[ SECRET POST #4008 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4008 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

[fscom]

03. https://i.imgur.com/hfAKxF7.png

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really see the problem with a writer designing a character based on their aesthetic preferences? That doesn't even really seem surprising

[dani_phantasma]

Like hello I'll freely admit that 90% of my characters are based on author appeal traits and aspects woven into coherent stories and I wouldn't be surprised if others are the same.

[(Anonymous)]

Yep, this is completely true for me.

[viv_vivillon]

Same. Most of my characters have brown eyes because that's what I find attractive. And also because there's a proliferation of blue-eyed blondes in romance novels.

[(Anonymous)]

I wouldn't be surprised if he designed characters to be his type, because that's what most creators do.

I do doubt that he did it with some nefarious creepy plan that people would send him cosplay pics, because who plans that in advance?

[(Anonymous)]

...white women?

[(Anonymous)]

Goths, I guess.

[(Anonymous)]

To clarify, what are you asserting here? That he designed her that way because that's his type, or that he designed her that way to guarantee people would cosplay her?

[(Anonymous)]

Death cosplay - it sounds so funny to me seeing it described like that, when it was such a normal look for me. One of the reasons I liked Death so much was because she looked just like my friends and I in our everyday casual outfits. Not even special or dressed up or anything.

[(Anonymous)]

Same! I even have an ankh necklace that I wear from time to time... I wore it out one day (with the usual all black), and somebody actually stopped me and went "OMG, are you cosplaying as Death?!" /facepalm

[(Anonymous)]

I have several pieces of Ankh jewelry, including a huge necklace like Death's. So did my friends. Ankhs were simply very popular then, just like Peace symbols and Yin Yang and celtic knots, and sure, I wore mine very often, too. *g*

[(Anonymous)]

She is based on Tori Amos. She and Gaiman are close friends.

[starzki]

If any of the Endless were based on Amos, I would guess Delirium, not Death. But I don't believe Delirium was, either.

[(Anonymous)]

Delirium is apparently "inspired by" Tori, but the idea of her existed before he met Tori.

[starzki]

It was the comic artist, Mike Dringenberg, not Gaiman that came up with Death's character design. And she's based on a real person named Cinnamon.

https://www.slugmag.com/lifestyle/cinamon-the-high-cost-of-being-death/

http://www.theeartof.com/artists/MikeD.html

[(Anonymous)]

Thanks for setting the record straight. I knew she was the comic artist's idea but I forgot the details. People seem to forget it takes more than one person to make a comic.

[cbrachyrhynchos]

I thought that was the case.

[thewakokid]

She's everybodys type.

[(Anonymous)]

Eventually.

[rosehiptea]

Well played.

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't seen anyone cosplay Death for about 15 years.

[(Anonymous)]

Slinky? She wears a tank top, sure, but besides that it's pants and boots.