do skinchangers really look like their animals?

[snow is the man]

If someone didn't take an animal until they were an adult then how could it be affected in terms of how they look. Or do they subtely change into looking like their animal. I undertsand jon given he was meant to find the direwolves and as a stark it is the sigil of their house (though he is a snow).

[Lord Wraith]

I don't remember Orell being described as particularly bird like. Also what about in the case of Varamyr Six Skins?

[Jon's Queen Consort]

11 minutes ago, Lord Wraith said:

I don't remember Orell being described as particularly bird like. Also what about in the case of Varamyr Six Skins?

Or Sansa, Bran, Rickon, Jon and the rest looking like a wolf and more in Bran's case.

[elder brother jonothor dar]

They say you forget," Haggon had told him, a few weeks before his own death. "When the man's flesh dies, his spirit lives on inside the beast, but every day his memory fades, and the beast becomes a little less a warg, a little more a wolf, until nothing of the man is left and only the beast remains."

Once a beast's been joined to a man, any skinchanger can slip inside and ride him. Orell was withering inside his feathers, so I took the eagle for my own. But the joining works both ways, warg. Orell lives inside me now, whispering how much hehates you.

 

I doubt their apperance changes matches but they can take on each others traits

[Springwatch]

On 20/05/2017 at 5:43 AM, snow is the man said:

If someone didn't take an animal until they were an adult then how could it be affected in terms of how they look. Or do they subtely change into looking like their animal. I undertsand jon given he was meant to find the direwolves and as a stark it is the sigil of their house (though he is a snow).

Yes, why not? The body language at least would transfer over. Character is influenced too, according to Varymyr's teacher, which over time would appear in set of the face.

[The Fattest Leech]

4 hours ago, Lord Wraith said:

I don't remember Orell being described as particularly bird like. Also what about in the case of Varamyr Six Skins?

Varamyr would be the Mr Potato Head of skinchangers, I guess. 

[Here's Looking At You, Kid]

Arya and Jon look like horses.  Maybe that means they will be warging horses, mules, and donkeys in the future.  That way Jeyne and Sansa can call her Arya Assface.

[Lord Wraith]

On 5/21/2017 at 8:33 AM, The Fattest Leech said:

Varamyr would be the Mr Potato Head of skinchangers, I guess. 

Har!

[300 H&H Magnum]

No they do not.  But you're not the first person to ask that question.  Join Roose's ancestors because he thought the same.  That's why his family skinned the Starks and their prisoners.  Extreme pain will break the skinchange connection and thus the skinchanger loses control of the prisoner.  That's the only way to know who you have captured and helps with interrogation.