One of our forum members suggested generating emoji for each user automatically.
For example: :Username: or maybe :@Username:
to display a users pic as an emoji.
Not all pics work well as emoji, but still an interesting idea.
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I like this actually
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This would definitely have to be a theme component first, I can see that some communities would like to have a tiny avatar next to mentions like 
@Biscuit
I do not think it will be in core any time soon though.
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This seemed like a fun idea so I made a theme component that can automatically add an emoji before a mention.
Add a mention and emoji in the settings:
and then you’ll get:
It’s very basic at the moment, if anyone wants to improve upon it please do.
https://github.com/awesomerobot/discourse-emoji-mention
Not exactly what you were looking for @Biscuit, but something like this could be expanded upon to append/replace a mention with an image.
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That’s awesome awesomerobot! Gonna check it out.
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