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Serious talk though. So, human Alastor in the show looks like this:
Well. Now. A question. Would an angel lose its wings if he looked AT LEAST like this:
Am I tripping, or does even such a little change make a difference? All I did was push the skin and hair hue a bit toward orange, increase the saturation, and decrease the hair lightness by about 15. For the eyes I increased saturation and decreased lightness so they stay reddish on-theme.
Is it already shifting this poor fella from White Man Painted Brown to looking remotely … decent? Shifting colors takes zero effort. Real people look all different ways, sure, but he is a character design, not a real person.
NOW. Let’s get even bolder! Here it comes:
General changes applied: I very slightly darkened the skin, deepened the hair to appear actually black, enhanced the highlights, and removed the swirl sideburn.
(B1) Additionally, the goddamn single stray hair strand sticking out is gone. It’s the 1920s or 30s, you don’t go out in public looking that unkempt. A significant improvement in my opinion, as it was there for absolutely nothing. Plus, now he actually has a hairline. Just a hint of one, so no one gets offended.
(B2) Are we getting somewhere? That double anime-antenna hair did absolutely nothing to help the case, so I tried simply removing it, but the resulting shape looked like total ass. Something had to be done. And done it got! However, now the left side features sharp lines while the right side is adjacent to Rebecca Sugar’s hair. No disrespect to Rebecca Sugar, the point is: even with natural loose big curls, in that era you would not walk around with unstyled hair. The original design feels influenced by 17-year-old TikTok fuckboy aesthetic. Ma’am, that is no child. That is a man with a job.
So, now. The standard styles of the era required hair to be heavily styled and shiny. Since the cloud pissed me off, I kept throwing shapes around and arrived at this (C):
It is of course not 100% era-accurate, if at all, but at least now it looks intentionally styled. His natural hair texture underneath becomes irrelevant. See? Problem solved, no one gets offended :) It’s amazing how era-accurate grooming bypasses the need for a studio’s agonizing tiptoeing!
…I meant to say: now we have sharp lines, which I was under the impression this character was all about. And, because we have newly reclaimed these sharp lines, a marvelous thing can happen: we can compensate elsewhere. Have you noticed? The nose got human! All I did was nudge 10 pixels. No more, as further tampering would clash with his Hell design, and that’s a powder keg, so the clash might wake some people up. We can't have that. So, while those 10 pixels might slip past the viewer's conscious mind, I think they do make a difference.
…Or am I tripping?
Has the angel lost its wings yet?
I’m not declaring this design is good, mind you. I’m no visual artist. It’s just some hastily assembled shapes. I’m sure a salaried professional would do a much better j— … oh. Well!
Really, now. Why spare such minimal effort?
Are we to believe one man’s color palette could truly alienate the general public beyond the sensible horizon of the producers’ profit margin? What year is it—1926? Surely our modern world is past such worries!
Would being a tad less red-tinted make a fellow less fuckable? In an entirely asexual, respectable and consensual manner, of course! ... The ‘why’ of it all leaves me wondering. It might be the simplest answer of all. But that is hardly ever a satisfying answer.
...Don't you want your beloved murder-boy looking sharp? A tragic case of skill issue, then! Shoo!
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Edit! Mustache edition, though I’m not convinced: [ 1 ] [ 2 ]
Day 6 ( a creature that could live in your forest )
Scene from the wild robot
DAEMON X RHAENYRA ‘get it on’ IN EP4 PREVIEW!!!
Daemon in his bedshirt at twilight, either gazing softly down at Rhaenyra, OR he’s deep in reflective thought thinking about her.
Daemon in incognito mode, ready to hit the town, smirking at Rhaenyra.
Rhaenyra also dressed incognito, as a common boy, ready to have some “fun” with her uncle in secret. She runs after him in an alley way.
AGAINST A WALL??! SAUCY DAEMYRA.
THEY’RE FLIRTING HARDCORE. HOW FAR WILL IT GO?? (Hello Daemon’s trademark ring!).
Hello Rhaenyra’s face, I see you girl. HIS HAND IS SO BIG OMG.
WILL THIS BE THE FALLOUT SCENE???
VISERYS HOLDS A DAGGER TO DAEMON’S THROAT AND YELLS, “YOU ARE NO CONQUERER, YOU ARE THE PLAGUE!!”
Episode 4 is going to kill me, I swear.
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If when the Ghosts go to the toilet it turns to dust, surely it means they could shit their pants and have no one notice.
Seductively destructive, we are true romance
Does the man become the monster, or the monster become man
I like Chris. I like Dante. I really liked the jacket. Boom. Dante in MIW jacket for the win. ❤️🔥
did you know i have the fattest crush on him...