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FIRST NAME BASIS?! SCANDAL!!

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Prof. Crane teaching at Gotham University, 1991

I imagine pictures of him are scarce from this time as he was camera shy (though he'd never admit that) and preferred his academic titles and research papers to speak for themselves. Later in his criminal career, he avoids being unmasked around the camera to keep up the mystery and fear surrounding him.

This mundane image is the one they plaster over every shoddy poorly researched 'Scarecrow' documentary, much to his disdain lol

unfiltered art under the cut:

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Cedric's gray bangs: because of the potion or because of stress?

I see many people talking about why did Cedric's bangs turned white after the sorceress ball incident. Many people say it's because of stress. But is that a fact or just a known theory?

Many of us know that before the sorceress ball incident, Cedric had dark brown hair just like his mother. His younger self shown like this in some scenes and also in a painting that's still in the Enchancia castle's library. His sister had a slightly lighter tone of brown in her hair.

In the sorceress ball (Cordelia's big sorceress event and her birthday party), Cordelia used a small gray potion to make a hairstyle. It had hair-related magic. (Cordelia said the magic words "tresses updo-o")

we know that Cordelia asked Cedric to perform a spell for her entrance, and they suggested making a cloud of smoke to cause an impression. The potion (Cedric called it "smoxeum") made a purple smoke at first, when it was working well, but after Cordelia accidentally spilled the "tresses updo-o" in the "smoxeum" potion, the smoke turned gray.

Something that is relevant to mention is that after the gray smoke, Cordelia's hair was turned gray. Of course, she lost most of her hair, but the most likely reason for her losing most of her hair it's because of the amount of magic from the potion that fell on her. Cedric threw the smoke potion on her, so the magic mainly affected her.

Right after that, Cedric runs out of the curtains and goes to his sister. He is the closest one to Cordelia right after the potion was used, so I believe that the droplets were still falling. He approached too fast because he cared for his sister. All the people in the ball were far from them and the smoke.

But the smoke was already fading (it faded very quickly) and wasn't directly thrown at Cedric, so the effects it had on him were very small, staining only his bangs. When he reached Cordelia the smoke was already gone, but it had just happened. You know how smoke is, even if it fades, it stays in the air for some minutes, you can still smell it. And this is magic smoke, who knows how it works?

Valid point to make: Cedric walked towards her, so if there was still any smoke still hanging in the air, it would have hit his face first. The front. Of his hair. Coincidently. Not the back, probably not the sides, the front first. Before the magic disappeared.

Most of the potion was thrown directly on Cordelia but when Cedric arrived most of it was gone so the effects on him were small. Try to think of the potion as a boiling liquid, for example. If most of it is spilled on one person, that person will be the one who gets burned the most, but if small drops fall on people around them, they may get hurt too, even if less. The person who gets the most of the boiling liquid may get severe burns, while those who only get a few drops will get milder burns. I believe that something similar happened to Cedric and Cordelia.

After Cordelia's hair was damaged and turned grey, Cedric's hair was brown for small moments, while he panicked due to other people's judgement, and while he tried to help Cordelia and undo the effects of the potion. But that's something to take into consideration, he tried to fix his sister's hair with magic. This time the magic was done with his hands and magic words, not with any smoke, powder or anything similar. So differently from the potion, the spell was directed towards her and no substance would reach anyone, since there wasn't any. So no one would be affected by any smoke hanging in the air, or any liquid, or powder. Since the spell was aimed at Cordelia and because she was still, it only affected her. It didn't helped much. Her hair turned green and Cordelia ran to their father, Goodwyn.

What I want to highlight here is the fact that the spell, differently from the smoke in the air, was directly aimed at her and she was still so the spell struck her. Cedric didn't do the spell to himself or else his hair would also turn green.

Again, after Cordelia's hair was damaged and turned grey, Cedric's hair was brown for small moments. He tried to help Cordelia, and when he made it worse and Cordelia ran to Goodwyn, Cedric panicked due to other people's judgement, and when the camera focused on him again, his bangs were simply shown gray.

My theory is that his hair changed color slower than Cordelia's, again, because of the amount of magic that affected him. Cedric got there later than her, and his front reached first because he was walking ahead, and this is why only the bangs were affected. Maybe the spell was starting to fade when he reached her, and again the potion wasn't thrown directly at him, so it took some time to change, but it did. If Cedric had went to her just some seconds earlier they both could be matching. Or if Cedric went some seconds later, his hair would probably still be fully brown to this day. It was a matter of seconds, the amount of magic he was exposed to, the part of his body that reached the smoke first, everything contributed to that. And Cordelia's hair only turned green because he did a spell on her, but he never did the spell on himself, so his hair never got green like hers.

