i want to knoooooooow

[glimmers]

What does your character look like?

Because icons aren't always the most accurate, today'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 Capitol (i.e., new robo-arm, sporting a rad eyepatch, suddenly becoming a human) you can share that as well!  And if you use a PB, who are they, why did you pick them,etc.?

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Zoidberg

[crabulous]

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Courfeyrac

[libertin]

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Some

[gruesome]

Grues were designed by aliens who were trying to make nightmarish human-culling machines. No, really. They're like deer-cheetah-mantis centaurs with eight limbs and two mouths and about two hundred teeth and eight eyes.

It all kinda went wrong when they added the waggy tail, though.



So that's Some. He's a bit small for a grue, weedy and bony. 7'8" standing on all four, or 11'10" if you lay him out and measure from hind feet to head. He's got the usual double rows of teeth, a bit crooked on the left, and nearly no nose. The crest of fur on his scalp, running over the midline of his skull from forehead to the nape of his neck, is the longest fur he has, about six inches, and it's prone to standing expressively upright, like a bird's crest. He has tufts of fluff at wrists and ankles and elbows, and combs those with his fingers when he's emotional.

The fur on his upper body is, in general, shorter than on his lower. His upper back is the least furred, with barely more than a fuzz and sparse guard hair, which allows the deep scarification of his Marks (see icon) to show clearly. He hates hiding them, and will bother his stylists over and over to make costumes that bare them. Even his palms are fuzzed, though his fingertips are not. (same is true for the soles of his feet and his toe-tips, they're identical to his hands.)

Grues think scars are important. You get a scar when a god has an opinion of you, and Some has plenty, all from before he came to Panem. There's a thin horizontal line across the side of his stomach, and the faint remnants of burns along his right side, from shoulder to forehip. Here and there, white hairs break his otherwise completely black pelt, marking more. One hind ankle has a very slight twist. Bete Noire was a violent place for someone as obviously non-human as Some, and even though he took steps to heal away the worst of the scars (Since scars made by humans are from The Wrong God), echoes remain.

The only thing he wears when left to his own devices is a necklace, made of twisted hair. Mostly dark, it has some distinctly long, distinctly bright hair wound and knotted in. The knotwork is very intricate, because this is what passes for a grue written language. Stories are told in those knots and little beads. A piece of stone the size of a dog tag hangs as a pendant, usually obscured in Some's fur, along with a poptop from a beercan.

Thanks to the Capitol humans and their obsession with lights, he usually supplements this with at least a hat and often a shawl, wrapped around the more sparsely furred upper body. When he doesn't wear it, he gets a sunburn very easily, and there's often a certain redness to any exposed skin. They give him creams for that, but cream in fur is never pleasant.

Questions, questions, I love questions.

[69problems]

All I can think about is Some with a lovely straw sunhat and a pretty floral shawl and the image is obnoxiously charming.

[shambler]

This is R normally:



And this is R as a human and here.

He's a little bit shy of 6'3'' and with a bad case of shuffling and hunched shoulders. As zombies go, he's probably considered pretty well preserved, as he doesn't have a lot of visible rot. Like all Dead in his canon, whatever eye color he had turned to a silver-grey that's probably got a flat look to it. His face is a corpse's grey like the others, littered with scars across his cheek, near his eye, across his mouth and nose. The same goes for his body from encounters with humans (don't ask me how they scar D:). He miraculously has a full head of hair that hasn't started falling out yet. It's basically a bird's nest of dark brown hair that's probably brittle and not run to run your hands through. As he has a habit of collecting odds and ends, he wears a bunch of dirty rubber bands and hair ties around his wrist.

His teeth are probably ruined (but they're magically okay later). He's spent years getting down and dirty with other zombies and probably getting smacked in the face by survivors, so his gums and teeth are probably...kinda gross. Like blackened around the teeth and the gums probably pulled back.

As a human, he's got better posture and better skin, but overall will look pretty close. His eye color is blue instead of zombie-grey. In the Capitol, he'll have a muzzle at all times that will be increasingly blinged out for the occasion, but for the most part, he's regarded as a lost cause for his Stylist team. They'll focus their efforts on other District 4 Tributes because he's hard to dress and he tends to ruin whatever outfits they make him.

The way he moves is pretty easy to spot from a distance: a lot of shuffling and staggering around, lolling head. When he touches and uses items, it's a lot like a drunk trying really, really hard to look like he's not drunk (and failing). His finger nails are probably down to the quick, though it's unclear if he used to bite them or he scratched them down before he died.

The Psiioniic

[xanthous]

The Psiioniic is a bunch of angles and lines shoved together in a vaguely humanoid shape. He's got features that all trolls do - grey skin, horns, black hair, fangs, so on and so forth.

