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Hello hello, it's me again!
I search through all of the discussion tag, and I didn't find anything along these lines so I'm going to ask.
What exactly do canon Bertie and Jeeves look like?
I'm sure we've all got our pictures in out heads, Jeeves with his dark hair and head that bulges in the back, Bertie with his willowy physique and somewhat beaky nose, but what lines of text do these pictures originate from? Goodness knows the illustrators all had different ages everywhere, as well as various affinities for monocles and facial hair.
Edited to add: This question is three parts curiosity, wanting to get an closer match in this fic I'm writing, and also because I'm trying to commission the talented Tracy J. Butler to draw our boys. She's the spiffing artist who creates Lackadaisy, which is about booze-running cats in 1920's Louisiana. She drew a couple of her characters in human form, and they sort of match our boys. Made me long for a drawing of her's actually about our lovely lads.
I search through all of the discussion tag, and I didn't find anything along these lines so I'm going to ask.
What exactly do canon Bertie and Jeeves look like?
I'm sure we've all got our pictures in out heads, Jeeves with his dark hair and head that bulges in the back, Bertie with his willowy physique and somewhat beaky nose, but what lines of text do these pictures originate from? Goodness knows the illustrators all had different ages everywhere, as well as various affinities for monocles and facial hair.
Edited to add: This question is three parts curiosity, wanting to get an closer match in this fic I'm writing, and also because I'm trying to commission the talented Tracy J. Butler to draw our boys. She's the spiffing artist who creates Lackadaisy, which is about booze-running cats in 1920's Louisiana. She drew a couple of her characters in human form, and they sort of match our boys. Made me long for a drawing of her's actually about our lovely lads.
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The big nose bit comes from Right Ho, Jeeves:
"Yes. You have a splendid, chivalrous soul."
"Not a bit."
"Yes, you have. You remind me of Cyrano."
"Who?"
"Cyrano de Bergerac."
"The chap with the nose?"
"Yes."
I can't say I was any too pleased. I felt the old beak furtively. It was a bit on the prominent side, perhaps, but, dash it, not in the Cyrano class. It began to look as if the next thing this girl would do would be to compare me to Schnozzle Durante.
"He loved, but pleaded another's cause."
"Oh, I see what you mean now."
There's also a little bit of more flattering description in Joy in the Morning. Here, Boko and Nobby try to talk Bertie into wearing a Pierrot costume:
" . . . You are tall and slim and elegant. 'Elegant' is the word?" he said, putting it up to Nobby.
"Just the word," she assented.
"Another good adjective would be 'willowy.' Or 'sylphlike.' Gosh, I wish I had a figure like yours, Bertie. You don't know what you've got."
I know there is a mention of Bertie's blue eyes in Thank You, Jeeves (I think!), but I'm not having any luck finding it. As far as I know, his hair color is never mentioned. His singing and speaking voice are mentioned in a couple of places, too, and both are described as fairly deep/baritone-ish as I recall.
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