Facecast

Facecast (or played by, or PB) refers to the practice of using images of a particular person's expressions to represent what a character looks like. Facecasts are typically celebrities and actors, since that makes it easy to locate a wide variety of high quality images of different expressions. There is a reasonably comprehensive list of existing glowfic facecasts in the Effulgence Google Doc.
==Variations==
Facecasts for a particular template are almost always identical across a particular granularity. Granularities encountered so far are gender, ethnicity and age. For example, the Adarin template baseline is played by Harry Lloyd, but his older version is played by Robert Carlyle, female versions are played by Emilia Clarke, and East Asian versions are played by Wang Leehom.
==Face Doubles==
Sometimes two different templates will have the same facecast. These are known as "face doubles". This may happen because two authors happened to pick the same facecast, or because a particular character has an existing face from their original canon. Face doubles are distinct from alts, and are not related in any way except their appearance. An example of face doubles is Kerron Corlett and Thor Odinson.
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