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

[revolves.livejournal.com]

Dude, it like... depends a lot on some of these choices. @_@ Like, how desperate you are. For example, with Haseo, there really isn't any shortage of available material for him, so all of the icons I use in-character are from the game or movie, the latter of which has a different characterization but otherwise doesn't look any different from than the games' cutscenes aside from being a bit prettier. However, Haseo also undergoes several major changes in his appearance, and I would never use icons for him that are from a different "form." If I was playing for some insanely bizarre reason his Bst form from the movie, which has very little screen-time, I probably would go and resort to fanart, which brings us to something slightly more relevant to the example given...

With Mikami, I used a number of anime, fanart, and doujin icons alongside the manga ones, even though my version was strictly manga. Why? Because, like, there was only so much you could get out of the time he got in the manga, and I'm a whore for icons. I would never dream of using live-action (if he had been in the live-action movies, har har) or cosplay pictures though. That's just... just no for me.

B is... a story all his own. orz