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

[sarrasi.livejournal.com]

I generally prefer to take my icons from the medium I'm playing from though I might mix in occasional anime/manga icons if they're pretty or a traumatic childhood icon for memories or what have you. As long as it's consistent with the way the character looks in the RP, minus rp-verse damage which might be difficult to photoshop in.

With media like video games and books, it's much harder to get picture icons, so I'd be open to anything from manga/doujinshi/fanart images to live action PBs to just quotes. As long as they're all consistent, really.

Cosplay icons are kind of creepy though. They just...are. Unless you specifically need a live action pb that looks like an anime chracter I guess.

But really, they're just icons, so whatever the player wants is good enough for me.