[ SECRET POST #4884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4884 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

there are very few people with eye color SO striking that it needs to be described at all.

I generally don't like when a character is first introduced and we get a description of their eye color. It tends to feel prosaic and unnecessary to me. Like you said, how often do we actually consciously think about people's eye color when we meet them?

OTOH, if the characters are in love with each other (or even in lust with each other), then I think it feels very appropriate that they are constantly noticing and thinking about details about each other. When you're in love with someone, all those little details suddenly seem meaningful.

[(Anonymous)]

yEAH! I don't need a full physical description at a character's introduction, just their most striking feature or features, depending on who's eyes we're seeing through. BUT, if it's a scene between two characters who have known each other and are in love/falling in love, then even if there's nothing NEW about the color of a character's eyes, it feels appropriate to bring it up.

But, to address the secret itself, man yeah. It drove me crazy recently in a fic where a character's eyes were CONSISTENLY described as icy blue-- like, it came up way too often-- and the actor's eyes are a very gold-leaning hazel. I'd have accepted amber, even brown just because the lighting on the show tends to be so dark, but they're kind of the opposite of blue?? It was so weird to me that the writer just decided to change that-- I guess for the contrast?

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It was so weird to me that the writer just decided to change that-- I guess for the contrast?

AYRT - Oh man, yeah, agreed. I actually tried to read a fic just last night that was a HORRIBLE offender for this. Peter Parker was described as having blond hair, blue eyes, tan skin, and full lips.

HE HAS NONE OF THOSE THINGS. I was just like, o_O

(And his hair was described as curly, plus he was kind of bright and peppy, so he was definitely meant to be the current MCU spider-man.)

[(Anonymous)]

Did they get MCU!Peter mixed up with Spiderverse!Peter or maybe Ben Reilly? That's the only explanation I can think of.

[(Anonymous)]

SA- oh sure, it works much better with established relationships vs. first meetings, but even then I'd prefer to have authors be a little more creative and focus on more character-driven details or personality traits or something.

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT - I'm a visual person, so I like a mix of both, myself. As long as the descriptions aren't flowery. "His keen, dark eyes" - yes. "His sumptuous mahogany orbs" - no thank you.

[(Anonymous)]

I always make not of someone's eye color if I'm being introduced to them since I'll usually be, I don't know, staring into the eyeballs at least for a few seconds.

I get it's clumsy if the person is far away (everyone makes fun of the Twilight cafeteria scene for this). But some people (me) do make note of what color people's eyes are. Just like I sort of take in their whole appearance.

I think with characters who have known each other for a while you can do things like...note how the eyes change in different lighting or how if they get really close for an almost kiss they notice flecks in their eyes that they never saw before because they were always too far away to see them, or maybe part of the attraction to the other character is that they have really pretty eyes so they make note of it, or maybe they're wearing something or have makeup on that "brings out their eyes".

Eyes are an important part of the face for expressions so I don't really think it's weird to point them out or describe them. Especially if it's our first introduction to the character. I like being given details like that otherwise how I imagine the character looking is constantly changing and it's annoying for me to have my imagination constantly be handing it to me.