Hydaelyn Role-Players

In Tumblr roleplay, a lot of folks used real life pictures of celebrities, well-known or obscure, past and present, to put a face to their character.

We have seen who has your character's personality, who would be their voice actor, but what about aesthetically? Who could possibly portray the looks of your character and what features are prominent that make this particular person ideal for them.

For example, I chose Jada Pinkett Smith for Rivienne. She has that half-lidded look with striking eyes, which is a seductive look as it is dangerous ( Gotham! Phew). Her skin tone is right on the money.

I'm on a quest now!

While she's a bit too young, for me it's Rebekah Mikaelson from The Originals/Vampire Diaries. Dem lips, man. Lili's lips are like that, though the hair is a bit lighter for the character then the claim.

I'm also on a quest to find a good faceclaim, though I might just use David Boreanaz.




swooning intensifies 

Miss Taylor Momsen! Took me about.. well, 4+ years to find someone who I thought would work for Aysun and this girl fits the bill. Lips, eyes shape, etc. (Also sings like I'd imagine Aysun would). Would need to curl her hair though! XD

I used to use faceclaims/played-bys a lot when I did journal roleplay back in the day!

For Ehla, I already had a model in mind when I made her:



Anna Arendshorst!

For Faye, it would be Miss Mosh!

Jason Statham, with darker skin and less balding.

And Karen Gillan for X'unmei:




And Wylona Hayashi for Shade:

For R'tali it'd probably have to be Luke Pasqualino! He always looks like he's up to something, and he has just the right amount of bratty-adult-ness to fit the bill.


 

He always looks like he's coming up with terrible ideas. PERFECT. 8D

 

I am not familiar with actors really at all, so I found a match only through some serious Googling and whatnot.

I found this guy, who is really, really close. The actor is Dennis Oh, and I have never seen any of his movies or whatnot, but the images I see are pretty close.

Titor is supposed to be sort of Khazakh in the real-world ethnicity, but if anything he looks more like a mixed Asian race. Dennis Oh is half Korean half Caucasian, so he seems to fit the part in appearance. 

(edit: a link broke, so going to just add some more fluff)

This art is the way that I envision his facial structure mostly.


So, here is Dennis Oh.

Ayesha Takia, Indian actress, is Umi's FC even if I tend to draw her chin a bit more angular.

Well, Yvelont's has already been pointed out to me when a random passer-by told me "O_O You look like Superman."


Henry Cavill, mainly the noise and set of his jaw.. his profile, overall. I think Yvelont's is pretty striking, mostly by accident, and after I looked at it, I found the resemblance is fairly strong.

I'm so torn on face claims. I like to think faolan is only attractive in a weird way, but I also like to draw a lot. So I need someone I can get a lot of references of, that fits the character. And I imagine just finding some person's facebook and using them as reference wouldn't go over so well, pahahaha. I love seeing all the unique face-claims people come up with. I wish I was good at finding suitable dopplegangers.

So that leaves me with actors and models. I chose a model for faolan, as I find many models are not attractive in the conventional sense so much as they are interesting to look at.

So I don't know. I'll just say Sean O'Pry if he got hit in the face with a shovel or something. It's really the eyes that strike me as Faolan.