#he looks more 'anime' than 'dracula expy' here. im hoping his bangs look better from the front because stars above it feels Off

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when the remake trailer with vincent first dropped, i saw a surprising number of people complain about the length of vincents hair? (not a lot, but enough to be noticeable and memorable)

and dont get me wrong, i also feel like vincents hair should be longer, but i didnt expect it to be in the remake, because its been roughly this length in every official installment of ffvii?

as you can see here, even in the original official art, his hair really isnt even that long in the OG, he just has. kinda weird proportions? i think people may have just been conflating vincent and sephiroth sharing a base model with them sharing hair length, which both ignores both the software limitations that existed in the game and also that most peoples hair does actually have a limit to how long it will grow (also I just noticed hes not practicing proper trigger discipline here. bad vincent!)

okay rrm, but thats just the og! they changed his design for Advent Children and Dirge of Cerberus!

true, they did! but here he is in Advent Children:

still working with about the same length here

and Dirge of Cerberus:

which is not only the same length, but finally adds something to the design-- texture and character.

in every other iteration, his hair has been very straight and smooth, but in DoC, its got flyaways, and the bottom of his hair has slight curls. the way they stylized the flyaways to be all spiky to represent chaos living in vincents body wouldnt really....work? with the hyperealistic style that they're going for with the remake? but he could still have them. and the specific way the hair is wavy at the bottom really makes it feel like its been tangled together because he was sleeping for 30 years and therefore not brushing his fucking hair

i dunno. it just feels like they made a really strong character decision with his hair for Dirge of Cerberus and then they walked it back for the remake. and i dont know that I like that they did. so its bonkers to me that the length is what some people were complaining about

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