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Badass Gokudera saves the day
...For a second I thought Ryohei had his arm arouns Lal. Then I saw he didn't and went: Oh. That's good. At least one limb will stay attached.
(Also: SMOL TSUNA! SEE HIM BEING TINY IN THE FOREST OF GIANTS!)
Hi guys!
I’ve been mentioning The Broad a lot lately when talking about Enma and Cozart, so I thought I should make a post with an explanation to refer to when people ask!
So up first:
Enma’s Height In General
Enma is indeed the same height-ish as Tsuna in the manga, but he constantly hunches- trying to hide himself- which doesn’t help much with trying to guess his height. He’s definitely broader than Tsuna, though. They’re also fourteen, and boys, so they’re going to be growing for a while yet too.
Most of the foreign characters on KHR are portrayed as tall compared to the Japanese characters. For example: Squalo, Xanxus, Timoteo (if you take into account he’s an old man and has most likely already shrunken. The same counts for most of his guardians), Dino, etc.
(Notable exceptions: TYL Gokudera is one of the smaller guardians, despite being only ¼ Japanese. @aoife-has-fallen pointed out to me that this most likely was due to his time on the streets, where he would have had malnutrition during crucial periods of growth.
Strangely, Yamamoto is the tallest, with Hibari as the second tallest, despite their pure Japanese ancestry)
The ancestry of the Simon is not really clear- That their ancestors (the Simon’s first gen) were Italian is clear. That some of them have Japanese names is also clear, but then you have characters like Adelheid who’s got a Dutch/German name. Don’t ask me how she got that, especially when her last name is the typically Japanese “Suzuki”. Adelheid’s height seems to indicate she’s Italian, as she’s definitely the tallest woman in the series and probably also belongs to the tallest characters overall.
It’s a confusing thing, but in the end I just decided to say: “They’re mostly European” because Enma’s hair is red. This is no good evidence, as we all know manga hair colours, but I had to decide somehow.
On The Broad
This has a lot to do with the above explanation of height, just so you know.
After my whole thought process about Enma’s height and the Simon’s ancestry, @i-w-p-chan came with her alternate characterization Biker!Enma. And I went: Yes. 24-year-old Enma, shoulders like a closet (…Not sure if that’s the right idiom in English *rubs neck sheepishly*) and the leather jackets streching across that broad back.
Long story short, it became a thing were I imagined older Enma with broad shoulders, a broad face, a broad mouth and even broad hands!
And with Enma resembling his ancestor Cozart so much, Cozart caught The Broad too.
On Adult Enma Being Taller Than Hibari
Biker!Enma was incorporated into Fergalicious, a 001827 fic in the works, and @i-w-p-chan and I talked a lot (*cough*squealed*cough*) about the pairing. And she was like: I don’t get why people don’t ship this. Hibari can have TWO small animals!
And I went: Blue.exe has stopped working. Because I had visions of older Biker!Enma who was taller and broader than Hibari and still a little animal and my heart couldn’t contain it.
Ever since, any slightly older version of Tsuna has Tsuna only growing a little (because all his guardians except for Chrome tower over him *cackles*) and Enma slowly becoming a giant. Because he will somehow, even as a grown biker, be the cutest.
