[iamshadow21]

I just realised something, and it took reading The Last Hero for the first time and seeing an illustration of Carrot with a crew cut and bare face that startled me. All along, I’ve been picturing Carrot as kind of a ginger Chris Evans/Chris Hemsworth at their best comedic straightman thing, like Chris-playing-Loki-playing-Cap, or Hemsworth from Ghostbusters, but more intelligent. Or Paul Gross as Benton Fraser from Due South. Buff, noble, and smart but a bit of an adorable bonehead. But it has occured to me - I’ve been imagining Carrot as clean-shaven, which is a conventionally HUMAN form of neat and tidy grooming, which Carrot is renowned for. But Carrot is culturally a dwarf. There is NO WAY he’d be clean shaven. Somehow, this changes EVERYTHING. Not just scruff but proper beardy length. Special beard care products. BRAIDING AND SHAPING THAT HAS CULTURAL MEANING. Carrot identifies as a dwarf, and his facial/head hair would definitely reflect that.