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RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Berrod Armstrong - 09-16-2015
Berrod is a comfortable Time-Bubble twenty-three.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Spethah - 09-16-2015
(09-16-2015, 03:31 PM)Bryn Wrote: Bryn will be 41 in January.
Her scowling makes her appear younger than she actually is. I heard it's an old Mhigan technique to look youthful.Â
My characters range between 25-30, with the exception of one which is just questionable on age.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - cuideag - 09-16-2015
I'm really bad at keeping track of character timelines and dates and whatnot so I picked 36 or whatever when I rolled her mostly to have a number to run with. Basically she tells people she's late 30s but she could just as easily be in her early 40s as well.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Aaron - 09-16-2015
(09-16-2015, 03:08 PM)Askier Wrote:You hush!(09-16-2015, 03:06 PM)Aaron Wrote: Aarons 23That's funny A-A-ron
You add 2+3 you get Aaron's mental maturity.
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RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Jaliqai - 09-16-2015
Xheja weighs in at around 33, though for a while she was physically stuck around her mid-twenties. But it's something that she's very self-conscious about, and if asked? Would definitely lie about it.
Jaliqai is sliiightly older than that at around 34, give or take. I wanted her to have been a young adult when she lost her tribe, and to have plenty of time since then to have wandered across Othard and then eventually relocate to Eorzea with the rest of the mass exodus. So early-to-mid thirties, it was.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - allgivenover - 09-16-2015
In my head-canon adventuring is a young persons game. Young people tend to not have as many responsibilities or obligations that tie them down, also in your late teens to mid twenties you are likely going to be healthier and more able than at any other point in your life.
Not to say an older adventurer is unbelievable of course.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Gabineaux - 09-16-2015
My character's in the 40-45 category. Then again, he doesn't adventure much. He's a crippled old man who sits around in his house smoking moko.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Sigil.9054 - 09-16-2015
<3 The curve the results have got going so far.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Oli! - 09-16-2015
Ada's 18. Oli's in the comparatively Old-Man category of 42.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Caspar - 09-16-2015
A lot less "really 600 years old lala sorcerers" than i thought. :o
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Ignacius - 09-16-2015
(09-16-2015, 02:52 PM)Askier Wrote: Hey. Was just chatting with my FC last night and realized Eorzea, least the rp part of it, seems to be inhabited by many, many young people. But, where are all the older characters to pass own their wisdom and yell at the young to get off their lawns?
Thought it be fun to post characters age here and make a sort of census for ages.
So, for me, Ki is Mid-Thirties.
Yours?
Exceptions abound, of course, but most RPers will play characters a few years older than themselves, if not around the same age. Â This has to do with people feeling as though they're at the peak of their lives at the moment they're living in. Â You can traditionally (but, I stress, not always accurately) guess both the average age of a community and the players by their ages.
When I was 12-13, my characters were 17 or 18, usually. Â Those were, what I thought, the best years. Â However, when I was 18, I was playing characters in their early twenties. Â When I left college, my characters were in their late 20s to early 30s. Â Now that I'm 30, my characters are in their mid-30s.
However, I've constantly said that you can't play a character well that you can't simulate in your mind. Â In a way, I think age has made me better at my craft. Â I've very often played criminals, and when I was young, my "criminals" were assassins on a ninja anime level. Â When I was twenty, my characters became somewhat more measured, brutal, but sly. Â Still, though, they were like street gangsters. Â By the time I was well into my 20s, my people played thugs but were by then highly secretive and known for playing in the background, running money operations, and were becoming more "real".
Today, I think Orleans is the most realistic criminal I've played. Â He's based not just on decades of research on everything from biker gangs to Chinese triad organizations, but on my own maturity as a person. Â I'm not sure I was capable of playing this kind of character convincingly when I was younger, even though I think one of the reasons I play it so well is practice.
However, it's generally accurate to back the years off the average character age and you'll get the average age of the players. Â I'd say the average age of the players here probably are college age.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Lucius Ignatius - 09-16-2015
Kiht'a is 18-19. However I plan to solidify when I know more on the lore and him. He will age though.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - C'kayah Polaali - 09-16-2015
C'kayah's 31, Setoh's 30.
I wanted C'kayah to be in his mid twenties during the Calamity. Setoh's a cheap-muscle mercenary turned skilled-assassin mercenary, so he needed to have some time to develop those skills.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Sarnai Kha - 09-16-2015
Despite how tiny and young Sarnai looks, she is actually 29, though most consider her to be around her early 20's.
RE: Character Age and Census [Poll] - Shoshopu - 09-16-2015
From youngest to oldest- Awyrbyrt turned 17 last month, Dyrstswys is 19 (she'll be 20 in August), Shoshopu turned 24 in May, Lahzlona is 25 (and I forget her birthday), and just the other day I made Dyrstswys's older sister Merlgeim ingame, and she's 28.
... I accidentally hit the option after the one I meant to because my aim is really bad and I wasn't paying attention, though. I meant to vote 15-19, 20-24 and 25-29 but accidentally voted 15-19, 20-24 and 30-34. orz
edit: arkamas voted but didn't feel like posting, but Fyrilsunn is like 37. I think all of his characters except for Shopu's brother Jujuwai are in their 30s, Jujuwai isn't that old yet but he's close.