Thief of Words
Trans lesbian librarian
- Location
- Best book girl
- Pronouns
- She/Her
He's repeatedly remarked to be excessively thin, the specific word used being "skeletally".
Price of Blood [Worm fanfic] (Complete)
- Thread starter Ack
- Start date
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- Tags
- worm complete trigger warning
- Pronouns
- Yes
He's also very tall and has enough muscle mass to be a team leader in the PRT (at least in this story).
RazorSmile
ROB Used To Be A Knife Missile
Eh. Lots of special ops guys are skinny-strong ("wiry", I think is the word?) They're not all hulking Carl-Weathers-and-Schwarzenegger-in-Predator types.
- Pronouns
- Yes
Yes, and? That still makes him " a large man in very good physical condition"
- Location
- New Zealand
Yes, but he's described as being so thin that you can see his ribs through his costume. Not necessarily weak, but not particularly strong, either. I got the impression that it's because he binges on all his vices in one reality and then drops it, leaving only his stingy reality.
- Pronouns
- Yes
You might be right about canon, it clearly doesn't apply in this story. In this story he's the leader of a squat of PRT troops, not something you can get without being in very good shape.
- Location
- Australia
Canonically, by this point he's commanding a PRT strike team. And also canonically, he's skinny as a rake.
So apparently one does not preclude the other.
When they say 'wiry'? He really pushes the definition
- Pronouns
- Yes
I was referring to Jack's interpretation of the canon description.
- Location
- New Zealand
This fic is presented as diverging after Taylor's trigger event, but otherwise remaining canon. So I guess it's up to Ack to declare if this has AU elements where Calvert isn't skeletally thin.
- Location
- Earth Prime
Calvert is clearly a lich. *sagenod*
- Location
- New Zealand
Of course! That's the only possible explanation!
- Pronouns
- Yes
Or that Taylor's description of him was overstated.
Icipall
Don't worry, we can fanfix that!
- Location
- Cold snow fields of Finland
Dammit, you beat me to it!
- Location
- Earth Prime
No, I know what it was. His normal costume was at the cleaners, so he'd substituted a skeleton Halloween costume, and those were the ribs she saw.
- Pronouns
- Yes
Or his costume has ribs of reinforcement
- Location
- New Zealand
And presumably joints of reinforcement? That somehow don't make him seem unusually proportioned? Remember, Taylor describes him as skeletally thin. If it was Grue that described him as thin, then maybe you could argue it was an exaggeration, but not from someone who is already described as rail thin.
- Pronouns
- Yes
Yes, and we know she's a great artist, studied anatomy, and is famed for her powers of observation, and never overstates thing so there's no way she'd make a mistake in what she thought she was seeing... oh wait, we don't know any of that.
It's certainly possible that Coil was that thin, but it's also possible Taylor was wrong for any of a wide range of reasons. Since Taylor being right doesn't fit with him being in as good a shape as he's described in this story either she was wrong or it's an AU element.
For canon you have the added possibility that strike team leader is a desk job.
- Location
- New Zealand
He was described as being so skinny you could see his ribs and joints through his costume. Granted, it was a skintight costume, but that's still pretty damn skinny and not something that can be explained away by poor observation.
- Pronouns
- Yes
Very true. However he can't be skinny enough for Taylor to be able to count his ribs through his costume(i.e serious medical issues underweight), and also in good enough physical shape that a line like
would make sense.
Of course it can be explained by mistaken observation - if what Taylor thought she was seeing was patterns in the costume.
- Location
- Australia
Or if he was just one of those people who have abnormally low body fat.
RazorSmile
ROB Used To Be A Knife Missile
Aren't Kenyan marathon runners (and champion marathoners in general) both very skinny and very fit (albeit, specialized in their fitness)?
- Pronouns
- Yes
Not that skinny. Being skinny enough for someone to count your ribs, especially through clothes means you're not in good shape and if you aren't a famine victim or something similar have a serious medical problem.