My MC has a problem with how she looks, and I wanted to reflect that in the story by holding back describing what she looks like.
Claire (MC) has online conversations with strangers where she kinda catfishes them but is completely open and honest about it. She tells them she can be anything they want, blonde, brunette, tall, short. She is their fantasy just as they are her's. She goes into detail when describing her online persona, and isn't shy about it. She'll go right down to the colour of her hoo-ha if that's what they ask for.
Now, when Claire meets her eventual HEA online, he falls for her and not one of her characters. That is when he asks her to describe herself, and that's when I finally disclose to the reader what she looks like.
Is this a good enough reason why I should hold back, or should I just tell the reader what she looks like early on?
Claire (MC) has online conversations with strangers where she kinda catfishes them but is completely open and honest about it. She tells them she can be anything they want, blonde, brunette, tall, short. She is their fantasy just as they are her's. She goes into detail when describing her online persona, and isn't shy about it. She'll go right down to the colour of her hoo-ha if that's what they ask for.
Now, when Claire meets her eventual HEA online, he falls for her and not one of her characters. That is when he asks her to describe herself, and that's when I finally disclose to the reader what she looks like.
Is this a good enough reason why I should hold back, or should I just tell the reader what she looks like early on?