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[glimmers]

What does your character look like?

Because icons aren't always the most accurate, tonight's not!meme asks you to describe your character's physical appearance. Height, weight, eye and hair color, build, distinguishing marks, etc. And if they've had any physical changes since arriving in the City (i.e., new robo-arm, sporting a rad eyepatch, suddenly becoming a human) you can share that as well!

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[calaidi]

i think i'm just going to c/p most of these from the last time

[anagrammatist]

or not haha. some of it is, anyway

Tom Riddle (who is now 17!) is described numerous times (read: every single time he's in a scene as Tom Riddle) as being tall, pale, and very handsome, with jet-black wavy hair and dark eyes. He has fairly long, thin fingers, though they aren't bony just yet, and a fairly thin but fit frame. Because his soul is no longer whole, occasionally when he's feeling a particularly strong emotion like anger or desire, his eyes will get a red tint or gleam to them. The CoS movie did a marvellous job with their casting, so my Tom does indeed look a lot like Christian Coulson.

Having a good appearance is important to him to make a good impression on people, so he's very neat and clean, every hair in place and no wrinkles in his clothes, and he very rarely looks truly "casual". He grew up in the Muggle world, so he has a pretty good sense of Muggle fashion, even if it is late 20s to early 40s Muggle fashion (which looks classy in any era really). Now that he's been in the City a while, he's managed to accumulate a fairly decent wardrobe of nice slacks, button-up shirts, waist-coats, and nice sweater-vests (and a couple new robes because he can't wear his school robes all the time). Mostly through excellent money management, magic, and flattering the right people. Most of clothes tend to be darker colors, blacks, or dark grays, with the exception of the button-up shirts, which are mostly white (because it is seriously impossible to find dark green button-ups I have looked). So he pretty much looks like this all the time, because his idea of dressing down is a sweater-vest instead of a waistcoat.

Tom has a quiet, relaxed demeanour most of the time, almost arrogantly relaxed--he's very confident in himself and his abilities. He's very good at making a person feel comfortable in his presence (so long as that person does know what he's really like, like the whole Pottercast). When he walks into a room and wants people to be aware of it, or if he just wants people aware of him in general, he'll project more of an in-charge type demeanour, but he's also very good at being unassuming and slipping into the background. His expressions tend to be small and seem more an impression of whatever feeling than really there. Generally, what he wants you to see is what you will see. Unless he's really shaken-up/off-balance; then he has considerably less control over himself and tends to make bigger, more truthful expressions.

Oh yeah, also, he twirls his wand in his fingers or taps it on things or just fiddles with it when he's feeling particularly confident or thoughtful. Or both. And usually if he's twirling it, it's with one hand, not two like Coulson was trying to do in the movie. It's a habit he'll eventually grow out of, but for now there it is.

[dissatisfaction]

Kiryu (age 23, almost 24) is about 5'11" and pretty skinny and he looks a lot like Kamenashi Kazuya except with gold-colored eyes and very light blue hair that's just past shoulder length that he usually keeps up in a ponytail. He dresses a lot like Kame too, except in darker colors/a lot more blues and blacks, so he has pretty nice casual clothes and even nicer dress clothes for work. He also has the pretty ugly looking yellow tattoo on the right side of his face which is in most of his icons. Assuming he looks "real" in the City, the tattoo isn't outlined, it's just a yellow line. (Also, if anyone ever bothered to scan it, it has some sort of nanotech in it that has a record of basically his whole life.)

When he's in Dark Signer mode, he looks like so (aka reddish-black sclera and the mark of his face turns blood red), although he has figured out how to change only himself and leave his clothes alone, and his hair is still long obviously. I only have a few icons of him DSed and with long hair unfortunately, because they are a pain to edit, but yeah.

Also he has this mark on his arm that glows purple when he's using his powers and is otherwise that dark purple color. And he is ridiculously pale. He can't tan. He went through a Western arc and ended up even paler than before. (Speaking of, he came back looking like this and he has an affinity for more Western-styled clothing now. And he has more than one coat like that one.)

He has a fairly casual but still commanding presence--he's a leader, but he's the type of leader who's more like your friend than your boss. He naturally walks fairly quickly but with fairly medium length strides, but he'll often just stroll along too. And he's pretty graceful, but also still kind of jerky in his movements.