Bonus points if the author first mentions a specific trait, physical build, or whatever else halfway through the novel and totally fucks up my mental image.
I don’t expect a biology model description for each character, but write me something brief and evocative of how they should look, you fucking dork author. I don’t even know how tall she should be, her hair colour, anything. Why are you like this, author?
I vaguely remember avoiding detailed descriptions of my characters writing fanfic because I didn’t want people to think I was horny for my characters. So I went pretty far in the other direction.
Oooh-la-la, a potbelly, so sexy ~
idk man, I was a kid trying to avoid any accusation of sexuality in fan fiction.
And I was just commenting an absurd example of a character description, that might make people hot and bothered for their characters, to bring some levity
>writing fanfic
>not horny
In seriousness though, would describing your characters inherently imply awooga on your part??
People could claim that and I was very cagey. Still am, but in different ways