Skipping (canon) Character Descriptions in fanfiction...

[Naruzeldamaster]

So, I don't often partake in fanfiction.
But when I do I write in a style that assumes that the reader at minimum knows what the (Canon) characters look like.
Original characters are described exactly one time and never again (unless there's a time skip and puberty hits them like lightning)
I have wondered a few times if this is correct though.

 

[SamazonE]

I like fanfic but sometimes authors will ban their prose fanfic and I think that is unfair. You have the big ones: Stephenie Meyer, J.K.Rowling, Robin Hobb, Anne Rice. There is a sober affair with the whole facade but I enjoyed the full length novels written in efforts to mimic exactly what they had.

 

[Queshire]

Less is more when it comes to character descriptions. Just give the readers enough to paint in the rest with their imagination.