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la_belle_laide ([personal profile] la_belle_laide) wrote2007-02-27 08:36 pm
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Just for those who might not know: A few years ago I wrote these huge fanfictions that were fairly popular. I liked some of the characters so much that I decided to quit that particular fanfiction and write original fiction using some of those characters and their stories. One of my favorites was the criminal anti-hero Sahrek, whose main power was one of suggestion; like a really strong hypnotist he could make you see what he wanted you to see, to the point where he could change what he looked like. Anyway, I always described him as having dark hair and blue eyes and that people found him attractive ... when he wanted them to. Blah blah blah, one scene I wrote had him getting captured and then using the chains on his wrists as a weapon to hit people with in order to escape. I was always partial to that scene.

I always imagined Sahrek like a kind of Nicholas Lea (X Files's Alex Krycek) and, briefly, Jonathan Rhys Meyers (before deciding that he was too pretty to be Sahrek.) Mostly he was always very Krycek-looking to me and that never really changed too much. But you can imagine my surprise and almost alarm when I saw this picture:
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Holy crap.

I had to do this:
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Now, don't panic; I didn't suddenly get talent or anything. That's a photomanip, badly done at that. Really the only things in there that are mine are the grass, the stupid tree, a bunch of chain links, longer hair and the crappy buttons on his coat. I really just painted over the rest, keeping within the lines (most of the time. Well, some of the time.) I didn't want to change too much of that pic; the position was exactly, but exactly the way I'd always pictured a moment in that one scene, and I had to have that face: Paranoia with a tinge of petulance. I only changed it the tiniest bit, just shapes and shadows, but I tried really hard to keep that expression.

Yeah, I stole it and made it crappy. Get over it. :P


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[personal profile] torkell 2007-02-28 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Was that scene in the original series? It's been a while since I read the early Shiek stories.

And is that a necklace hanging on the tree in yours?

[identity profile] la-belle-laide.livejournal.com 2007-02-28 04:43 am (UTC)(link)
It was in Raptor Crest, though the first or second one, I'm not sure. And I think I might keep that scene, or something like that. Yep, and I had to go and put the medallion dangling from the tree, because I seem to remember there was something like that, too. (Which is weird, "I seem to remember", when I wrote the blasted thing. O_0 )

Thanks for looking. ^_^