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Willbyr Hi (Y2K) Relationship Status: With my statistically significant other
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#1: Jul 6th 2025 at 7:30:10 PM

The current pic for Blemished Beauty is under the size requirement and a proper-sized version couldn't be found. ~Shonen Trash 98 proposed this alternate in the upgrade thread:

1.1

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/balaika_blemished_beauty.png

However, there were concerns about her scars not being as clear as in the current. Here's an old DVD cover art that features her as an alt idea.

1.2

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/balalaikacover.png

Thoughts on these, or other ideas?

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#5: Jul 6th 2025 at 7:46:43 PM

Size-compliant pics of her from the previous thread

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/balalaika_with_detonator.png

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/black_lagoon___balalaika_381.jpg

I think current is the best at drawing attention to her figure (ie showing the 'beauty' part), but I suppose it's not that critical. 1.2 has a lot of text that draws attention away from her face, so I'll vote for the first pic here (5.1) pending other ideas.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jul 6th 2025 at 10:56:44 AM

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#7: Jul 6th 2025 at 8:19:15 PM

5.1[tup]

Edited by RuckusHearts on Jul 7th 2025 at 3:19:23 AM

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#8: Jul 6th 2025 at 9:14:33 PM

[tup] 5.2, think it's better to show her full face.

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#10: Jul 7th 2025 at 4:09:08 AM

5.1's pretty good, too. [tdown] to 5.2, the lighting fades out the scar too much for my liking.

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#11: Jul 7th 2025 at 5:59:10 AM

[tup]1.1 or 5.1

I think 1.1 really plays up the beauty part. How big is it, could we just crop it in closer to her face?

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#12: Jul 7th 2025 at 7:43:26 AM

Do we feel that 'pretty actress given a prominent scar by the makeup team' is okay to illustrate this with, or does there need to be some more in-universe beauty cues? The old pic was of this persuasion, but the criticism against it was that the 'blemish' wasn't particularly obvious, not that Hollywood Beauty Standards might just be applying.

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/hester_scar.png

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#13: Jul 10th 2025 at 9:35:05 AM

I like 5.1. the most.

The facial scars aren't as obvious in 1.1/1.2.

12 is ok too.

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#16: Jul 10th 2025 at 1:01:18 PM

5.1 or 5.2, but 12 is also pretty good. whatever gets the most votes between those gets my vote

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#19: Jul 14th 2025 at 8:33:14 PM

Votes bump; two in the green right now.

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#21: Jul 17th 2025 at 9:10:10 AM

Calling for 5.1. It's in and tagged, recycle caption or other ideas?

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#23: Jul 17th 2025 at 9:10:58 AM
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