How do you imagine other BDers

[Aganzir]

A few days ago I was talking with a friend of mine who doesn't have an account here but knows quite a lot about the Downs and some downers anyway. I don't remember anymore what we were discussing, but she asked me how old Hookbill is. "About 20 years, I think", I told her. "Whaa!?" she replied, "I have always been imagining he's some 45-year-old grandpa! You know, a person who goes regularly to have a beer with the Saucepan Man and davem!"

I was quite amused and decided to ask her what she thinks other downers are like, then. Here are some results how a non-downer imagines downers- and not only what they look like.

"Feanor of the Peredhil is a girl, I think? She has long, curly, brown hair. She reads much and doesn't spend all her time on computer."

"Lalwendë is a 30-year-old American single mother. She reads a lot of books: Tolkien and romance novels."

"Xyzzy is a very skinny teenager boy who wears glasses. He doesn't have any muscles, I would win him in arm wrestling like 6-0. All he does is to play with his computer."

"Legate looks wise and silly at the same time... And he looks like he's lost."

"Mormegil is in his early twenties. He's a quiet introvert who doesn't have any life but computer. He has a hooknose and wears mostly black."

"Mithalwen has brown hair, of the same colour as Lommy's but a little shorter. He's about 23 years old and has a nose like a potato.
And I know Mithalwen is a she; I just can't help but imagine her a man because her nick, despite that -wen, is so masculine!"

"Boromir88... Wait a minute? Is that a he or a she? I think it's a she. She's a teenager girl who chose that nick because she has a crush on Boromir. She has curly brown hair, and she usually wears light blue jeans and a blue shirt. And she also wears glasses.
But if it's a he, well, he's a teenager boy who admires Boromir. He looks quite the same as the she-version, except his hair is straight. And he tends to go and run in a forest with his friends, and they fight each other with toy swords."

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

*chuckles*

Note, please (and I'm sure the older members will do), the typical connection of words "45-year old grandpa". Anyway, looks like Hookbill made himself quite an interesting profile! (Well, actually, it was not him. We call that "twisted rumours". Not that the editor of The Downer could expect more.)

I must say however that these opinions above are in some things close to how I used to imagine, or think about, these Downers when I was completely new around here. More or less. Well, less, rather. I mean Boromir, mainly - that was pretty close.

Lost? Oh my, in what way?

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

Note, please (and I'm sure the older members will do), the typical connection of words "45-year old grandpa".

Well, it was she who used that word.

And you look like you have lost your way in a big city, know that you should ask for advice but don't want to.

Originally Posted by Hookbill

Besides all this, I'm a teetotaler anyway. So no beer, even if the Pan Man and Mr Dave are involved.

Ah but, surely they serve also tea in bars there?

*stops chatting*

I must say yet, though, that at the moment I imagine Legate has a long, white beard. That's because the structure of his avatar resembles Kuruharan's avatar very much.

[Legate of Amon Lanc]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

I must say yet, though, that at the moment I imagine Legate has a long, white beard. That's because the structure of his avatar resembles Kuruharan's avatar very much.

I must say, it does not sound that inapropriate given the fact I am quite fond of Saruman...

In my imagination, you also have a beard. But it is brown, or rather, somewhat rusty. Slightly orange-ish, you know. And you wear this horned helmet and have a pickaxe sticking from over your shoulder. Wearing blue outfit. And you are standing in a railway station hall.

For potentional readers, of course I know Aganzir is female... this image in my mind also is.

P.S. Oh, and I forgot one important thing - you are grinning right now.

[Hookbill the Goomba]

I have always been imagining he's some 45-year-old grandpa! You know, a person who goes regularly to have a beer with the Saucepan Man and davem!

I don't think there has ever been a less accurate description... Ever. Apart from that one guy who thought I was Moses...
Besides all this, I'm a teetotaler anyway. So no beer, even if the Pan Man and Mr Dave are involved.

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Feanor of the Peredhil is a girl, I think?

Distinctly so.

She has long, curly, brown hair.

Pretty accurate, when it's not being shaved off, dyed unnatural colors, or straightened... It's currently its natural reddish-goldish-brown (and has been for, wait for it, almost three whole months!), rather short, quite messy...

She reads much

I just inhaled a book on paper graffiti art in the past two hours...

and doesn't spend all her time on computer.

Unless, of course, I'm bored at work.

Spot on, if y'ask me.

Definitely accurate on B88.

Some imaginings I've been having:

Aganzir, I'm rather sorry... up until wolving with you, due to limited interaction, I had you as a red-headed teenage boy somewhere in the midwest of Canada.

Macalaure is blonde. I can't make it go away. Blonde hair, green eyes. He wears wire rimmed specs and button up shirts. Rarely wears jeans, and if he does, they aren't blue. Doesn't own sneakers.

