DE: How's the weather down/up there?

[bjornwilde]

 Quoth the Flynn:
+ How tall is your pup? What's the first thing people will notice about your pup when they walk into the bar?

I think someone is trying to size us up. ; p

Also, a reminder, the DEs for Thursday, Friday and Saturday are up for grabs this week.
Edit: Saturday's DE is still up for grabs.

Comments

[genarti]

I've waffled about whether Thor is his actor's height (6'3") or slightly taller, but I lean towards 6'3" (aka 191 cm for the metric folk). Plus, of course, biceps and shininess and posture and general force of presence that probably make him seem even larger than he is.

River is around 5'4", or 163 cm. (This is actually about four inches shorter than Summer Glau, but a) River was generally framed in the show to emphasize how small and slight she was on this ship of tall people, for general waifish appearance, and b) at the time I picked her height, I couldn't find Summer's height anywhere online.)

Regan is around her daughter's height, although she often wears heels that give her another inch or two.

Clare is 5'6", or 167 cm.

Enjolras's height isn't clearly described; Gavroche calls him a "big blond fellow" once, but Gavroche is a street kid, and Enjolras is elsewhere described as willowy. So I tend to think of him as slimly built but taller than average for his time (in part because he's rich enough to have been well fed as a child), which is more like average for Milliways and modern folk. Maybe 5'9" or 5'10", or 175-178cm? (Aaron Tveit is 6', for the record.)

Trowa is 176cm, or a bit under 5'9".

I'll come back to do the second half of the question after I've earned it with some more work!

[damncompass]

Have I ever told you that I got hugged by Aaron Tveit once? :D Stage door from Next to Normal. He told me I was crazy for standing out there in 20 degree weather and hugged me to warm me up. *shifty* Yes, I just feel like telling that story.

[genarti]

Aw! He does seem to be a decent fellow, from what I've heard. What a great actor encounter story!

(Also: that faraway clatter was the sound of half of tumblr fainting dead away at your story. *laughing*)

[genarti]

Okay, first impressions! Obviously, this will vary for characters depending on their context and what they notice, but for generalities:

Thor is attention-getting even by Asgardian standards (because... prince) and decidedly larger-than-life by human standards. He's tall and broad and muscular, he's got a mane of blond hair, he's probably carrying a hammer the size of your head as if it doesn't weigh much, and odds are decent he's wearing a shiny breastplate and possibly a long red cape. And, as an Asgardian, he looks a little more color-saturated than most people around, as if the light hits him a little differently because why not make Asgard's cinematography literal.

Besides that, there's the general air of aggressive cheer, unless he's in a bad mood, or the air of gravitas and palpable authority, if he's involved in serious business. But I'm pretty sure his physicality is going to strike most people first.

River: probably her eye contact, which doesn't track normally on people or objects (but not in the same way as someone blind); often, also the fact that she's perched on top of a table or booth back or rafter or something. Just generally her body language, I think. After that possibly her clothing, if the person is someone who would find loose hair and/or fluttering hippie layers weird.

Regan: is one of a small number of middle-aged and older folk around Milliways. Maybe that first; maybe the fact that her clothing and general appearance shouts of money to the world. Not that she's ostentatious, but everything is well-made and well-tailored and carefully chosen for an ensemble appearance, even her more casual clothes for hanging out at home.

Clare is bleach-pale head to toe, with metallic silver eyes. Most people don't instantly interpret that as CLAYMORE DANGEROUS PART-DEMON NOT HUMAN the way humans of her world do, but it's probably still eye-catching! Besides that, she has a huge sword on her back. Her clothing is weird too: white and silver armor that's designed to be eye-catching more than really protective, or if she's in civvies they're still weirdly styled (and full of extraneous straps and belts and asymmetry) to most eyes.

Enjolras... aheh. Well, to listen to Victor Hugo talk, what will strike you first is that he's gorgeous, no seriously, golden hair like a shining halo and sweet blue eyes and a girlish face like a Greek statue's, full of dawn and beauty and where are you going, Hugo has another page about his facial features--

Uh. So there's that, if your character is the sort to be struck by that kind of thing! (And if your character's standards of male beauty are sufficiently in accord with those of 19th century France, which of course is not guaranteed.) Also, he's dressed in 1830s menswear, jacket and waistcoat and cravat and so forth, which is moderately unusual in the bar. (He will also always have a tricolor cockade on his lapel, which is a blatantly in-your-face signal of political sympathies to someone of his era, but a lot of characters around Milliways will have no idea what it means.) And he'll probably be scowling at a newspaper or staring with intense thought into the middle distance a lot of the time. He has a lot of charisma when he's actually holding forth about something he feels strongly about (revolution, France, human rights, etc), but he's pretty reserved the rest of the time.

Trowa: the hair. He's from an anime. His hair flops forward in a way that completely defies gravity, especially since he uses no product in it. (And, because he's from an anime, he has no idea why so many people from other worlds find a perfectly normal hairstyle worth immediately commenting on.) Beyond that, his body language is mostly calibrated towards not attracting attention, in a low-key kind of way. Habit.