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A character reference based on all four Steps of Our Life! It's only "sort of" a height reference as well since obviously they're not 100% accurate (the devs don't have specific heights for everyone to my knowledge).
I did dig into the code to try and get characters at their "normal" heights but there are other matters at play too (example: Nicolas is obviously "taller" than he should be because he needs to be pushed upwards to be visible enough above the game's text box; likewise with other very short characters).
Still, this should serve as either a nice reference guide for every character or a "height reference" in the sense of getting an idea of which characters are shorter/taller than others.
I'm also going to detail some extra notes below the break, including posts from GB Patch's Tumblr that reference any defined heights (with Cove being the obvious one) or general height things, as well as some more stuff about the MC's height in comparison to the three love interests depending on what you pick.
Cove's height is listed on GB Patch's FAQ as 4' 1" in Step 1 (also stated as "mostly average, perhaps a bit on the short side"), 5' 4" in Step 2 (in-game this is defined as "very tall" on the MC's potential height spectrum, as that is the only option considered on par with Cove's height), 6' 0" in Step 3, and 6' 4" in Step 4. A fun fact is that Cove's final height was originally 6' 3" (191cm) instead.
Derek in Step 2 is under five feet tall (this post also lists Cove as "around 5 and a half feet tall" which you could take as either close enough to 5' 4" as stated above or a potential original height he had that got changed). In-game, he's "short" but not "very short", as having your MC be "very short" will prompt narration telling you that you're shorter than Derek, whereas "short" only has you relate to him in smolness generally.
Step 4 Derek is "mostly average." He wouldn't be considered tall nor would he be considered short. His youngest brother Nicolas will "probably end up as a similar height to him" once he's more grown up.
Step 4 Baxter is "taller than average, but not especially tall."
I've been informed that, on the Our Life Patreon Discord, Step 4 Derek's height is listed as 5' 9" (175cm) whereas Step 4 Baxter's is listed as 5' 11" (180cm), so those are their defined heights. Before that, both of their heights had jumped around somewhat. A post from 2019 said that Derek was 5' 11", but a post from June 2021 said that Baxter was 5' 11" and Derek was 5' 9" (so consistent with the Discord). Then there's also another post from July 2021 (you'll have to scroll down for this one) that listed Baxter at around 5' 10" while Derek was 5' 8"/5' 9". If you're insane enough to try and use the character reference too, then Baxter would actually be around 6'1" at minimum since he's taller than Step 3 Cove (though you could also make the same argument that this means the mom trio of Pamela, Noelani, and Kyra must be decently tall as well since they're so close to Cove on the character reference).
I don't have any experience with GB Patch's other game, XOXO Droplets, so I don't know what ages the characters are in it, but since both Shiloh and Jeremy are characters seen visibly in Our Life, I thought I'd also mention that they're listed as 5' 10" and 5' 5" (or 5' 5 1/2") respectively in XOXO Droplets. Jeremy also apparently grows to 5' 8" in his 20s and he's 22 in the Our Life Cove Wedding DLC (I don't think this is spoken of in the game specifically but he's labeled as 22 in the code).
As for the MC and how their height plays into things, "tall" and "very tall" as well as "short" and "very short" tend to be considered the same for the most part in the game's code. It's not that there isn't a difference at all (I would say it's still notable), it's just that sometimes the game may be more vague about height differences. My post about Errands references this where you don't need more athletic points due to being "very short" instead of "short" to give Cove a piggyback ride.
A guesstimate I'd make is that about 5% of the time, the game will take note of whether you're "very tall" instead of "tall" or "very short" instead of "short." Otherwise, you're either "generally tall," "average," or "generally short." There are also other instances (usually with Cove) where the game might just check if you're either generally tall (around Cove's height) or not generally tall (i.e: definitely shorter than him).
This is actually relevant to the heights because, following all above information, one would assume that Step 4 Derek is average, Step 4 Baxter is tall, and Step 4 Cove is very tall going off the MC's potential "height spectrum" of very short, short, average, tall, and very tall, but it's not entirely the case.
A "tall" MC (generally tall) will look "down" at Step 4 Baxter just as he will look "up" at them or they'll look directly at each other if the MC is "average," same as Step 3 Baxter, but--
when the game has any instance of differentiating between "tall" and "very tall" (they never do this for Step 3 Baxter so the base assumption would have to be that he's just average height), things change.
During Baxter's apology in the wedding of his Step 4, Baxter dips his chin to look at the MC if they're "short"/"very short," levels his chin to look at the MC if they're "average"/"tall," and then lifts his chin to look at the MC if they're "very tall." A generally tall MC still has to lean down to kiss him if they choose to do so though.
