I haven't noticed it before and it might be a matter of the perspective in this screenshot, but Cullen doesn't look much taller than Leliana or Josie. Either he isn't a very tall man (which is perfectly alright) or the ladies are wearing high heels
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I think it's a casualty of cutscenes usually being animated for the male PC first and the transition to the female PC not being that polished (gorilla walk and all), but whenever Trevelyan and Hawke talk to Cullen, they both consistently look down at him, and he looks up at them. This has made me think for the longest time now that Cullen is of pretty average to short height, and definitely shorter than them. But then, Trev and Hawke seem pretty tall overall, I remember Trev looking eye-level at Leliana and Hawke looking eye-level at Sebastian (both characters who, due to their lean design and eye position in conversations, look much taller than everyone else).
So, yeah. Tall girls, short Cullen.Blackwall and Alistair are also notably short and stocky by design, and it's kinda adorable that these big meaty warrior guys can sometimes look like little pups next to their taller girlfriends.
I think in that particular scene it's perspective since he's actually standing behind the others. But yeah, I also think it's just mistakes in the cutscenes like others are saying. I hadn't noticed the eye lines of the characters like that, but there's of course the infamous Halamshiral height problem where Cullen is like standing on the floor and everyone else is standing on the carpet or something.
For real-life fanfic purposes, I headcanon him as tall and built like a brick sh!thouse, like our impression the first time we saw him standing stock still and just blinking around the War Table.
Plus, I think we can assume that for the romance scenes they took a bit of extra care, since those are unique, and he's pretty much intended to be a bit taller than Trev.
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