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RC [bunch of numbers I'm too lazy to translate into text right now] has three agents: Kittyauthor (short ex-Mii), O'Ryan Keys (first ever agent I created), and Crow Ressa (Werewolf).

... and I apparently don't have a Wiki page for Crow writes down on hand, next to mission idea. Oh well, I think I know her height?

(It's not listed in anything dangit.)

Anyways, here it is!

(Apologies for the size again!)

As for my main three of CPP, here they are!

As for Flowers... I have a question: how tall are the Flowers in HQ?

-kA

Weird. But I think kA’s idea of creating our own console semi-badfics is a good one. We should just leave this one alone, though. hS has already blocked the IP address.

—Ls, still baffled by this weird trolling.

that most PPC agents are tall as dleck.

To quote me from elsewhere:

"Thingol "appeared as it were a lord of the Maiar, his hair as grey silver, tallest of all the Children of Ilúvatar; and a high doom was before him." (Silm, Of Eldamar...) That makes him taller than Turin, of whom the Noldo Gwindor said "Very tall he was, as tall as are the Men from the misty hills of Hithlum" (Silm, Of Turin...); and indeed taller than the Numenoreans, of whom Tolkien wrote "they were tall, taller than the tallest of the sons of Middle-earth" (Silm, Akallabeth), which makes them taller than Turin, too. I think this explains why Maedhros "the Tall" never visited Doriath - he would have felt like a shrimp!"

And Penlod of Gondolin is the tallest of the Noldor, so Maedhros is at most the third tallest elf. His brother is, presumably, shorter than him.

As a baseline for actual heights, Third Age Dunedain averaged 6'4'' (ie two Rangar. Elendil the Tall (tallest Numenorean to escape the Downfall) was about 2.5 Rangar, so 7'11''. That makes Thingol at least 8', and presumably significantly taller, because "tallest of all the Children of Iluvatar (by a whole inch)" doesn't exactly flow.

Tolkien Gateway has this image of Tar-Miriel. That picture is about right for an average (5'3'' - 5'5'') servant and a Royal Numenorean (7'6'' upwards) Miriel, and really emphasises how alien these nigh-immortal rulers were. I'm assuming the Amazon series will tone them down by a couple of feet.

But yeah, in theory Dafydd is about 7', but in practice I picture him no more than a head taller than his wife, ie 6'4'' or so. Perhaps he slouches. Agent Huinesoron is a gangly 7' something though.

I'm not posting height charts, because the pictures scale horizontally too, and I don't like elves who are broad enough to be Space Marines. My general technique for drawing elves and hobbits is just to add or remove lower torso length; it works best when they're in dresses or robes!

hS

Lee Pace is 196 cm. Are we sure this man isn't actually part elf?

Agent Naergondir is also 7 feet. I dunno how tall Dafydd is, but he's whatever height Maglor is. In terms of Tolkien's canon there's speculation that Elu Thingol was around 8 or 9 feet tall.

My Action department folks (well, some retired, but —). Liu Siyuan’s height is the same as Simon Gong’s because I use him as an approximate face/physique claim. Eledhwen is a wee bit taller — but I shortened her from her height on the wiki (she can’t be taller than Galadriel who is 6’4!) and should probably fix that, lol.

The Shieh-Elerossiel household. Muriel is the height of an average British 8 year old girl; John is a little bit shorter for an average Chinese 14 year old boy, because his origin fic said he was “petite”.

Zhenjieyuan. I do find I frequently exaggerate their heights in art though, like in:

Like, that’s just comically off!

Here's Nume and Ilraen (in human morph):

Here's Gall and Derik with Thoth thrown in for fun:

And here's the crew of the good ship Bonny Robin at present ages. ^_^

I got the boys' heights by reverse-projecting from what I think will be their adult heights using this chart. The keen-eyed will note that Simon is going to be about 6'4" when he grows up. Why? Because his parents (Snape and Dumbledore) are 6'1" and 6'3" and that's what this mid-parental height calculator suggests. Wild, innit? I'm not entirely sure where Dumbledore's height being 6'3" comes from, 'cause the HP wiki says something else, but IDK, it fits my mental image?

