(Originally posted by bellpickle on August 15, 2007)
WTF IS HIS HAIR COLOR.
[Image of Jaejoong with orange/blonde hair]
Note to all Asian guys: KEEP YOUR HAIR BLACK.
As a random observation, if you look closely enough, you can see his eyeliner. Oh, Joongie. I still love you despite your bizarre carrot hair.
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Member: SomeGuy
Title: Team
Don'cha know? Orange IS natural asian hair colour ever since genetic manipulation became government-sanctioned in the People's Republic of China after the Second World War.
It was a side-effect from years of experimentation on political prisoners to create a sort of super soldier serum to combat their irradiated Japanese equivalents who were "naturally" enhanced after 1945. The orange hair serum, since known as "CMM-8", was the only trial to have not resulted in immediate death, and as such was deemed a success despite the afore-mentioned orange hair. Curiously, Soviet political prisoners somehow swept into China's machinations were completely unaffected by the serum, leading many to believe that China had designed CMM-8 and all its predecessors to only react to those of "oriental" lineage.
South Korean military forces eventually acquired a sample of CMM-8 during the Battle of Pyongyang, where it was learned that China had been supplying the North Korean soldiers with the serum. China's discovery of CMM-8 in South Korean (and to a degree American) hands led to their entrance into the war and ultimately to the cease-fire at the "end" of the war, seeing as both sides felt that a war involving CMM-8 would ultimately lead to the country's complete and utter devastation.
Nevertheless, the damage had been done. CMM-8 had made its way through the entire populace of China by 1958, having been contained in the rockets used by the Chinese for cloud seeding. The eventual precipitation from these CMM-8 rockets dropped the chemical all over the country, though the inclusion of standard seeding formula such as silver iodide changed the CMM-8's effect. Thought the orange hair remained, the majority of the strength and mental enhancements were gone (individuals identified with these traits tend to be state-sponsored in fields such as medicine and athletics).
Boasting world-class trade ports such as Shanghai and Hong Kong (which while being a British Colony was still close enough to feel the affect of the atmospheric chemical), it did not take long for CMM-8 to find its way across the whole of asia by the mid-seventies; by 1987, it had completely made its way through North American, Australian and European cities via immigration and trade commodities, affecting asian populations that had emigrated prior to the development of CMM-8 and as such leading to orange hair development in all future childbirths. Since then, asian peoples have had to artificially dye their hair back to the traditional black of their ancestors; it is their greatest secret and indeed their greatest shame.
Curiously enough, only in the past five years or so has there been an increase in younger, more outspoken asians who deliberately resist this new "tradition" and condemn the use of black hair dye. They cite that they should not have to bear this secret shame that they had no control over, and are willing to face and accept their past as but the past. Older asian communities tend to label these types of young people as troublemakers and delinquents . . .
. . . to this day, only a handful of people know of the existence of CMM-8, and even fewer know the full story . . . . .
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Member: bellpickle
Title: Otaku Legend
...You know, you actually had me up until the "leading to orange hair development in all future childbirths" part.
DAMN YOU, SOMEGUY.
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Member: SomeGuy
Title: Team
Seriously? Damn, I'm good . . .
It's fun to rag on Communist China, what can I say? But then it just kinda turned into a whole other monster as I kept going . . .
. . . By the way . . . SARS? Nah, wasn't birds. One of the rural hazard labs in Shanxi Province had an accident and a stored sample of CMM-5 was broken and released into the atmosphere. Granted, the chickens were the first animals to be infected and as such took the fall.
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Member: bellpickle
Title: Otaku Legend
Makes you wonder what happened to CMM-1-4 & 6-7. :3
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Member: SomeGuy
Title: Team
The official story is that CMM-1 to CMM-3 were destroyed almost immediately after they were deemed failures, and all traces of the serum were incinerated. CMM-4 was sent into the rural labs much as CMM-5 had been, and as such remains.
Of course, these are just the official records . . . the truth could be a whole other matter . . . . .
While CMM-4 and CMM-5 were getting closer to what the Chinese wanted in their super soldier serum, CMM-6 and CMM-7 were very developed with people thinking in the wrong direction. Though CMM-5 was fatal through rapid degeneration of the body's temperature control and respiration, CMM-6 caused almost instant chemical asphyxiation in test subjects and death; CMM-7 was barely a step up from that.
Since CMM-6 and CMM-7 were such complete failures, Chinese researchers instead chose to simply destroy the created samples - which they did, according to the records. However, there are some conspiracy theorists who claim that the Soviet Union somehow managed to acquire samples of CMM-7 and engineer its structure for their own "enhanced humans". Whether that's true or not, I couldn't say . . . I was never able to learn of anything beyond continental Chinese borders.
