This paper argues for the freedom of the reading eye as it reconstitutes visual characters, both as discernible figures imagined and seen and as tangible and intangible characteristics that make up these figures. The texture of a literary character’s existence grows out of textual mentions, and these mentions are compounded by visual representations as the character is mediated through adaptations. Through this excursion, I return to the question of the newness of the break in representation and the freedom it affords the wandering eye.