heyfightme:

i’ve been thinking a lot about size differences and how jack is massive and bitty is not and i Need™ to talk about it more, because the black and white facts of this are very important to me as a writer and i’m weirdly defensive about it (athletic family, more knowledge about athletic bodies than an amateur should have, driving ferocity to be Accurate and Right all the time).

first off, there is the height thing to address: jack is 6′1″. bitty is 5′6.5″. it’s not a huge difference, sure. it’s only the length of a subway sandwich, which i think we can all agree is not super impressive. However. it is a noticeable difference, and a difference that both of them are obviously aware of. bitty is often shown reaching up to jack, or jack is shown bending down to bitty.

regardless of their marginal height difference, however, there is a Much More Important aspect to their size difference – and this one they are both very, very aware of. [clue: bitty’s an ex-figure skater, and jack’s a fuckin professional hockey player]

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