bjornwilde

Thinking of making a journal for Bartimaeus from the Bartimaeus Sequence books. Already have a name picked out and am looking at icons. As I've been reading the books, he scans as black to me; when he deigns to appear human. I know in the first book he at least takes on the appearance of an Egyptian he knew, Ptolemy. Going by the name, I would guess the Egyptian would be from the time period when the Greeks had mixed with the Royal line, so a more Mediterranean skin tone might be called for. I know he seems to prefer youths when he takes on human forms, though he's taken the form of a woman at least once.

I've found a couple of black PBs I like, only one of which is not a teenager. I've also found a few Mediterranean looking peeps, since he does take on an Assyrian form in the book I am currently reading. I keep finding attractive PBs but they are too old. I keep having to remind myself he only takes on youthful forms. I still think I will keep Harold Perrineau for when he's dealing with entities of greater power ,assuming he is trying to appear equal to them and not using the youth form to seem less a threat or worthy of pity and mercy.

Half the challenge in finding faces has been the need for them to be youthful, and seeming cheeky, witty, mischievous, or snarky; not to mention being brown or dark skinned.

The trials of a shape shifting pup and DW's 15 icon limit. I could always not have a default icon and use Imageshack to link appropriate images to.