Yakko glared in the mirror, a gaze so hot you would have thought it would boil water on its own. His grip on the sink was tight as the one other toon in the room sighed.
" Glaring in the mirror won't stop the process, doc"
" I don't want to cut my hair"
Bugs Bunny stared at the little toon before him. 22 years had passed since the final episode of Animaniacs. And in that 22 years, the boy before him had ceased to properly trim his hair to studio standards (which meant not a strand should stick out, he had to look identical to the model sheets or else).
" Hate to break to you, doc, but you kinda have to. Your reboot's comin' up and you and your siblings have to look your best", Bugs said as he prepared the scissors.
Cutting hair was a chore, cutting toon hair was hard labour. Because you can't cut toon hair without breaking your scissors, you had to use real world scissors and then proceed to dip those scissors in thinner and then wipe the thinner off to the point where it won't drip onto the toon's head but that there's still enough thinner remnant on the scissors to cut through the paint.
Why the lengthy process? Because ToonTown's Research Team, for all their intelligence and ability to figure out how to create a clean energy source to power the whole city, still haven't figured out how to toon-proof scissors.
Bugs had always been dead afraid of trimming Yakko, Wakko and Dot's hair in fear he accidentally harmed them with the scissors thinner remnant. It was painful and he knew it from personal experience (that was the first and last time Bugs had ever let Porky touch his hair, Daffy's the only one who guarantee would not burn a hole in his skull or ear)
Usually this was Daffy's job. But the duck had been busy grading Looniversity papers that had been neglected due to the duck being demanded to show up for filming if there was going to be a centred cartoon on him. Bugs didn't want to bother him so he was going to do the job himself.... even if it made him sick.
There was another reason why Bugs didn't want to cut their hair but he knew he shouldn't be falling into his selfish desires.
" I like my hair this way. It adds more to my charm, don'tcha think?", Yakko said as he smiled proudly and confidently in the mirror, running his fingers through his hair softly.
Bugs smiled," It sures does, kit", he said fondly.
" Then why cut it?", Yakko said, his tone changing from proud to irritated.
