"Gametech" wrote: I happened upon the notion of what it would look like to see an Easterner like Vlad trying to punch a Dragaeran in the face. The closest facsimile I can come up with is a 13-year-old kid lunging up to hit an adult sized person. I've always been short - I'm only 5'7" now (which for a male in Australia is quite short) - but when I was 13 I was 4'11" To hit people half a foot taller than me in the face (not, mind you, that this was a daily occurence) required a kind of leaping over-hand swing, which, upon reflection must have looked kind of like a monkey trying to reah a particularly high banana. Now that I've thought about it, I'm having a hard time trying to picture Vlad ever accomplishing this with the easy grace and nonchalant violence that I've always imagined him to have. All of a sudden, instead of seeing the flippant, poised, casual smack in the face I'd always pictured in my head when Vlad hits someone, I'm seeing a little monkey desperately jumping up and down and swiping - like a little kid who wants to touch the top of a doorway (did you do that when you were a kid?) *strikes post of tragic woe* Gametech, you've ruined my hero in my own eyes - how do you feel? ;) -Dejin- PS. Hi everyone - I'm new here - please be gentle with me - I'm little... "It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no-one else will speak." _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail now available on Australian mobile phones. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/hotmail_mobile.asp