Here, have a picture.



This is not actually a picture of the Psiioniic - that is not remotely close to a dorky tracksuit after all, but he and Sollux are clones of each other and Sollux has more nice art to choose from.

As far as build goes, take an average, 5'8" male...and then starve him and funnel out his energy for 2,000 years and you'll get an idea of what the Psiioniic looks like. His eyes are solid blue and solid red, but his eyes flash between colors like a siren. As far as distinguishing marks he did have scars, but he's gotten them removed. Want to know what they looked like anyways? Enjoy the bodyhorrorifficness of wires growing into your skin and a really sad comic page, even though there's a like of his sweet goggles.

[69problems]

OH MAN this is a good meme, especially since my character appears just a few times in canon and is a silhouette in all of them, hwups.

HAVE A PICTURE with tasteful ken doll nudity.

Signless is small by human and troll standards, standing at only 5'4'', since living outside of society means your nutrition isn't top-notch no matter how hard your adoptive mom tries. He's boxy but not angular. All his muscle comes from endurance, walking and running and climbing things, so he's not really overtly muscular. Dat butt hot, though. This is why he can get away with wearing tight leggings, his legs are Amazing.

Face-wise, he's got a prominent nose and a noticeable overbite (especially noticeable because it means his teeth are usually visible. Right now they've been Capitol-sharpened something like Enobaria's; usually they're blunter triangles). His jaw is about as square as the rest of him. His ears are pointed and stick out noticeably, but aren't too much larger than human ears on the whole.

Signless is in general a pretty scruffy and tired-looking guy, normally. He's about the human equivalent of early thirties but looks a lot older than that given all the stress he's gone through in his life. His hair is Aggressively Messy and he's usually unshaven, though he can't really grow an actual beard either so his facial hair just hovers in scruff limbo.

He's got some small scars on his body, general wear and tear of living on a planet where everything wants him dead and the terrain isn't terribly forgiving. Some of them are also probably from the Disciple. Have you seen her claws. Have you.

He's normal troll coloration -- gray skin, black hair, yellow nails and candycorn gradient horns (his horns themselves are small and rounded, though recently Cinna had them sharpened to points). The sclera of his eyes is also yellow and the irises are bright red.

Also personal headcanon states that since trolls are hatched rather than born and their species is closer to insectoid than mammalian, they don't have bellybuttons or nipples. They do, however, have scars on their sides (you can see his in the picture up there) that are leftovers from their pupation from grub to adult from: grubs have six legs, but adult forms only have two arms and two legs, so the third pair of limbs had to be lost somewhere in there. Related: he'd look about the same even if the picture weren't ken-dolled, because troll genitalia is usually tucked away when not in use, so nobody has to worry about the leggings he wears coming with uncomfortable Bowie bulge.

hahaha now i can cheat for him

[sleeplessinalternia]

Most of what is said above goes for Karkat too, because Karkat is literally genetically identical to Signless, more or less. It's an ectobiology thing, don't worry too hard about it.

The main difference is that Karkat is barely a teenager in human years.

[youbarium]

Carlos is perfect. Perfect in face, perfect in form. He has medium-length, wavy hair (it's grown out since it was cut so very short last July) which looks good from every angle, despite the touches of gray at the temple.

He has dark skin, a strong jaw, great teeth, and wears big, kind of nerdy glasses that he could function just fine without. Actually, it's hard to tell if Carlos is near- or far-sighted. He tends to treat his glasses like a prop, taking them off dramatically to look at something shocking or horrifying.

No one who spends all his time in a lab and doesn't work at all should have a body that good, either. He's tall, broad-shouldered, with toned arms and legs. How did they get that toned? No one knows. It's a mystery even to Carlos, who has never really given it much thought. Good metabolism, he supposes, looking at his defined abs and chest.

Basically, Carlos looks like a movie star that threw on clunky glasses and a lab coat because he's supposed to look smart.



This is baaaasically my headcanon Carlos? Except it also wars with this cosplayer for reasons that become obvious as soon as you click the link. (credit)

Soooo...probably somewhere between the two? Clean-shaven but with thicker hair than the fanart, but definitely with the graying temples and glasses.

Also, he's going to try his best to get his hands on a lab coat and wear it all the time. As often as he's allowed to. He doesn't feel right without it.

[hanssome]

Not featured in pictures: heavenly glow, chorus of angels.
BUT NO Hans is pretty average as far as humans go. He is notable for his sideburns and his disarming bambi eyes, like so.

