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

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FFVII is probably the only one I'd mix 3D with 2D art because...IDK FFVII is weird like that. (Or. Well, FF in general. >D But like someone above there said, pretty much only of the 3D resembles anime the way FF tends to.)

For every other fandom, I usually stick with the medium the series came from, but knowing how difficult that can be, my main thing is to stick with 3D vs 2D. So like -- manga/anime mixing is okay, but mixing live-action or cosplay and anime/manga feels a bit weird to me. If that makes sense?

I mostly play from live-action fandoms, though, so I honestly haven't thought about this too much since in that case, you pretty much have icons made from screencaps from the show, and that's pretty much your major, if not only, source. So. 8D;;