Subject: I have trouble conceptualizing people/character height.
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Posted on: 2016-02-27 13:39:00 UTC

I guess it's the same problem behind my facial recognition difficulty, and not noticing what people are wearing? Which all combines into the reason describing characters in general is my biggest weakness; I really don't file away those details for people the way I do for places and things.

As a result, I don't generally assign heights to my characters, because I don't have a great understanding of how that affects their other physical . . . interactions? With the world.

Doc must be 5'8" since he's me (I haven't grown in years), and Vania's wiki page says she is 5'3", though I have no memory of putting that there. I imagine Séverine and Yoof to be a bit taller than Doc, with Séverine being the taller of the two.

I'm not even bothering with the class of Nursery kids I'm cooking up in my head. I don't know what heights would be correct for the age range, and also one is a centaur and the other a teeny robot.

—doctorlit spends too much time in his head to be aware of things like physical proportions

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