) and had run into Fandom and all of its color-spattering evil snow glory.

Which explained why his pants and hair was a few different colors and his shirt was gone (and he had a red splash on the back of his neck where a snowflake had made it down his sweatshirt).

He was making hot chocolate to deal with the chill. Laundry would come next.

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"Wow, what happened to you?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow when he came upon Four, decked out in different colors and missing one shirt. He obviously hadn't been outside yet.

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"You too?"

It was probably pretty easy to guess what had happened to Rapunzel, given that her hair -- all seventy feet of it -- was less blonde today and more...multicolored.

Silly her, thinking it'd be fun to go play in the snow.

[not_every_mage]

Anders had decided to buy breakfast in town that morning, and had been rewarded for his troubles with neon green splotches discoloring his hair, cloak and hands. The cloak had been dropped in his laundry pile, and the blotches on his hands faded with soap and hot water, but the hair was a different matter.

"I'd take rain over this any day," he announced as he entered the common room and saw the others who were similarly tinted.

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"You slept inside?" Anders checked -- looking the slightest bit sour because he had neon green-spotted hair now and had hoped, in the best way possible, that Nathan at least would share the misery. "Lucky you. Hi."

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"It's going to take ages to wash this out, isn't it?" Anders sighed, running a hand over his own green-splotched hair. "Maybe I'll shave my head. Not that that helps you much."

(Or that he would actually shave his head, for that matter. His ponytail was a bit of a security blanket.)

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"I did," Nathan said, trying to suppress a grin at seeing the green in Anders' hair. He did reach up and lightly tap one spot that he saw. "How did this happen? Rolling around in the grass?"

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"Yeah, I can't do that," Rapunzel sighed. "I mean, I can, but -- you know. But I bet it'll wash out! And you shouldn't shave your head, Anders, it'll be cold all winter."

Because apparently hats weren't an option.

[not_every_mage]

There was a Fereldans-and-dogs joke to be made on the suggestion about rolling in the grass, but it would have been wasted since Anders didn't think Nathan knew the sterotype to start with. He rolled his eyes a bit instead.

"No, it's the blighted snow," he sighed. "Don't ask me how, but it's streaking things with all kinds of paint. You'd be rainbow-colored if you'd stayed out."

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"I could do heat spells to keep it warm," Anders argued, because apparently he'd never heard of a hat either. "Of course, that'd be more tempting if I didn't like my hair. I'll just hope it washes."

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"Do you think it'll come out in the shower?" he asked, snickering quietly. "It doesn't look terrible, though. Maybe I'll go out a little later and see if I can get anything lighter colored in my hair."

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"I hope it'll wash, or else I'll have to shave my head," said Anders, who in reality would likely live with green hair for years before he did any such thing. "And -- on purpose? Well, if you do I'd like to see."

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"Shave your head?" Nathan asked, raising an eyebrow. "You'd look...well, interesting."

He tried to picture it in his head.

"Your head would get cold. And if the snow kept up like this, your whole head would end up covered instead of just bits of hair."

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"I think the word you're looking for is 'bald,'" Anders said, with a laugh in his voice as he tried to imagine it. "You're right, though. Bald and with a blue-and-green tinted scalp probably isn't the best look for -- well, for anyone. But you have to admit it'd be interesting."

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"Would it ever be something you seriously did?" Nathan wondered curiously. "Maybe if you got...gum in your hair?"

[notconflicted]

The problem with having an energetic dog that needed to be walked was that when Fandom decided to be weird with the weather, Sia got to deal with it. And of course the most prominent of the coloring seemed to be focused on the normally-white streak in her head.

"Fandom," she said, because really, that was all there was to it.

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"Maybe if there was so much gum that snipping it out would look worse," Anders said, equally thoughtful. "Or if the only way to survive was by blending in with some head-shaving cult. Not otherwise, I don't think. Why, would you?"

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"I don't think so," he said, rubbing a hand through his hair. "Not without a very good reason. But, I don't think I'd grow it longer either."

He paused.

"Though, a shaved head would make it harder for people to...grab my hair if they were chasing me."

Sad he had to think about that.

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"Mine does make grabbing a little easier," Anders admitted grimly, with a possessive pat of his ponytail. "But probably I'd lose anyhow if someone was already that close."

He couldn't imagine cutting his hair much shorter than his jaw; it would just be wrong.

"I can picture you with longer hair more easily than with a shaved head," he added. "But it suits you the length it is."

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Nathan ran another hand through his hair.

"I think it'd tickle my neck if it were too much longer," he said thoughtfully, patting the back of his neck. "If I get a hair there or something touches me there, it makes me shiver."

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"But won't that get tiring, having to do that all the time?" Rapunzel wondered, frowning a little. "But I'm sure it washes. If it doesn't, at least we have plenty of company?"

Because Four looked like he'd gotten it as bad as they had, even if his hair wasn't quite so substantial as some.

[not_every_mage]

Anders eyed him slowly. "Good shiver or bad shiver?"

He would have tested instead of asking, but, well, Rapunzel. And Four.

[not_every_mage]

"Not if I didn't stay outside for too long," Anders argued. (Yes, he would get tired.) "But you're right about poor Four -- and probably some other people by now. By the end of the day the dorms are going to look like a box of paints exploded all over us."

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"It's snowing paint," Four said dryly. "Very festive."

Said the guy who only wore black. Ever. He was not thrilled.

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Four's eyes went wide at her hair. "That's going to be like that until New Year's, huh."

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"Me too," Four said. "Need some cocoa, or are we going to have to duel for the washers?"