A matter of great importance

[tardis_stowaway]

Greetings, wise f-list!  I saw a description of Eleven's hair color in an otherwise wonderful fanfic that confused me, since it was vastly different from what his hair looks like to me.  However, it occurs to me that I'm not sure I've looked at Eleven on anything other than my laptop screen, so maybe my colors are off.  However, everything else (like photos of people I know) seems to be colored correctly.  I mentioned it to the author, and she stands by her description.  It's entirely possible that I am crazy!  I look to you to resolve the confusion.[Poll #1585424]
I've deliberately chosen an Eleven-free icon so any coloring effects by the icon makers will not affect your voting.  Feel free to discuss or elaborate in the comments!

Comments

[sahiya.livejournal.com]

Definitely medium brown, as far as I can tell. What did the fic describe him as?

[mysticalchild_isis]

I don't even describe my own hair as black, and it's definitely darker than Eleven's. (e.g. icon)

[dameruth.livejournal.com]

I'd say medium-to-dark brown.

If you want to set up another poll, you could ask people what color they think his eyes are -- that's another thing that's all over the map on fanfic. I've seen blue, brown (!), green, grey . . .

[skalja.livejournal.com]

It says something about our fannish habits that I know EXACTLY which (very excellent) fanfic you're talking about. XD

I voted medium brown, but that's part "it looks sort of in-between to me" and part "it's never made an impression on me whereas I think I would register light or dark brown hair as such."