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Dec. 2nd, 2010 09:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
impersonaday 02: what comes first, the character or the pb?
The kind of games I usually join don't have mandatory PBs, so by default it is the character first. There are some chars I have that I KNOW I will never find a PB for - Deon, for example. I'd be shocked to high hell if I ever found anybody (real) who actually resembles how he looks in my head (Pixie's calendar art is the dead closest to what is actually in my head). Kaz, I had a few potential PBs for him but nobody who ever looked perfect.
In games that do use PBs, the pb-finding process happens about midway through, after I've figured out what character I want and what their general traits are. Amrit kind of got away from me though - I was originally looking for potential Endymion PBs, not Osiris PBs, but one look at Allu Arjun on Hollow Art and I had to use him. He just had such a fun look to him, unlike a lot of the other PBs I had been looking at.
The kind of games I usually join don't have mandatory PBs, so by default it is the character first. There are some chars I have that I KNOW I will never find a PB for - Deon, for example. I'd be shocked to high hell if I ever found anybody (real) who actually resembles how he looks in my head (Pixie's calendar art is the dead closest to what is actually in my head). Kaz, I had a few potential PBs for him but nobody who ever looked perfect.
In games that do use PBs, the pb-finding process happens about midway through, after I've figured out what character I want and what their general traits are. Amrit kind of got away from me though - I was originally looking for potential Endymion PBs, not Osiris PBs, but one look at Allu Arjun on Hollow Art and I had to use him. He just had such a fun look to him, unlike a lot of the other PBs I had been looking at.
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Date: 2010-12-03 06:38 am (UTC)Most of my characters will never have a PB for the same reason you cite. Finding a PB for the Yukio expy I have at Perfect World was crazy hard, largely because he was already so clear visually in my head. (I ultimately ended up using Miyavi -- he was about as close to Yukio as I was going to find. XD) Jack, on the other hand, fairly leaped off the Hollow Art pages as a human version of Coyote. XD (Hilariously, I have found some recent photos of Vinnie Woolston where he is wearing a big silver ring in the shape of a tribal wolf-head -- or a coyote-head. XD I'll have to try to find them again when I am more conscious.)
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Date: 2010-12-03 07:38 am (UTC)Yukio expy ;_; I'm sure you draw enough fanart of him to make up for whatever weakness the PB has :D ALSO, CAN HAS VINNIE PHOTOS?
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Date: 2010-12-03 03:21 pm (UTC)