ways_back_room | DE: It's just a swipe to the left

Skaði doesn't shave anything ever, in male or female shape. She doesn't want to be a werewolf with patchy bald spots, and anyway she does not care about society's opinion.

Loki's avatar-body doesn't need it, since it's not entirely real; he'll give a shape the amount or lack of hair that the persona and situation calls for. For himself, he likes just the right amount of stubble to match his bed-hair; his actual body got a badly-needed shave recently to get the venom-hardened hair-horns off. It wasn't pretty.

Weyland does, except when he's been working for a ridiculous amount of time and also forgets to eat. The Brucolac does because he likes looking younger, and the rest of his hair is plenty enough to deal with. Uther does because any hair is a liability in a fight.

And Butch... poor Butch is one of those guys who just cannot grow facial hair well, and it looks really bad when in the presence of Sundance's glorious mustache. Who can compete with that? You'd better believe he shaves, all the time before going into town, and on the trail too when he can. (If it's too cold out or he's being chased by law enforcement, he doesn't bother.)

Joshua shaves regularly, and by that I mean every morning. Unless he's stressed, and he won't shave, but either his sister or Helena will complain at him until he does. He's fairly deft at it by now, and doesn't cut himself much, unless he's hella tired.

Helena doesn't understand shaving, and generally ignores it. (Hair removal didn't really start to be a thing in the Western world until the 1910s-1920s.) She does (now that she has a basis for it) shave her armpits because of cleanliness considerations, and if she ever were to wear a short skirt instead of trousers, she'd probably flail about, but be alright with the shaving. I really don't think you could ever convince her to shave her ladybits.

Valentine is twelve. She's making faces at the thought.

Fantine is not from a world where shaving is a thing. She might like it eventually, but for now, she doesn't really care.

Mark shaves. It's what you do. Also, he thinks he looks terrible with a beard. Thank you, Anthony Rapp.

They had razors in Vault 101. Since everyone wore Vault jumpsuits and since everything had to be made to last as long as possible, women did not use them. Ellen would be terribly confused if someone asked her about shaving her legs.

Gordon keeps his goatee neat and trimmed and shaves everything else on his face. Shaving anything below the collarbone is for swimmers, bicyclists, and surgical patients, as far as he's concerned (there being limited resources in the post-Combine world these days, women are not socially expected to shave anymore).

Shephard shaves anything below the level of his earlobes and above his collarbone, and does his level best to maintain a regulation high-and-tight haircut as long as he's at it (I know this does not reflect his icons but I had a hard enough time finding John Cusack in a uniform, and that's not even a Marine uniform; photoshopping his hair isn't worth it).

Varric goes to great lengths to maintain a suitably interesting level of manly stubble. No more and no less.

Mordin has no hair.

Medic prefers to stay clean-shaven but cannot always manage it if the other BLUs have gotten to the razor stockpile first. Normally he tries to carry his own supply but this tends to get raided and no one will confess to it.

Edward shaves when he can and when he remembers to, the end result being a short, chin-centric beard or a general haze of stubble. This may be contradicted by the AC 4 novel, but given that the novel says he has dark hair- not dark blond hair, dark hair- I am choosing to ignore anything the novel says about his appearance.

Stacker has a mustache and very short head hair, and that's it. He is meticulous about his appearance and keeping it as clean and neat as possible.

And Santo shaves, religiously, because stubble catching on that mask- uggggh. Also he shaves his chest because he once had a wrestling opponent grab his chest hair. Never again.

Ichabod - well, look at him. The man does not believe in being clean-shaven. He does try to keep his beard neat, though.
Giovanni Bruni - always clean-shaven, so presumably he does, but we never actually see it.
Richard Sharpe - does when he gets the chance, which isn't every day.
Harry Callahan - Every day. It's part of his routine.
Nancy - has bigger things to worry about than shaving her legs, and no one to care whether she does or not. Shaving her lady bits would never even occur to her.
Jonathan Levinson - shaves because otherwise he gets fluffy stubble, and nobody wants that.
Michael Carpenter - maintains a short neat beard as in his icons
Roshaun - ...it's never come up. It's possible he's too young to really need to regularly.
James Norrington - used to religiously, then had his crisis and stopped, and now probably only bothers in terms of maintenance.
Gavroche - does now he's old enough. He says facial hair itches.

Anton shaves and seems to always nick himself or take off a top layer of skin. This isn't the problem you would think as he just uses some magic to heal himself.

