Visual aids: Mildmay the Fox

[truepenny]

matociquala very kindly distracted me from my book by sending me this link, to which I said, "Holy shit that's amazing." And then said, "You know, this Ivan Zubkevich, he looks a lot like Mildmay." Check out that upper body musculature.

So, you know, if you're trying to visualize Mildmay, here's a good starter. Also, seriously? Holy shit that's amazing.

Comments

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

holy shit indeed. straps work is HARD.

that said, i'm surprised that level of upper body strength didn't allow mildmay to compensate a bit better for his leg injuries.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Okay, two answers:
1. By the time Mildmay's leg is crippled, he's at least a year out of conditioning and has walked across Kekropia with insufficient calorie intake to boot. So he's not in the kind of shape he was in at the beginning of Mélusine, and then with the being bed-ridden after the injury. Plus, no physiotherapists in space at this level of medical knowledge/tech and not terrifically good care, either.

2. Hindsight is 20/20.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Or, alternatively, how do we know his upper body strength isn't helping him compensate? We don't know--because I was very careful not to specify--exactly what happened to his leg, or how bad it really was.

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

Well, he can still climb buildings with a crippled leg. I'd say that's pretty decent compensation.

[renatus.livejournal.com]

That's what I was thinking. How is being able to still climb builings not compensating well? Lots of able-bodied people can't climb buildings!

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

er. i do not want to argue with you about your writing, about which you are obviously entirely authoritative, having made it up. but someone who can do straps like that fellow can, i think, walk on his hands with about as much fuss as i walk on my feet. that was a *really* impressive vid.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

If you'll notice, I didn't say Mildmay could do the things Ivan Zubkevich can do.

[lyonesse.livejournal.com]

and neither did i.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Then I apologize. I seem to have missed your point somewhere.