Brigitte: Brown hair…
Is it just me or does something smell fishy here?
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Not quite fishy but maybe a bit like chemicals. (dye is a thing)
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There’s this really smart guy, I think he’s czech, his name is Gregor Mendel and he knows a lot about this sort of stuff. You should hit him up
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Both Torbjorn and his wife could have had a brown hair gene, but recessive. Once the two had children, it had the chance to become dominant and that is brought to life in Bridgette.
Boom, genetics.
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Genetics bro, how does it work?
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Well…Torb was away a lot…
It’s not like there are any male characters with brown hair.
Mccree…whatcha doin sneaking out the back?
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Heroes never dye though
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simple punnett squares, dude!
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To everyone referencing Mendelian genetics
Burnette hair is dominant. If either or the parents had a burnette gene, they’d have burnette hair. Since they do not, they both HAVE to be homozygous for the blonde gene. Therefore neither could pass on a burnette gene unless there is some sort of gender-based or partial inheritance, though I do believe neither applies to hair.
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Might need a maternity test. How do we know she’s Brigitte’s real mother?
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Maybe her grandparents have brunette hair, and Torb and Ingrid just passed on that Gene to Brigitte.
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Dang…McCree must have had some charm to have a kid at 14 years old. (JK)
I do believe that Torbjörn or Ingrid (or both) simply carried the brown-hair gene and that the blonde-hair gene simply skipped over Brigitte.
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You cannot carry a brown-hair gene. It is dominant. If you have a brown hair gene your hair is brown. The only way to have hair that is not brown is if you have absolutely no brown hair genes in you.
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that could be good, but I think Brigitte´s real father and mother died and Lindholms adopted her
But I think in the Reflections comics, you see more of Torb’s children with brown hair, so unless they adopted, like, 4 children, then maybe that’s plausible.
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Biologically speaking, hair color is weird. It’s several different genes that determine hair color, not to mention other factors like time, stress, and hair dye. Without a look at Brigette’s biological grandparents, you can’t really know what’s what, and even then there’s still not enough evidence. In my family, the further back you look in the family tree the darker your hair is. My great grandmother had black hair, and my sister and I have brown.
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While there are certain likelihoods when looking at potential gene expressions in offspring, there are very few absolutes so it is not outside of the realm of possibility for two people with blond hair to have a biological offspring with brown hair.
This goes double for Overwatch-verse, where science can turn a woman’s skin and hair blue.
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What if her hair is just an example of Incomplete dominance? Maybe somewhere, two genes blended together to bring us Brigitte’s hair. I know it sounds implausible, I really do. But still, what if…
Why has no one considered the simple possibility that the mother might have dyed her own hair Blond? Seriously? You all really think no women have ever dyed their hair blond? Really? >_>
As for the whole genetics and hair debate… I was born blond and had blond hair up until around the age of six when it started darkening. By the age of 10 I had brown hair. So never say that a person can’t have the brown hair gene and yet show up to life as a blond… at least for a few years.
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I know this, I was just saying 