BoM/TWS Message Forum

It's you and your perceptions. :p

Seriously, remember first that these are supposed to be rough and ready guides meant to pin down certain important details and (if possible) capture something of the underlying personality. If they get that, then they are doing the job that I intended for them. This, btw, is another reason I've been reluctant about sharing images. People naturally will treat these as in-story photographs rather than as aids to the author(s).

Also, I would urge that some allowance be made for the story's own exaggerated appreciation of various characters' ... charms. Read literally, WHS would seem populated by the cast of a mid-00s CW teen soap opera, full of impossibly beautiful people. (Even if most them would clearly be 30-somethings pretending to be 16.) But one should also read it understanding that the characters who are commenting on, oh let us say, Cindy's knockers, are going to have an exaggerated appreciation for them.

Eva: She doesn't look so much younger to me. But even if she does, I would prefer her to look younger, as a way of emphasizing her relative shyness and gentleness.