Eren

[titansnack]

Eren is, for all intents and purposes, a kid who's grown up way too fast because that's what the world he lives in demands. He's only 15 years old, and he's got big dumb eyes and squishy cheeks, even if he's in prime physical condition. (He's pretty fit, but I guess his face didn't get the memo.)

He has a canon height of 170 cm (or about 5'7" for my other 'Muricans), and a canon weight of 63kg, or ~140 pounds, and very little of that is fat. He was a refugee who was starving until he could enlist in the military, and then he had to train non-stop for three years. He's pretty scrawny compared to some of the other characters in the series, including ones that are considerably shorter than him.

Also, have a really pretty bust:



(what a handsome fellow)

As far as distinguishing features go, he doesn't really have any. He doesn't have any (noticeable) scars because lol healing factor, but his eyebrows get commented on a lot. He always looks angry, and they've been described as "sparse". (He's eyes are pretty distinguishable, if you go by fandom. Eyyy.) His hair is usually messy, and lbr he probably cut it himself before coming here.

Okay, he does have a distinguishing feature, even if it's actually an entire body change. Eren is one of those people in his canon who can turn into titans, and when he goes titan he looks like this. His features are pretty typical for titans. Male-shaped, no genitals, tall as fuck (the default for him is 15 meters). His titan form is also hella swole, and is the only titan (that I can remember off the top of my head at least whoops) with pointed ears. His jaw is capable of opening up extremely wide, and he has no lips.

[googledox]

The joys of having a visual canon.

This is Brainy. In canon he's an unfortunate dresser:



He looks basically exactly like that in build and stuff since he's hit young adulthood so he's going to age sloooow due to the Coluan 300-500 lifespan. So he's going to look early and then eventually mid twenties for a loooong time. He never has facial hair or stubble because most coluans don't seem to really grow any, unless they're older so he does have a bit of a baby face despite being 22. He is 5'9" tall and a beanpole, maybe only 135 or 140 lbs or something. He does have muscle but it's very lean.

When he goes into a room, his eyes kind of dart around a lot because he's always like taking in tons of sensory detail.

Uuum not many major scars to speak of because of his shield powers but if you look closely at certain parts of his body like his sides and forearms there's places where there's a little perfectly straight line of slightly lighter skin. These are very subtle scars from massive skin grafting he had to get once due to bad burns. And he is hella self-conscious about them because of why he has them so if anyone ever points them out he pretends he doesn't see them.

Those white thingies on his forehead are implants that help him control his shield powers which became internalized IDK how that works because that bit in canon was weird, but I think the weird space anomaly being that internalized his powers made their source some weird bio implant that generates shields and the forehead thingies let him mentally control the shields. That is not working right now and he hates it.

The ones on his cheeks are his personality inhibitors, which basically keep him from going crazy because he got so smart apparently his brain just won't organize itself on its own anymore.

Those are all actually stuck into his face and give the impression they're kinda jammed in there and implanted rather than cosmetic.

His stylists will typically have him wearing clothing in purples, greens, and blacks that look almost supervillainous, with cyberpunk or retro sci fi elements.

So like this for casualwear:



And this for formal/going to parties stuff:



And his hair is basically forever a mess with a goofy little cowlick.

He alway always always always has a little gold ring on his right ring finger that looks like this (more the one on the right):



Always. As in the only time anyone will ever see it removed is if it's pulled off his cold, dead finger.

[the_marshal]

Wyatt and Wesker actually share a PB: Shawn Roberts, one of those little known Canadian actors that has secretly been in all your favorites shows/movies because 99% of them film in Canada. That said, there are couple things they share... as well as several notable differences.

Collectively, they're both not quite as tall as you'd think. SR is only like 5'9/10'ish - according to IMDB. I fudge a bit and stretch him mentally for Wesker to at least six feet since his height in the game (RE5 at least) is 6'4'.

For reference:

Also, I would like share that this is what Wyatt hides under all those clothes of his (completely with fuzz):


Wesker is even bigger - as SR packs on the weight for the Wesker role. Wesker has also longer hair, though forever slicked back, and is pale of skin and hair. (He has no chest hair. Wesker is totes the complete bodybuilder type.) Wyatt's hair is dark and short, and, of course, he has The Mustache; and he's got that 'works in the sun and wind' golden tone skin.

Also, the eyes. Wyatt's are a light, sharp blue, and completely normal. Wesker's... less so.

Pasha Chekov

[punchedaklingon]

She's five foot even and a light build for her height. She has a lot of curly hair that can vary from ringlets to ungodly frizz depending on how much effort she's put into it the night before. Pasha has had her eyes enhanced to a brighter shade of blue and they're one of the most noticeable features of her other than the height and the curls. She's worked hard to cultivate a 'cute' image so her make-up is usually minimal, aimed toward enhancing her eyes and big on rosy cheeks. Like most Capitolians her skin is pretty flawless and chemically corrected to look good.