Also, during the intimacy scene with Baxter (either in his office or his living room), if the MC is "very short," "short," or "average," it states that Baxter is taller than them. If they're "very tall," then Baxter is shorter than them, but a "tall" MC is "almost the exact same height" as him.
This is all a really long-winded way of saying that GB Patch referring to Step 4 Baxter being "taller than average but not especially tall" might mean that he's some infuriating middle ground between average and tall where he's not quite one but not quite the other either (which honestly is very Baxter of him so I can't even be mad).
#type: helpful#type: cracking the cove#our life#olba#our life: beginnings & always#((If you line up the images yourself then make sure the height of the original images are all the same))#((I don't know if Tumblr squished any.))#((Let me know if I'm missing anyone!))#((I know there's Step 3 Jeremy and someone named Cala in Derek's Step 4 (haven't gotten there yet)))#((but you only see those two on the phone so there is no ''default'' position/size for them.))#((Also I was worried that Tumblr would eat the quality if I uploaded such long images))#((so I separated Steps 2 and 3 and 4 into multiple images.))#((Hopefully that's fine; if you line them up side-by-side it still works out.))#((Me feeling so exposed because now how I design my Coves is here for everyone to see.))#((Feel free to judge my bias towards the color blue.))
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we've been fishing bits of it out of our food, out of our mouths, this entire journey. it's a constant ingestion of lead, over years.
#the terror#.txt#lead poisoning posting#don't judge the gif quality please i learned how to make gifs just so i could post this#i can't express the emotions i have in words. look at their faces instead
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oldest and youngest :D
this whole thing just came about because i wantes to draw jd with the heart goggles, then branch just sprouted beside him in the process. Maybe they're in a photoshop or something?
#my art#fanart#trolls band together#trolls john dory#trolls branch#trolls 3#brozone#tumblr pls dont eat the quality i spend so long on this#anyway theyre my faves#also don't judge my fashion choices i just like colorful things
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Joe Burrow's hands appreciation post?
Joe Burrow's hands appreciation post.
#hmmm.. hi 👋🏻👋🏻😶#i don't belong in this tag but..#i used to make a lot of these random 'x man's hands appreciation posts' so...#i thought that maybe... y'all would appreciate my -crappy- contribution to your little community too 😶#my posts are very subpar quality and i apologise for that#i also know nothing about this sport...#the first time i watched the Super Bowl (or American football in general) was actually in 2022 when this mister was there 😶#and i thought he was a mighty pretty guy 😶😶#i hope you guys like hands 😶😶#some of these are.. way less about the hands but.. try not to judge me#Joe Burrow#hands appreciation posts
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To elaborate more on the Pesterquest stuff -
Alternia is a hell world. It's shitty to live in, even if you're a highblood, unless you fit a very specific mold of person AND are lucky enough to be born of a high caste. Every troll character we care about is, in some way, fucked over by their relationship to their society; Eridan and Vriska get it the worst, having been forced to participate in the murdering side of things since they were young, but every lowblood is screwed and every highblood is made worse even just by their passive participation. Kanaya becomes less sympathetic because she seems completely at peace with the society she grew up in, and Feferi wants to enforce casteism, even if it's of a different flavor. Gamzee and Equius both hold genuinely casteist beliefs and attitudes, which slip out and alienate them from the people they care about.
Putting a friendship simulator into the middle of all this is... a choice, I guess. I'm not going to begrudge anyone for wanting that or liking that, but it's going to be inherently at odds with what Alternia is and is meant to represent, and thus, fundamentally at odds with many of the characters' arcs and even basic personality traits, so heavily are they influenced by the shit society they grew up in.
For a non-Eridan example, Karkat loathes himself in massive part because his society loathes him. He's kill-on-sight and lives in daily terror of death. He wears a symbol at all because not having one marks him as even more of a freak, even though he knows that that symbol is connected to the empire's biggest rebel, whose footsteps he is expected to follow. The reason he's so obsessed with being leader-y and earning his teammates' reapect, or the respect of anybody, is because he's so deeply insecure about whether or not he even deserves to exist.
If you soften Alternia to the point you can write a lighthearted friendship simulator in it, then that characterization... goes away. Karkat is no longer motivated by deep, overwhelming insecurities, which drive him to idolize the society that deems him unworthy, mistakenly believing that if he can find validation in that society, he'll feel less bad about himself. Instead, Karkat is just kind of an asshole!
