/lit/ - Literature

>>10060826
Just another matter of opinion. Here's some concrete pros and cons:

Descriptive
Pro:
Your characters have a known appearance which can appear in the mind's eye of your reader and resonate with them.

Con:
It is easy to lose a reader with a description that annoys or fails to appeal to them.

Vague:
Pro:
Your reader gets to make up the appearance of your characters, allowing for the reader to sculpt a notion of your characters that is more endearing to them personally than anything you could make up on your own. This is similar to the mute protagonist of video games which the player projects his or herself onto.

Con:
If your work is ever adapted into a popular medium, they will politicize or cheese up your character by filling in the blanks. To be fair they do this even when the appearance of a character is known.