If Pasha isn't wearing something with stars on or accessoried to the hilt with stars it means her mother has managed to shame her into the latest Capitol fashion and she'll be hating ever moment of it. She tends to wear heels because she's concious of how small she is but loves her sneakers.

Re: Pasha Chekov

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Ughhhh Pasha is like cute incarnate, I can't stand it! XD

[carnagecarnival]

NSFW picture with descriptors here.

The Initiate is a rather awkward looking troll. He's just begun on the change from awkward bony, lanky teen (like his descendent) with a side of slightly effeminate, to eventually becoming a 12 foot tall force of nature. At this point in time he stands in the 7 foot range not including his horns.

Like all trolls, said horns are red-orange-yellow, candy corn colored. His horns in particular are long and wavey, reminiscent of a goat's horns. He has long claws both on his hands and feet, also naturally yellow. He has quite a significant overbite, with teeth longer than most other trolls', his front teeth right to his massive canines hang over his bottom lip.

His ears are pointed and rather long, even mobile (he keeps them perked usually, but when completely totally relaxed or the like, they droop somewhat kind of like, guess what). He keeps them hidden under a fountain of wild, wavy/curly, thick waist length hair. Like all trolls, it is black in color (and somewhat wirey). The length (and therefore, weight) of his hair is all that keeps his from becoming a giant puff.

The sclera of his eyes are of an orange-yellow hue, more orange than most trolls and with capability of gaining extreme redness with severe anger/agitation. His iris' have begun to gain coloration, the grey changing to a deep indigo. On specific occasion when his powers are in use, his eyes flash in alternating bright pink and indigo. His eyes are rather wide and expressive but he tends to keep them narrowed because he's a butt. He's got somewhat thick eyebrows and really stupid long and thick eyelashes. Other than brows and hair, there's no body hair at all, Signless is a wierdo among trolls for having any.

His nose is mostly sharp, despite the slight wave to it, and button like up-turn at the end. Because of his tendency to look down at people (height being an issue here) the button-ness part isn't super noticeable and his nose appears more pointed rather. He's got a longer face with a little bit of cheekbone, a sharp jaw, chin drawn to a point. He is never ever ever seen without his face paint which he wears for significant religious reasons. It's generally done (the detailing) in grey make-up, just off from regular grey skintone, over full white face covering, except in arenas where he wears it as white detailing, forgoing full-face covering to preserve what he has in the vial he wears. The pattern is vaguely reminiscent of a skull as seen here in black. He does not vary this pattern otherwise (despite what impressions my icons give). That all said, his face is still rather youthful since he is still, in fact, a youth.

His skin is standard trollish grey, with the slightest tint to indigo-purple due to his blood color. He has an enormous amount of scars due to choosing the literal worst place for a troll to live and grow up completely by themselves. He has been biten, chewed up, stabbed (with various weaponry), sliced, beaten, clawed up, thrown about a little, and psionically burned once or twice, on top of what he gained from being a wee child on the beach and also being self-destructive on top of that. He has many stories to say the least. The end result is that he looks like he ran through a shredder (but still managed to be less scared-- formerly-- than the Psiioniic) except his face which has managed to avoid most significant scarring, not that anyone would be able to tell with the paint.

His appearance can be deceptive in that he doesn't actually appear to be quite that strong yet. There still seems quite a bit of weed-y-ness to him, though much of that is tightly wound muscle. He's primarily muscle and bone, very little fat on him at all. He's actually got some very feminine hips though and looks fantastic in high heels and booty shorts. His ribs are a little prominent, but not too frighteningly so.

He's got some rather Unfortunate hands/arms. They are not actually proportionate to the rest of him, canonically so. The lower arm and hands are much bigger than they would be (due to his most recent molt before arrival. Up before then his wrists were thin and fingers long and spidery). They are by far the most awkward thing about him. He will punch if they are commented on. More naturally so, he has clown feet with a tendency to walk on the fronts.

Because of actually being insectoid and not mammalian, he has no nipples or belly button to speak of, but instead two vestigial grub scars/marks that sit at his sides. He is more or less ken-dolled+hermaphroditic, referring to what was said on Signless/all trolls, as that still applies here. No bowie business over here.

He has a "presence" but whether it's height, attitude, speech, actions, or perhaps some other part of his phsyia that attributes to it, would be up for much debates and digression. But yes, overall, a strange looking dude. Fun with Puperty. One day he will be less awkward looking and instead more terrifying.

[Here: a draw of him from post-Alien plot but pre-Arena, with his hair cut and arm burns.]