It's troublesome, having seen pics of so many 'Downers. My old imaginings got replaced by new ideas. It's like trying to read the books after having seen the movies... Almost depressing.

[Rikae]

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Macalaure is blonde. I can't make it go away. Blonde hair, green eyes. He wears wire rimmed specs and button up shirts. Rarely wears jeans, and if he does, they aren't blue. Doesn't own sneakers.

Although he does own two pairs of sneakers, he never wears them, not even while hiking through the mud after dark.

I always thought of Macalaure as blonde too, before I saw his picture. (And no, it isn't because I think 'all Germans are blonde', since I also thought he was English!) Sandy blonde hair, tall, and kind-looking.
Legate, for some reason, I pictured as looking more like Macalaure actually does, and I keep thinking he is in his late 20's even though I know otherwise.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

"Mithalwen has brown hair, of the same colour as Lommy's but a little shorter. He's about 23 years old and has a nose like a potato.
And I know Mithalwen is a she; I just can't help but imagine her a man because her nick, despite that -wen, is so masculine!"

Well I don't know whether to be delighted to be returned to the age of 23 (a particularly exciting year in my life which started with my graduation, continued with a trip around the states and ended living in Paris round the corner from the Eiffel Tower!) or mortified to be made male and brunette .... and the nose... is not so bad ... I hope .. a little too wide (fault of my Dad - some people think it has been broken) and long (fault of my mum) and slightly aquiline but in half profile it is a "Hathaway nose " a clear link with the side of my family I most relate to so I don't know I would change it if I could.

The screen name mith-alwen means Grey Tree (according to some translator) so the -wen ending is misleading - the name is androgynous. It was not a name chosen with any great thought- just one I had to hand from a RPG elsewhere - since I did not realise how the downs would take over my life. However it does amuse me that both my real and screen names are usually shortened to a form used by both genders. If I had thought about it I might have chosen something unquestionably girly but then I don't suppose I could have rendered "Pink fluffy bunny slippers" into Elvish )

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Legate of Amon Lanc

I must say, it does not sound that inapropriate given the fact I am quite fond of Saruman...

But it looks a bit funny with your brown hair. Like you were dressing up as Father Christmas.

In my imagination, you also have a beard. But it is brown, or rather, somewhat rusty. Slightly orange-ish, you know.

Surprisingly, wrong. But the colour somewhat corresponds to my hair colour- only add there a little blond and make sure there's just very little orange.

And you wear this horned helmet

Wrong. But if I found a horned helmet somewhere, I think I might like it. I'd prefer a Roman officer's helmet though.

and have a pickaxe sticking from over your shoulder.

I don't own any pickaxes and seldom carry my axes with me in public anyway. But you know, this isn't actually so far from being one of my good ol' rpg characters.

Wearing blue outfit.

Although blue is one of my favourite colours, I don't have any blue clothes.

And you are standing in a railway station hall.

I don't know about other countries, but in Finland railway station is the place where goths and emo kids and such gather. So not for me then, unless I'm waiting for somebody there. I have no clue though why I would be waiting for somebody dressed like that.

P.S. Oh, and I forgot one important thing - you are grinning right now.

That's the most accurate thing.

Originally Posted by Feanor of the Peredhil

Aganzir, I'm rather sorry... up until wolving with you, due to limited interaction, I had you as a red-headed teenage boy somewhere in the midwest of Canada.

I guess I'm rather myself. :-D But that made me laugh.

Originally Posted by Mithalwen

The screen name mith-alwen means Grey Tree (according to some translator) so the -wen ending is misleading - the name is androgynous.

Well, at least the -wen there isn't that misleading as you are a she.

**

When I play werewolf with Nogrod I always think he looks like Alastor Moody of the Harry Potter films. I really have no idea why. Except that that man looks mad in the way Noggie plays.

Usually I imagine, though, that people look like their avatars. I guess I will never be able to stop thinking of Mith as her previous avatar (only with the distinction that Mith has darker hair and a less round face).
And I have problems not to think Nerwen as Cate Blanchett... But in my image she has dark brown hair and wears often a ponytail or a bun. She's quite tall and thin and has slender hands and wrists.

[Lalaith]

Macalaure is blonde

Tsk. Whatever else he might be, he would surely be blond....

[Groin Redbeard]

I always imagioned Thinlomien as an short with long brown hair.

I still remember that she was the first one who ever spoke to me on the Downs. *sighs romantically*

[Thinlómien]

When I play werewolf with Nogrod I always think he looks like Alastor Moody of the Harry Potter films. I really have no idea why. Except that that man looks mad in the way Noggie plays.

Now that's evil but not too far from the truth... Ok, now I'm the one being evil. I wasn't serious, of course.

Originally Posted by Groin Redbeard

I always imagioned Thinlomien as an short with long brown hair.

