I always find discussions of darrows appearance hilarious to me cause ppl picture him with short hair and super masculine looking despite the fact darrow canonically has long hair and is described to be both extremely handsome and pretty multiple times : r/redrising Skip to main content

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I always find discussions of darrows appearance hilarious to me cause ppl picture him with short hair and super masculine looking despite the fact darrow canonically has long hair and is described to be both extremely handsome and pretty multiple times

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I remember pierce said he pictured darrow as a jacked cillian Murphy with intense pretty eyes and a unyielding stare and that's so counter to everyone

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u/Jorenmakingmecrazy avatar

I always pictured him as looking like Alan Ritchson from reacher or Tom Hopper. As a side note I think of Cassius as looking like a young Chris Hemsworth.

Darrow is compared to Achilles by the Sovereign after he forced himself onto her ship during the iron rain of Mars in GS, and that has to be the best description honestly. He's gorgeous and deadly just like he was.

Ok, y'all are gonna laugh, but Kevin Sorbo as Hercules, straight up.

And it's convenient because when he's older and a space general, we have Kevin Sorbo as Captain Hunt :)

u/Dazzling_Bluebird_98 avatar

I always picture a buff “Sunshine” from remember the titans

u/stillnotelf avatar

I don't think I want to admit what I think his hands look like after the early descriptions of his special helldiver hands

u/jykeous avatar

His hair length changes 

u/stillnotelf avatar

To be fair my hair length also changes

u/kabbooooom avatar

Yeah he only has really long hair at the start of Golden Son. In Morning Star it’s short. In Dark Age he has a Mohawk and then he’s bald. He starts bald with a beard in Lightbringer.

Not really sure if any of that counts as spoilers because dude’s look just changes for various reasons.

u/viggolund1 avatar

At one point in lightbringer he has to tie his hair back I’m thinking he has a cool top knot and beard combo then

u/ToastedSoup avatar

He also cuts the beard off in LB

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To me he's like a cross between Chris Hemsworth and Alan Ritchson (dude from reacher series)

That is a bloodydamned prime comparison my goodman!

u/ReadsStuff avatar

Thad!

Ah yes, my goodman, the level of learning at Blue Mountain State Institute was beyond spectacular. Although, if you ask me...far too many pixies!

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Fits like a glove.

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I picture him with shorter hair in the second book during the Gala but by the end it's at least shoulder length. Every other time I picture him having long hair in various styles and states depending on what he's currently doing.

u/tinklymunkle avatar

I always remember him being described as ruggedly handsome while Cassius was the pretty boy.

u/Groot746 avatar

From your description, it sounds like "super masculine" and "extremely handsome" can't go together?

It doesn't go with extremely pretty

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If he put in like 25 lbs of muscle y’all think Timothy chalamet could look like Darrow?

Or without wt gain, I could see him as Adrius or Roque.

IMHO, of course.

u/not-who-you-think avatar

Maybe Julian

Timothy Chalamet could do a badass Roque, Darrow I’m not too sure.

More like 125 lbs. Darrow is pretty big for a gold, and timothy chalamet is pretty small for a normal person

Ya was just thinking of the long hair and handsome/pretty face aspect I guess. Maybe photoshop his head onto Henry cavils body lol

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You seem so caught up in “can” that you don’t consider it your should

Probably true

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u/3GamersHD avatar

He did have short hair for a while in golden son.

I picture him as a jacked Thranduil from LOTR

Was it Mustang that said he looks cut from angry marble?

Yeah like a constantly frowning piece of art

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Bros so hot

Bros a babe

Bros magnificent

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