[69problems]

I applaud your diagrams, they are beautiful. Also him trying to make himself into a seadweller more like leave me here to die.

My only crit is you didn't include the Tyra picture.

Gabriel

[casaerotica13]

Or if you want to be serious about this meme, this would more accurate. Don't be fooled. He's an adorable dork. Also, I have gifs for every occasion if you want to check that out.

BUT that's just his human vessel. He really probably looks something like this or this or more than likely:

This

Yes, it is fucking creepy. Thank you.

Re: Gabriel

[carnagecarnival]

whoooaaa that's cool as hell, gosh dang.

[pythianjudgment]

Everything about Terezi Pyrope is tiny and angular. She's only about 5'5" right now, which is kinda of short for a troll (at least compared to the adults). There is very little on her bones that isn't just lean muscle because she has a metabolism that's through the roof.

Echoing what Ink and Fritz have said about troll bodies: Being insectoid, she does not have a belly button or nipples. She has vestigial marks one her sides from her third pair of grub legs. She also has the same junk that the guys do which is all neatly tucked up inside, except that she also has breasts (small ones). What are they for? No one knows. Which is okay because she'll never tell you the truth if you ask, anyway. Making up weird (incorrect) alien explanations for their biology/physiology is canonically one of her favorite pastimes.

Her eyes. They are actually red. That is scar tissue that you are seeing. She is blind because her eyes are literally burned, and if you get close enough, you can definitely see that. She wears her glasses most of the time to prevent people from being too unsettled by it--unless she wants them to be. Also because Alternian law would have ordered her to be killed immediately for being disabled, so she has to keep up appearances.

Her face in general is a little disturbing too, mostly because her mouth is filled with a lot of sharp teeth. The other trolls get away with having overbites or fangs of some sort, but Terezi's mouth is just two rows of perfectly aligned knives--like a buzzsaw. She can bite through flesh and some things if needed.

Some other tidbits: Her nails are yellow and sharp to points, her skin is grey with teal-ish tinge to it. Not especially noticeable unless you're up close. Her ears are pointed! Her hair is actually fairly neatly cut because she learned how to cut her own hair, so she doesn't have to trust someone else with a pair of scissors at her back. (The stylists probably evened it out, though. Much to her general discomfort with them, but that's a given). It's between chin and shoulder length and flipped out at the ends. My personal headcanon is that she has monkey toes. She can pick things up with them. Like chalk. She's not very coordinated with them, though.

Overall, she has a...contradictory appearance. On one hand her height/build makes her look younger, but her demeanor and some of her features give her a jarringly dangerous vibe.

[sleeplessinalternia]

Of course trolls think jarringly dangerous is kind of hot.

Holiday

[doc_holi]

Holiday is a bit easier to talk about. She's not some sort of crazy celestial thing, after all... Anyway. She's headed straight to her early thirties in game, by this point. Canon only tells us that she's about 28ish and that was at the start of the show. Still, she keeps a mature look and- screw it, she's hot. I'm sorry, guys, but she's just hot. Tl;dr be damned.



Thankfully, Holiday doesn't even know it... In fact, she's oblivious to most flirts unless they make it super duper obvious. She's a nerd through and through and not one of those cool ones that'll rattle on about Pokemon all day. No, she's one of those that understands how to split an atom and how to break down DNA more than boys.

Oh, and she's badass.



Okay. I'm done. Really.

[lessthanelementary]

Neffa: I didn't know what this guy looked like until I picked out his PB. My only criteria were "not fully white," "not bad-looking," and "could conceivably be a supernatural businessman." I went with Corbin Bleu because he fit all those criteria and had good facial expressions besides! But he's definitely not exactly what Neffa looks like in canon. (Neffa would never wear his hair that long; Ristopa's in the middle of the desert, do his stylists think he's insane??)

I don't usually decide exactly what characters I've written myself look like. The protagonist of Neffa's canon doesn't have a canon appearance, either-- in the story itself their appearances are usually only described in relation to each other, in that Neffa is taller, thinner, and a little darker than his protagonist bff, though to what degree is left vague. Unimportant, because I don't play said protagonist anywhere, but it does make Neffa a little more difficult to describe in-game!

Less important than what he looks like is the impression of himself Neffa tries to bring across. It's not his looks that matter, it's what he does with them - so long as he comes across as honest, trustworthy, and competent, he doesn't give it more than cursory thought, either.

As for Cecil: I don't have a solid headcanon appearance for Cecil, honestly. The fandom has drawn him as every race and species and otherworldly entity that could possibly exist, and there are incredibly few Cecil interpretations that I don't adore. This is one of my favorite Cecils, but I also love him looking a hell of a lot dweebier - though dapper is cool, too.

