Dave is Fat: Eats too much or no metabolism?

[Neonivek]

This is just a fun thread so put your pitchforks away. One thing I noticed about SOME fictional fat characters is that there is often no reasonable reason they should be fat (a good example is the Father from Big City Greens... who is a health nut who eats almost exclusively vegetables and works a back breaking job otherwise)

But here we have a very active character, in an area where getting food is difficult, who is non-the-less fat. Is there a secret scene of him eating 20 pizzas or does he just have a cripplingly low metabolism? Or does he have a glandular problem?

My theory is he is skimming all the fish brought into the restaurant.

Edit: I was informed that he actually gets to eat any sushi that isn't sold... So every dish upgrade, every test dish, etc... he eats.

[Jeff]

It takes longer than a few weeks to get fit. The whole game takes place in a short period of time.

My theory is he is a video game character and the model was chosen for entertainment value, just like every other character in the game except for maybe the marine life researcher. She is the only one that is a normal stereotype with no glaring embellishments.

[Iso Koala]

Well think about it; when you cut those giant sharks and such, Dave only cuts a part of it. I think he secretly takes most of the fish for himself and eats them in his room during the night.
Altho, it is very hard to get fat via eating raw fish. If anything, he would be bulked up and muscular with such high protein non fat diet.

[The Minted Lady]

Genetics. Everyone wants to believe you can just be skinny with diet and exercise, but there are some people who are genetically predisposed to being larger. A lot of what we think is fat on Dave could just be muscle that isn't toned. After all, he doesn't seem to do the kinds of exercises that would make a body look a certain way. His legs are skinny from the constant cardio of kicking, too. He also likes a good drink, so maybe he has an enlarged liver.

[Bronconius]

Could be PFAS / microplastics poisoning

https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/pfass-chemicals-environment-body-weight/

[Beravin]

He is plot fat. There is no universe where he swims that much and remains overweight.

... The more fun reason is all fish have 5 stars, like a restauraunt. Dave just eats the other 2.

[sparky_lurkdragon]

+1 to it being genetics.

Plus, actual strongmen tend to look fat compared to bodybuilders, who are often dehydrated to show off those muscles. It's probable to me that Dave is plenty fit, he's just not concerned with looking muscular. I mean, have you seen how much he hauls?