r/TopCharacterTropes • u/AmandinhaMaia • 8h ago

Characters POC people switching from straight hair to textured hair

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Luz and Camila - The Owl House, starting from season 3

Libby - Jimmy Neutron, starting from the episode "Beach Party Mummy"

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u/Rocazanova 5h ago

Luz’s family is Latino and Latino people can have straight hair. Actually, is very common. Our ancestors had heavy straight hair. It was the Spaniards who brought the waves with them.

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u/Twist_Ending03 3h ago

Yeah but it seems like they have naturally curly hair, since, when we start to see them with curly hair, we can also see a hair straightener in the trash in Camila's room.

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u/Rocazanova 1h ago

Ah yeah, I mean, narratively is works. She has curly hair, but not because POC having curly hair by default like the post implies