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(Return to the yearbook here.)

Alternate hello to alternate visitors!

Real-Life BFB
Main infoProduction info

Yearly overviewShow timelines (Timeline of RLBFDIRLBFDIA • RLIDFBRLBFB before and after the split • RLTPOTExtra scouting) • General timelines (pre- and post-1950)

Differences from Pencil 2.OAestheticsMethodology (NamesNationalitiesHeightsAgesColours • AccessoriesTeam portraits) • Beyond the 64

TL;DR: InfoTimeline of the final project (part 1part 2part 3)

The (slightly un)official RLBFB yearbook! (Alternate takes)

Intro to alternates[]

You know, "alternate" isn't such a dirty word. Sure, Pencil used it almost derisively to refer to her (more pleasant in personality, yet less pleasant in her opinion) fellow competitors Book and Ice Cube, but sometimes the alternate version of something can be just as or even more interesting than the original. To be honest, I hope that's not the case here, because many of the alternate versions on this page are actually just older versions of the final photos that I've saved, in case I wanted to go back and edit them some more.

Spoiler alert: I hardly ever did.

Anyway, I'm posting them here because they may be of interest and shed some light (which has never before been shred) on my creative process. I couldn't put it on the TIMELINE pages because that would ruin the fun of avoiding spoilers, but right here, right now are the alternative versions of the yearbook portraits of the contestants of RLBFB!

Editor's note: This page is best viewed with the page with the final yearbook photos open on another tab. I'll be talking frequently about the differences between these and those.

Gallery of alternate portraits[]

A high-quality tribute to P2O[]

The only big portraits I have downloaded from AB (they have a special function for that), and they're of the three main characters that make up Pencil 2.O: Pencil, Match and Pen... whom you probably know more as Penelope, Maja and G.P. by now. This is the spiritual successor (and in fact the preferred version) of the images from my old blog, "What do Pencil 2.O characters look like as humans?".

Accessory over/underload[]

Different clothes/accessories[]

Without glasses[]

Without other stuff[]

Colours (not quite) nailed onto the mast[]

Hair[]

Of the face[]

Clean-shaven dudes[]
A hairy situation[]

Other photos[]

A timeline in six images[]

A comprehensive history of my editing process as demonstrated with six selected contestants.

Alternate pages[]

Alelsatan[]

Just like in actual yearbook, the only unambiguously evil character in the series comes at the end.

Where to find more[]

There are actually infinitely more alternate versions of the contestants' portraits, if we're being technical. But you can only find them or (even better) create them yourself by following the links to the AB URLs after each contestant's name on the previous page.[29]

Or, type in the particular variant of a character you want to see on this wiki and I will provide the image in the comments section (as soon as the yearbook is published), along with some of my commentary. On the image, not the contestant. Now the March portraits are pretty low-quality compared to the others and were not processed through AB, so I won't upload them here—they only exist for historical reasons. But if you feel there aren't enough pictures on either this or the last page, just ask /s and I shall deliver. Don't go overboard with requesting things, though.

Notes[]

