Rossetti: Onto the Veils!

Wax: Seven is black & white.

Now, I don't know the context. But I LOVE both how excited Norman is and how ripped he is.

The context is fun, actually. This is from Six Ways To Sunday.

I remember you saying that. He's got himself a kink, right? The character.

Yes. Death kink. So it's both kinky and adorable.

She looks good in a white dress and black veil, too.

But he looks very very young. And he's indeed very ripped. This was way early. Maybe he was too poor to buy beer or something. Or he was getting into the whole Hollywood thing and figured he needed to work out. Still doesn't have a sixpack, though, really. But the pecs! they have not appeared since. Here you can really see his lovely shoulders.

That was shortly after he became infamous for drinking and monologuing during that hollywood party, right?

Yeah. Well, actually, that lead to a stage role, I think. And then Mimic. Six ways was after that.

True, so not right after. But he's young and slim. And a half-painter. But he was still infamous!

'97, though. He was, like, 28. And playing 18 without breaking a sweat.

Very true.

Gah, I'm fixating on his collarbones.

With good reason. The dip of his pecs is actually really impressive. Although it makes his tiny man nipples even more tiny. Or maybe more manly?

His tiny man nipples are very tiny and quite adorable.

He has perfect wispy hair.

Silky.

Yup

Man, he's just too cute in this picture. his little face! And, despite the impressive pecs, still a bit soft around the middle.

True, true - pecs, but no six pack.

This is expressive!norman. And vulnerable!norman

Expressive, vulnerable and very boyish.

Very.

I can't believe he's 28 here.

Yeah, and it's so weird, he still looks really young, but... I mean, he doesn't *really* have a babyface.

This is another one where we can't see his face that clearly.

He just... looks young.

No tattoos! That makes a big difference.

None!

That makes a big difference. The tattoos age him. I can see where they covered the 'Norman' tattoo, now that I look.

Not terribly much. He was pretty young-looking in DH, despite the tats.

True.

Wait - is this another one where they waxed his chest? Maybe he's just nearly hairless.

::squint:: I'm not sure. He has very scant hair.

Hard to tell from so far away.

I love the little peak of belt buckle.

It's sort of... patchy.

Rather like a mangy dog. only not.

Yah.

The hair fits.

It goes with the rest of the scruff.

Yup.

You can't really see it in b&w

Mangy puppy, maybe.

But I think maybe they waxed a bit for this movie, cause he spends a lot of time in his underwear and is supposed to be eighteen.

Far as I can tell (and I've done some research) he has a little patch of thin hair right between his tiny man nipples, and a rather scraggly treasure trail happening.

Oohh, that's very manly.

Terribly manly, in the thankfully not Italian Stallion way.

Manly in a rather Joe Schmoe way.

Quite.