rdm<p>While working on <a href="https://aus.social/tags/ScoutAndShaman" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ScoutAndShaman</span></a>, <a href="https://aus.social/tags/CerianAndVaranWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CerianAndVaranWar</span></a>, and <a href="https://aus.social/tags/GwenAndGrey" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GwenAndGrey</span></a>, I made a conscious decision to limit my physical descriptions of the characters.</p><p>Gwen has red hair. Ashwan is "shorter than expected". Hitomi is very tall and has wings (and Claire would give her a run for her money in height). Grey is never actually described beyond the bauplan they are using at the time - and the fact that their preferred <a href="https://aus.social/tags/Dragon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Dragon</span></a> form is huge. Tannis, Ava, or Estelle don't get described at all. </p><p>My reasoning is to allow my readers to create their own images of how the characters look. </p><p>Since then, I have (naturally) run off to <a href="https://aus.social/tags/HeroForge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HeroForge</span></a>, and created 3d models of how I imagine they look! </p><p>Except for Grey. I will never really be able to model them, because their form is so mutable.</p><p>I will not be sharing these models online, because I really do want my readers to be the people who decide what the characters look like. </p><p><a href="https://aus.social/tags/IAmWriting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IAmWriting</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/WritingDescision" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WritingDescision</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SciFi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciFi</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/SFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SFF</span></a> <a href="https://aus.social/tags/AmWritingSFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmWritingSFF</span></a></p>