My favorite headcanon for Cecil's appearance is that he doesn't really have one - that he looks like people expect him to look, and though this is slightly (or radically) different for every person he knows, it never seems to produce any conflict in people's descriptions of him. I like his appearance having almost nothing to do with who he is; having one is a convenience more than a necessity for him.

THAT SAID, that doesn't apply in the Capitol, where he has had the appearance he was born with his entire life! I've incorporated the above headcanon a little bit by establishing that he is big into cosmetic changes - he likes to change up his hair and eye color, to get skin dye and semi-permanent tattoo jobs done, to spend a week with patches of scales on his face and neck and then switch it out for, like, an artistically-rendered third eye on his forehead. His PB was chosen more for his expressions than his appearance - Cecil is not quite so easy to pin down. B)

[69problems]

shibe cecil 4 lyfe

Massive Virtue's Last Reward spoilers holy shit

[futilecycle]

Let's play the "what does the first person protagonist you barely see in canon look like" game!!!

Sigma is approximately 6' tall and muscular as fuck. He is about 250lbs with all the damn metal he's made of. He is the tallest member of the Nonary game other than his son, who beats him by a few inches by living in a giant exoskeleton. He has ? coloured eyes, which I arbitrarily decided were green because that's what they are on the fucking boxart, even though they're brown on the PS Vita, black on the 3DS, dark blue in the anime, fucking striped in the concept art, and blue in the art book. Consistency! When he was in college, he looked like this:



Wow, hot. So, because Sigma had to trick his younger self into thinking he was still in his body when they traded bodies, that's almost exactly what his body still looks like. Sigma works out. A lot. And also has muscular titanium cybernetic arms that copy those arms exactly. But his face now looks like...


HUGE fucking spoiler. I play a walking spoiler omg sorry

Oh.... (IN WHICH HIS FAKE EYE IS ON THE WRONG GODDAMN SIDE, REFLECTION FAIL.) Speaking of his fake eye, it has a "zoom in" function in-game, so it probably turns and telescopes and shit. So there are only two images of Sigma that show his face in the entire 60 hour game, that one above and this one (which is washed out because it's actually a transparent hologram a la PokemonXY in game):



...Okay, well, that's obviously not the exact image, but it's more fun this way.

So! That in mind, here is like, the single piece of goddamn fanart of Sigma in the whole fandom that gives us an idea of what he probably looks like when drawn and not represented by bad budget CGI:



Yes. This is the man that goes around handing out cat puns and wearing dumb Christmas sweaters. My muse, everybody!

Bonus: Because Sigma gets his artificial flesh ripped off a lot in this damn game, here's what it looks like beneath all that fake muscle:


he's confused because his older self took over his body and got his arms ripped off when little Sig was sleeping oops

Other shit (cw for body horror): He's not supposed to have a right eyebrow, the skin was supposedly ripped off with his eye, but you know how consistent this game is. He has a seam in between his shoulder and arm that transitions between pasty white hasn't-seen-the-sun-once-in-50-years skin (his body) and tanned skin (his arms). Sigma's natural skin colour, seen on the box art and in game, is actually a very light brown which is notably different from the other player's pale skin (other than Alice, of course). He was raised in California, so he could be tanned, or he could be mixed race, we don't really know. Of course, Old Sigma has lived locked inside a metal room for 50 years and never gone outside, as has his son, so they both have lighter skin than they should, now.

Re: Massive Virtue's Last Reward spoilers holy shit

[carnagecarnival]

Dang tho. By that painting, I am now pretty sure that Initiate is like "If this guy were a troll he'd be a commander and could maybe crush my skull in". Like, he has crushed skulls in too, but still. And he's definitely standing by that idea that Sigma must clearly be formidable as fuck.

Eponine

[gardienne]

The PB I use for Eponine is Samantha Barks, the actress who played her in the film last year and on the West End, and in the 25th anniversary concert. I use her, partially through laziness - she is obviously the easiest to find icons of, and she is the face a lot of people associate with Eponine now as well. But, having seen her sing 'On My Own' live, I have to say that she somehow manages to become Eponine onstage. So I'm sticking with her.

To be honest, though, I think she's a bit too pretty to BE Eponine. Hugo describes Eponine as a 'monster', someone who is fifteen, but looks fifty. She's actually somewhere between 16-18 in the novel (again, Hugo is dreadfully unclear about it.) but apparently looks a lot older than that.

