I think that getting a stable visual appearance isn’t very important; I’m sure it can make things more realistic if you do get it, but the most essential thing is getting a hold of the person’s felt sense, as well as a feeling of how they would react to different things. If you get a sense of “ah in this situation, they would say X”, then it doesn’t matter if you’re unable to clearly visualize them.
I can bring up the idea of a shoulder adviser easily. I can also situate it in the room. It has emotions. But it is not visual. I don’t ‘see’ the emotions or the advisor. At best it is a sketch. That’s normal for me, my visual imagination is ‘sketchy’ (see Generalizing From One Example).
I think that getting a stable visual appearance isn’t very important; I’m sure it can make things more realistic if you do get it, but the most essential thing is getting a hold of the person’s felt sense, as well as a feeling of how they would react to different things. If you get a sense of “ah in this situation, they would say X”, then it doesn’t matter if you’re unable to clearly visualize them.
I can bring up the idea of a shoulder adviser easily. I can also situate it in the room. It has emotions. But it is not visual. I don’t ‘see’ the emotions or the advisor. At best it is a sketch. That’s normal for me, my visual imagination is ‘sketchy’ (see Generalizing From One Example).