I’ve dyed my hair a few times in the past, and a few days ago I decided to do it again. I have naturally strawberry blonde / light ginger hair, and all I wanted was to dye it a shade or two darker so I would have a nice coppery color.
But instead it came out the color of a London phone booth:
I just wanted to look like Merida from Brave, but instead I look like a fire hydrant. I’ve actually had hair similar to this color before, but that was on purpose. The feeling this time just isn’t the same. I just can’t help but not really like it since it wasn’t what I wanted. A few years ago I had fuchsia hair and at one point my high school art teacher called me “Fuchsia Fury”. Since I’m currently not that crazy about my hair color now, I started to try to think of dumb nicknames to describe the color such as “The Ferocious Fire Hydrant”, and during my brainstorm I came up with the name “Scarlet Fever”. I then started thinking about how that sounded like a super hero name and well….
Yes, I spent several hours out of my day drawing two super heroes based off of my current and past hair colors. 
I really like them actually, and if I had more free time I would have maybe tried to create a short comic about them. I don’t really have a feeling yet though of what their story would be. Here is what I have come up with so far for both of them:
Fuchsia Fury
- She doesn’t really have any special super powers like flight or laser vision or anything, but she has almost unnaturally good strength, speed, and accuracy.
- Her real name is probably something like “Elizabeth”, she goes by “Liz” or “Beth” for short depending on who she is talking to
- She seems like a girly girl who would be into pop songs and fashion magazines
- Her outfit is giving off like galactic princess vibes, so maybe it turns out that she is really an alien princess or something and that’s why she is so strong and fast
- She definitely is popular in school because she is so nice and she seems to have her life perfectly in order, but she secretly struggles with being a super hero on top of having school and homework and she’s always stressed
- She’s like 5′ 9″
Scarlet Fever
- She has a sort of sorceress vibe going on and her power is that she can summon a foggy gas that will cause her enemies to become ill and collapse
- She definitely is a bit of an antihero, but Fuchsia always convinces her to do the right thing
- Her real name is probably something like “Krystal” but, she goes by “Krys” (pronounced like ‘Chris)
- She isn’t the first Scarlet Fever, and the women in her family have had this gift/curse of her foggy sickness power for centuries, but they started hiding their powers during the middle ages when everyone was frightened of witches, and she is the first Scarlet Fever to use her powers for hundreds of years. She wasn’t going to at first, but Fuchsia Fury was already a superhero and she needed help and Krys saved her. Then Fuchsia tried to get Krys to join her and she refused at first but then decided to later on.
- She’s like 5′ 4″
I think they come off as opposites, but they aren’t really. Like Liz makes color coded flashcards and maybe she is a baton twirler or something, and everything she does is very planned out and organized. Meanwhile Krys is a mess and she has clothes all over her room and she always starts writing an essay for school an hour before it’s due. This helps them when they are fighting bad guys though, because Fuchsia always has a plan and Scarlet just wants to wing it. They have to do both of those things in different situations so it works out that they have two different points of view.
I know I said that I didn’t have enough of their story thought out for a comic or anything, but now I’m coming up with all these ideas and I can’t seem to stop. There are already too many superhero stories out there, and mine doesn’t need to be added to the mix. It’s still something fun to think about though. Maybe I’ll make a mini comic or something one day during my summer break.