I believe that because of the time it took to change color (some seconds, compared to Cordelia), and because it was right after he was being publicly judged, most of the people in the fandom say that his hair turned gray because of stress. Despite being true that a person's hair can become gray due to a lot of stress, the process takes more time than just mere seconds to happen, and the stress has to be constant. Also, the stress will affect random folicles, not just ones in a specific area, like the bangs, or the side, or the back. It's not magic (pun intended). It's humanly impossible to change hair color in five seconds, specially if the cause is stress. Some research is being done and some fonts also claim that the popular knowledge about stress turning hair gray is even false, but I can't confirm any of that.

Here is an image I made, because images make anything easier to understand:

Recapping the order of events (the highlighted texts are important markings):

The potions were mixed

Cedric threw the potion on Cordelia

Cordelia's hair turned gray

Cedric, still with brown hair, approached her right after the smoke faded, so he was exposed to the potion still lingering in the air

Still with brown hair, he tried to undo the spell, but it was from incantation and not potion, so as long as she was still, it wouldn't affect anyone else like the potion would/did. He didn't aimed the spell at himself or else his hair would also be green by now

Cordelia's hair turned green because of his spell

Cedric panicked, and then HIS hair turned gray, slower than hers due to the amount of exposition

Something that is also valid to mention: Cedric's hair stain was very small, and at the front of his bangs, when he was a child. When he's an adult in present years in Sofia The First, his bangs are fully gray.

Cedric's teenage form is shown in the song "My Evil Dreams" for a small moment and it's clear that his teenage self had already the bangs fully stained gray like his adult self, they were just bigger. But that's just a haircut preference. His natural hair also was brown as a child and black after the teenage years, but this happens with many people, hair gets darker or lighter over time. When he was a child the stains even looked too white compared to his full gray bangs as an adult. Maybe it just got mixed with hair turning actually gray due to stress and age.

The reasons for his white stain getting bigger are unknown. At first I imagined if it had something to do with the slow time it took to appear at the sorceress ball, and I considered that in his case the spell acted slower and over time the gray took some more space and then stopped when it reached it's full form. But I'm not really sure of that, since the front of his bangs turning gray in Cordelia's sorceress ball was slow, in theory, because of the amount of smoke, (and it was quite fast considering it happened in seconds). The spell wouldn't take years to fully affect the part of the hair it reached, the smoke did it's work very fast!

Maybe Cedric/Winifred/Goodwyn tried to revert it again and again and the magic ended up damaging more of the hair, turning the whole bangs grey. But we can't know for sure. Maybe the spell just expanded for any reason.

In the end of the episode "Though The Looking Back Glass", the characters discover how to fix Cordelia's hair. Instead of making a potion, or another smoke potion, Cedric waves his wand and says the incantation "mixed-up potions, mistaken brew, grow my sister's hair anew!" (Which is silly because no ingredients or potions were required, just some silly words like "undo the spell right now!!" and it did lmao why didn't the characters thought of it before). What I want to focus on is the fact that he changed Cordelia's hair back, but not his. The spell was for her, but he stayed with his gray bangs. Maybe Cedric stopped being ashamed of them and accepted that trait as part of himself, finally. He could have got rid of them but he didn't wanted to, and I think that's beautiful.

The Sofia The First directors also said that his hair was inspired by Cruella's and it was a design choice. I believe that taking this trait from him would really look weird in the show. Cedric with plain black hair doesn't match him.

Final considerations: I love his gray bangs I hope he's never changed

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it was not on wheat...

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Phantom of the Paradise (1974) dir. Brian De Palma

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sorry if this is controversial but if you’re rude to cashiers i think you should. idk. Explode

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lambs running through the wild garlic

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“I am looking respectfully” “im so normal about this” can you bark actually? Can you hit yourself over the head w a frying pan like a cartoon wolf? Can you look at it derangedly please?

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I kinda love everyone freaking out about actually being able to see a band's singer sing!

Ghost makes you appreciate the little things XD

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I dropped everything to draw our sleep paralysis papa-

I'm not okay.

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LACHRYMA

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The V in Papa V Perpetua stands for vampire 🧛🏻

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They're just hanging out