~Neshomeh

You type a greater-than angle bracket ( > ) and a space, and whatever you enter on that line is a blockquote. It doesn't work here, but the angle bracket by itself is Ye Olde Internet signaling for a blockquote anyway.

> Who remembers that email replies
> used to be full of these? {= D

Anyway, I know about blockquotes in HTML because I use them for their intended purpose: to quote long passages from badfics in my missions. I started doing that with "Harry Potter and the Dragonriders of Pern," because there's a lot of bold and italics in the source material, so I couldn't use either of those; it was easier to find a way to offset quotations that preserved the original formatting. I kept doing it a) for consistency, and b) because I feel it's important to represent the source material as faithfully as possible, so y'all know I'm not making it up when I show you stuff like the bizarre line wrapping and spacing in "Full Metal and the Hogwarts Mishap."

This has been Trivia No One Asked for With:

~Neshomeh

I can never get over how utterly apocalyptic this story grows as it moves forward. Most of the changes that occur here are fairly minor, but the Palantíri starting to get destroyed is some major canon warping . . . I love the little knock against the movies replacing Glorfindel with Arwen, too!

Interesting that, for all the details the ladies are able to change, and despite the fact that the canon is destabilizing around them, they never seem to be able to escape from canon, if you know what I mean? The Wargs show up, even though the ladies forgot they existed and didn't intend to include them. And even when Assansaibrivilieth tries to force the Watcher into closing the doorway for them, it still ends up grabbing Frodo, even though Frodo had already moved inside Moria. Arda is fracturing, but it's still trying to fight back and course correct.

—doctorlit gazes into his Palantír and sees exactly what he wants: an empty bed in a dark room!

I actually snagged a copy of the badfic and shoved it into my docs so that I can give it a more thorough reading (and maybe spork it later on the Discord) later, even if it's deleted.

If we were allowed to mission this (which I highly doubt, since it's effectively a troll and on our wiki), we could phrase it as a breach into the console's history or a highjacked Intel report, leading to a pysedo-badfic where it's clear the world isn't really there and not meant to support badfic, but this badfic somehow exists... actually, no, wait, that's an idea on its own write on hand for later.

Either way, I'm pretty sure we should leave this particular "fic" alone. It's wiki trolling probably. I say delete it, do not mission it (although reading it or sporking it on the Discord should be okay). Maybe take my idea and make it into something with a badfic you wrote yourself for that purpose.

-kA

(Edited to be less snarky.)

(Edited to be less snarky again. I realized that the old title could read as author bashing, so I fixed that.)

But I thought this was missionable. That’s why I brought it up here.

—Ls, who recalls multiple other trolls that he’s reported to Nesh.

e.g someone kept blanking out the page for Hermione Granger, which is why it's locked.

So, a few hours ago on the wiki, someone created this “Mario” page. It’s supposed to be a biography, or something....but it’s so weird and horribly spelled that it’s a badfic. On our wiki. I’ve since blanked the page, but this is just...bizarre. Anyone else agree with me that it’s essentially a badfic?

—Ls, who’s wiki-walking, (to borrow from kA).

Basic order of operations is "introduce the boys, start scamming the universe, [several units of spoilers], probably start doing crossovers at that point". First will most likely be with Intel, but after that... I like the thought of doing things along the lines of Empire State of Mind, roping non-Acquisitions agents into helping with Acquisitions work.

The funny thing about them is that they are links, just links that don't go anywhere. Then, there's CSS and Javascript magic that digs out the "title" attribute of the link (the thing that, in Markdown, lives in quotes) and inserts it into the post as spoiler text.

For the morbidly curious this is the line (plus bonus blank space to improve readability while I was there)

I'm reluctant to set a default open-in-new-tab behavior, as I'd expect folks to want to manage that their own. Doing it for the formatting guide is a good call, though - I'll do that later today.

please poke me. It'd be nice to get a cameo in or even a cowritten segment.

Spoilers are fine, though—but I can’t really tell who’s canon and who’s not, as I’ve never seen any of the continua mentioned. Which is probably why I’ve never picked up any off your other PPC stories—I tend to go by fandom.

(I think you should be able to see my kudos on the AO3 version; my name there is pretty obvious.)

—Ls