She's described as a weed: tall and thin and straggly. In canon, she and her family are starving: this obviously leaves her as a thin girl. Hugo says that her cheeks are hollow and that there are dark shadows under her eyes. The actress who plays Eponine has slightly tanned skin - which probably fits with Hugo's Eponine anyway, if she was out in all weathers. He says that her skin is dull and greyish and her eyes have lost their spark. Her teeth are filthy, rotten and brown and even missing in places.

At the very beginning of the novel, Hugo describes Eponine and Azelma as both having thick plaits, one black and the other chestnut. It's unclear which girl has the darker hair - but at any rate, her hair is pretty dark brown. It's straggly and unkempt like the rest of her, bundled up with a bit of string or let loose in a messy tangle of curls. I suppose her skin would be quite rough, if she was out in all weathers, and her feet would definitely, definitely be tough as she has been running around for years with bare feet. She'd be covered in scrapes and sores and possibly scars as well. Nothing major, just the wear and tear of a hard life and her dad's fists.

IN THE CAPITOL, the stylists generally have their way with her. She's had cheek padding, false teeth, sharpened teeth, cat ears, long nails - the works. And they generally clean her up and make her at least as attractive as her PB.

RIGHT NOW - Eponine has asked the stylists to leave her alone and let her away with her canon appearance. So she currently looks more how Hugo described her than like her PB. After the arena... well, she's given up on life, so she'll let them do whatever they want to do to her.

Venus Dee Milo

[celebrityskinned]

Lookit how cute she is.

Venus is African-American with dark skin, somewhat darker eyes than her PB has, and short, straightened hair in a bob cut. She's 5'6 and about 140 lbs. She has long lashes, full lips and high eyebrows, and usually wears makeup. Her fingernails and toenails are always painted, usually in bright colors like baby blue or hot orange. She has a smile that affects her entire face.

Venus isn't just beautiful - she's sexy, and she knows it, because she made her living as the 'sexy' member of her celebrity superhero team before coming here. She has curves, but she's also an athlete, so she's rocking abs of steel and cut biceps. She's one of those people whose personality makes them seem bigger than she are, so despite being only an average-sized woman she doesn't seem all that small in comparison to grown men around her (high heels also help with that).

In the Capitol, she likes to change her hair up a lot, since she has a style team, which means on any given day she could be rocking colored extensions, braids and locs, weaves, bangs, cornrows or whatever else.

In canon, Venus looks like this naked (not the purple guy):



And dressed:



She's 'living energy' kept inside a containment suit designed by Professor Xavier. I wanted to avoid all the 'how am Venus function?' stuff from the comics, so I humanized her, which is something of a new shift for her. She's got all these cool new things to explore, like taste buds, tears, an actual sex drive.

Howard Bassem

[iselldrugstothecommunity]

Howard is teeny. We don't get much physical description for him in the books, but what we do get is: small, short, skinny, little, thin, and apparently so light that when an average kid walks on the floor above Drake, Drake can hear from the weight of the footsteps above that it isn't Howard. I figure he's about five feet tall and, when healthy, about a hundred pounds (which puts him in the bottom 5th percentile for height and bottom 10th percentile for weight for his age). Everything about his frame is tight and petite, with the exception of his fingers, which are long piano player-like fingers.

He appears even smaller because, having come straight from the FAYZ, he's emaciated. He has dark circles under his eyes and bones that stick out in a way that makes anyone with empathy cringe a little. Patches of his hair are brittle and come out easily. His fingernails curve at an odd angle and have strange dents in them. After each revival he weighs in at about seventy pounds, which is unhealthily skinny for his size.

He has dark skin and short, curly hair that he keeps shorn for easy maintenance. His eyes are dark brown, nearly black, and usually bloodshot from insomnia. His mouth is constantly covered in sores and rashes from chewing and picking at his lips, as are his fingertips. He's asked his stylists to fix his teeth and nose before waking up each time, so his nose is straight again (rather than kind of crooked from having been broken) and his teeth are too-white and perfectly straight and a little too big for his mouth now.

Howard's under the unfortunate misconception that wearing baggy clothes makes him look bigger; it doesn't. He usually looks a little bit like he's drowning in fabric. He tends to wear shorts, which turn into capris on him, because it means that he doesn't have to worry about tripping on the hem of his pants. He's always wearing pockets and multiple layers, and his Stylists have taken to padding his clothing to try and hide how scrawny he is. This also helps because being that skinny means he's cold pretty much all the time, which gives him a tendency to hunch, curl up and otherwise shrink himself.

He's very physically expressive, both with his face (eyebrows, eyes, mouth, nose, head angle, the whole shebang) and with his hands. He's one of those people who talks with hand gestures and seems almost cartoonish with their body language.

Fanart (not mine) of Howard and his bff Orc in the early FAYZ, before everyone starved and shit.

