Real live lit characters

[Cruel2BKind]

I was just watching mad men, when a thought occurred to me.

So many of the women in the lit stories are like Christina Hendricks.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_hZb1eJSA8Lo/S9ByKTS46nI/AAAAAAAAD6E/WdGf5LM7zXw/s640/c3.jpg

As far as i can tell, everything about her (yes, everything) is natural.

She is a natural redhead, a natural DD, she has creamy skin (no freckles) and a damn nice figure despite having a bit of meat on her.

Then I wondered,

Should we make a list of all of the men and women (celebrity or no) that are like stereotypical lit characters?

Any takers?

 

[lovecraft68]

Just look at any porn star, female and also male (because let's face it many men described in these stories are all hung studs) and you have your lit characters.

Off the top of my head one of the hottest women I've seen(and I don;t think she was ever really a household name as "hot chick") was Charisma Carpenter who played the bitch on Buffy.

When looking at her I certainly see a "big sister" from many lit incest stories. The long black hair, the nice tits, long legs, you know, what everybody's sister looked like.

 

[annanova]

Sorry Cruel, fellow MadMen fan here, but Christina Hendricks is not a natural redhead. She admits as much herself. She's actually a blonde, but her mother let her start coloring her hair red at the age of ten. Everything else? Totally natural.

I call her a spiritual redhead, much like myself.

Still, I'd agree with you that she seems to be an archetype for a lot of the Lit story redheads.

I'd also agree with LC that Charisma Carpenter seems to be the basis for a lot of characters. While she was hot on Buffy, she hasn't aged particularly well.

 

[Handley_Page]

Off the top of my head one of the hottest women I've seen(and I don;t think she was ever really a household name as "hot chick") was Charisma Carpenter who played the bitch on Buffy.

When looking at her I certainly see a "big sister" from many lit incest stories. The long black hair, the nice tits, long legs, you know, what everybody's sister looked like.

I was more a fan of Alyson Hannigan that carisma.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

This is an interesting idea

But instead of guessing who other writers have used as the basis for character creation, it may be more interesting to post the inspiration for our own characters. For example, the character "Gwendolyn Garrity," in "Desperate Measures: The Driver," was inspired by non other than Helen Mirren.

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[SevenSquared]

Great idea for a thread!

A young Katie Holmes seems to be the perfect embodiment of a lot of the 'flowering' 18/19 year old girls in a lot of first time stories (plus some 'younger sisters' in incest).

A lot of mature stories (and incest ones involving mothers) seem to involve characters that remind me a lot of Nigella Lawson

I'm not so good at male characters. I guess being a guy I tend to visualise the female characters a lot more than the male ones. However, in those stories with the 30-something guy just finding his feet again after a divorce, for some reason I often imagine Josh Radnor

I'll probably think of others...

 

[Cruel2BKind]

For one or two of my younger characters, I've imagined Jake Gyllenhaal

http://www.negativespace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Jake-Gyllenhaal.jpg

Like Jason, from the Goats.

And for Alone, I always imagined Derek Luke as Anthony (except a lot more muscular)

http://whogottherole.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Derek-Luke-black-leather-449x300.jpg


And the one on the right in this picture is Drake, From ELW

http://files.myopera.com/Zaphira/blog/skinny male models.jpg

 

[soflabbwlvr]

This is a little more difficult than I thought. Most of my characters are not based upon celebrities, but rather, the people I see in my daily life. One character whose look was inspired by a celebrity, however, is the titular bride-to-be in Fallon's Final Fling. Fallon was inspired by confused conservative firebrand Meghan McCain.

 

[SevenSquared]

This is a little more difficult than I thought. Most of my characters are not based upon celebrities, but rather, the people I see in my daily life.

I think the thread is supposed to be less about which celebrities lit characters are based on than about which celebrities coincidentally embody all the characteristics present in stereotypical lit characters. Only a subtle difference, but there you go.

 

[soflabbwlvr]

I think the thread is supposed to be less about which celebrities lit characters are based on than about which celebrities coincidentally embody all the characteristics present in stereotypical lit characters. Only a subtle difference, but there you go.

True enough. I thought it would be more interesting to turn it around and tell it from the author's point of view. Otherwise, you could point at any celeb and there is probably a character who resembles him/her. Many of us do model our characters after real people--but not necessarily celebrities.

 

[jomar]

I was more a fan of Alyson Hannigan that carisma.

Read on an old site that dished sex and other gossip about celebs, that she was into threesomes. Worked for me.

 

[SevenSquared]

I'm a big fan of Alyson Hannigan, but I think more because I have really liked all three things she is famous for than anything about her personally.