Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-4923787-20131006233702

I have questions regarding the creation of alternate personas in ATLs.

First, how do you guys find the portraits of all sorts of different people? I mean, which searches do you use, because you guys are able to find very realistic photos that bring forth a sort of legitimacy to your TLs.

Second, even after a POD that stretches back centuries, can people from OTL still pop up? For example, Indian history goes OTL in my TL until the 1900s, so would it necessarily make sense if Gandhi's butterflied away, considering the circumstances? I mean, who'd want to butterfly away someone as influential as him anyway?

If that really is unreasonable, than could it make sense to have people who basically correspond to their OTL counterparts? Say, if in my TL, conditions allow for a similar fate for Germany, that a Hitler-esque figure comes along in a German-speaking country? I know that seems a little cliché, but I kinda think he was slightly necessary for the development of international justice and human rights movements worldwide.

Thoughts? 