Andrea shaves as well, though I can see her not bothering with her legs unless she's got a date or plans on wearing a skirt. She will do her arm pits on a regular basis and I can see her having fun with shaving certain other areas of her anatomy, whether for someone else or just herself.

Val shaves her legs and arm pits and is still enough of a kid I have trouble thinking about other places.

Thalia doesn't shave.

Hank shaves and never nicks himself as he is so careful and methodic. He likes shaving as it proves he is a man (love the 60s mentality).

Brimstone does not shave and canon suggests he might even be hairless (despite my icon for him).

Quinlan shaves his face and rarely cuts himself, though he will forgo shaving if he is in hyperspace by himself for long periods. Why waste resources?

Jessica shaves. With how tight her costume is, I can't imagine her not shaving. I don't know that about fun places as she's glaring at me and telling me to mind my own business. I guess we'll have to ask Clint. ; p

Mulan...not sure. She always seems polished, so she has a strong sense of hygiene but I just don't know. I would think it isn't something she worries about and I can see her breaking the habit, if she ever had it, while in the Emperor's army.

Thor keeps his beard trimmed and tidy (and fairly short). Beards are, obviously, not a thing that's culturally required of men on Asgard, but they're quite common; as a kid and especially a teenager-equivalent, he couldn't wait to be old enough to grow a creditable one. Now, it's just part of the routine to trim his beard when it needs it.

Enjolras shaves every day -- he's from an era and place when beards were almost unheard of (unless you were really making a STATEMENT of Romantic weirdness), although mustaches weren't as rare. Anyway, yeah. He isn't overblessed with facial hair, to the point where he probably doesn't need to shave strictly every day even at 24ish, but he does anyway. He likes to be tidy, and it's part of the morning cleanliness routine. It would never occur to him to shave below the collarbone (but he's not overly blessed with chest hair either).

Clare doesn't shave anything, both because her hair doesn't grow and because she wouldn't see any need to anyway. It's not a thing where she's from.

Trowa is in Enjolras's camp: shaves every day, probably doesn't strictly need to. I'm not sure about body hair, by which I mostly mean chest hair; I don't think he has much, but whether he gets rid of that or not I'm not sure of. If so, it's part of the general acrobat-for-stage-presentation circus thing, not because he considers it fundamental to tidiness or a beauty routine or whatever.

River... I'm not sure. I mean, canonically, she has no visible leg or armpit hair, because Hollywood does not show ladies having body hair zomg. But I also have trouble seeing River bothering much about shaving without a stronger reason than social expectation. I dunno, maybe it's a habit she got into back in her dancing years and has kept? Not sure.

Regan does because beauty standards, although she's often vaguely irked by the need to do it again, didn't she just shave? Then she sighs and does it anyway. Unless the future has some kind of depilatory device that's easier, which honestly is probably the case.

None of mine who shave nick themselves particularly often. Trowa, never; Enjolras, rarely, but it's probably occasionally happened, I suppose.

Edited 2014-01-08 16:14 (UTC)

Alyx has never shaved anything, ever. That social convention didn't survive Combine occupation, at least not in her neck of the woods.

D0G is a robot.

Vanellope is a computer program shaped like a nine-year-old girl so shaving is kind of not an issue.

Twilight, Luna, and the cat are all completely covered in fur.

Mark shaves fairly regularly. Viltrumite men grow moustaches that can conquer whole nations on their own, and Mark doesn't want one. Fans have asked Ryan Ottley to do sketches of Mark with a moustache; some of them have made it onto his DeviantArt page and into the backs of the compilations. They're a little creepy. He does end up with one briefly (though it's that "there's something on your lip" sort of moustache that teenagers get) when he is in a coma, but he gets rid of it as soon as he can.

Did I mention lately that the Viltrumites are ruled by Super-Freddy Mercury? Because they TOTALLY ARE.

And just how does Mark shave? Viltrumite steel? ; p

~~It's like you hairless monkeys like being bald~~ I mean... uhh...
I don't think shaving is a thing for the female humans of Gielinor. And for all I know, Fixit could be covered in fine, fair, fuzzy hair like a moth.

Fuzzy Fairies. I don't know why the idea is so cute, but it is. Fuzzy.

Oh, yesterday's DE is full of DE ideas. Mine it for all it's worth!

Cata is baffled by the very idea.

Sam has a genetic predisposition toward a lack of facial hair, so he shaves to keep from looking ridiculous.

Claudia shaves her armpits regularly and her legs when she has to, but that razor goes NOWHERE ELSE ARE YOU KIDDING.

