"Black to a lighter color is actually hard to get right but yes. I assume you'll be appalled if I tell you it'd be easier to just put it all back red if you shaved your head."

Findekano is watching them with extraordinary amusement he's making no effort to conceal. 

"I can't shave it off," Maitimo says in a strangled voice.

"That's what I figured. I can do a temporary dye that'll wash out?"

"That'll work."

And now he has black hair.

Findekano is having the time of his life. 

"Thanks," Maitimo says. "I can have a viewscreen in my face, people shouldn't think too much of it - can you replace the clothes-"

"Sure, what do you want."

"You notice how there are three kinds of uniform cuts people wear around here? The one that neither Findekano nor I is wearing."

Cam hands him a uniform.

He changes. "And if you both leave I'll rebraid my hair to something that's not distinctively mine and also not inconsistent with the outfit."

Cam rolls his eyes slightly and goes into the next room.

So does Findekano, who still looks outright gleeful.

"You're chipper."

"We have resurrection."

"Congratulations, by the way, figuring that out, I would not actually have guessed that it boiled down to 'have you tried turning it off and on again'."

"I assume my uncle didn't guess for the same reason. I wonder what the biological equivalent would be?"

"I know it's not defibrillation, because that totally happened in medical scho- actually I don't know that because all the subjects in med school were probably intentionally made to be basement dwellers in the first place, why would anyone bother aiming for a sapient human when they know they won't get one."

"Electroconvulsive therapy sounds like a closer equivalent, since it's the mind and not the heart that's a problem - how likely is it that all this leaks into Hell and a short time later it's a very bad place to be?"

"They'd have to put together a lot of pieces and have much weaker incentives to do it. But there's a lot of them."

"Or maybe someone's already found out and just doesn't share because he doesn't want anyone else objecting to the idea that the sex toys in his basement are sentient."

"Figured that part out, did you. Yeah, it's possible. Although it's also possible this happened a hundred years ago and has just not been publicized, electricity has been known for a while."

"Well. Continue not publicizing it. At least you can make yourself a Maitimo in Hell if you want one there."

"...uh," says Cam, "one, I'm not sure I ever wish to return to Hell, two, nnnnnot especially?"

"This world's going to get less exciting if we win. Even if you win by killing all the Valar. It's not a giant plane made out of gold, though, I'll give it that."

"It would be really hard for this world to get less interesting than Hell. Everything interesting about Hell I can replicate here."