ONE WORD: EARS

[sonnekinde]

HEY, NON-LJ PEOPLE! IF YOU'RE GOING TO REBLOG STUFF FROM THIS POST (ON TUMBLR OR WHATEVER) DO ME A FAVOR AND LINK BACK HERE? THIS BABY NEEDS CONTEXT.

ETA ON 16/12: I'VE REVIEWED THIS POST AND CORRECTED SOME ERRORS THAT SNUCK IN THE FIRST TIME AROUND. SHOULD BE OKAY NOW. STILL CAN'T MAKE ANY GUARANTEES, THOUGH!

ONE OF THE THINGS I LIKE MOST ABOUT THE J&D GAMES ARE THE EARS. AND NOT JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE HOT. WHICH THEY TOTALLY ARE. BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT EVERY CHARACTER'S EARS ARE UNIQUE. THEY'RE LIKE FINGERPRINTS, OR IRIS PATTERNS. NOT TWO PAIRS ARE THE SAME.

ANOTHER THING I LIKE A LOT IS INFORMATION. CHARTS. GRAPHS. COMPARING STUFF. HEY, I'M STUDYING TO BE AN INFORMATION SPECIALIST, SO IT PRETTY MUCH COMES WITH THE TRADE.

MIX THOSE TWO TOGETHER WITH A LOT OF "I SHOULD BE STUDYING" TIME AND I GIVE YOU…



IMPORTANT: THE FOLLOWING INFORMATION IS NOT 100% ACCURATE, BUT I'VE TRIED TO WORK AS CAREFUL AS POSSIBLE. ALL STATISTICS ARE BASED ON THE CHARACTERS THAT APPEAR IN THE MODEL VIEWERS FOR TPL, II AND 3, AND AS SUCH DO NOT INCLUDE CHARACTERS EXCLUSIVE TO X, DAXTER OR TLF.





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GENERAL STATISTICS

• THE AVERAGE EAR LENGTH IS SLIGHTLY LESS THAN 0,3 TIMES THE PERSON'S BODY LENGTH.
• THE STANDARD DEVIATION IS ABOUT 0,09.
• ABSOLUTE HEIGHT AND EAR LENGTH ARE NOT DIRECTLY RELATED. TALL CHARACTERS CAN HAVE SHORT EARS AND SHORT CHARACTERS CAN HAVE LONG EARS.

MALE AND FEMALE

• COMPARED TO THEIR BODY, MALES' EARS ARE ON AVERAGE LONGER THAN FEMALES': A MALE EAR IS 0,31 TIMES THE BODY LENGTH, WHILE THAT OF A FEMALE IS 0,23.
• FEMALE EARS ARE OFTEN ROUNDED AT BOTH SIDES. THIS CAN ALSO HAPPEN IN MALES, ALTHOUGH IT IS LESS COMMON.

LONGEST AND SHORTEST

• THE CHARACTER WITH THE SHORTEST EARS COMPARED TO HIS BODY IS KREW. HIS EARS ARE ONLY ABOUT 0,08 TIMES THE LENGTH OF HIS BODY (NOT TO MENTION THE SIZE OF IT).
• ON THE OTHER END OF THE RULER WE HAVE SAMOS. HIS EARS ARE MORE THAN HALF THE LENGTH OF HIS BODY (0,59).
• THE LONGEST EARS IN ABSOLUTE LENGTH BELONG TO SCRAWNY-TO-SLENDER MEN. EX: TORN, JINX, EROL.
• LIKEWISE, THE FATTER THE DUDE, THE SHORTER THE EARS. PRIME EXAMPLE: THE AFOREMENTIONED KREW. ALSO KLEIVER.
• BECAUSE THEY ARE ON AVERAGE SHORTER THAN MEN AND (LIKE STATED ABOVE) THEIR EARS ARE RELATIVELY SHORT COMPARED TO THEIR BODY, WOMEN LOGICALLY POSSESS THE SHORTEST EARS IN ABSOLUTE TERMS.

DEVELOPMENT

• A PERSON’S EARS DEVELOP DURING THEIR LIFETIME. THEY BECOME MORE DEFINED AND GROW LONGER, ALBEIT MORE IN ABSOLUTE TERMS THAN IN RELATIVE. FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN JAK WAS A KID HIS EARS WERE 0,36 TIMES HIS BODY LENGTH. AT AGE 18, HIS EARS HAD GROWN TO 0,39.
• EARS GET DROOPIER AS A PERSON REACHES OLD AGE (SAMOS, ONIN). STRESS AND BAD HEALTH CAN ALSO CAUSE THIS (VIN, GOL).
• PARTS OF THE EAR THAT HAVE BEEN AMPUTATED DO NOT GROW BACK. SUPERFICIAL DAMAGE CAN BE TREATED -- THE WARRIOR HAS STITCHES. THEY MOST OFTEN SCAR RED.

 
UNIQUE CHARACTERISTICS

• ONLY VEGER AND JINX HAVE DEFINED TRAGUSES. IN CERTAIN HIGH-RES PROMO IMAGES JAK HAS THEM TOO, BUT THEY'RE NOT PRESENT ON HIS IN-GAME RENDER.
• MOST CHARACTERS ONLY HAVE UPPER EAR FOLDS. KOR, TESS, VIN AND KEIRA ARE THE EXCEPTIONS, THEIR EARS ALSO HAVE LOWER FOLDS.
• BARON PRAXIS' EARS ARE REALLY, REALLY POINTY AND VERY STRAIGHT. IN THE MODEL VIEWER THEY ARE ALIGNED AT A NEAR-180 DEGREE ANGLE OF EACH OTHER, ALTHOUGH IN-GAME THEY ARE ANGLED 'NORMALLY'.
• BRUTTER WEARS FEATHERS ON HIS HEAD THAT RESEMBLE EARS. (D’AWWWWW. I NEVER EVEN NOTICED THAT BEFORE.)
• JAK IS NOT THE ONLY ONE WITH EAR NUBS. THE GAMBLER HAS THEM TOO, ALTHOUGH THEY ARE NOT AS DISTINGUISHED.

JAK

• GOING BY JAK’S STATS FROM X, HIS EARS AT THE TIME OF TPL ARE APPROXIMATELY 52,9 CM (20.8") LONG.
• IN II, HIS EARS HAVE GROWN TO 67,3 CM (26.5").
• AND AT THE TIME OF 3, HIS EARS ARE 68 CM (26.8") LONG.
• FROM TPL TO II THAT IS A GROWTH OF 14,4 CM (5.7"), WHICH COMES DOWN TO 7,2 CM (2.8") PER YEAR.
• AFTER THAT HIS EARS GROW LESS FAST. BETWEEN II AND 3 HIS EARS GROW ONLY 0,7 CM (0.3") PER YEAR.

OTHER CHARACTERS

• ASHELIN: 37,3 CM (14.7")
• KLEIVER: 38,6 CM (15.2")
• SIG: 47,5 CM (18.7")
• TORN: 56,2 CM (22.1")

THANK YOU AND GOODNIGHT.