#anankos

human anankos looks boring af so i'm designing my own to match my big stupid corn and lilith

corn mostly looks like hydra/anankos, but gets mikoto's big eyebrows and slightly squishier body type (not that you can tell under whatever she's wearing)

mikoto has always been softer than shenmei, but also more endowed as a result; shenmei was similarly svelte like aqua once, but some of the fat from her pregnancy stuck around after giving birth, somewhat to her displeasure, even if it made her curvier; mikotos pregnancy behaved similarly, and she only became more matronly as she grew older

aqua has not inherited this disposition and actually gets her height and build from her father (whom i shall not be designing in the near future bc they couldnt even give the man a name as a footnote good grief)

lilith gets basically just straight up anankos features but babier/finer; honestly, lilith and corn would be very difficult to mistake as anything but relatives, but liliths excuse that “their folks probably came from the same place” seems reasonable enough for most

anankos' features have passed down through the vallite royal family somewhat, so those who express the bloodline strongly tend to having sharper eye shapes, prominent lip bows, straight noses, and an unfortunate tendency toward rbf

anankos is lanky

aqua's eye shape is closer to mikoto's than her mother's

what is vallite clothing even idefk so i'm making it up too lelele

mikoto found corn impossible to mistake as her child, given how much they resemble anankos - not that she can tell anyone, because corn looks absolutely nothing like sumeragi and barely like mikoto

corns hair is an unfortunate combination of mikotos fine silkiness and anankos’ unruliness, which makes it extra messy but also very soft and fluffy

anankos is dark skinned, like many vallites tend to be; mikoto is on the lighter side of tan; corn trends toward mikotos skin tone

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Methods, in Brief

The initial steps - ripping the models for Byleth, Fogado, and Chrom from Engage, putting them back together, and using the former two's canon heights and some measuring in Blender to determine Chrom's height - are detailed in my post about measuring Grima which linked at the start. Here's another link to that post, for convenience. The gist of it is that we discovered Chrom is about 6' 2", or 188.11 cm tall.

After that, I ripped Chrom's models out of the one Fates DLC he appears in, and stitched him back together. The game files revealed he has no scaling factors, so I measured him as-is and used the results to find a conversion factor for translating the Fates coordinate space to centimeters. My measurement points for Chrom are, as always, the highest vertex on his head (not his hair, the skull under his hair, which is modelled) and the lowest vertex on his left heel.

I'm going to call Fates measurement units ifbu, which is short for "FE:IF Blender Units".

Anankos' default pose doesn't quite lay his spine flat for easy measuring, and he has a weird nose horn and crooked tail thing going on, so I opted to measure his length in a couple segments just to be cautious. But his default pose does position his wings spread out flat enough that I felt comfortable posing them just a little bit flatter to measure his wingspan in one go.

Also, for completeness, I checked his in-game scaling factors as well, and he has none, so I measured him as is.

A couple blender measurements and a handful of unit conversions later, and I found the numbers at the start of this post.