  1. This was made after everything else was done to him, although the blue shirt is an artefact from the AB import and was actually one of the first things changed.
  2. His RLBFB personality marks him as wanting to be young in age, but not youthful in style.
  3. I don't remember changing this, but when you compare this portrait with his final one, Terry's not as pale here (nerd stereotypes, amirite?)—and his hair is a little different.
  4. As a robot, she could easily get an upgrade that would give her the best eyesight in the world, but since she wants to be seen as human like everyone else, she maintained her own status quo and got glasses in 1969, which coincides with fellow robot Arbutus' getting human eyes a year later.
  5. Interestingly enough, this is the same type that Book wears in Pencil 2.O!
  6. I think this is because of how much make-up Flora's got "caked on". The similarly fashion-conscious Maja has this problem as well, but at least with her it's contemporary, i.e. appropriate to 1970 (when she was last seen outside Four). Apart from the hippie hair, the way Flora adorns her face is simply an exaggerated version of the trends that were popular in her own youth in the 1910s.
  7. Citation needed? I don't deny that NYC had a great artistic scene that overlapped with the counterculture of the early 1970s (Upper West Side!), but whether this kind of "gender-bending" expression was common seems to be more of a "you had to be there" thing.
  8. There's a historical precedent for this. Although nearly every yearbook from the 1970s is in black and white (technological limitations, not an aesthetic choice as perhaps in the 2000s), there seemed to be a "flatter" look for the pictures, particularly those taken indoors, which might result in images looking quite distorted if colourized. No idea if that was due to the camera's flash, but it still resulted in a certain aesthetic that was fairly easy to reproduce here. Hence the dark colours for the hair.
  9. The lighting is similar in his May portrait. He's blond, just not that blond.
  10. There's a gene for that on AB... thanks, codingcats7!
  11. Fish earrings, anyone?
  12. Here's something interesting: Barbara's hairstyle in the final portrait was actually really uncommon in actual yearbook photos from that time... but only in senior photos. In pictures of underclassmen or students doing normal things, there were many more girls wearing pigtails, braids etc. I suppose that makes sense; you want to look your best on your last picture day.
  13. I wanted to give Leo a little bit of facial hair, but that alternate portrait never manifested after I saw what he looked like with it. Besides, I see Leo (and to some extent Lightning) as a naïve, young Irishman who might be classified as a twink in gay circles (as a queer person I can really sense that about him). And you do know who's been doing him for most of the fourth season, right?
  14. Don't know about you, but I think TPOT will be around in 2028. Will Naily be eliminated from the game by then? Who knows.
  15. Lina's style, however, is more from around 1963 to 1968 or '69; at the start of filming RLBFB 13, she'd wear her hair as a medium-sized afro.
  16. That's not to say Ruby is a Yankee, because she's not, but she's become very aware of its culture after making friends from Western countries.
  17. BFB 16: 14:03. It's called the "get-away-from-me button", and possible side effects include restoring contestants to their natural state... not just in the objects' universe, but in ours as well. Okay then.
  18. And slightly messy: his hair looks like it's about to burst into a perm the moment Western Kenya's humidity kicks in.
  19. 19.0 19.1 19.2 This look would have been paired with a very small blonde streak above his right eye, which he dyed to dark brown sometime in late 1970.
  20. With G.P. barely taking centre stage in episode 16—a few lines here and there, but all in groups—it took until RLTPOT for viewers to notice that his hair had gone all Greg Brady-like.
  21. Of course, this is all due to the fact that Clock's hands are on his face (which is uncommon for most object show contestants who are not timekeeping devices), which to the average observer translates to "oh la la" STUFFY FRENCHY GUY. In hindsight, perhaps it does suit him. Four may have strict rules for competition, but a ban on facial hair is not one of them.
  22. And he hasn't stopped since. He leaves a bit of his chest above the torso unshaven, though, as well as the area above the upper lip (after 1972)—certainly a stark contrast to Joe, of whom every last inch is covered in... yeah.
  23. Citation needed!
  24. Yes, I know it's a little silly that the file names are in Swedish when I'm not even a native speaker, but at least where I come from, people perceive things as being of higher quality if they come from rich countries like Sweden or Japan. Besides, one of my summer resolutions is to learn the language of Liy.
  25. It's not so much a problem at the moment because the fringe-ish bit is more horizontal than diagonal (faithful to 1969 aesthetics right there!). It's a little similar to Donald's haircut, but at least it's not in the other direction, i.e. nearly identical to what a number of other boys have.
  26. This also explains why Freddy's photo has always been at the bottom of the "BFDI" or "BFB" category in my personal AB tags' list. His portrait was edited the least!
  27. It's also the only portrait that's been publicized on AB as of 16 June 2021.
  28. Found it! It's "Shiftdown" by Stephenpsmoll. The gradual transition from a face in its normal position to its bottom-ized one is one of the most disturbing things I've ever seen on this site.
  29. As of today, they have not been added yet.

In the words of Golf Ball, "I think we're done [with this stew]!"

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