It's the same way with Eridan. He and Karkat are equal and opposite in this way - while Karkat is marked for death by his society, Eridan belongs to the extremely privileged caste of sea dweller royalty - even moreso than Feferi, as Feferi is slated to be murdered by the Condesce as soon as she comes of age (and her ridiculous optimism is likely something she cultivated in outright defiance of this fate). But it turns out that being a sea dweller sucks shit, too, if you aren't the extremely niche type of person that society deems "correct."
Eridan is not actually casteist and genuinely likes his land dweller friends - and this is unacceptible. Not only that, but smaller "unacceptible" offenses are wrapped up in big ones - despite not liking murder and feeling guilty about it, murder is objectively the correct thing for Eridan to be doing, constantly, to the point of it being "all [he's] ever done practically," because if he doesn't fulfil the duty of his bloodline to be murdering lusii (and by extension, their charges, who are culled when their lusii die), EVERYBODY dies. The constant push-pull of trauma, societal expectations and obligations, the fate of the species, and the fact that he is inherently not the "right" kind of person for his society, are pretty much his entire character. He's basically a walking ball of anxiety and emotional turmoil.
So, again, if you soften Alternia to the point where you can write a story about Eridan wanting to see Shrek in a public theater (something he would not actually be able to peacefully do in canon Alternia - at least not without taking off his cape, hiding his fins, and going anonblood - as sea dwellers are considered ridiculously hostile to the point even Gamzee's nervous about being on the beach for too long), Eridan ends up being just kind of an asshole!
Pesterquest!Eridan is, and I cannot stress this enough, fundamentally not the same guy as canon Eridan. They have practically nothing in common, from the fact that PQ!Eridan is willing to do something for leisure, to the fact that he isn't widely feared and the movie theater doesn't empty out in a panic when he turns up, even down to the fact that he likes femme fashion (canon Eridan goes to Lengths to lean into masc fashion) and Shrek (canon Eridan is a hipster). Hell, even the fact that PQ!Eridan SMILES is a massive deviation from canon!Eridan, who has never once been depicted smiling, and probably hasn't for many sweeps.
Also that he has that much beef with Sollux when, canonically, the two had a lukewarm mutual dislike and didn't even bother interacting until Feferi was added to the mix and Eridan became mad that Sollux was dating her. He wasn't even casteist about him until then, and after, even Sollux and Feferi don't think he's casteist, they just think he's ashenflirting so he can get into a quad with Feferi. Like come on, if you're going to feature another troll in Eridan's route, 1) make it be Karkat, and 2) have Eridan cheat on you the whole time with Karkat like he does to Feferi.
Eridan is just overall a wild choice in a friendship sim - I can't even blame them for just writing an OC and putting an Eridan skin on top - because societally, Eridan isn't even supposed to have non-sea dweller friends. The sea dweller/land dweller race war is something the Condesce deliberately put into place in order to keep land dwelling nobility in line, and Equius cites it as one of the reasons he never got along with Eridan. Like, the very fact that Eridan talks to two land dwellers on friendly terms (Kanaya and Karkat) is a MASSIVE deviation from what he's "supposed" to be like, and a huge hint that he's not as casteist as he'd like to appear. You are genuinely hundreds, if not thousands, of times likelier to end an encounter with Eridan either orphaned or dead than as his friend. He's an unstable maniac, and there's a reason so many members of his team don't like him even though he's legitimately not casteist and they mostly seem aware of it (nobody really complains about or even notices Eridan's casteism by the time they're on the meteor - his contradictions are really obvious, and it's likely that they've more or less realized that he's full of shit).
Again, I don't begrudge anybody for wanting or liking PQ. Who cares, really. I'm just saying that as a canon discussion blog, there's not really any place for PQ because it's so far removed from canon that, like, there's not really anything meaningful to discuss about it. The setting and characters in PQ are fundamentally divested from canon, and not even in an AU way. And it's totally fine if that's what you like, but, yeah, like.
Was Eridan written well (where "well" = accurate to canon): no. Maybe he's fine as an OC with an Eridan Minecraft skin slapped on, but that's not my beautiful son, that's not my baby boy.
What did they get wrong about Eridan (where "wrong" = inaccurate to canon): all.
