We are excited to announce that Baroryuu Week 2026 will be held from September 21st to September 27th! Don't forget to tag your submissions with #BaroryuuWeek2026!
love that barok van zieks has curly hair, at least as a child, somewhat canonically??? based on concept art anyway! as someone with a similar hair texture, it doesn’t matter how much he styles it or what products he uses: it will never look quite like klint’s
with any humidity, his natural texture takes over and starts getting extra wavy and puffy! any rain before barok gets out his umbrella? little curls spring out of the careful styling, and he absolutely hates it! he’s constantly trying to smooth it out when in private to no avail. but ryunosuke thinks barok’s hair impossibly cute and can’t help but find the curls so very charming. so much so that he doesn’t even warn barok about the major humidity in tokyo before he visits!
Our first writer to be highlighted is @slowquotesquill!
"Hi! I've been writing fic for The Great Ace Attorney for quite some time already, but I don't think I've fully explored Barok van Ziek's chest... I mean potential. Happy to be here!"
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⚔️Pray Forgive the Titscourtesy is an 18+ only NSFW fanzine all about the character Barok Van Zieks from The Great Ace Attorney… and his beloved breasts.
(aka I saw this post and took some time to make some silly guesstimated height calculations.)
tl;dr: In that one official art with Klint, eleven year-old Barok measures an adorable height of about 107.5cm (3"6', according to a converter) which is more than 10cm (3.9in) smaller than ten year-old Iris (canon height: 120cm, or 3"11').
How did I get there?
1. Barok's canon height is 192cm (6"4'). Pretty damn tall (and probably too tall for his era, you can find some interesting and entertaining re-calculations in this post), and officially confirmed.
2. To estimate Klint's height, I aligned Barok's face in the photograph (still so happy and innocent, sigh...) with that of his full body art and tried my best to determine where Klint's head might end, his pose isn't all too convenient.
3. Having determined Klint's height to be about 196cm (6"5'), I could scale the artwork featuring him and his tiny baby brother to fit to Klint's height. Barok (baby) is not fully standing on the 0cm line though, so I drew a line at his feet and at his head, guessing where it might end under all that floofy hair...
4. ...set that to the 0cm line et voilà! The little darling of the Van Zieks family is about 107.5cm (3"6') tall!
“meaningless” is the strongest value to apply to baroryuu because their relationship is built on the most intricate meaning and facades but it could only crumble due to sweet nothings (romantic meaning and literally)
only because ryuu handed him a glimpse of the past out of curiosity, the strongest meaningless nothings of their encounters “strangely, it does” “a glimmer” “the faintest of intimation”
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