“A sinister feeling is in the air- Are you prepared for battle?”

    Yet again another instance where I completely ignore a canon design in favor of unnecessary details

(I’m not sure how much of a fandom Fossil Fighters has on this site but headcanons under the cut?)

Lester: Sure, I’d love to see Cole get punched.

Don Boneyard: Try again.

Lester: I will stop Cole from getting punched.

Without the aid of litres upon litres of hair dye, Dina is a brunette. However, ever since she was 11, she’s gone to a huge effort to maintain her bright orange hair. In part, it was inspired by the endless kpop CDs Uncle Stryker sent in from his South Korean office. (To this day, she‘s still furious as can be over 2NE1’s breakup, and can sing their entire oeuvre by heart.) However, the motive runs a little deeper than being a devout fangirl – for when she first dyed her hair, she’d just moved schools to escape bullying. Changing her appearance in that way was her attempt to reinvent herself. It worked – she’s been an artificial redhead for years.

However, when ZZ-as-Joe declared Dina a criminal, she realised that however effective a mask might be at obscuring her face, she’d need to go to further lengths to disguise herself sufficiently. Hence, she dropped the dye and cut her hair into a flapper bob. It wasn’t much, but it certainly rendered her less conspicuous. Meanwhile, as the media raged about her ‘betrayal’ and forged story upon story of her BB badness, debate broke out on Caliosteo. Rupert and Pauleen, when interviewed, had the gall and integrity to defend her and deny all claims of her wrongdoing. Although some took heart in their words, the majority scorned them for their presumed malevolence/foolishness. Rupert dug his feet in further – when he and Pauleen were next seen on camera, they both had a single lurid orange streak in their hair. (Marcus Harrison flew into a fit, of course.) Why? Solidarity for Dina, they asserted. Even before Dina’s return to Cranial to confront ZZ, many fighters poured their hearts out to her by dyeing a section of their hair orange.