Affect and Resemble

Affect

Affect verb - To act upon (a person or a person's feelings) so as to cause a response.

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Resemble and affect are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Resemble" instead a verb "Affect".

Resemble verb - Appear like; be similar or bear a likeness to.

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Affect and resemble are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Affect" instead a verb "Resemble".

person	affect person	resemble person
characters	affect characters	resemble characters

Doesn't affect crude immature scrawling done by the characters, but any show of breasts or penises (or anything that'd resemble them closely) gets pixelated.

Source: Pixellation
This can also affect heroes that never truly existed, such as False Assassin, Sasaki Kojiro, who is really just a "wraith", a type of spirit, that happens to closely resemble the myth.

Source: Eternal Hero
Rowling mentioned in an interview that after she saw the first Harry Potter, her own mental image of Snape changed to resemble Alan Rickman, which would then affect the way he's described in the later books.

Source: Ret Canon

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