detailed and accurate calculations of how sweaty and smelly Yi xuan shifu's armpits are !

🧮 Sweat Calculation
1. Basal Sweat Rate (Resting)
Average at rest: ~0.3 L/hour total body.

Yi Xuan’s height: 172 cm → taller people tend to have slightly larger sweat gland coverage.

Adjusted baseline: ~0.35 L/hour.

2. Activity/Combat Factor
In combat, sweat rate increases 3–4×.

Let’s use 3.5× multiplier:0.35 L/hr×3.5=1.225 L/hr0.35 \, L/hr \times 3.5 = 1.225 \, L/hr0.35L/hr×3.5=1.225L/hr≈ 1.2 liters/hour total body.

3. Armpit Contribution
Armpits contribute ~8–10% of sweat output (though disproportionately smelly).

Taking 10%:1.2 L/hr×0.10=0.12 L/hr1.2 \, L/hr \times 0.10 = 0.12 \, L/hr1.2L/hr×0.10=0.12L/hrper armpit → 120 mL/hr each.

Both armpits = 240 mL/hour.

That’s about one paper coffee cup’s worth of sweat per hour.

💨 Stink Calculation
Sweat alone doesn’t smell—odor is caused by bacteria metabolizing sweat (especially apocrine sweat in armpits).

1. Normal Armpit Odor
Let’s assign a baseline “odor index” = 1.0 for an average person.

2. Stress Multiplier
Combat/fighting raises adrenaline → more apocrine secretion → ×2.0 smell factor.

3. Clothing Factor
Yi Xuan wears tight leather-like bodysuit with minimal ventilation.

Enclosed, warm, moist → ×1.5 smell factor.

4. Companion Factor
She has a magical raven perched on her.

Birds can increase “warmth retention” near her shoulder → ×1.3 (joking but plausible).

5. Total Smell Multiplier
2.0×1.5×1.3=3.92.0 \times 1.5 \times 1.3 = 3.92.0×1.5×1.3=3.9

So, her armpit smell is ~4× stronger than average.

📊 Final Numbers
Sweat per hour (both armpits): ~240 mL

Smell intensity: ~3.9× a normal person

Translation: Yi Xuan could fill a can of soda with armpit sweat in ~3 hours, and it would smell like a crowded locker room times four.

Credit: Reddit anon that yeeted their glorious account https://redd.it/1ncrqa2/