Big important question about all human AUs

[icemink]

So I have a question. A big important question whose answer I really want, mostly to reassure me about something a planning to do in a fic. I just wonder if it would really bother people or not, so I'd really really really like some input.

[Poll #1244968]

Comments

[vicki-bmore.livejournal.com]

Green makeup or not you can tell that the actor that played Lauren was white. So it would be strange to me to read him as black. It would be if you made your AU Charles Gunn white or made Wesley Indian.

[cyradis.livejournal.com]

I've chosen "No, even in human AUs I always really picture Lorne as being green" because that it what always happens with me but vicki_bmore is right: the facial structure of the actor makes it pretty obvious that he is white.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

Hmm I find the facial structure thing interesting because they actually changed his nose and chin a lot. That's one of the reasons I always picture him green in human AUs, because to me the actor looks so totally different because his face is so different to me.

[atsbtvslover.livejournal.com]

You summed my response in a nutshell. Even though the character of Loren (Demon) desplays "Soul", it is obvious he is white.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

lol I never really thought of it that way.

[atsbtvslover.livejournal.com]

Well, being a child of the "70's" helps.

[icemink.livejournal.com]

I agree that you can tell the actor is white (which is kind of sad really). I think it's a little different than making Gunn white or Wesley Indian, because for both of them the culture they came from influences their character a great deal. Of course Lorne's background influences him too, but since in a human AU there is no Pilea, it seems different to me. I totally understand what you are saying though. If the idea seemed perfectly natural to me I wouldn't have bothered having a poll.