#amachi

I intended for Takumi’s gray hair to be from Ikona’s side. It’s not an immediately noticeable detail in the portrait I drew for Ikona, but her hair is a red-silver gradient, with the silver tapering out at the ends.

The Amachi clan are predominantly redheads, but there’s some rare cases in the clan where some members were born silver from the lack of red in their hair. These few exceptions are expected to cover it up by dyeing their hair or wearing red head coverings. Everyone else in Hoshido finds this obsession with color coordination really, really weird.

Uncle Hisashi complains a lot about how Takumi won’t dye his hair, but Takumi finds the practice an absolute waste of time and also very taxing on his sensitive scalp. Hinoka, meanwhile, gets a lot of praise for supposedly being the spitting image of the Amachi clan’s founder, at least back when she had her long hair.