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Supposed to be John Constantine giving Misha a haircut. Would've been about a week after she moved in with him. She wanted to cut what she felt was the last ties to a super bad situation, by changing one of the things she used to never be able to, her hair. Of course, he doesn't know the full extent of her past(not the whole compound in Estonia, raised to never expect to live the next day thing), just that she escaped a bad situation and wanted to change her look.For John, it's just his new roommate asking for help. For Misha, it's a big step in her life, her gaining her freedom and proving she's not a puppet on a string anymore. She doesn't have to live by Mother Veronica's rules anymore. She can be herself. She can be free. And she can trust others to help her when she can't do something herself.And to her, that's good enough. ❤️
Also, fun facts about Misha
The first few months after moving in with John when she was still 17(so before he introduced her to the others), Misha would stay up a bit after he fell asleep (usually on the couch while they were watching TV) just to watch him breathe to reassure herself she was safe and that he wasn't going to be gone by morning (like what happened to most people she knew in the compound) and half the time, John wouldn't actually be asleep and would wait for her to be asleep to ruffle her hair and whisper "you're gonna be okay". He didn't know her past not why she seemed so anxious all the time, but knew she was scared of something, so he helped. (He did have an inkling it was something to do with a death of some sort. So, he wasn't too far off.)
Misha always knew Mother Veronica was full of shit when she kept telling Misha and all the other girls that she was their real mom. This was because Misha was slightly older(almost two) when she was kidnapped, unlike the others who were all a year old or younger. She could, albeit very vaguely, remember her birth mom.
Misha was the only one of the girls who ever knew Darlene masqueraded as Claws, and never told anyone. When she saw the memorial the Justice League has for Claws, she was seething because they wrote 'Always loved' and in her mind, they didn't know her older sister like she did, how could they write she was loved if they didn't even know her name?
Misha, by birth, is a citizen of Gotham, and technically was never a citizen of Estonia(since the government has no idea of the compound there), but grew up only in Estonia and speaks their language more fluently then English. She also never knew the word for Dad in any language (since she was basically raised in a kidnap cult version of Themyscira). So, after a while of being around John, sometime after she turned 19, but before she developed her Lost'Shine alias, she started calling him 'ema' which means Mom in Estonian. He has no idea what it means, he just thinks it probably means 'drunkard' or 'smoker' or something that he thinks she'd call him.
Her favorite heroine is also Black Canary and she secretly has a plushie of her. But she will deny it if you ask.