In weather like this, with those sharp temperature swings, even washing your hair in the morning takes a serious amount of grit. But honestly? Drying it is the real slog. If you're too lazy and just give it a half-hearted towel rub before heading out, you're essentially building a luxury resort for dandruff-causing bacteria in your warm, damp scalp. Before you know it, you’re dealing with folliculitis or seborrheic dermatitis, leading to the ultimate sad ending: hair loss. For those with long locks, a proper dry can take over an hour; after a while, you’re so locked in a life-or-death battle with your hairdryer that shaving it all off starts to look like a tempting escape.

But compared to the characters I’m about to introduce, our little struggles are nothing short of a luxury. These folks boast an insane volume and length of hair that you’d never see in reality, and they’ve all got extra reasons why grooming is a living nightmare. Forget a standard hairdryer; these gaming icons would practically need an industrial-grade leaf blower just to get started.

The boss monster 'Radiant Hyeongseong' from MapleStory is a clone of Aeimur, one of Darmoor’s apostles. Like many characters here, it sports hair longer than its own height, but the real issue is its body proportions. Thanks to Maple’s signature bobblehead aesthetic, its arms simply can't reach the top of its scalp. The ends of the hair are perpetually dragging on the floor—a magnet for grime—while the crown, the most critical part, is nearly impossible to dry because those stubby arms can't hold a hairdryer at the right angle.

To make matters worse, unlike the original Aeimur, this poor thing spent centuries locked away in the damp Black Sea. Sure, Aeimur might have someone to blow-dry their hair with fancy shampoo, but Radiant Hyeongseong has been 'washing' its hair in salt-crusted seawater for ages. You don’t need to be a genius to guess how much effort it takes to keep that mane looking silky. Thinking about it drying its hair alone in the middle of a soggy ocean, I’d say being defeated by players is arguably a mercy kill.

NIKKE is absolutely packed with long-haired beauties, but Little Mermaid ranks near the top for sheer length. Often called 'Siren', her hair is so long it drags behind her like a train. If it were just long, she wouldn't have made the list. The real kicker? Her skill set revolves entirely around water, and canonically, she loves to swim.

She’s constantly getting her hair soaked from her own abilities, soaking it further while swimming, and then dragging that damp mess across the ground, picking up every speck of dust like a walking mop. If she doesn't dry it meticulously, the sheer weight of it will give her a neck injury, and heaven forbid it starts smelling damp—her Commander's trust would plummet faster than a stone. The infinite loop of drying, getting wet, and drying again has to be the most cruel punishment imaginable.

Ryme, the Gym Leader and rapper from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet, takes hair styling to an artistic extreme. Her dreadlocks are styled to resemble the arm bones and upper torso of a skeleton. Dreadlocks are notoriously high-maintenance; you have to carefully press the shampoo through the strands without unraveling them, and drying them is a special kind of hell.

If you only dry the surface of dreadlocks, the inside becomes a breeding ground for mold and odors, meaning you need a long, steady stream of cool air to dry the core. Ryme’s locks are thick as forearms. A full dry would take ten times longer than a rap battle. Since she’s a Ghost-type expert, she doesn't even have a Pokémon handy to generate a decent breeze. It’s safe to say her scalp is perpetually damp with 'soul' moisture.

Taking second place is the quintessential charismatic woman of the Guilty Gear series, Baiken. Despite being a one-armed, one-eyed swordswoman, she still has the raw power to slice through perfectly healthy opponents. Given her penchant for booze and cigarettes, her hair is prone to trapping odors, but the real issue is the sheer volume. It’s not just long; it’s thick enough to rival a grown man’s torso. The thought of washing and drying that with a single hand is horrifying.

Sure, she has a prosthetic arm hidden in her sleeve packed with blades and chains, but that’s built for bloodshed, not precision hair styling. She might be the fastest fighter in the game, but after a shower, she’d need Delilah and Mito Anji to hold four hairdryers at once just to get it dry in under an hour. If she did it alone, the next game in the series would probably be out before she finished—and she’d likely be sporting a bald spot by then.

The undisputed number one is the leader of the Pantheon, the 'Highfather' Titan, Aman'Thul. The scale alone is unmatched. He’s already a gargantuan being, sporting floor-length hair and a beard that would make Guan Yu look clean-shaven. By human standards, a single strand of his hair would be the size of a skyscraper; washing and drying it is basically the equivalent of putting an entire planet through a washing machine. If he doesn't dry it, it’s not just bacteria growing in there—he’s hosting entire ecosystems of moss, insects, Orcs, Humans, Undead, and Night Elves. The World of Warcraft might literally be happening inside his beard.

If he wanted to dry that with a hairdryer, he’d have to park himself next to a solar flare. Even when he appears in a 'shrunken' form, he’s still dozens of meters tall—he’d probably need Deathwing to swing by and blast him with a breath just to get the moisture out. However he keeps that hair and beard looking fluffy, he’s clearly found a secret method. Being a Titan is hard work, indeed.