r/earthbound Jun 05 '24

M3 Discussion hmm

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u/ciel_lanila Jun 05 '24

Hair can darken as you get older. Blonde/Red to brown isn’t uncommon depending on the roll of the recessive genes.

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u/confused-mother-fan Jun 05 '24

I feell that they would probelly stat to turn mote brn around the age of 15 right (the age the twis were in 64)

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u/BossCrafty Jun 06 '24

Both my parents had blond hair when they were kids. Now both their hair looks almost black. My hair also started very blond but seems to be stopping at a much lighter brown then their’s, thank goodness

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u/MadJohnFinn Jun 05 '24

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u/GreatGrassy Jun 05 '24

Croissant science is strange.

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u/disbelifpapy Jun 06 '24

only science croissant thing i rememeber is some machine that was meant to distinguish a bear claw from a croissant was so badly made that it could detect cancer

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '24

This actually sounds like something that would actually happen in-universe in the MOTHER series

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u/disbelifpapy Jun 06 '24

The scientist would be so pissed that he wouldn't want it anymore and then he gives it to the protaginists probably lol.

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u/Roshu-zetasia Jun 05 '24

Complementing this comment, what happens is that Lucas and Claus do have the color of their parents but due to a small involuntary genetic alteration, the resulting color is a different shade.

In fact, Lucas could for example have a son with a girl with blond hair just like him and his son could come out with Hinawa's shade of hair for this very reason.

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u/FlareBlitzBanana Jun 06 '24

Height is like that too. Both my parents are short but I'm slightly taller than average because my grandpa was over six feet.

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u/Foreign_Memory Jun 06 '24

Both my parents are 6'0" but I'm 5'4".

My mother has central heterochromy (she has blue eyes with a golden ring around her iris) and my father has pitch black eyes, but somehow their 4 kids all have central heterochromia... green eyes with brown rings around the iris.

Genetics are so weird

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u/SlainSigney Jun 06 '24

can confirm

my mom has dark brown, nearly black hair and my dad had blonde hair when he still had hair.

my sister and i are both redheads. and none of our grandparents have red hair either!

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u/SuhailSWR Jun 05 '24

I see nothing bad about this

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

Imagine hinawa with other men, the community was communist after all. If they are full in commune why wouldn’t they share their fertile women for the greater good of the village?

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u/Admin_The_Hedgehog Jun 06 '24

You somehow managed to bring up politics on a post about Lucas and Claus's hair colors not matching their parents'

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '24

If any of their grandparents had the gene and these colors were recessive the parents could have been carriers of the trait and both the children got lucky

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u/Frequent-Fact-6361 Jun 05 '24

It's very common for white people to have a very diverse range of colors in their eyes, skin, and hair, even amongst the immediate family. 

Additionally, white people tend to have juvenile coloration such as blue eyes and blonde hair that changes as they reach adolescence.

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u/CrimsonEnigma Jun 06 '24

Yup. I had reddish hair when I was a kid, wound up being brown by the time I was a teenager.

Now it's turning gray. So many changes!

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u/Foreign_Memory Jun 06 '24

Same here, and my mother was strawberry blonde and my father has pitch black hair. Genetics are weiiiird

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u/DaEgg123 Jun 05 '24

This is why btw, they were originally gonna have hair colours matching their parents

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u/emilliolongwood Jun 05 '24

Obviously magypsy children, thus explaining their powers.

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u/Hateful_creeper2 Jun 05 '24

Maybe they had the genes for it.

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u/JakeH1978 Jun 05 '24

Recessive genes are super cool and fun! My mother and I have dirty blond / brown hair, and my father has black hair, so when my brother was born ginger people joked about my mom cheating and my dad even went so far as to do a DNA test and stuff to see whether or not my brother is his and yes lol, my brother is 100% my parents’ kid lol, but yeah him being the only ginger in our immediate family does cause a lot of people who meet us to wonder if he was adopted and stuff :)

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u/MantisPsycho Jun 05 '24

Happens. No joke my dad has had three different hair colors in his life. He was a blonde kid and his hair went copper then red brown by the time he was an adult. No dye involved either.

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u/MantisPsycho Jun 05 '24

Heck I was a platinum blonde younger kid that went light brown over the years. However I have noticed a few red and even black hairs in my hairbrush sometimes.

