Tiny heights

So, I found something rather cool, and if you checked out the Off Topic you might have seen it. Its a small height comparison tool. http://www.mrinitialman.com/OddsEnds/Sizes/sizes.html Sure its not perfect, but it does give an excellent sense of scale. Now go compare the heights of a neera, which are usually between 2-3 inches tall, with that of a neko, which seem to be comparable to humans in pictures, so I'd say between 4-6 feet tall on average. Compare the two heights and I think you'll see where I'm going with this.

Neera heights and other tinies need to have their sizes increased just a bit, especially if they're eaten as a food source. Sure they're not aalways on the menu, but when a neko finds them, they tend to become cat food. Plus Nekos are generally seen as being able to eat a couple of neera, and be satisfied. Heck, a tribe of neera can be used to fill a tribe of nekos. But at that size it just doesn't make sense. Now I know, its not a perfect size measurement, but it still gives a good idea of the size differences.

I've thought about it, and what I came up with was that it's something we'll just have to live with.

Look at it this way. Let's say a 75 kg human (Yes, I'm using metric) measures six feet (Yes, I'm using Imperial), and her tiny counterpart measures three inches (shut up). So it's 1/24 times the height, and the third power of that in weight scaling down. 13284 times lighter. That's 5.4 grams. Even if they were 100% fat, they'd barely carry 49 calories (they'd actually be closer to 21). Ms. X should be able to eat a hundred of those in a 2000 kcal diet.

But! Tinies aren't simply supposed to be something you eat. They're supposed to be something you swallow whole even if it struggles to the bitter end, and you don't need to be a fish, nor have a specially elastic throat for that. Ms. X is a normal human who just happens to eat people because she's a jerk.

So if you want to be realistic, rather than assuming tinies should be bigger, we could just say Felaryans follow unreasonable diets. :B I mean, seriously, look at Crisis, she's rail-thin, no wonder she's hungry enough to eat all of us.

Yeah, there has been some sort of disconnect between how much predators eat and how much they really need to. I think the consensus is that Crisis is a big eater no matter what, like even if she was a human, which Karbo made a picture of what she'd look like if she was a normal human girl, she'd still be a big eater with an efficient metabolism that would no doubt make other girls of her age jealous. But, like with the personality of nagas, I think people took it at face value that she represented the everywoman naga of Felarya, even though her backstory demonstrates that she's probably among the least ordinary nagas in the region, and that predators always have a big appetite. It's largely unknown if predators have adapted to proportionally needing less food than humans to stay well-fed, you know in case of a bad hunt. I went with the idea that my naga character, Hierry, can eat a large prey and not need to eat again for about a month to make her a little bit more snake-like. Dryads I think it's more or less stated that they don't need to feed all that often since they partially get their nutrition from photosynthesis and probably the water in the soil, but that's about it as far as Felaryan predators are concerned.

Fairies, unsurprisingly, seem to be the oddball of the bunch in my opinion. Since they seem to be more omnivorous and settle down a bit more often than other predators, they probably have a larger appetite in general if they take advantage of agriculture and slightly more sedentary life.

Interesting. But Nekos might keep chickens or some easy meat around. Like feedimg a cat things other than meat

Well I think allot of us older vorists, or at least more mature ones, know that the average Felaryan gal eats us like candy bars. they don't need to but that taste and wriggling is what they do it for. Smaller ones, like Nikita, may gobble us down cause it's necessary and nothing else is available but most just snack on us as a "guilty pleasure" Prinnydood has writen this allot I think and few other authors who bother to have their preds talk to their prey. Silver scales even brought it up I think.

Not... quite, Ilceren. If your finger is a rectangular prism, that would be the case.

But if we count it as a cylinder, its volume would be pi times lesser radius times greater radius times length. Instead, you get 10.42 cubic centimeters... to start with. Also, your body mass calculations do have to include empty volume, because the density calculation does not take it into account, and that volume does not contribute to your weight.

Your lungs, for instance, can carry up to six litres of air. What does this mean? This means 6/13824 litres (6000/13824 cc) of the tiny's mass, approximately, do not contribute to weight either.

And then there's the part about us having a shape that's not a filled, round cylinder. An estimate like yours gives us a ballpark approximation, but anything other than the order of magnitude isn't gonna be very exact. Try scaling up your finger to human size now, and check what your calculations say.

I highly question the need to rationalise a narrative characteristic that by it's very nature requires some suspension of disbelief.

Everything seems to check out to me, if tinies were any bigger I'd have a hard time beleiving the swallowed whole thing, and even now you have to take it with a grain of salt.

*Begins to feel salt being sprinkled on his head*

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