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Even though he's described as both tall and wide, and with a black beard and hair, I persistently, automatically picture Hagrid from Harry Potter as super-tall and thin with a dark brown hair and beard.

How about you guys? Any mental images of characters that persist despite the fact that your mental image is really weird and/or contradicts their actual physical description?

(Doesn't count if you picture them as their actor in an adaptation!)

I once thought that Ginny was fat.

For a long, long time I pictured Snape as a short elderly man with a handlebar moustache and a goatee.

Sometimes I end up picturing book characters as completely different characters from visual media for whatever reason, and then I'm stuck with that image. For me, Sabriel will always be Kris from Pokémon and Voldemort will always be Hades from Hercules.

I do that all the time. Sometimes they get really weird because I'll connect characters based on something minor or unrelated to looks, like a phrase they both happen to use or trademark personality trait.

Ooh, do you have any good weird ones? c:

Weirdly enough, for the Darren Shan books, I picture myself in his place. Or either as his manga counterpart.

Around the time I first read a particular book in the Darkover series that involved a character named Damon, I was dating a guy whose online handle also involved the name Damon. So the book's description stated flat-out that he was basically small and slight - a textbook mage, more or less - and pale and fair-haired, but I could not stop mentally imagining him as tall, heavy, with dark hair and eyes, like the guy I was dating. It actually took me a couple rereads before I realized what he really was supposed to look like, but I never could make myself see him that way.

Aziraphale is Stephen Fry and Crowley is Hugh Laurie

Yes.

From Good Omens, I just can't shake the image of Crowley looking like Mark Sheppard. I just can't. Idek if Mark Sheppard would do a good job with Crowley, but that name and face are so closely linked for me.

I don't picture Dr. Watson with a mustache. Everyone knows Watson has a mustache, but it just doesn't pop up in my mind when I'm reading the stories. This is probably because I didn't have any conception of it being a thing for British ex-military people to have mustaches back then, and I read A Study In Scarlet when I didn't know shit about Sherlock Holmes whatsoever, not even the cultural osmosis.

When I was a kid reading Inkheart I always imagined Dustfinger as this purple-skinned red-haired alien from that old ooold star wars animated film with C3PO and R2D2

I imagined Hermione looking like a friend from school because the book description of big teeth and wild bushy hair was kind of like her.

I thought Lavender Brown was black then realised that was because lavender brown in Matilda is black and I'd gotten them crossed in my head

I pictured Remus as a teacher who taught me in primary school, which was kind of nice, Remus is my favourite character and he was a wonderful teacher.

I thought Gale from Hunger Games was Native American, despite seeing Katniss as more light olive skinned (Not trying to start trouble, just how I read it)

Also you know that scene in OotP when Harry sees Voldemort in a black suit at the train station in one of his vision type scenes?i used to have a tall, skinhead, thin teacher who always wore full black and I couldn't look at him in the same way again

When Jessie's family showed up in The Baby-Sitters' Club and it was a huge deal that they were black, I was baffled because I was certain that one of the recurring families introduced at the very beginning of the series was black. I don't remember which family now.

There's nothing in particular, but if an author doesn't provide much physical description of a main character right off the bat, I go and form my own mental image of them. Sometimes this image becomes very strong and when contradictory descriptions appear, I have to ignore them because I can't change the picture in my head. (Despite all this, I'm very forgiving of visual adaptations not looking like my headcanon.)

As a short woman, I tend to picture female protagonists as my height regardless of how they're described. It's hard for me to imagine what it's like to look down at someone who isn't a child because it's so unlikely for that to happen to me in real life. My weirdest example would be Katniss from The Hunger Games. I pictured Rue as a few inches taller than her. Also, I got into my head that olive skinned = Egyptian (I don't know where that assumption came from) so I pictured Katniss as a short Egyptian teenager.

For some reason, when I first read The Hobbit, I pictured Gollum as very tiny (like, could fit in the palm of your hand tiny) and black, with white eyes. I guess because I was a kid and I didn't read that closely, so I just pictured a small shadow creature living in a dark, wet cave... type... thing. I don't know. I was surprised when I watched LotR for the first time and he wasn't itty bitty. (Though I suppose that would've ruined the plot, as Bilbo could've just stepped on him)

I had a few instances where I saw the author of a book name certain actors/models/RL people as almost perfect lookalikes of their characters and in a few cases, my brain went just "What? But... but you didn't describe them that way AT ALL?!". And I also really didn't agree with it, but how do you disagree with the Word Of God?

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