Re: Howard Bassem

[alonelyboy]

Oh my god he really is a tiny kid. Only five feet tall, wow.

Shion

[savedbyasong]

Shion has some notable differences to his icons. The anime and the light novel differ in what colour his eyes turn. In the Capitol Shion's eyes are dark purple almost black, instead of red. It is described as the colour of a moonlit lake.



That is more accurate though his eyes are a bit too light. The scar on his face circles right around his body like a snake and is bright red. His hair is white though in the capitol his stylists dye it different colours depending on the occasion!

He is 170cm (or 5ft6) and 54 kilos (or 8.5 stones)

Re: Shion

[futilecycle]

Oh my god. He is so cute.

Max

[designatedfreak]

Oi, I nearly forgot about this!

Young Max was played by Geneva Locke. Apparently this was the only acting she ever did, so finding images of her is really hard.

[Locke's headshot which will someday be Max as her hair is going to grow]



Right now Max is 12 years old. She's a bit on the smaller side and is in that awkward pre-puberty stage. Her hair is shaved in what military like to refer to as 'High and Tight'. The only distinguishing mark on her is a barcode on the back of her neck that reads 332960073452 in barcode speak.

[polyturtle]

This is Donatello.

The way that he tends to carry himself, people tend to think he's this scary and huge intimidating beast of a mutant ninja. A lot of people talk about how he's this behemoth who towers over everyone.

Nothing could be further from the truth. He's muscular, yes, and he can make himself look pretty damn intimidating and has a bearing which can make him look taller. However, he's only 5'0-5'2 (depending on what source you're consulting about his height) and a few pounds shy of 160 pounds. Either way, he's shorter than a lot of the younger kids.

His skin is an olive green, and his eyes are black underneath his bandanna, which . His plastron and shell are intact, and his only visible scar is one of what looks like a gash on his inner and upper right thigh. He's also very obviously hairless, and only has three fingers on each hand, and two toes on each foot. Though his skin is tough, and his shell is close to indestructible (though blunt force can chip it and cause him severe pain), his plastron is still pretty soft and vulnerable, just like any normal turtle's. He's also cold blooded, which can cause a great deal of problems for him if he's in the cold and is ill-prepared to externally regulate his body heat.

Outside of parties, he wears practically nothing, not even shoes. Save for a belt similar to the one at home, seen above, and his bandanna, most of the time. He gets no elbow or kneepads or other belts or buckles to accompany him.

When he's suffering from his secondary mutation, he turns into something akin to a Godzilla kaiju. In this form, he's over six foot tall, with glowing red eyes. He also gains claws on his hands, and his skin is much tougher.

[dividedgirlofmine]

So the first thing you need to know about Susannah Dean (and her original Good Side personality Odetta Holmes) is that she's beautiful. Her prettiness is canon, although it's not always remarked upon. The only time you could say she's not is when Bad Side personality Detta Walker takes over, because she's enough of a bitch to twist Susannah's prettiness into ugliness. But still. Pretty.

The second thing and probably the most important thing you need to know is that she doesn't have any legs below where her knee would be. She hasn't had them for roughly six years, not since she was twenty five when an psychotic dickbag named Jack Mort pushed her on the subway for the lulz.

So when you see her outside the arena, she'll be in a wheelchair. At least for now. Eventually she's gonna get a pair of prosthetics--probably blue painted white china so they'll be forspecial--but that hasn't happened yet.

She's an African-American woman of about thirty-one years of age, although she canonly prefers the term Negro because she's from 1964 and it was the polite term at that point in time. Currently she wears her hair short (so it halos out from her head) and natural (because there were no hair straighteners in Mid-World and she got used to it and then decided she preferred it that way.)

Clothing-wise she usually wears dresses that come to just below the stumps of her legs in the Capitol. She's also been wearing cappies when she leaves the tribute tower. (Cappies are basically shoes for stumps.) Her personal sense of style is generally rooted in the mid-sixties because as mentioned before that's where she was originally from. She is kind of WTF at a lot of the more outre capitol fashions, especially if they involve people's underwear or navels showing.

What else? Hm.

She's got strong arms, which isn't surprising given how crawling is her main form of locomotion when not in a wheelchair. She parts her hair to the side to cover up the ugly greyish scar she got when she was walking with her parents when she was five and Jack Mort (yes the same douche as the subway) dropped a brick on her head from a couple stories up for the lulz.

For a while she had an ugly sore on her mouth from having to travel through the poisoned badlands but Patrick Danville erased it with his magic art powers shortly before she arrived in Panem.

I used Naomie Harris as Miss Moneypenny for Suze's PB because she was decently close to my mental picture of Susannah.