sagesaria | Fugen's earrings

OR: What Saria thinks of when she's away from the internet for half a week.

So when Fugen first appeared in the Houshin Engi manga, he had a slightly different look than later;

http://www.onemanga.com/Houshin_Engi/109/14/

Notice that his hair looks a lot softer, and the main topic of this post; he has a pierced ear. I checked with another picture of him, it's just the right ear. Then later the piercing disappeared and his hair gradually spiked out into the porcupine that drives artists crazy.

So while I was at my dad's house Thursday night I suddenly thought "wouldn't it be cool if Fugen still had that earring?"

But this is where I get over-analytical and stuff. Since I use the later model for him, I feel weird going back to the old model for the earring. I mean if he doesn't have it now if I wanted him to have it it could be easy enough to just have him GET his ear pierced, but Fugen strikes me as someone with a low tolerance for pain (and believe me, it doesn't hurt long, but getting ears pieced does indeed hurt). Then again if he had a piercing in the first place...but then if I'm basing him off the new model...

Yeah I'm being over-analytical and talking myself in circles here. Opinions?