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Why does the ML in Romantasy always have dark hair??
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Probably because it has been noted that this recipe works best and so everyone uses it 😑 Can't be dark morally grey without dark hair and tattoos otherwise it isn't morally grey enough 🤪Oh redhead would be so cool! 🤩🤩🤩
anastasia wrote: "You know what irks me? I just had the thought that male love interests in Romantasy books always (or most often) seem to have dark hair and maybe even tattoos.Take for example Rhysand from ACOTAR..."
I read the book Chimeras of Estmer this summer and it seemed to be a bit of a cross between epic fantasy and romance. It has a complex plot and great world-building, like an epic fantasy, and a very interesting magic system. Also, there are actually three romance subplots in Chimeras of Estmer, so there are three MLs in one book.
So two MLs (Kemlilin and Tevar) had black hair, and in Kemlilin's case it was actually described as bluish-black, i.e. it was a very rich black colour.
But the third ML, Silver, got that nickname from his girlfriend (well, she wasn't his girlfriend at the time they met, and they were supposed to be enemies back then) because of his silver-white hair. He wasn't really human, and he never had a human name, so he needed at least a good nickname. So this is a book to read if anyone is tired of MLs with dark hair.
Mim wrote: "Probably because it has been noted that this recipe works best and so everyone uses it 😑 Can't be dark morally grey without dark hair and tattoos otherwise it isn't morally grey enough 🤪
Oh redhea..."
After reading this book, Kemlilin became for me the embodiment of a morally grey character. He's a pirate (a pirate leader, to be precise, with a whole fleet at his service), so he really has some moral problems. But he's not exactly a monster, even though the girl who falls in love with him thinks he is at first. And he does things that seem cruel or strange at first, and then turn out to be great. So this Kemlilin has black hair, but he doesn't seem to have any tattoos. However, he does have gold rings in his ears. Do pierced ears count?
As for Silver, he's not so much a morally grey character as a reformed villain. I like him, but I think I like Kemlilin better.
Meredith wrote: "“Tall, dark, and handsome” trope maybe?? It’s also the hair color of 80% of people in the world and easiest if you want to leave your main male lead racially ambiguous, which I imagine is also why ..."This seems logical when the action takes place in our world, but fictional worlds can have their own nations and races. So here you can create an ML with a green or blue skin. The ML in Radiance, for example, have a grey skin.
My impression is that the Stormy Pirates (i.e. the Kemlilin nation) look a bit like East Asians. But this book has no illustrations, and these Stormy Pirates raid coasts like Vikings, so I'm not sure.
And Tevar really does have bronze skin, lol.
aven wrote: "well sarah j. maas just happens to be a sucky writer so thats probably why"Quite possibly. But this strange tradition of dark hair began long before she wrote her 'sucky book'. I think even Mr Rochester in Jan Eyre had dark hair, although that novel is not a romantasy.
Meredith wrote: "Jabotikaba wrote: "Meredith wrote: "“Tall, dark, and handsome” trope maybe?? It’s also the hair color of 80% of people in the world and easiest if you want to leave your main male lead racially amb..."
Sometimes I have the feeling that these fantasy writers don't make use of their limitless possibilities in other ways as well. Unfortunately, this doesn't apply to hair colour only. It seems that a lot of writers just don't know how to be really original.
Going back to hair, MLs are very often dark-haired, even if they aren't human. I remember a couple of books with black-haired and green-skinned orcs, and Brishen in Radiance had black hair despite his grey skin.
As for the light hair, your idea that it might be associated with innocence and something angelic seems logical in theory. But in reality, it's not quite true. For example, the drow in the Forgotten Realms books have white hair, and they are definitely not angels, and they are not innocent in any way. The same goes for the cruel norns in the Osten Ard books.
But maybe you are right, because these books are just fantasy, not romantasy. In romantasy it seems to work as you say. I can only think of Permafrost, where ML had long white hair (he was a goblin, by the way), and Twin Crowns (one of the MLs had blonde hair and the other had dark hair, as I recall). And Silver from Chimeras of Estmer, of course.
that's why from time to time i read fanfics about draco malfoy :'D some of them are better than some books
Take for example Rhysand from ACOTAR, Xaden from Fourth Wing, that one dude from Gilded, Hunt from Crescent City snd then there‘s this other book series I can‘t remember the name of where emperors fight in yearly hunger games because of a curse? And then also Kingdom of Flesh and Fire and Cardan from A Cruel King …
Oh and Vampire Bride by Ali Hazelwood!
Like … why?? Why‘s there never a blonde guy or a brunette tan guy or a redhead?
*insert Jackie Chan wtf meme*