Suggestion (runoff crowner 1/23/15): Expressive Hair

11.1 looks too much like Prehensile Hair to me. It looks like she could be consciously controlling it rather than it reacting to her emotional state. Or is could just be another bizarre anime hair style. The Spirited Away pics show her hair changing in emphasis to her being surprised by something. That's a better illustration in my mind.

edited 18th Jan '15 9:09:38 AM by nitrokitty

I agree. This isn't a trope about prehensile hair. I'd much prefer an image that doesn't involve pigtail emoticons.

That isnt what Prehensile Hair is about though, that is weaponized hair that at bare minimum grabs things.

quote from that page "Compare Expressive Hair, which is when a coif is more inclined to telegraph emotions than to strangle random passersby"

edited 18th Jan '15 9:58:06 AM by Memers

No, Prehensile Hair is Exactly What It Says on the Tin. Hair that is controlled as if it were an extra limb. It could be used for combat, but it doesn't have to be.

As of a few minutes ago, there were two options in the green but not at consensus level, and everything else was in the red. I've hooked a runoff between those two options and moved some of the suggestions to an Image Links page; please fill in the page with the rest of the suggestions that didn't make the original crowner.

Bump for votes...the Spirited Away pic is in the green but not at consensus. I really should've stipulated to not downvote anything unless you were dead-set against it since this is a runoff.

I am dead-set against the Mai-Otome, so no regrets here.

I am absolutely 300% dead set against Spirited Away one. It really is borderline misuse or so borderline that it will harm the trope as that is not what 99.999% of the examples of this trope looks like.

edited 28th Jan '15 12:08:14 AM by Memers

Really? How is it a misuse?

This trope is about hair being animated via emotions, not just hair standing on end / Goosebumps. These are like Ahoge reacting like Something Else Also Rises like the current page image or Ahoge's, a questionmark forming from hair as the character is confused or forming a heart to show love.◊ and we really need to show the actual trope not something almost completely different.

Man I wish I had found that image when this thread started... It's perfect.

edited 28th Jan '15 1:48:32 AM by Memers

"This trope is about hair being animated via emotions..."

No, that is only one flavor. It is hair standing on end.

edited 28th Jan '15 2:35:49 AM by rodneyAnonymous

Perhaps we should first get consensus what this trope is about. Looking through the examples, spiky/goosebump hair only makes up a tiny fraction, most of the examples deal with a non-violent version of Prehensile Hair. So the Spirited Away image is not really representative of how this trope is being perceived/used.

Those two options aren't mutually exclusive; it's just a matter of degree.

Technically, having someone's hair stick up on its end due to surprise/goosebumps fits the definition of it "moving to reflect one's mood".

No, it fits 'being moved..' not 'moving..' , which imo is the difference between this trope and not this trope.

edited 30th Jan '15 11:57:44 AM by GewoonDaan

Not really one is just a response to stimuli, visually looks like they were just shocked with electricity and only like 3 examples on the page are that. The other is hair used as a thought bubble and is used almost exclusively with pointy hair styles such as Ahoge and TwinTails, if they do not have that then it is just is not used, it is really a sub trope of those.

I mean seriously [1]◊ and [2]◊ are not the same and only the former is actually representative of the trope examples itself.

edited 30th Jan '15 11:16:03 AM by Memers

I actually like that first one, even though I have to tilt my head to read it.

Jeez, it is both. The description says it is both. I don't understand why that is unclear.

Trope description makes it very clear to me that it's not both. The trope description says literally that the hair moves independently. Hair standing on end, even if exaggerated, is caused by the muscles at the base of the hairs, so that's not independently.

I take the 'itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny muscles' referred to as being muscles in the hair, because otherwise simple goose bumps would qualify for this trope.

Exactly, they are not the trope.

Having Goosebumps is not this trope at all, It might be another trope but it certainly is not this.

Now I do not know where this one is from or I would try to get it bigger, I found it in a GIS searching for emotional Ahoges. ><

edited 31st Jan '15 7:48:25 PM by Memers

That is way more than goosebumps. It is very unrealistic.

That is the trope.

Hairs acting on its own expressing emotions of the person in question, almost exclusively used by pointy hair styles like Ahoges and Twintails. They will form shapes such as hearts◊, question marks, or exclamation points. They also spell things such as 'Kill' or 'serious◊'.

edited 1st Feb '15 3:26:29 AM by Memers

I mean the Spirited Away image is unrealistic, it is way more than goosebumps.

edited 1st Feb '15 3:20:57 AM by rodneyAnonymous

It really is not, that kind of thing can be done in real life, google Hair Standing On End.

And it can also be done quite easily with just a tiny bit of static electricity, she could just be literally shocked. [1]◊

Anyway its still not quite this trope, There is a trope missing here! and that image would be perfect for it but not THIS trope.

edited 1st Feb '15 3:34:17 AM by Memers

The ponytail hairs stick out. That isn't possible.

Oh I meant it's not possible for emotion to cause that. Electricity? Come on... red paint might cause it too.

edited 1st Feb '15 3:34:46 AM by rodneyAnonymous