The Leaning Man
People think Quaritch looks young in the Empire Magazine still because he's wearing a hoodie but even grandpas wear hoodies now.
source: @stephenlang-slang
No, he looks young here because he hunches.
Quaritch normally doesn't look his body age. He looks like the old man he is inside because he moves like the old man he is inside. And that man doesn't hunch. He leans.
Just as he did as a human he does as a recom. He leans. All. The. Time.
Even his own people side-eye him. Even his own recom rolls his eyes at it.
I swear that neither version of this man knows how to stand or sit straight.
Occasionally, he also looms (ft Lyle trying to copy his moves like a good henchman).
But he doesn't hunch.
He doesn't finally look his body age because of his clothes. It's because of how he sits. Just like Sigourney Weaver made Kiri look young by moving in a way teenager would move we finally see Quaritch look young because he acts young. The hunching makes him look unsure and that's more common in young people. The man inside might be old but the body is young and all it takes is for him to move like a younger person would for us to see it.
Spider really makes him feel feelings he forgot about. Like uncertainty.
