2025-08-06 1:35:10 ¶ ●

Personally I headcanon Gerard Keay’s natural hair color to be red, but I have thought about what Gerard might have thought about his natural hair color and those thoughts can’t be restrained by just one color. So here’s some little snippet’s about Gerry and his hair:

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————————————————————————–Gerry has always hated his red hair. It attaches the color Mary taught him from a young age meant “blood” and “violence” to his very being, and that’s reason alone for him to find it distasteful.

Yet, the reason he find’s his hair so distasteful is the same reason that makes applying his hair dye so powerful. With just a box of color he can cover up the color most associated with his Mother. Making him his own even if it’s just in a metaphorical way.

He tries not to think too hard about the fact that the red never seems to cover completely.

————————————————————————–Gerry has always hated his blonde hair. It’s far too bright, far too cheery, and far too contrasting with the dark aesthetic he claims as his own. Given his string of luck he guesses he shouldn’t be surprised that he’s never managed to get rid of it completely. His light roots still peak out through the black dye of his hair. In the same way his light still shine’s no matter how much his dark world tries to cover it.

The color is a bit more enduring when he thinks about it that way. But he still refuses to like it on gothic principal.

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Gerard has always found his hair color annoying. It’s a light black shade that’s barely not dark enough to blend in with his style. It’s like when he accidentally wears two different shades of black on his shirt and on his pants. It’s just obnoxious enough to grate on his nerves. He wants to have the shade of a raven, not a crow.

Not to mention the way it somehow never manages to be fully covered by dye. Despite the fact that it’s only a shade or two lighter.

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Gerard has many complicated feelings about his hair. Though it’s not the color he feels odd about. The brown color is a nice neutral shade that reminds him of clay used to sculpt or the dirt under his palms after a close encounter with a fear that reminds him he’s still alive with the Earth.

It’s a nice color. But he just can’t move past the way his stomach flips when he remembers that he has the exact hair color as the Father he’s only seen in photo.

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Gerard isn’t surprised that his hair has started going grey so early. He’s had a short yet stressful life that has left many lasting imprints on his appearance. He notices the eye bags, and the stress lines, and scars. But the thing that gets commented on most is his silver hair that throws off people’s guess of his age range.

It was a relief to dye his hair for the first time and find that the comments died the second he applied the black dye….and resurrected in the form of everyone commenting on his bad dye job.