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I love this! In my head, he looks like the king from Tangled, but like way more sleep deprived & stressed... which actually weirdly fits the profile you made lol
Irl I can't really think of who I would cast, maybe Jeffrey Dean Morgan? He sort of looks the part, but he's so John Winchester to me, I have hard time picturing him as a Jedi lol
My headcanon stats and thoughts for Jedi Master Arligan Zey that no one asked for:
Age: 49. He seems older than Obi-wan, but is only 'graying' by the end of The Clone Wars so he's not that old.
Height/Build: 6'4. He's described as a "large, muscular man" with "huge" hands. I could go taller... but... then Bardan (a foot shorter) would never be in frame in my mind's cinematic universe. In Order 66 when Zey is angrily tracking down Vau to ask him why Kal got beat up, he's described as a 'giant hawk-bat of a man.'
Physical characteristics: All we know is he has a beard, his hair is "shaggy" in 501st, and he's graying. That's... it. So I'm going with mousey brown hair. Hazel-brown eyes, with crow's feet. He has a long, straight nose and a prominent brow. Zey is, as I previously described, "kinda handsome."
Alignment: Lawful good. He's close-ish to lawful neutral, at least when he's dealing with Kal (see: turning a blind eye to the terrorist op in Triple Zero, also asking Vau to spy on Kal which I'm not saying was a smart move but it's... not lawful good!)
See how we err toward lawful neutral/true good/true neutral? Very mindful.
Facecast: Christoph Waltz: This is who Krad based her Zey art off of! He has had a pretty long acting career so it's nice to see lots of pictures at different ages.
Zey at the start of the war before the light has left his eyes (Waltz is a little older than my Zey headcanon age btwfyi)
More thoughts in no particular order:
I think Zey is a little less refined and a lot more rough and tumble, he seems deeply uncomfortable with the desk job as Director of Special Forces and gets visibly upset/angry at a few points in the book. He's capable of being the diplomatic Jedi, but he's also been described as crashing through conversations.
I have about a dozen more points to cover but this is already getting long, so consider this my Arligan Zey primer. More to come!