>>536135619
Okay, if this height thing is important to Sakurai, I'll try to take it seriously too. First I was thinking, maybe Adeleine used her Ancients tech to shrink herself to fit in on her Pop Star travels? But everything in Shiver Star Mall and the Forgotten Land is pretty much scaled in a way where Adeleine seems about 135 cm tall, like a normal kid, making Kirby, at a little over half her height, roughly 76 cm. Okay... I got it. What if Kirby really is 20cm tall, but humans used their Ancients tech to shrink themselves down centuries ago? What if they've just been 40-60 cm tall for a really long time? Think about it, all the strongest beings in this setting are pretty small, so there be some intrinsic benefit to it. For humans, being small would have a lot of benefits, considering the good path they chose in ancient history. Ecological, technological, and physical benefits. They wouldn't need as many resources, they wouldn't need as much energy, they could probably have better health, longer lifespans, and more physical resilience (to scale), and socially the shift to becoming small symbolizes how they locked in on humility and harmony with the each other and the galaxy. Shrinking is just the optimization of their existence, right?