Apollo is a god; your argument is invalid. If he wants facial hair he can arrange for an appropriate amount to be there. If not, it's not there.

Imp does, because he looks silly with facial hair.

Regulus has a charm for that.

Red is just as baffled by the idea as Cata is. (Ruby, however, certainly shaves pre-curse-breaking. Afterward she may drop the habit.)

Woolly shaves, and is happy to let someone else wield the straight razor from time to time. I'm not sure if it's a thing he needs to do now he's dead, but if so he's keeping in the habit.

No one will confess to stealing Medic's razors because they don't want their body parts deliberately misassembled next time they bite it in the field.

Will doesn't shave too often, mainly because he doesn't really get a big beard. He keeps it neat and when he's in Milliways cleans it up more because hot water is magic.

Charles is clean shaven as that's the style of men in his era and when he gets any facial hair, its gingery, which looks weird. I imagine he nicks himself sometimes but not too often.

Moist is always clean shaven because facial hair is something that's easily recognizable, if he needs it for a role, he tends to keep it to just a a mustache that can disappear quickly. He's very good at shaving without nicks, don't want to leave blood around.

Sameth shaves daily though I don't think he get that much facial hair and I imagine he doesn't nick himself too often. Unless he's shaving in a hurry and not paying attention.

William doesn't have enough facial hair to bother shaving yet, he'd like to as he's got a boyish face and a mustache or something might help.

Tumnus keeps his beard and his various hairs neat, but I think not with shaving more with a little neatening every once in a while.

The Pirate King takes very good care of his glorious mustache, its part of being a pirate.

Jane doesn't get why she should shave, that's something men do.

Demeter doesn't understand the modern idea of women shaving everywhere and so doesn't.

Right, so he just takes it out on whoever he thinks the likeliest suspect of the week is instead.

Lasers. Very small and carefully tuned Class IV lasers. Tuned with crystals from Viltrum and built into an electric shaver he was given for his birthday when puberty hit so nobody notices.

Unlike certain Kryptonians, Viltrumites' powers aren't that sort of "always on" powerset, judging from the writeup that Kirkman did for The Official Handbook of the Invincible Universe. (Yes, it exists.) From what's implied, both in that writeup and in the books, Viltrumites have an unconscious control over the subatomic structure of their bodies, allowing changes in mass and energy levels, leading to changes in the strength of chemical bonds in their bodies and how inertia affects them. (That's what it says, honest.) Basically, Mark looks, feels, and is, biologically, a normal human, until he isn't. :)

To answer your question, Mark uses a Gillette razor and Barbasol, because that's what Nolan taught him to shave with.

Claudia shaves her armpits regularly and her legs when she has to, but that razor goes NOWHERE ELSE ARE YOU KIDDING.

I could waggle my eyebrows and say something laden with innuendo, but I like my personage un-Tesla-ed. :)

Very interesting and a nice dodge on Kirk's part in avoiding the issue. = ]

Do you mean yesterday or Monday's?

Bean is only 5. No he bloody well does not shave yet.

Alfred keeps himself clean-shaven. This means he shaves about once a day. A lifetime of experience means he practically never nicks himself, and it really doesn't bother him.

Erik prefers to keep himself clean-shaven too, and while he used to nick himself irregularly, these days, he uses an electric razor, which stops that being an issue.

Max has his beard. He tends to keep it well trimmed, but at a respectable length. Admittedly, it does tend to make him look a bit older than he is, but there's no harm in that. And it does mean that if he goes a few days (weeks) without really paying any attention to it, no one will notice. Except Doris.

Jack is again, clean-shaven when he needs to be presentable. He tends not to bother shaving, though, until it is getting noticeable. Which can take several days. And, if he's out doing something in the field, he never bothered when on a long mission, why change the habit. So, though he can shave with just his knife, he rarely has to.

Aw. I liked my deluded version better.

River... Regan ....

Depilatory creams? Perhaps in the Far Flung Future^TM, they don't cause as much irritation to the skin.

It is pretty well thought out, except that Nolan and Debbie weren't really sure that Mark would get superpowers when puberty kicked in. Human-Viltrumite hybridization exists in a single case, so there was no data one way or the other. It'd have been kind of painful for Mark to start getting laser burns on his face when he started shaving if his powers didn't develop (and even so, they developed during his 17th year, rather than when he hit puberty).

Also, Nolan's a sociologist (or as close as Viltrumites have to an equivalent), not an inventor. :)

Stiles doesn't have to shave yet, because, uh, he's not a 16-year-old played by a now 22-year-old actor.

