Why do the women of Berk look different?

[buckmana]

I was wondering about the difference in bodyshape between the teen girls and the adult women in Berk.

Astrid, Heather and Ruffnut look like realistic women, they could quite easily pass for normal girls in our modern society.

But, by contrast, the adult women are taller and stockier.
Their bodyshape is much like the men of the tribe.


That's doesn't quite seem possible, based on the three girls we've seen so far.

They'd have to grow nearly twice their height and three times as wide to look like that when they grow up.

Also, considering they're around 15 or 16, they're already at their physical peak, so they're not going to grow much taller then they are now.

Also, the only girl younger then them in the tribe also looks pretty much like an ordinary girl.


I'm wondering why there is this visual disconunity between the younger females of the tribe and the older ones?

Is it to make these four stand out visually in crowd scenes?
So you can always tell who they are?

[toothless11]

I've also wondered that as well....Especially since in the leaked sequel photos, despite being older they still remain thin, like normal real world people. Well...Astrid looks a little chubby, but still XD

But I don't know what's the reason behind that...maybe just for being main characters they decide to make them be like that? (So that kids don't get fat, wanting to immitate being Vikings XD). But I dunno. Interesting question. You have a point XD

And just as a fact, Stoick is about 1m wide o.o

[Shade]

I think I can guess as to the answer, and you got it well buckmana. The teenage girls are the only female humans that are important to the story; all other women are just characters in the background. It's probably to make them stand out more. If you notice, most of the male adults who aren't important (with the exception of Spitelout, and that was so they could give David Tennant a nod), also look pretty much the same, and different from the male teenagers.