Because Shirou is also from Japan, and his adult form is 187 cm tall. That's still pretty big for a male in Japan.
Okay but how does that relate to Rider? She isn't from Japan. Being tall as a man is significantly more culturally appreciated than being tall as a woman. Also still doesn't explain why a woman from an entirely different culture would be so worried about it.
Okay but how does that relate to Rider? She isn't from Japan. Being tall as a man is significantly more culturally appreciated than being tall as a woman. Also still doesn't explain why a woman from an entirely different culture would be so worried about it.
From what I remember Rider's height complex largely comes from her sisters being much shorter, and they tease/bully her about being so much taller.
From what I remember Rider's height complex largely comes from her sisters being much shorter, and they tease/bully her about being so much taller.
But again, that's a Japanese standard where small women are both the norm and prefered. why would an Ancient Greek woman care what Japanese people think about her height?
But again, that's a Japanese standard where small women are both the norm and prefered. why would an Ancient Greek woman care what Japanese people think about her height?
From my understanding it's mostly that the bullying from Euryale and Stheno turned into a complex, so Medusa feels conflicted about her height in general and she feels abnormal because of it. So it doesn't matter if she's in Japan or another country, it's just going to be an inner conflict regardless because of that bullying.
From my understanding it's mostly that the bullying from Euryale and Stheno turned into a complex, so Medusa feels conflicted about her height in general and she feels abnormal because of it. So it doesn't matter if she's in Japan or another country, it's just going to be an inner conflict regardless because of that bullying.
In addition to this, at the time Fate/Stay Night was written, studies based on old graves suggested that people in ancient Greece were shorter than they are now. Not by much, but enough to where Medusa's canon height of 172cm would have made her tower over most women and a least matched most men of the era. Not sure if the research holds up nowadays, but that's what was believed at the time.
With her life experiences of men preferring more delicate, small women more like Stheno and Euryale combined with her sisters' bullying about it, she developed a complex about being tall, even if the modern era would consider her an absolute knockout with a fantastic figure. Now toss in that her monster form was a titanic creature that she hates the idea of becoming ever again, and it makes sense that she gets a touch mopey about being so much taller and different from her eternally tiny sisters.
Say that to Shirou, who still manages to get a rather large growth spurt after his 17-18th birthday.
We all know he got sketchy height surgery from Alaya because that's completely unlike how human growth curves would work under simple evolution: A male that tries to become sexually competitive much before reaching full size will be eliminated before he has a chance to grow up!
Honestly this version is only about 6 feet 1 inch to 6'3" tall it seems like... because it's her heels that boost her by like 3 inches here.
We all know he got sketchy height surgery from Alaya because that's completely unlike how human growth curves would work under simple evolution: A male that tries to become sexually competitive much before reaching full size will be eliminated before he has a chance to grow up!
Honestly this version is only about 6 feet 1 inch to 6'3" tall it seems like... because it's her heels that boost her by like 3 inches here.
It's the Nasuverse. Human growth curves don't account for Kotomine grow an extra 10 cm between Fate/Zero & Fate/Stay Night, yet it happens still.
Are you going to also complain about Shiki's hollow bones and incest superpowers as not being supported by reality, in an urban fantasy setting?
cd_young said:
But again, that's a Japanese standard where small women are both the norm and prefered. why would an Ancient Greek woman care what Japanese people think about her height?
Because living with two lolis who constantly teased her about her being taller than them gave her an abnormal height complex.
It has nothing to do with the Japanese in-story.
cd_young said:
She's 5'8" that's gargantuan for a woman in Japan.
Isn't that also taller than most Western/European-descended average female heights?
