This is so unbelivably good, even if it does tear the heart out of me every now and then.
You're right about the importance of hair to people. I know for me part of my love for Nervous is his mohawk. He's just not the same person if you take that away. I tried that once and he just wasn't the same person. So for me he will always have his mohawk (and he's really kind of neat as an elder with a grey one!).
Toddler Nervous is just too freakin' cute!!

The first time I played Strangetown I lost Olive too fast (I didn't realize she'd die in two days) so I never really got a chance to play her. I've kept her alive longer and she really is an interesting character to get into. In my game she had Nervous move back home with her but she also has a zombie teen in the household. That happened because I moved Luc Smith's grave ( I really dislike 'leaky' ghosts) and she then got a want to make him a zombie. So I let her do that. The funniest thing about it is her actions with him can be so schizophrenic. One minute she's talking to him all nice and normal, and then next she's pulling pranks on him and laughing when he gets upset or she starts arguing with him over nothing. then she'll sit down and play chess with him (and I don't make her do these things, either). When your Olive talks about Ophelia and her goody-ness making her sick even though she took the child in, yeah. It's definitely her.
Olive can definitely kick some butt and I think I'm going to love that part.

The bit with Circe and the puppy...shudder...the dog should bite her and run like hell. You haven't happened to have seen "What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?" have you? There's some similarities there.

Keep up the good work. I can't wait for the next chapter. they just keep getting better and better.