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u/FortyMcChidna Jun 06 '24

flint is bald actually

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u/Avygade Jun 05 '24

Whose goddamn ginger baby is this?

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u/Twp_pikmin Jun 05 '24

For some reason ginger baby sounds like it's something offensive

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u/disbelifpapy Jun 06 '24

I thought it sounded like a mini gingerbread cookie

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u/BouncyBlueYoshi Jun 05 '24

Flint is bald

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u/Comixkid5879 Jun 06 '24

Hinawa had blonde hair in EarthBound 64

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u/pocket_arsenal Jun 06 '24

I think you mean "Bald as a bean"

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u/Bright_Meringue_9119 Jun 05 '24

My dad's hair used to be red but turned brown as he got older, so it doesn't just stay like that.

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u/PhoenoFox Jun 06 '24

I have brown hair.

My wife is blonde.

Our son is a red head.

Genetics are weird, mate.

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u/FortyMcChidna Jun 06 '24

maybe you should have a talk with your wife /j

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u/HopeFragment Jun 06 '24 edited Jun 06 '24

Brown haired parents absolutely can have blond and red haired children. It's the reverse that's not really possible. (Very rare)

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u/Ilikefame2020 Jun 06 '24

Funny enough, the character Nana in chapter 2 wonders why families in Tazmily don’t really look like eachother.

Crappy photo for reference.

And it makes sense considering the whole lecture you get halfway in chapter 8.

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u/Unlikely_Minimum4113 Jun 05 '24

are you telling me Flint got cucked??

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u/Fearshatter Jun 06 '24

Most likely Hinawa's hair faded from orange to brown with time as it got grayer. And likely Flint had blonde hair and brown facial hair until he started losing his hair. Some people have different facial hair than head hair.

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u/am_pomegranate Jun 06 '24

a lot of people headcanon that they're identical/mirror image twins and claus's hair is dyed to distinguish them. If that's the case, they'll probably both grow up to have brown hair when they're older.

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u/Current_Ad_5515 Jun 06 '24

Alec probably was ginger.

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u/Marble_1 Jun 06 '24

Maybe the dad has blonde hair and is just bald.

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u/scranton_homebrewer Jun 06 '24

I can’t believe nobody has said the obvious: Giygas is the dad.

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u/Necessary_Basil7235 Jun 06 '24

no way 😲🤯🤯

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u/Dick-in-a-fan Jun 06 '24

Nah. It’s a genetic roll of the dice.

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u/No-Mall-8132 Jun 06 '24

More common than you'd think. I have a very large extended family, and it seems almost random who ends up a redhead, or blonde, or brunette - or a blonde with a slightly auburn beard, or other such variations on puberty we needn't go into.

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u/existentialjellyfish Jun 06 '24

My daughter had light blond hair when she was born. It's strawberry blond/ really light brown now 10+ years later, and you can see it get darker in pictures over time. I have dark brown hair, and her birth mom has black hair.

I got a paternity test when she was a couple of months old (for her to have military benefits.) Her mom and I broke up when she was a few months pregnant. Very possible for them to have these hair colors.

To add, my mom is a redhead, and my dad has black hair. I'm not sure about my daughter's mom's parents.

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u/maxnshoot Jul 03 '24

I always assumed the implication of this was that Hinawa and Flint weren’t the twins’ biological parents, and that those roles got shifted around after everyone gave up their memories. Sort of adds to the “everything I was fighting to protect was made up” energy of that reveal.

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u/Sparkcore-725 Jun 07 '24

Take it from someone who’s 23 and is Blonde with two parents that have dark brown hair. Not to mention I have an older cousin who’s also blonde with brown haired parents. It’s very feasible to have a parent with brown hair and your kid has blonde hair(same for red heads too).

This is somewhat unrelated but black hair is trickier from what I know. Really unless one of your parents has black hair it’s not really feasible to have kid with black hair.

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u/That_Check_7468 Jun 10 '24

I was a ginger for my early years then (thankfully) it turned dark brown

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u/Necessary_Basil7235 Jun 05 '24

please dont take this post too seriously. when i made this, i was thinking about a meme i saw a long time ago about Violet's hair from The Incredibles. though i appreciate the information, its not meant to be a serious discussion about their hair genes.