I still remember that she was the first one who ever spoke to me on the Downs. *sighs romantically*

But your imagination is very correct, for I am relatively short (something like 163cm, which should correspond to about 5'4'' or a bit more) and my hair is long and brown.

As to how you look, I can't help thinking you look like your avvie also in RL, even though I know that people of your age seldom have long beards... Also, being a dwarf, you must be (even) shorter than me.

[Nogrod]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

When I play werewolf with Nogrod I always think he looks like Alastor Moody of the Harry Potter films. I really have no idea why. Except that that man looks mad in the way Noggie plays.

Well as we know each other from RL as well I'm not sure whether to think of that as a compliment ("he's that weird when he plays") or as something else ("he looks like that actually").

But coming back to the general discussion: sure the avatars seem to guide one's perception of others pretty strongly.

And they seem to sneak to one's choice of them as well. Before this one (taken after the COH was published) I had as an avvie a picture of youg Dimitri Shostakovich. I kind of thought it was the right one for me until I only later gathered that he looks just like my grandfather as a young man in that picture...

[Rune Son of Bjarne]

I am here to correct a mistake. . . What Fea meant to say was "Macalaure is Bond" and surely we can all agree upon that!

[Aganzir]

Originally Posted by Nogrod

Well as we know each other from RL as well I'm not sure whether to think of that as a compliment ("he's that weird when he plays") or as something else ("he looks like that actually").

I guess you look like him about as much as I look like Sean Bean or Kurt Cobain. That is, there may be something similar but very very little.
It's more the way you play, so don't worry.

[Mithalwen]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

Usually I imagine, though, that people look like their avatars. I guess I will never be able to stop thinking of Mith as her previous avatar (only with the distinction that Mith has darker hair and a less round face).
And I have problems not to think Nerwen as Cate Blanchett... But in my image she has dark brown hair and wears often a ponytail or a bun. She's quite tall and thin and has slender hands and wrists.

My mother thought I looked like that painting but my hair was never quite so red, was darker now lighter ..... I wanted to change back but I have technical difficulties again (avatar not hair - though...). However, I think my wolf is quite me...

And I think of Nerwen as Cate too...

[Macalaure]

Originally Posted by Fea

Macalaure is blonde. I can't make it go away. Blonde hair, green eyes. He wears wire rimmed specs and button up shirts. Rarely wears jeans, and if he does, they aren't blue. Doesn't own sneakers.

As a child, I used to be blonde and was made to wear glasses. I only wear jeans, most of them being blue, and only brute force can make me wear button up shirts. And as Rikae said, I do own sneakers, but I don't use them often enough *needs to do more sports*

Originally Posted by Lalaith

Tsk. Whatever else he might be, he would surely be blond....

Originally Posted by Rune

I am here to correct a mistake. . . What Fea meant to say was "Macalaure is Bond" and surely we can all agree upon that!

Now, does that make me a blonde Bond? But I passionately dislike Daniel Craig!

[Feanor of the Peredhil]

Originally Posted by Macalaure

But I passionately dislike Daniel Craig!

I don't know if we can be friends any more...

If we have a Bond on this website, it would probably be Son of Numenor, who I've always imagined as a Pierce Brosnan surfer type...

[satansaloser2005]

sean bean? who looks like sean bean? sorry couldn't resist that.


i've only been on two games here so far and thus haven't really gotten a good mental picture of anyone. cept for fea. lol one of my friends at work has that for a nickname so everytime fea would post i'd get a picture in my head of my little supervisor friend. little tiny adorable girl. then fea turned out to be a wolf in that game.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Aganzir

And I have problems not to think Nerwen as Cate Blanchett... But in my image she has dark brown hair and wears often a ponytail or a bun. She's quite tall and thin and has slender hands and wrists.

Believe it or not, Aganzir I actually do look like that, except I have short hair.

[Thinlómien]

Originally Posted by Nerwen

Believe it or not, Aganzir I actually do look like that, except I have short hair.

Odd, You know, this might have something to do with the Agan's game, but aside from imagining you look like Cate Blanchett, I imagine that you have a big mouth with big white teeth. I mean, the sort of big mouth that does not normally look very big but when you grin or laugh (or eat ) or sing or something it suddenly looks huge.

[Gothbogg the Ripper]

The Barrow Wight. A waiter with his thumb forever in the soup.

[Nerwen]

Originally Posted by Thinlómien

Odd, You know, this might have something to do with the Agan's game, but aside from imagining you look like Cate Blanchett, I imagine that you have a big mouth with big white teeth. I mean, the sort of big mouth that does not normally look very big but when you grin or laugh (or eat ) or sing or something it suddenly looks huge.

Well, actually, I do have rather big white teeth...

Just to clarify that last post: I don't mean I look like Cate Blanchett, I mean I'm tall and skinny and have very thin hands and wrists.