What route would I have written for Eridan: he shoots you with a gun and you die. And then maybe cheats on you with Karkat
#not tagging bc its technically a hate post but i CANNOT STRESS ENOUGH#its ok to like pq its ok to enjoy pq#it is like not a big deal? who cares#end of the day it's all fake stories that arent real like who gives a shit#im just never going to have anything interesting to say because pq is just like#not really my thing? haha#i dont particularly like fluffy feel good stories#or visual novel/dating sim style gameplay#so i don't engage with it beyond skimming recaps of each route#thus i cant judge the actual quality of the writing#for all i know it's troll goddamn shakespeare all up in there#i looked at eridan's route and assumed that if that was how fast and loose they wanted to play with canon#then there wasn't really anything in there for me that i'd enjoy#totally just guessing that they deboned karkat's character too#maybe because he's a 'main character' and people like him more he didnt get as mangled as poor eridan#but also i dont really care#lmao
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Arya watched them die and did nothing. What good did it do you to be brave? One of the women picked for questioning had tried to be brave, but she had died screaming like all the rest. There were no brave people on that march, only scared and hungry ones. (Arya VI, ACOK)
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The night she was caught, the Lannister men had been nameless strangers with faces as alike as their nasal helms, but she'd come to know them all. You had to know who was lazy and who was cruel, who was smart and who was stupid. You had to learn that even though the one they called Shitmouth had the foulest tongue she'd ever heard, he'd give you an extra piece of bread if you asked, while jolly old Chiswyck and soft-spoken Raff would just give you the back of their hand. (Arya VI, ACOK)
Arya: *restrains herself from acting out when captured by the Mountain and his men because she knows fighting back/being brave wouldn't accomplish anything*
Arya: *takes note of the temperments of several Lannister guards so that she can learn how to navigate around their behavior*
Fandom: Arya is a feral idiot with no self-control uwu 🤗
#arya stark#asoiaf#a song of ice and fire#this is really just a small portion of her intelligence and self-control and yet...people can't stand the idea of Arya being more than#the brawn to somebody's brains. They literally can't handle her being her own character or not comparing her to somebody else#mind you this is all on top of how calculated she us when helping with the coup and planning her escape from harrenhal#none of these takes are even judging her based on the books it's all about her in comparison to [x] character...usually Sansa#Ned's /Sun and Moon/ quote has had a terrible impact on this fandom and their perception of the Stark sisters#Arya HAS to be the /wild + reckless/ counterpart to Sansa's cool + collected/ side lol and it's such a joke#even if you thought Arya was reckless for defending Mycah which is debatable she's gone through so much since then#and she would've been dead several times over if she was really as rash and impulsive as fandom wanted her to be#why people can't comprehend both sisters sharing qualities I don't know but it's hilarious considering this fandom's#/don't pit the Stark sisters against each other/ attitude...guess that only counts when it comes to propping up Sansa#at what point can we start calling this out for the misogyny it is?#fandom nonsense
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#he thinks they're good people!#with good qualities!#brian would be SO PROUD OF THEM <333#I love that instead of 'yeah they're ok' he gives a proper review#he wouldn't mind if his daughter married a beatle#because they've got money#1963 to 1969#(please don't judge that only two beatles are in the last pic#and it ruins the entire point and meaning of my post#which is about the pure joy of the four of them#I desperately wanted to find a happy picture of four beatles singing in 1969 but what do you do?#there are lovely pictures of four happy beatles singing their beatle hearts out in other years but the rooftop no#all the bloody fuss MLH made about the show and then he didn't even force them to be close and tight and singing into a single mic)#beatles#the beatles#get back#{}
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Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 - Extended Gameplay Reveal
#Vampire the Masquerade#Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines#Vampire the Masquerade Bloodlines 2#Bloodlines 2#VTMB2#VTMB 2#VTMB#VtM#Vamily#The Chinese Room#vgedit#dailyvideogames#dailygaming#Blighted Gifs#The quality of this video was so bad don't judge me I did the best I could djfjd
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Perhaps the worst comic I've done but meh
#Don't judge the shitty quality#I did this after a panic attack#Doing stuff specifically for a portfolio and shit KNOWING I'll get help from editors on the stuff#plus dealing with class mates and friends constantly talk about my biggest fears has not been making me feel good#sorry to just dump this all here but like#chat I ain't got anyone or anything else to turn to or talk abt this#I'll try stopping doing angst stuff#make myself feel better#do fanfics#and do my projects#so I'll feel happy again#:>>>#also I found out that I'm apparently mainly British and French .-. uhhh so that's a random fun fact abt me#idk just wanted to say that
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Another Dead Plate AU sketch! Just practicing Shin's uniform again. Since I couldn't make up my mind on a single design, I'm just going to go off the idea that Hiyori just makes him wear a different uniform every day because he's demanding like that. That's one way to step around an issue!
