Larian Studios Forums Baldur's Gate III Baldur's Gate III - Suggestions & Feedback Change back Shadowheart's new look

This has been a nagging thing for too long now: I really do not like Shadowheart's light hair after the Nightsong incident. Especially if you are romancing her, it feels like your lover has suddenly been switched with someone with a different personality and a different exterior. I wish there was a dialogue option to beg her to change her hair back to the way it was. I wouldn't mind taking a disapproval hit for that too. In any relationship there should be room to tell your significant other that she looks stupid and that she should do something about it.

Isn't that Shadowheart's decision? She hardly ever makes her own decisions anyway, whether they are right or wrong.
Everyone as they like, but I can't even give the companions the better equipment because it doesn't fit the character. Then the companion continues to wear his armour.

In principle, you are right. Your companions typically do not decide for themselves when they make decisions about their walk of life, e.g. blow themselves up, or incinerate themselves, or sacrifice one or two parents. But before Shadowheart can even make a decision on her hair, there should be a way to raise the question. And presently that is not possible. These are the possible reactions when she shows her new look and asks you to be honest about what you think about it:

1. If it helps you put the past behind you, I 'm all for it.
2. I love it.
3. Not for me - but who cares?

You see? There is no way to tell her she looks stupid now and should change her hair back ASAP.

Good friends, and lovers especially, need to be honest with each other. You tell each other when your zipper is undone, or your skirt is tucked in your pantyhose, right? So if you have a good relationship with Shadowheart, there needs to be an option to tell her she made a mistake and should fix it. It just makes sense.

What she'll do about the suggestion is up to the developers. It could be followed by a charisma roll, or an approval hit. But it would be great if there was a route to her actually changing back her hair.

Look, this is what mods are for. Nobody needs to be told that their hair looks stupid. I think that her Act 3 hair is lovely. I hope to god that they make no changes with how her hair is handled. If you don’t like how her hair looks, use a mod.

Isn't the whole point of the hair that it's a disguise and not just a fashion choice? I do hope they will update her profile picture at one point though. Personally, I like giving Shart and Astarion matching outfits and have them play siblings early in Act 3. ^^

If the OP has the opinion that it should be included, then that's a fair suggestion and nothing to be against or to only use mods for (which can or can't work depending on patches and such or if it gets abandoned). If the OP says, it's not to their liking, then it's fine.
I mean, in the end we're talking about a fictitious pixel character and not a real human being.

I personally like her more with the later hair but with it being dark and not white. I'd also like to call her by her real name, on that matter (on her Selûnite path, that is)

Lore wise, Shadowheart had to die her hair to avoid being persecuted by Sharans.

However, they need to change Shadowheart's hairstyle because that nuance of yellow does not work with her hair.

CHANGING SHADOWHEART'S HAIR BACK:

If you want to change Shadowheart's hair back to her original color/style in Act 3 after she dyes it white you can. I only know how to do this in Windows, sorry console players.

First you will need to launch the console command line window when your game starts. To do that you'll need BG3 Mod Manager. Follow this guide to install it. Make sure you do all the steps so you check off LAUNCH console at game startup.

https://wiki.bg3.community/en/Tutorials/Mod-Use/How-to-install-Script-Extender

Once you launch the game with the console you will need to run the following
code in the game AFTER Shadowheart changes her hair style/color.

ALT-TAB out of your active game and go to the console window. HIT ENTER a few times until you see the S>> prompt.

Then copy/paste the following code into the console and hit ENTER when done:

-- MAKE SURE TO RUN ALL 3 COMMANDS

Osi.RemoveCustomVisualOvirride("S_Player_ShadowHeart_3ed74f06-3c60-42dc-83f6-f034cb47c679", "e05b0f79-d3af-41eb-b0b2-1164b6f0debf")

Osi.RemoveCustomVisualOvirride("S_Player_ShadowHeart_3ed74f06-3c60-42dc-83f6-f034cb47c679", "c7f78eb7-6858-4f02-836b-d8c8b56c34fc")

Osi.RemoveCustomMaterialOverride("S_Player_ShadowHeart_3ed74f06-3c60-42dc-83f6-f034cb47c679", "831f8c8a-4101-4265-ad55-1a57217d2af7")

That's it. Shadowheart's hair will go back to the original. As far as I know you cannot turn it back to white, so make sure you save your game first if you want to go back. Of course there are MODS to do this but this is directly built into the game.

Just install the mod to enable the mirror in the origin charachters and change them.
I won't suggest you to tell your wife/gf that her new style is shit, its just a suggestion, for your safety....

You can stop Shart changing her hairstyle in the base game. I've done it once.

After defeating Kethric and everyone gathering in Moonrise throne room, refuse to allow Aylin and Isobel to join camp. Demand answers for Shart then and there, and when they balk, refuse entry.

Shart didn't learn about stuff and went into Act 3 w black hair.

Won't that annull the Loroakan quest and the special loot from Ramazith's tower ?

The vaults would still be accessible.

I didn't complete that HM run. I think it suffered some Act 3 bugginess when you do quests out of order. By memory, Aylin somehow later turned up in camp without Isobel. Didn't check if I could access Larroakan.

But Shart def had black hair.