Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-5209016-20131216101843

Alright so before you think I'm jumping to conclusions, I want to state that I very well might be. It's 4:00 am right now and my math may be a bit off, so feel free to look through it and correct me in any areas I may have made a mistake. This started as a way for me to try and figure out how fast Weiss actually moved in Episode 8 when they were fighting the Grimm (you all know which episode I'm talking about). I needed a scale to use, and I decided that Yang hanging off the pillar would make a good measurement.



The scene where Yang is sleeping in Episode 10 is the episode I used. Assuming that the beds that were used in the series are on par with real life beds, I can assume that, like most bunk beds, the bed would be a twin sized bed.



Cropping the photo so that Yang has her head to the estimated top of the matress, she is roughly 3/5ths of the bed length. Once again, assuming that this is a twin bed, we can multiply the length of an average twin bed with Yang's length (3/5ths or 0.6), to find her height in inches.

According to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bed_size), the length of a twin size bed in Europe and Latin America (the longest twin beds) is about 79".

If we multiply 79 by 0.6, we end up with 47.4 inches. Divide this by 12 to find the length in feet, and we get 3.95 feet (3' 11.4"). This puts Yang about 8 inches underneath the norm for Bolivia, the country with the shortest average female populous (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Average_height_around_the_world).

Now, we can't say that the beds would be twins for sure. So let's say that these beds are the longest beds, the California King. A California King sized bed is 84" long, 9" longer than the North American Twin sized bed and 5" longer than our Twin sized example. Multiply the 84 by 0.6, and we end up with 50.4 inches. This divided by 12 puts her height now to 4.2 feet (4' 2.4"), still over 5 inches shorter than the Bolivian average height of 4' 8". Being generous, this puts Yang at roughly 4' 3". But where does that leave the rest of the characters?



Comparing the sizes of Yang and Blake in episode 8, they are roughly the same height. Using the rulers provided in Paint, I measured Ruby to be roughly 310 units and Yang to be roughly 350. This puts them at a ratio of 31:35. We can now divide Yang's height in feet of 4.2 by 35 and then multiply it by 31 to get Ruby's height. This puts Ruby at approximately 3' 8.64" tall. I was unable to find a photo of Weiss standing beside Yang or any of the other female characters at the same distance from the camera, so I was unable to measure her accurately. However, she is roughly between Ruby and Yang in height, so I would guess that she is about 4 feet tall.

If any of you would like to dispute my 4 am math, or would like me to try and figure out the size of something else, feel free to leave a comment on here. :) 