Hair contrast duo
I didn’t realise that I’ve fallen into this trope for a few years now with my choice of character duos. Apologies for the images-heavy post.
A pair of characters (either rivals, best friends, siblings, lovers, or an otherwise closely-related duo) are given contrasting hair colors to signify their opposing world-views. The hair colors are usually blond and black or dark brown, but it can just as well be red and black, or blond and blue — the important bit is the contrast. Their respective personalities are then typically defined as follows:
The fair-haired partner is the "good" one: younger, bright, hopeful, enthusiastic, naïve, helpful, innocent, tends to follow the rules.
The dark-haired partner is the "bad" one: older, moody, testy, serious, cynical, often relishes in Angst and their Dark and Troubled Past, tends to break the rules and snap.
The attributes are sometimes the opposite. Nevertheless, the result is always their chemistry reaches the highest level of compatibility it gets hot in the room.
Of course, there is always a grey area and the tropes aren’t that true. All the time. But still, these are references.
I was trying to clean my hard drive and these images pop up that I decided to give them a proper post I could remember all the time.
These pairs aren’t enough. They are the only ones on top of my head right now.
