Who you calling scruffy?
A looking glass was not a modification the Millennium Falcon included. But when the lights were on inside the ship and off in the hanger outside, the transparasteel windows on the flight deck were relatively reflective. Han Solo scowled fiercely at his reflection. "Who you calling scruffy?"
He scowled another moment, then brought a comb up in one swift motion and slicked his hair down. Left, right, back. All neat, all flat. Exactly as you were made to do in the Navy. It wasn't a thing you forgot. It wasn't a thing he'd forgotten how much he hated, either.
His reflection did not look pleased at this arrangement. Besides which, his hair was-?
Han squinted, and considered. Too long. That was it. His hair was too long to do that Navy slicked-bowl shape at present. It looked like something an Naval officer would have been scrubbing the decks for, for weeks, appearing like that. Much too long.
He could trim it. They probably had a bowl somewhere-
Forget it! Bowls! Scissors! Hair! Seven hells take them all! He flung the comb into the odds and ends locker beside the co-pilot seat, the one that mostly contained lost spanners and stray bolts and never-to-be-questioned Things belonging to Chewie, slammed the door of it shut and ran his fingers through his hair until it stood up on end.
There! That was better! Now he felt like himself again!
Now you look like a wookiee, Dewlanna had used to say, running her big, gentle hands through his hair when he was tired. A proper little wookiee cub. At the time, it had been – reassuring, in a way. And it was comfortable. And easy. And after Dewlanna had died, it had seemed – well, he'd wanted to keep it that way, just like she'd liked it to be. Every slicking-down in the Naval academy had seemed like a small betrayal.
So, that was how he was! And if some princesses didn't like it – well, who cared?!
And who had room to talk, kissing a kid who was thatched like a tauntaun, not to mention going about with three miles of braids wound round her head like spare power cable on a drum?!
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