When Maya channeled Dahlia, her hair was black. This may be due to the fact that Maya has black hair, and her hair is the same, no matter who she channels as. This is proven with Mia.

However, I believe that Dahlia's and Iris' hair is black. The Fey family all has black hair, except for Mia and Pearl, but the brown may be a recessive gene. Red hair (although I know this shade of red is impossible naturally, but then again this is the Ace Attornet universe. Impossible shades of red may be natural and genetics could work differently) is usually recessive. Even if their father had flaming red hair, I think it would probably be overpowered by the Fey genes.

Also, look at the girls themselves. Iris is working as a modest nun. Why would she ever have a reason to dye her hair? Dahlia only cares about herself, so she is probably vain about her appearance. She probably dyed her hair so she could have a new identity and then she kept it up after the Terry Fawles case. I think her spirit has red hair because it's a reflection of how she sees herself.

Because when she was channeled she didn't have red hair. She had black hair like Iris. The spirit thing is red only because Dahlia died with red hair. Notice how when Mia is channeled she doesn't have her young appearance. When a person dies, their spirit stays that way and when called, they will appear as the last form they were in before they died.

Sorry, Ephidel, but that explanation does not really work. When a spirit channeler channels a spirit, her hair is unaffected. When Maya channels Mia, her haircolor (and hairstyle) remains the same--it does not become brown like Mia. When Pearl channels Mia, the same thing--it stays light brown. Dahlia only had black hair like Iris when she was channeled because Maya has black hair.

And we see Dahlia's spirit alone when it leaves Maya's body. We never see another spirit without a body, so we don't really know. Although I think that the argument that a spirit stays the same way when the person dies (like hair color, even if dyed) is a perfectly fine argument that I've already said... somewhere in this thread... I think....

simply because when Misty Fey channels Dahlia, her whole appearance changes, as well as Maya. What's wrong with that statement? When Mia enters Maya, the clothes don't change, nothing. As I said this is an interesting subject that may cause there to be a plothole in TaT.

Dahlia changed her appearance immediately after being channeled by Misty. She states that she pinned up her hair, put on a robe, and picked up the staff. She must have did the same thing after being channeled by Maya.

But remember, Iris and Dahlia wouldn't exactly still look the same. There would have to be some slight change in the look.

When Maya locked herself in the chamber and called Dahlia, there was no way that Dahlia had any shot to have that outfit on, since she barely had any time when Iris and her made the switch because Phoenix and co ran in shortly after.

And if Maya changed her outfit before heading out to the Inner Temple? Remember that Maya was there to train, so it's likely that she would follow their traditions for that and they use a different outfit for their acolytes. Misty was wearing the acolyte clothes from Hazkura and it's perfectly possible that Maya would have changed as well before training. When Dahlia is exorcised, Maya is still wearing those clothes right before she collapsed. It's only after she's taken away to recover that we see her show up in her normal outfit (I can't imagine she would want to remain in the clothes after all she had been through).

:that-b-word: and are identical twins, so they both probably had black hair. However, After Dollie kept on committing crimes, she either dyed her hair red, or the devil did it for her.