Kevin's Watch

I have a bad habit of doing this. When I read about a book character, I just get a tv show or video game character's face stuck in my mind instead of anything following their actual description. Often, faces which are very off the mark.

For instance...well, it happens a lot with Erikson's Malazan books, so I'll use those. Instead of Kalam Mekhar, Crokus, and Sorry/Apsalar, I see Volke, Sothe, and Astrid, 3 characters from the fire emblem game on the gamecube. I can't remember what Sothe looks like, but I'm pretty he doesn't have green hair. And Kalam's supposed to be bulky, not skinny.

Volke: www.path-of-radiance.info/image/dl/volke.jpg
(he's missing the facemask thingy he gets later)
Too lazy to get the others, but you get what I mean. Besides not being real-life'ish images, they're far from close to the actual description.

Anyone else had the same problem?

Sometimes I'll get a picture of someone in my head, and then when I read the story another time, I realize that I misread the desription. Blonde hair instead of brown for instance, but it's already too late for me to change it!

Ooh. I just remembered a rather funny one, also from Erikson.

I keep seeing Shadowthrone as Francis Bacon's (younger) rather creepy looking "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X".

That has been known to happen to me, but as a rule, I get a general outline of a character in my mind but I can never quite pinpoint their face. What an interesting thread, though.

Lord Mhoram wrote:That has been known to happen to me, but as a rule, I get a general outline of a character in my mind but I can never quite pinpoint their face. What an interesting thread, though.

Right, 'interesting'. I'm good at 'interesting' *cackles insanely*