a wild poll appears!

[allie]

So, I've noticed that lots of people have lots of different thoughts about rp icon usage, and I'm curious about the prevailing opinion.

For the sake of having this poll make sense, imagine you're playing a character who appears in a manga, an anime, a video game, and a live-action film, but you took your characterization solely from the manga.

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Now, imagine that your character undergoes a change in appearance throughout the series. Check for each change that is acceptable for icon purposes.

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By state change, I mean a change that isn't being represented ICly. Imagine a human character that can transform into an animal, but is always human in the RP. Would it be appropriate for the player to use animal icons as well as human icons?

Obviously, there are exceptions to every rule, but just go with what's true 90% of the time and describe the exceptions in comments.

I'll get on my tags in a sec, I promise.

Comments

[valentinite.livejournal.com]

I'd say for a character with a lot of canon sources, go light on the doujinshi/fanart, but use them when there's good reason. (Says the girl who's commissioned fanart for an RP journal where there is canon art.) Generally -- match art styles. If the game is really different looking, skip it. Etc. Which is why I didn't mark live-action for coming from the manga, but I could be convinced on that too.

On the state-change/timeskip thing -- I'd say you'd only want to *use* those icons when the timeskip/change is important -- reminiscing about childhood -> kid icon is obvious, but other ones also.

And for places like damned where characters get changed on entry, anything from original canon that has relevance is good.

I <3 text/quote icons, but that should not be a surprise to anyone, lol.

Also, I'm not big into anime fandom -- but if a Doctor Who RPer for, say, Martha, had icons from the animated special thing or the tie-in comics, my general response would be ooh, nifty!