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Published: 2013-09-02 22:38:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 3751; Favourites: 70; Downloads: 14
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Description So I absolutely ADORE "Welcome to Night Vale"... check it out on iTunes, it's a free podcast and it's absolutely lovely.

So Cecil, the main character, is left more or less without description outside of "not tall, not short... not fat, not thin..."... the fandom therefore loves making up their own headcanons. So I did mine!

Here is Cecil. He is not ugly, but he's not exactly hot either. He's got a bit of a "radio face". He rarely sits up straight. Radio doesn't make the big bucks so he's had the same pair of broken glasses since high school. He has tattoos and in the spirit of the oddities of Night Vale the tattoos are a bit strange - they move and Cecil has no control over them... but he's used to it*. He's half Asian half Native American but rarely mentions his background without being asked. His fashion sense is a little mismatched but hardly purposefully weird. He's balding at a relatively young age and wishes he had long glorious hair (thus his obsession with Carlos' perfect hair).

So yes. this is my Cecil. Welcome to Night Vale.

(*I liked the idea of tattoos that change and move around at random... both because it's fun and because it means I can be artistically lazy with making sure tattoos on a character match from picture to picture )
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Comments: 10

MimicZeThird [2013-09-20 17:43:09 +0000 UTC]

You're the reason I started listening to Night Vale. The number of posts about it you made on your tumblr intrigued me a lot and finally the reblog of "this is what I know about night vale from my dashboard" convinced me. Thank you. Very nice Cecil.

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OhlookitsMatty [2013-09-12 19:49:29 +0000 UTC]

Everyone draws him with sleeve tattoos // Where did this start? (Unless I miss it been mention in the podcast?)

-M

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shinga In reply to OhlookitsMatty [2013-09-12 20:07:39 +0000 UTC]

It's not been mentioned, it's just a very popular headcanon (like it's never mentioned that he's blonde, but most artists end up doing that too)

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OhlookitsMatty In reply to shinga [2013-09-12 20:17:59 +0000 UTC]

I noticed that too // It's weird how, as a collective, artist have drawn him that way // Granted I love the tattoo designs people have come up with for him =]

-M

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spinstermaiden [2013-09-03 23:11:50 +0000 UTC]

I've seen too many blonde Cecil-s so now I imagine him that way, but I love a bunch of your details. The tattoos (cause that would be totally "normal" in Nightvale) and the receding hairline (I saw somewhere that his voice actor is bald[ing]).

And now, the weather...

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MartmeisterPaladin [2013-09-03 05:01:18 +0000 UTC]

I like that idea too!

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Faybird [2013-09-03 03:52:42 +0000 UTC]

Cecil!!  I just started listening last week.  I'm almost to the end of the series so these make me happy. 

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antiKaiser [2013-09-03 03:35:08 +0000 UTC]

I love Welcome to Nightvale! This is an awesome interpretation of Cecil!

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hgfdsasdfgh [2013-09-02 22:41:35 +0000 UTC]

I love Cecil

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Starayo [2013-09-02 22:39:58 +0000 UTC]

Neat interpretation. I started listening to night vale a few weeks ago and haven't stopped!

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