hey guess what time it is

[deadredbird.livejournal.com]

It's time to talk about our PBs! If you have them, of course. You could also talk about how you can't find a PB for your character, or how it's just impossible anyway.

Here's what I do:

1. I visit PB Updates @ IJ to search for the basic parameters
2. Once I pick a face or two, I use Wikicon @ IJ and Find Icons @ IJ to locate icon posts
3. Then I google around to find:
   • any icon posts I might have missed
   • any LJ fan communities of the actor/actress/model
   • any fan sites with galleries of the actor/actress
4. And then I google raw images of them to see if there are any images the icon makers didn't include

And if I'm EXTREMELY HARD UP and can't find a face I like, I will ask Find a PB @ IJ for help. But honestly, 90% of the time they are fucking hopeless. They try, though, and even a broken clock is right twice a day, so it's at least worth a try?

So for me, I have:
[Bad username or site: deadredbird title= @ livejournal.com] » Henry Cavill, who has irritatingly enough been in a lot of period dramas where he looks fairly froofy (YES, WHY CAN'T ACTORS CONFORM TO MY PB-ING NEEDS), but I like his strong features, the dark hair light eyes combo, and his broodiness. When he's not in period costume, he can actually look pretty tough, though I don't think he's ever been in an action film or anything.
[Bad username or site: sibyllant title= @ livejournal.com] » Jaime Ray Newman, whose expressions I like. I do think she looks a little young for Babs, who would be in her late 20s, early 30s, and she doesn't have glasses. So I was considering switching to Ingrid Michaelson, who was linked to me in one of the anonmemes. Thoughts?
[Bad username or site: reformedrogue title= @ livejournal.com] » Anthony Rapp, also known as the guy from Rent.............. to me, anyway, because I've never seen Rent but that's all I know about him. He usually has a clean, slightly geeky look with the glasses, but the picture I chose has him scruffy, because Piper has been both those things. (He of the magically disappearing facial hair, damn you Countdown.) He also has a certain earnestness about him that I think is fitting.

But I cannot for the life of me find a PB for [Bad username or site: wrongmagician title= @ livejournal.com]. The joke, of course, is that he's Harry Potter, but I'm not going to use Daniel Radcliffe, or any of the PBs that people usually use for Harry or James Potter. He just does not look like them, to me. I would like to have a PB for him because I don't have many comics icons, because the art for the Books of Magic is inconsistent.

I also have HUGE amounts of trouble PBing Tim Drake. Currently I use Ethan Peck, whose curly hair is really at odds with Tim's current floppy hairstyle, or the short/spiked styles of the past. Also, he has a cleft chin, which is not always obvious, but is is a feature Tim doesn't have. His eyes are brown, but I'm willing to excuse that on the grounds that it can be very difficult to find dark-haired light-eyed actors that fit the bill (and besides, Christian Bale's Batman has brown eyes). Any suggestions?

Comments

[behisgirlfriday.livejournal.com]

You know, the PB question kind of brings up another one I've been interested in posing to the community for a while. It's kind of "assumed" that the medium of the world of C&C is Real Life. That means that everyone, even the anime people, are Real. Whenever I interact with a game or comic or anime character, I find myself wondering how my character physically sees them---and how their characters see mine. I mean, I assume that if an anime character still sees themselves as "normal", they'd see everyone else as anime characters.

THINK ABOUT IT, IT'S TRIPPY.

[sam-the-redhead.livejournal.com]

I WAS THINKING THAT TOO.

I mean, for all we know it could be like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, but...oy it's so weird trying to think about it and I doubt that's the case. XD

You should pose that question to the community, I mean, it's a good question on perspective and how character might see each other, or how the world sees these characters.

...now my brain hurts.