a wild poll appears!
Jun. 27th, 2009 10:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
allieSo, 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.
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.
[Poll #1422140]
Now, imagine that your character undergoes a change in appearance throughout the series. Check for each change that is acceptable for icon purposes.
[Poll #1422141]
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.
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Date: 2009-06-28 07:10 am (UTC)I'd mostly stick with manga if that's what you're drawing everything else from. Although if there aren't enough of those available, I'd move on to the next closest thing, and the next closest after that, and so-on.
Said character o' mine also has one of those major cosmetic changes!
I try to find/make as many as possible that match the appearance that he'll have at the point he's taken from.