#every few months someone discovers (or rediscovers) just how truly INSANE their size difference is

[macchiatosdumptruck]

So, I don’t think people realize how absolutely, insanely MASSIVE 6’5/6’6 is in real life, because height-comparison-charts ain’t cutting it. 

I’m a 5’10 woman—fairly tall. My dad is 6’2, Marty’s height—and that’s considerable even next to me, especially considering the muscular build which adds to the visual mass. 

Next, my husband is 6’4–he looks huge, and is easily a head taller than me even in decent heels. But his brother is 6’6, and the man is a goddamn GIANT. He TOWERS over me, and makes my husband look SHORT, and looks totally massive and ridiculously humongous next to his wife—who is an average 5’6. It’s INSANE how he totally looks like a mountain next to her, and he’s not even especially bulky or broad shouldered by any means. In fact, he’s kinda skinny. 

My point is, camera angles are HUGE in Cobra Kai, and TIG looks NOWHERE near as large and long and even intimidating as he would in real life—and the man is broader in the chest and shoulder than my brother in law and my husband. He would be damn scary as Terry. 

As for Macchio—the camera angles help him, but he would be so very small next to TIG in real life it would be almost funny if he weren’t so gosh darn adorable. It doesn’t help that he’s naturally small-boned and compact. As Daniel, he looks petite even in CK with a full-grown adult (yet still slender) body-type—but in his KK/Outsiders/Cuba/younger days, the top of his head would have hardly come up somewhere around Terry’s lower chest area. That’s an absolutely mental height (and body and mass) disparity. Their sheer difference in hand size, for example, would be crazy. (That certainly helps TIG’s excellent piano playing too—that sheer reach! Exactly what’s really helpful for a pianist.)

Anyway, in the world of shipping—a dangerously hot difference. Oh, the delicious possibilities…but Terry would have to be extra careful with cute lil’ Danny boy. I mean damn, that’s a whole lotta body after all, and Daniel’s so…delicately built. Oh my. Talk about dominating in every sense of the word. 

(But poor Terry would probably have a constant crick in his neck from trying to kiss him. And Daniel’s toes would be screaming at him.) Lmao.

Then again, Daniel would have this issue easily even with Kreese too. Or with most, if not all, of his male ships. The ultimate pocket-sized boyfriend. 

Lucky bastards, all of them! 

The only karate boyfriend that Daniel is on more or less equal standing with is Chozen, and that's after the mid to late 20's growth spurt.

Just going crazy over the absolutely insane size difference under the cut.

Okay, but one of the things I really liked about s5 was they allowed Terry to be legitimately scary. The first time I watched the sauna scene I was genuinely concerned for Daniel's well being. Terry is A LOT. He is a big character in every meaning of the word.

Terry literally throws Daniel's entire self clear across the room with one hand on his face. The absolute mad lads did that.

Look at how wide that man is spreading his legs just to fit in the shot, and he's still a head taller than everyone.

Okay so I have to admit that seeing it at this angle, I stared at this until I have gone insane. Because I have realized this is the closest we will ever get to a visual of that gigantic snake man in between those Bambi legs.

Terry/Tig is hunched over and bent at the waist and Daniel's foot still can't reach his shoulder. All those fics that are like "and then Terry propped his legs over his shoulders" (which I am also guilty of) we're underestimating the amount of work Daniel's ham strings would be putting in. My lord. I hope he stretches regularly.

He's gonna need climbing gear to climb that mountain.

I tend to use the picture on the left as a reference when I'm writing these two because it's one of the few times in canon they share a long shot like this. The top of Daniel's head only comes up to Terry's shoulders on a good day, and that's after his strange mid 20's growth spurt. (Plus the lifts I suspect they put in Ralph's shoes to make him as tall as Billy.)

During the filming of the first movie (when he was 21-22) he was 5'6 though, so that's literally an entire foot of a difference at maximum.

Of course his height is usually reported as anywhere between 6'4 and 6'6 but like. . . Is the two inches gonna change that much?

Terry is VERY big and Daniel is very little.

Then, there's the fact that a lot of fic is post tkk3 fic where he is 18-20 so we're actually looking at a Ralph that looks like this.

So Daniel would be even more pocket sized.

Like. It's almost comical. People who would see them together would be like "I'm low-key worried about the little one's physical well being."

Okay, I'm not gonna lie. I forgot the point I was going to make, if I even had one.

And Tig was playing a character 10-15 years older than him so we would be looking at Terry in his mid 30's - early 40's.

But, yeah. Terry would have to be very careful because Daniel's tough but, given the strenuous physical activity they get up to (😏) that's as you said, a whole lot of body, and Daniel's not that big.

RIP Terry's back. RIP Daniel's everything. That boy is gonna get bruised like a peach.