![]() ![]() There doesn’t seem to be a lot of English language information about it, though it seems like it became exclusive for the warrior class by the Edo period before being more or less outlawed in the Meiji period. This style was developed by and for samurai because it was used to keep their helmets in place. ![]() If the shaved/historical part is important there’s the chonmage, a Japanese hairstyle that also features a shaved hairline. There are however hairstyles that would be better suited for Val. It could also be argued that that part of history might have been forgotten, but it seems unlikely that something that was an important cultural feature for almost half a millennium would be forgotten so easily. It’s possible that his nationality has been retconned, but there’s no reason to do that and it’s pretty bad to imply that different cultures are so interchangeable that a character who’s even named after a Japanese martial art can just be changed to something else. The queue may therefore not be a great pick for a character in general, but Val is also supposed to be half-Japanese so he doesn’t even have any ties to it in the first place. ![]() not fully braided) was often seen as resistance against the Qing rule and the cutting of the queue was seen as an act of rebellion, which made it an important symbol during the eventual revolution.Ĭhinese workers abroad would also sometimes have their queues cut off as a way to degrade and humiliate them and they were often exaggerated in anti-Chinese propaganda. Not having a queue or not wearing it properly (eg. The queue hairstyle was mandate by law for Chinese men between 1644-1911 as part of an effort to assimilate the Han Chinese under the Manchurian lead Qing dynasty, and it became an important symbol for the dynasty. The queue is a traditional Manchurian hairstyle where the front part of the head is shaved while the back is kept long and generally braided, though the exact style of the haircut has varied depending on a lot of different factors. It’s a version of the Chinese queue, a hairstyle with a long and complex history. (Disclaimer: I’m not an expert on Chinese/Japaneses hairstyles, but I’ve tried to research as much as I could.) This is what Val’s hair looks like right now: ![]()
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