Girl with the Hair Wall (Unnamed)

Age 19. Bright, pale, white-ish skin described as “clear.” Lots of freckles, mostly on her face. Vivid, pure orange hair — “orange, orange” like the skin of an orange fruit, “even more pure orange.” Wears a black bodysuit (shirt and pants joined together) with yellow reflective stripes on the shoulders and knees.

Her hair is her defining feature and power. It is prehensile and grows on command: “Her hair just grows when she wants her hair to grow,” as long as she wants. It has an extremely powerful grip — “If her hair wrapped around a car and squeezed really tight, the car would just fold in.” Sections of hair can detach and remain solid and stationary off her head, still under her command, and reattach: “A piece of it can just pop off and stay where it is pretty solid.” She can see through her hair. The hair somehow senses lumberjacks — “it somehow senses the lumberjack’s mirror and it communicates to the rest of her hair, which communicates to her brain” — and she commands it to unroll as a wall, so practiced it now functions reflexively. She is also skilled at acrobatics and can “hang upside down like a bat” from tree branches.

She moved to the forest at age 16 because she “couldn’t stand” city life: “Too many cars, too many trucks, too many bustling and hustling and not enough trees and animals.” Before that she lived in a big city with three younger sisters, an aunt, a grandmother, a grandfather, an uncle, and little brothers. She sometimes visits family.

She knows all the animals in the forest — they all know her — and visits bats in a nearby cave. She has a pet horse she rides to the nearby town and two cats (one white, one calico) who live mostly in her bedroom; she carved a small cat door in her bedroom door for them.

The Hair Wall: She has built a wall of detached hair surrounding the entire forest she owns, taller than the trees, to stop lumberjacks: “it reaches taller than the trees. So the lumberjacks can’t get through and they can’t get over.” The wall is usually rolled up above the trees and unrolls when lumberjacks come within 100 feet. Animals can pass freely: “whenever an animal comes by, the hair opens and when a lumberjack comes by, the hair closes.” She “owns the whole forest, but the rest of the forest is just wildlife.”