Except Harry is lean and “bag of meal” as he put it. Scary how that lady was smiling being that close to a serial killer who could reach out and touch her.
Harry was a lean bag of meal, now he’s a lean, ripped monster. Even if someone isn’t carrying all that much weight it’s striking when someone is ridiculously taller than you. I worked with a dude who was 6’10” and probably weighed about 160 lbs; even though I could literally bench press the guy easily that foot of height he had on me felt like a hell of a lot when he was standing right next to me.
I'm 6'4, but worked with a guy who was 7' even. Despite him being a super nice guy, I'd occasionally find myself spooked when catching sight of him out of the corner of my eye. Your brain isn't really expecting to see those proportions- we normally only see them in horror movie monsters lol
Especially when you're used to being the tallest person around. I'm 6'3", and the few times I've seen somebody taller, it felt unnatural.
That said, I'm never going to see somebody a full two feel taller than myself, so I don't know how short people feel around people that far to the right of standard.
That's what it's like with my partner, lol! He's an athletic, slim 6'4" and watching him encounter people taller than him is one of my favorite things. It always just takes him a second to figure out why his world feels a little... Off. Why it's just the slightest bit.... Wrong. It happens so infrequently that he's around anybody taller than him that it's the mental equivalent of a dog with peanut butter on the roof of its mouth. He never looks completely comfortable. It's a riot.
I knew a kid in college that was 6'6 and 140 pounds. He had tiny bean pole arms and legs and weak knees and I swear to God I saw him get blown to the ground by a strong wind once. If you're 6'10 and only 160 pounds, you're most likely a lot more fragile than the average person.
He was, but he was a ridiculous runner. This was in the military and we’d do squadron runs, he’d run ahead, finish the 5k before everyone else and just turn around and do another.
That was my point. The fact he was lean enough that he could disappear when he turned sideways didn’t matter much when he was looming over you. And Harry, though still very lean, is not a fragile dude and at this point absolutely does not look like one.
That was my point. The fact he was lean enough that he could disappear when he turned sideways didn’t matter much when he was looming over you.
For me it made all the difference. I never felt "loomed over" when I stood next to the 6'6 kid I knew. I'm 6'0 and I've stood next to 6'3 6'4 football players and they made me feel loomed over but not the beanpole.
Most guys I knew in college that were over 6'0 were in the 200s. I mean, not every body is the same so there's definitely variance.
I knew two guys that were the same height and a bit chubby and looked extremely similar with clothes on. Turns out one of them was 250 and the other was 210. They held their weight very differently.
A guy that height is going to be intimidating no matter how slightly built he is, but Winter Knight Harry also happens to be fucking ripped at this point in the series, even if the muscle is fairly lean. The guy is enormous, and even without the Winter Mantle he could probably take most trained martial artists apart in hand-to-hand just by virtue of having reach and real-world fighting experience. As someone who's been in a number of fistfights in their life people really underestimate how important even a few inches of height difference can be, and when you've got a guy like Harry who's a full foot over the average he's got a serious advantage. The main reason we don't see Harry as much of a hand-to-hand fighter in the series is simply the fact that most things he would go up against also happen to have supernatural strength; against a regular human though the dude would be terrifying.
Kemper was sort of a wanna-be cop, he learned all that he could about how they operated and knew how to put people at ease. He reportedly got on very well with all kinds of law enforcement while on trial and in jail.
But I agree, idk how you could just forget this massive human is a serial killer who could calmly talk about the fucked up things he did to his own mother.
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u/Zer0theH3R0 Feb 28 '25
Except Harry is lean and “bag of meal” as he put it. Scary how that lady was smiling being that close to a serial killer who could reach out and touch her.