[ SECRET POST #4884 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4884 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

It depends, generally, on the character for me.

I have a feeling that you specifically mentioned actors and especially eyecolour, since it's an immediately recognizable feature that can't be changed up as easily as most other identifiable traits, such as hairstyle, hair colour, build, and to a certain degree skin tone. Though contacts do exist, technically- and I have actually seen a writer decided that Character A now has 'super dreamy' grey eyes because 'they could, because contacts' even though nothing in the fic made reference or supported it, and only as a response from the writer after they had been called out (I think it was) for getting the eyecolour wrong- it's a pretty heavy push to make and still have the character be recognizable for who they are.

Personally, it bothers me more when writers change the more 'excusable' of recognizable character traits, like hair style, and dye, because in that case it's usually because the writer just doesn't care about who they're actually writing about, or that they're clearly far too worried about showing off how 'mainstream' they ttly r bye pushing their savvy maesthetic skillz on chctr whoo totez needz 'da facelift... kind of thing...
I have a knee jerk reaction to exit out of every fic where a character suddenly has an undercut, and fuck, it's like Oprah's giving them out for free, because everyone seems to have one regardless of if the hairstyle is even popular in the time period of the canon or if it's even suited to the character themselves.

With eye colour I just hold back because chances are the writer just has no clue about what they're writing about and are either going by hearsay, or idk, something else entirely. I'll get through it just to get through it because at least the attempt at trying can sometimes not be completely horrible?

Of course the newer I am in a fandom, and every time I enter a fandom with multiple medias associated with it, I don't judge much at all, unless I know for a fact what the writers are referencing when detailing the character. Like with certain video games/some comics where the original concept art is common knowledge but was rejected for the 'official' look shown in canon, or a book turned movie like Harry Potter where Harry 'has his mothers eyes' but the colour doesn't necessarily need to match.
Fuckm I don't even know what I'm trying to say anymore...basically, shit can be complicated sometimes. Fine in multimedia circumstances and a easy warning sign in basically any other.