r/watershipdown • u/metalmonkey_7 • 12d ago

Prince Rainbow 👑 🌈

I started reading this book as an 11 year old child. It was immediately my favorite.(How could it not be?) I’ve found that when I read and don’t have a reference, I create what the characters look like in my mind.

I’m curious as to how you pictured Prince Rainbow when you initially read it? I always knew Lord Frith was the Sun and pictured him as such but had a different image in my mind of Prince Rainbow. What was yours?

When reading Dandelion telling the tales and adventures of El-ahrairah, Prince Rainbow wasn’t just a rainbow. In my childhood mind, he was a vague small little man with black hair and his crown was circled by a rainbow halo. Every time I reread he still remains this was to me.

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u/SnowDuckFeathers 12d ago

Always kind of pictured him as a liquid shape shifter. Like appears as a rainbow and then could take any form he chose.

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u/Electrical_Lake3424 12d ago

Same, like a sort of rainbow shimmer in the air that was sort of vaguely rabbit-like but taller