#yttd#your turn to die#dead plate soushin au#sou hiyori#shin tsukimi#midori yttd#soushin#look i had to sneak them in there a little#this was supposed to be all shin rocking different outfits but i decided to add soushin as well. i couldn't repress the toxic yaoi urges#i got new fineliners so i saw this as an excuse to use em#also yes shin is drinking two cups of coffee with straws don't judge him#weird quirks and eyebags and early greying due to sleep deprivation and stress are common consequences from putting up with that guy daily#i like how this is still shin not having a great time 💀 he's just getting overworked by his scary boss i'm so sorry boo#anywho apologies for the shitty photo quality#momento doodles 'n sketches
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made a tierlist of my kuwagami fics for funsies (+ notes for a few) ↓
(everything listed in the same tier are equals, so the order they're listed in has no meaning)
#jitxt#fic extras#for those of you who also frequent the kuwagami ao3 tag ❤#crazy that i have enough fics posted to be able to even do this lmao#i probably could write notes for each of these but i wanted to keep it short and sfw. too much text makes the tierlist harder to parse#judging from the tiers here you can see i think pretty positively of my (posted) work which is probably for the best!#eating my own kuwagami food or whatever 👍#���jichan what's that fic with the big long title in A tier” nothing don't worry about it#OKAY okay joking aside that one is in the drafts but it already has a name#and also i like teasing. and also it's a funny name lol#i said that as a joke while writing the 7k long fic from last sunday six#and fourwhitetrees told me that i better make that the title. and listen. how could i say no to that?#tentative A tier since new fic = excited for it. maybe it's actually B tier quality but for now it's there#hopefully i post it soon#everybody say thank you to fourwhitetrees for giving me feedback so fast so i can (hopefully) also post it fast#i don't always ask for feedback but for this one specifically i wanted it#anyways! a peek into my mind for you all...#if anybody actually has a favourite of my fics i would love to hear it... or if anybody has an ask or anything... 👉👈#no pressure though i just like talking about kuwagami and my work#my assumption is that most people have no deep thoughts about it anyways
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'GOTCHA' BEHIND
minje
#all(h)ours#kim minje#malegroupsnet#nugudomedit#kflops#haven't touched photoshop and gifmaking in ages if you can't tell by the quality of these#people use so many different programs now lmao#i'm so sorry minje i'll do better next time i promise#don't judge the quality please#miles gifs*#all(h)ours:minje#all(h)ours*
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i don't hate anyone as a matter of principle but if you're coughing on public transit without a mask on you are testing that principle in the strongest possible sense.
#i get that people can't just stay home. i get that quality masks are expensive. i get that we have to be reasonable.#so i am setting the bar SO fucking low alright? i don't care if the mask is cloth. i don't care if it's a fucking bandana.#i just had covid and i'm sextuple vaxxed or whatever now and i'm wearing a kn95. i'll be fine!#but this is frankly a matter of manners just as much as infection control.#stigma is a weapon to be wielded with the utmost care and restraint but jfc we have GOT to stigmatize being publicly sick & unmasked!#'it's allergies' 1. how do YOU know that. 2. how do you expect anyone ELSE to know that.#even if it IS allergies you're still worrying and inconveniencing the people around you by not being masked! AND THAT'S STILL RUDE!#anyways if you're ever indoors unmasked & hacking away and you're wondering if people are judging you? we are.#man i have autism. i don't judge people for ANYTHING in public. piss in the intersection. whatever. but this is my line girlies.#rhi talks#you can reblog this. honestly out of every post ive made this is probably the only one i actually hope people reblog lmfao#like i said. not to be disabled on main but this PARTICULAR very specific action? this one we have a moral responsibility to stigmatize.
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@useless-geek-whatever tried Bix, didn't work
Velcinta be upon ye
#thanks for the request!#don't ask me why vel is tiny#or why's the quality so bad#but they're judging everyone at the party#i love bix btw just could not draw her for the life of me#sw#star wars#velcinta#my art#star wars fanart#vel sartha#cinta kaz#andor#crappy doodle but i love themmmm
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(tw for depictions of nudity, self-harm scars, blood, and vomit that look like they were drawn by a twelve-year-old.)
15.08.2024, 21:55
#random thoughts#art#an emetophobe drawing. this. how ironic.#(i don't like to use the word too often. makes me. not. work.)#i'm getting better anyway. less scared now. so.#i made this last night in a fit of emotion. you will not judge the way in which everything is depicted.#also tumblr fucking decimated the quality.
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I've heard you coming in / instead I've seen you aim / instead I've seen you shoot / to that same soul / you told me / I don't have
Elisa & Giuliano Sangiorgi x
#the devil judge#remma#lawful husbands#I wanted to try this same gifset but t with a different ratio#This is closer to a 3:4 but not quite#I mean the quality is awful still#But I wanted to experiment#The quote is the same#Please listen to the song or read the lyric translation#I don't know#There is something so Gahan in it#Also my brain links Elisa (the singer) and Jinyoung constantly#I wonder why#ep 15
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