What’s one big cultural difference between giants and tinies in your character’s world.
Ahh this is such a good question!
I think Finding Strength has some really fun examples of this.
The borrowers (might give them their own fancy pants original name so TBD) have some pretty interesting differences from humans. One of my favorite is their view on skin. They get cold far easier than people, and showing excess skin is far more intimate and not casually done as a result. They have a practice of tattooing important life events, connections, blessings achievements etc... on their skin, and the location of which is important as well, with the closer to the core of the body being far more "important to ones being" and considered very intimate details about them (marriage, trauma, blessings, goals, mourning) whereas things on the extremities could be things such as representing slaying a mouse, a tattoo gifted from a family member to show their love etc...
Overtime this has resulted in untattooed skin being viewed in a variety of ways. It can be seen as innocent/youthful/naïve or inexperienced... or even be seen as naked in a way, like the person is uncovered. On the flipside, more negative connotations could be that the person is lazy/unloved/underachieved/lonely or even that they're hiding something. The negative connotations are less common and usually paired with some other indicators (specifically someone who is old and has no tattoos and no one really knows them?? sketchy.)
This makes it extremely bizarre and borderline inappropriate interacting with most humans-- the combination of how much more skin they're okay showing, the sheer amount of skin, and the fact that for many of them its untattooed is just unfathomably scandalous for the small folk.
There is a lot of slang that Tamius will use in Finding Strength! I love giving him all these different little sayings and insults.
They have their own writing system. Its still spoken English its a 34 letter alphabet with one tone/accent indicator.
There are borrower specific cooking practices and recipes I am super excited to showcase!
They have their own style of traditional dance
Now this is subject to change if I find anything too janky but viola! The title written out in smallfolk text (and a fun lil hidden one)
