do you have an inspo/reason for nemu's hairstyle(s)? they're sooo cool, almost sculptural!
YES i do thank you so much for asking saint!!!
i was really inspired by chinese (and i want to say specifically beijing? though i looked at a lot of peking images too just on duckduckgo image search) opera for her initialy hairstyle--i wanted to capture something as ostentatious as mayuri's headdresses but also keep it very nemu. since she specializes in hand-to-hand combat and she kept her hair in a braid as lieutenant, i think she'd want to maintain the practicality of keeping her hair out of her face but with a little more flair!!
The High Pony was actually inspired by another redesign I did, but for tales of the abyss--when I was doing an Anise-as-Fon-Master design, I wanted to keep the little hanging things that Ion had, but personalized to Anise's hair, and came up with The Big Tube. That was then further modified to be this big thing that Nemu's hair snakes into!
Her other hairstyles I've come up really are just a matter of practicality. I think Nemu likes having her hair up in some way shape or form and only has it loose in the direst of circumstances (see below). In my mind hair is Nemu's thing since it's something she can finally exercise control over (this is also why I have a lot of thoughts about how she dresses as captain).
Thank you so much for asking!! i heart nemu and i love making new hairstyles for her and thinking about why she'd wear it that way