Carol apparently has crazy Kree hair powers? So that is unnecessary XD

Mary doesn't know why she should possibly be shaving body hair.

Pffft! I lost a day! Probably because I didn't respond to yesterday's DE. They help me keep track of my life, I guess.

Monday's!

Monday's is definitely a keeper but you are right, the answers would be great for other topics as well. = ]

Nita and Carmela, I'm pretty sure, both shave legs and armpits when they're on Earth; Nita is probably more relaxed about it than Carmela. When they're off-planet, it depends on the availability of razors or other hair-removal devices and on the cultural mores of wherever they are. I imagine most planets populated by non-humanoids don't care, but I'm sure it varies wildly on humanoid-populated planets. (Nita almost always nicks her legs.)

Epimetheus is perpetually slightly scruffy, these days. In the past he's worn whatever amount of facial hair will get him the least attention. (Back in the day he probably had a glorious beard, if Ancient Greek art is anything to go by.)

Kim doesn't shave, and as she gets older she's hoping nobody notices that she never has to shave her face. (I'm not aware of any expectations of removing body hair in Regency England, so presumably she won't be shaving once she's living as a girl, either.)

Kate, similarly, doesn't live in an era where removal of body hair is expected, as far as I know.

Tom wears a goatee and tries to keep it relatively neat even in a post-apocalyptic zombie-infested wasteland. It's a reminder of when things used to be normal. Razors are sometimes hard to come by, though, so whenever I get him back into the bar he'll probably be pretty scruffy.

And you'd probably be double-Tesla-ed, because Joshua would... well, probably miss, but he'd shoot at you for saying those things about his sister.

That goes without saying. Possibly triple-Tesla-ed if Myka or Pete were around. Helena would probably not Tesla me, but there'd some other horrible, possibly embarrassing, demise waiting for me when I least expect it. Some intricate, clockwork deathtrap of some sort perhaps.

Artie'd probably got something in his bag for that sort of situation. Allan Lee Litman's original can of mace or something....

Altogether, not a smart way to continue being comfortable and unhurt.

"Who knows what my brain was thinking? ... That razors would be a precious commodity in a post-apocalypse world?"

I can almost guarantee that, given that Tom's universe was written by Jonathan Coulton, someone out there has devised exactly this scheme for amassing power in the zombpocalypse.

Frankly, male bicyclists have almost certainly been shaving their legs longer than American women- this gentleman's picture was taken after he won a Paris bicycle race in 1908.

Ralph is clean-shaven (or else very lightly stubbly) by character design which will never change.

Jennifer used to spend a lot of time in the eufiber unitard that was T2M's official uniform, so any body hair would've made unseemly lines. It's possible she could have the outfit take care of that for her, depending on how sophisticated a colony it was grown from.

Rukia probably shaves, at least legs and pits, when she's on an assignment that'll see her wearing a gigai for an extended period (i.e. her initial posting from May to July of the first in-story year, then the follow-up when she and several other shinigami were sent to help Ichigo with the arrancar problem); otherwise, I suspect Soul Society grooming standards are those of feudal Japan, which I assume means she doesn't bother unless there's someone she wants to impress.

Ryûk may or may not have any body hair.

Michael tried growing facial hair once; it made him look actively diabolical, so he abandoned it. Again, his eufiber may be able to depilate him with relatively little difficulty.

Max has a carefully maintained mustache and a carefully maintained lack of other facial hair.

The Cheat only shaves for capers.

Hiro shaves his face if he's got the means; even when he was living in the U-Stor-It, he'd occasionally use his Rest Stop account to get cleaned up.

Strong Bad may or may not have facial hair; he insists, even to me, that he doesn't even have a face separate from his mask. He keeps his chest hairless anyway, or maybe he just can't grow chest hair. (I can, but I really shouldn't.)

Néo shaves hir legs and pits, same as everyone else we see in the village regardless of their adult gender. The in-story justification is left as an exercise for the student.

Edited (sore wa himitsu desu) 2014-01-09 01:42 (UTC)

Very possibly yes! Or some kind of handwavy future magic electrolysis wand, at least for Regan who has access to fancy spas or whatever.

Edited to say that it's not that I'm particularly invested in the idea that the Far Flung Firefly Future conforms to modern USA/etc (USA's all I have direct experience with) norms about body hair removal, but since all the actresses including Summer Glau display the confirmation with these norms you'd expect from Hollywood actresses and Hollywood costume designers... yeah. Some sort of easy depilatory method seems the way to go.

Edited 2014-01-09 14:51 (UTC)

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