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So mlscience calculated, based on "Copycat" and the known size of the Mona Lisa, that Adrien is about 5'11", and therefore that Marinette is about 5'5".

Somebody else, I forget who and where, pari5-in-the-rain compared screencaps from S1 and S3 to conclude that Adrien has gotten taller. (Marinette may have too, but this argument rests on how the height difference has increased.) I am not sure how much taller, but Adrien has got to be over 6'.

( rest of argument behind cut )

...Marinette, being 5'5" or 5'6", may be only an inch or two shorter than Gaston. Adrien, being at least seven inches taller than Marinette, is definitely rather taller than Gaston. And they both tower over Belle, who only comes up to Gaston's shoulder!

This is gonna make this crossover hella more amusing than I thought it would be...

(I'm trying to figure out right now how Marinette and Adrien plan to earn their keep while they're stranded in Belle's time. Marinette is confident in her sewing and mending, and once she gets accustomed to the kitchen facilities and ingredients, her cooking and baking; Adrien is making a lot of jokes about poor career choices, but, you know, he's tall, he's built. Until Belle and Maurice figure out there's a brain in there too, he's probably going to be doing a lot of lifting heavy things.)


update: found the character heights graphic. counting starting with the tallest, Tom Dupain is in group three, Ivan and Kim in four, and Adrien in six, out of thirteen or fourteen; Marinette's a nine. ( babble )

should be noted the graphic was posted March 2017, which is to say, after "Volpina" and "Santa Claws" aired but before "Collector" did. which means it's relying on S1 exclusively, which means Adrien's taller in S3 and my fic than he is in this graphic. ETA: riallasheng partially updated it for S2.

somewhere in there and the average heights of present-day French adults is a way to estimate the characters' heights independently of the calculation with the Mona Lisa. (which I would like to do in order to idk check the numbers arrived at via the Mona Lisa, because Adrien being that much taller than Gaston isn't working right in my head.) but I cannot seem to the thing.


ETA August: mlscience is not standing by those numbers. so I'm going to ballpark S1 Adrien at 5'7" instead of 5'11", I think, and S1 Marinette at 5'1", and figure by the setting of this story they've grown to 5'9" and 5'2" respectively. and Gaston I'm still figuring for 5'7" or maybe 5'8".

that works so much better visually. 😺


Unrelatedly: I'm confident Marinette and Adrien both speak 21c British English and if either isn't completely fluent they're damn close. I'm confident Belle can read 18c British English, if perhaps not speak it; if we're pulling from the live-action, so can Beast. Maurice and the bookseller might be able to read English as well, and I think the bookseller probably speaks it some too but I'm not sure about Maurice. Cogsworth certainly can. The rest of the castle, no idea; the rest of the village, probably not. Gaston certainly can't.

So if I want to have Marinette answer the door when Gaston shows up to marry Belle, and then have Marinette storm outside, look around, and yell in English at the top of her lungs for Adrien to bring her a knife so she can murder Gaston? That will work! And no one but Adrien will understand!


( footnote behind cut in case people don't wanna read about nutrition wrt weight )

behold my soul's true face (1361 words) by AlexSeanchai
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Beauty and the Beast (1991)
Rating: Teen And Up Audiences
Warnings: Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
Relationships: Adam/Belle (Disney)
Characters: Belle (Disney), Chip Potts, Mrs. Potts, Adam (Disney), And A Fic Spoiler
Additional Tags: Bechdel Test Pass, Post-Canon, Misses Clause Challenge
Summary:

The castle receives a visitor.