That One Comic

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As a snake enthusiast it is a great shame that I have never drawn Vee and I am rectifying that now

[Image description: digital art of Vee from The Owl House in her basilisk form, smiling and making peace signs with a wink, facing the viewer. The first image has a green background. The second is the same, but the background is pink with stars. End ID.]

(ID by @anistarrose with small edits by me)

vil. vil hear me out okay pookie. we need an UNDERSTANDING HERE POOKIE BEAR MY LOVE VIL. VIL THERE'S A REASON OKAY VIL. I KNOW YOU LOVE WHAT YOU DID TO HIM NOW BUT VIL MY LOVE JUST JUST LOOK OKAY VIL WHAT WHY DID YOU HIDE VIL. VIL VIL SCHOENHEIT I KNOW HE PROBABLY STINKED BEFORE BUT VIL HE'S SO BEAUTIFUL LIKE HE'S BEAUTIFUL NOW BUT VIL COME ON YOU GOTTA AGREE THERE'S SOMETHING WITH THIS ROOK OKAY VIL IT'S THE SAME MAN RIGHT SO VIL. PLEASE FOR SEVEN'S SAKE VIL.

I just started the part 3 manga, and I think a lot of my problems with jotaro are specific to the anime. I never really thought of the animation as “stiff,” but in the manga, jotaro has a lot of subtle expressions that give the impression that this is a scared kid trying his best to act tough. In the anime however, his expressions are so unmoving that he just comes across as a one-dimensional “tough guy” type. In the manga, he’s a dick to his mother bc that’s what teenagers do when they’re stressed. In the anime, he’s a dick to his mother bc he is a dick. In the anime, jotaro tries to kill avdol for no reason. In the manga, he begs avdol not to interfere because he’s afraid of killing him.

Also, in the anime, he calls star platinum an evil spirit, and as the audience you’re just like, oh this seems like a neutral spirit- he must think it’s evil for superstitious reasons. In the manga, star platinum can talk independently from jotaro’s thoughts, and threatens avdol with no input from him. Also the first close up of star platinum looks like this. Which is, to put it nicely, fucking terrifying. He looks like N’doul.

So it’s like, oh okay, I get it now. Jotaro is completely understandable.

So I decided to do some maturation math for the party and depending on how you calculate dwarven maturation, Chilchuck could be the oldest in terms of maturation.

To put it in relatable terms, I tried to calculate how old everyone would be if they were Tall-men.

Tall men only have the average lifespan of 60 in dunmeshi so shorter than most places irl.

Half-foots are only 10 years shorter for as much emphasis they put on how short-lived they are at an average lifespan of 50 years.

Dwarves live to 200... which brings complications. Laios mentions that dwarves live 2.5 times longer than tall men but... they don't. They live 3.33 times longer. 2.5 would mean tall-men have the average life expectancy of 80, which real people do in Japan. So I think Kui just forgot that tall-men don't live as long when she wrote that. But that means there are two valid ways to calculate Dwarven maturation. For this I'll do both and I'm not sure which I prefer yet.

Marcille is stated to be roughly the equivalent of a 20 year old and I'm just going to role with that because her maturation is a mess.

So for Chilchuck, I just added 10 years to his age for his Tall-man maturation level, meaning he's basically a 38 year old.

For Senshi, I divided his age by the two numbers we have. So, going with the 2.5 estimation, Senshi would be 44, pushing 45. (44.8) But if we go with the 3.33 estimation, he'd only be 36.

SO if you take dwarven maturation at the 3.33 times slower than tall-man maturation then Chilchuck is the oldest in the context of maturation at his species’ equivalent of 38. If you take the stated 2.5 maturation rate for Dwarves then the eldest is Senshi at his species’ equivalent of 44. Laios is third at 26, and Marcille is the youngest adult at ~20-ish, and Izutsumi is 17 as she is just a tall-man with a curse.

the stardust crusaders dynamic is that they all think they are the cool one in the group. but none of them actually are