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My Life as a Teenage Juggernaut... (Worm AU x Marvel)

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SubvertsExpect. said:
I feel this pain deep in my soul. The most unrealistic thing about this fic is that Brockton has a big & tall store for women. Last I checked the nearest place to me that catered to the truly tall was in Denver. And my 6'-3" ass was in Seattle.
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Of course they have a big and tall; Manpower and Lung co-own the place, just so they have a place to get clothes. There's this younger guy, Brian something that comes in sometimes.

Some PRT guy, name of Calvert shops there also.

(Taylor in Canon, was 5'8", Grue was "a foot taller" and Coil was a foot taller than Brian. ??? Methinks WB didn't think those descriptions through.)

So Lung, at a mere 6'6" is the shortest of the four. Brian is 6'8", Manpower is 7', and Coil is 7'8", if you go by canon descriptions.

So yeah, there's a Big and Tall, but 90% of it is for men.
 
VirtualFox said:
Mathers: "I control your senses now you can't…urk."

Taylornaught: "I always know which way my goal is. Tag, you're it. I'll see if Simmy wants to play catch…' YEET!
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Ziz moves to one side and watches as Mathers goes splat on the moon.
Amrynel said:
... I have to guess that glass materials science is further along in Earth-Bet and/or Max got scammed :evil: by marketing hype; even for three point five inch thick ballistic glass RL, to "resist" a 20mm round would be true only in the barest technical sense (i.e. slightly slowed down as it punched through). Example videos: link1, link2. Maybe the "glass" is actually something like AlON.
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Probably either Tinker-made or Thinker-designed.
 
Kryslin said:
Bottom of the window in question is at the top of the 25th floor, Max' office is the 26th.

Or there are 25 floor's beneath it, or something.

Just go with imperfect knowledge or approximations from the party mentioning things, and your disbelief suspenders shouldn't snap too hard.
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Or just claim "off the ground" meant without the ground floor because that one is on the ground.
 
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jmcdavid said:
If Ziz wanted to really troll, she'd make MM hit the lunar landing site.

That way, if any future astronauts made it to the moon, they'd be confused to see human remains there.
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She could always hit her back, then Taylornaut does too. And they begin a friendly tennis exchange, with Mama Mathers being the ball

Also, it took me realising which thread we were in and that there was a Mama Mathers gets flung into the direction of Ziz conversation to realize you meant Mama Mathers. I'm used to MM being the shortening of Ms. Militia
 
Martin Bajar said:
Also, it took me realising which thread we were in and that there was a Mama Mathers gets flung into the direction of Ziz conversation to realize you meant Mama Mathers. I'm used to MM being the shortening of Ms. Militia
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The peril of a story that has two or more characters that can have their names shorten to the same initials... of course we could chance Miss Militia's initials to MND for Miss Nuremberg Defence.
 
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Kryslin said:
Such generic Big & Tall stores cater mainly to the big side of things, not so much the tall. Des Moines has one notable big & tall store, and it's mostly Big, not so much Tall.

The few times I've had to go shopping in a Women's Big and Tall store, I was buying my sister a gift. She was definitely big, but not tall. I believe that as far as tall went, they had the generic T (as in 2XLT, which would be a Size 18-20 for someone taller than 5'6"). Taylor will probably be able to find things like bras, socks, and blouses / t-shirts there, maybe some skirts. A full length prom dress, however, is going to be a custom job. Hence, Parian's. The most embarassing part? Parian's somewhat on the shorter side, and has to use a step stool when measuring / fitting Taylor.
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A friend of mine had to get custom fitted for Bras to fit her since she had an odd size it was hard to get something that was fitted correctly otherwise usually too loose and baggy to be supportive or too tight to breathe good. It is not too uncommon to be able to get a custom fit and have something adjusted but at that range it would not be a simple alteration. Odds are they will have to craft the whole thing from scratch for her.
 
Hida Reju said:
A friend of mine had to get custom fitted for Bras to fit her since she had an odd size it was hard to get something that was fitted correctly otherwise usually too loose and baggy to be supportive or too tight to breathe good. It is not too uncommon to be able to get a custom fit and have something adjusted but at that range it would not be a simple alteration. Odds are they will have to craft the whole thing from scratch for her.
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Given her strength, Taylor will never have a problem breathing, no matter how tight the bra; busting the thing all to hell by breathing too deeply, on the other hand, is a distinct possibility.
 
Taylor at start of story is 5'9". If we scale the men back to something sane, replacing "foot" with "half a foot," Grue is 6'3" to 6'4", Lung is about an inch taller, and Coil is about 6'8". He's also described as being rail thin, I'm not sure how that squares with his having been a PRT trooper. Manpower… I'm not sure. Seven feet tall is a truly extreme outlier even by NBA standards. On the other side, it makes for a definite incentive for being an open cape: No chance of a secret ID at that height. Come to think of it, that should apply to Coil as well.
 
Whitewings said:
Coil is about 6'8". He's also described as being rail thin, I'm not sure how that squares with his having been a PRT trooper
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jmcdavid said:
Just chalk it up to Wildbow being a talentless hack.
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There are some amazingly thin-looking atheletes... Also, take a look at some Bruce Lee stuff...

From an animal PoV, humans are ridiculous, with spindly limbs and poorly-attached upper ones at that. Upside? Leverage. And, flexibility. Past a certain point, strength is nice, but that extra, fine, control, that's what makes all the difference.

Now, if Taylor and QA can sell the idea of Mental Strength to a certain being... Particularly if it leads to the Physical Strength looking more impressive...
 
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Why would Parian need an exoframe when she likes to get close to girls? That and getting things properly fitted requires the kind of dexterity and tactile sense that an exoframe would hide.
 
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