Personally I give each character a face, either from a person I know who matches their personality or a celebrity that fits the description, even though sometimes it can be really annoying if the author gives more details on the persons appearance and my character doesn’t fit that lol. I’m very curious as to what other people do.
I don’t see characters in my head. I may have vague feelings on what they look like, but by and large I don’t vividly picture anything.
Same. They’re blurry to me if I try to picture them.
But if it gets a movie adaption you know if the actor looks like them or not. Teaching To Kill a Mockingbird, then watching the movie, always resulted in the students saying “That’s not what Atticus should look like.” Everytime.
This is true for me most of the time
I don’t see pictures in my brain at all. I read the words and understand the concept, so I know that the character is red haired, etc, but I don’t actually put a picture with the description.
Same. If the author spends an inordinate amount of time describing a specific feature or look, I sometimes take a step back and try to imagine the character in detail, but I can’t “retain” that image for long in my head - the character goes back to being sort of amorphous.
This. I swear they straight up shapeshift but maintain the same “vibe”.
Same, and I usually have very vivid pictures in my head of locations / houses.
Maybe it’s intentional so that i don’t get too disappointed if there ends up being a movie / tv adaptation or