#this was meant to be a more detailed fullbody thing but i couldn't figure out how to draw the robe so i just cropped it all out 💀

[senkus-cola]

i can't believe i waited this long to draw him with his hair down. but really though look at this loser

[spareparts-vn]

Reading the tips page for part 3 and they’re all so tall. Is there shorty representation planned

ok i gotta be totally real, i think i made a big mistake when calculating all their heights. i figured those out pretty shortly before the demo released, and my thinking was as follows:

lucy was given a height in episode 1 (5'8") so i have to stick with that

i can use that to determine everyone else's relative height

to do that i have to use each character's most neutral-stanced sprite

and then i can use some fullbody art of lucy to determine how far her legs go beneath the bottom of the screen

now i can divide that pixel height into 56 segments and those are my inches for a proper height chart

now all i have to do is line up everybody's sprites and that'll give me their heights!

......i guess!!!!

basically i wanted their height differences in sprite form to be consistent with their actual height differences because i'm really neurotic about certain things... but since i had to make certain characters tall enough to be visible over the text window, they turn out a taller than i imagined them to be. hanne is the best example of this, she was supposed to be very tiny but in-game she's only slightly shorter than lucy, who also should be shorter than she's listed, but i'd already assigned a height to her years ago and it felt like i couldn't go back from that, so... everything just kind of...... cascaded from there.

i have this problem a lot, where i try to solve a problem by taking everything too literally and it just doesn't. work. but i do it anyway because it'll damage my brain otherwise......

i'll...probably...change the heights at some point. it hurts me to do that bc i hate changing details after i've already released something, but it doesn't really effect the story, so long as they're all taller and shorter than the same people...

so i guess to answer your question, hanne is actually meant to be like 5'0"ish and lucy should be like 5'5".

that's still only two really short characters, but there's still plenty that haven't been introduced yet, so you'll meet some more eventually. i think i gravitated toward taller characters near the beginning of development because i wanted lucy to be shorter than everyone she was meeting at the time, and i was afraid of anyone's sprites losing a lot of visibility if they became too small, but. i'm much less precious about that kind of thing now, so.

......that's too many words about something very trivial, but i guess that shows how much it had been eating away at me. thank you for accidentally giving me the chance to confess my sins.