Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-36926079-20191026215515/@comment-4010415-20191027025851

Phantomlink959 wrote: I mean, it IS broken at the base now. I think she has the one that didn't break, though.

And yeah, it's honestly a trope commonly seen in anime and sometimes even western cartoons. Old people suddenly become as short and compact as Maria and Cordovin, regardless of their height before.

I suppose it's just cartoonish exaggeration to drive home a point of "This character is really old". Art through exaggeration.