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Which implicitly states that his distinctive hair-spikes are a deliberate style choice by Apollo. Like, every morning he goes to his bathroom mirror and styles his hair like that because he thinks it makes him a Cool Lawyer. (In contrast to Phoenix, when he gets insulted about his hair, he tends to mention stuff like shaving it. Implying that it is just the way it grows naturally)

However, in “Spirit of Justice” we get to see a childhood photo of Apollo… with little hairspikes. Back when he was a tiny kid living in the mountains and totally off-the-grid cause his adoptive dad is a wanted man. Hair gel was probably not a high priority back then. 

Hell, he had them as a LITERAL BABY

Plus, his half-sister Trucy also seems to have tiny hair-spikes under her hat. Implying they’re not only natural, but hereditary.

So that seems like a total contradiction, right? Well… I actually think these facts can work together pretty easily.

Because Trucy’s and Kid Apollo’s spikes are tiny. Kind of a far cry from Adult Apollo’s crest. Hell, when Datz Are'bal, who knew Apollo as a child, who literally saw that aforementioned kid photo every day, sees Apollo grown up for the first time - the first thing he does is point out how freakishly big his 'horns' have gotten! 

So I think the most likely thing going on here is that Apollo does have hair spikes naturally…. But roughly the same size he also had as a child. He uses hair gel to ‘enhance’ them to the size we see nowadays. 

I had a very strange conversation with a friend today. They asked me whether Tumblr user @klapollo was an alt blog of mine, even though that person has a completely different writing style to me, as well as being of a different age and using different pronouns. Apparently this friend of mine was not aware of how big Klapollo is as a ship. I ended up screenshotting the picture at the top of my phone app and pointing out that I don't think all of these 9.7 thousand people are me.

In honour of my confused friend, I would like to ask the following: