Aging Up Your Character

[ArmachiA]

I kinda do a mix of both. I'll age them if it's relevant to a story, but mostly I'll wait for the MSQ. Or age them and then retcon it later if the MSQ and her age don't line up. Currently, Armi is 24, but when she started the game she was 23. If the game considered all of this stuff to have happened with 6 months, I'll roll her back to 23.

[K'nahli]

I honestly don't know how to handle this. My main character in particular is at a relatively young age(17) so I feel that each and every year counts significantly and I have RP'd her sooooooo little in the grand scheme of things. I don't know if I want to consider she is 18 yet even if her second birthday will be coming up later this year.

 

I haven't spoken to my friend on this but I imagine she feels the same.... *goes to ask*

 

 

 

 

Edit:

 

*is stupid*

 

 

I don't age my characters in real time. That'd make no sense, considering I can be stuck in the same scene for weeks or even months.

 

I might only age them if I consider that the story moved forward to that point, but the story has not, so both Clover and K'mih are the same age than the day they were created (18 and 16).

[Dimona]

I've only been around for a few months, but there have been a few months worth of adventures, explorations, odd jobs, meeting new people, etc. Things seem to flow at a normal day-to-day pace so I think when her nameday comes around I will age her up from 21 to 22! The 1:1 time relationship seems to work pretty well for me anyway.

[Kinono]

I find the fact that most people tend to disregard the MSQ in regards to story but still rely on it for reference of flow of time interesting and confusing. I'd definitely argue that in-game events are more reliable a reference, since we've been told that at least a year has already passed according to them, and the only thing we've gotten from the MSQ is vagueness, but alas.

[Aya]

I guess I use real time as a basic guage.  Sometimes games have time skips and then you just go with the flow

[K'nahli]

I find the fact that most people tend to disregard the MSQ in regards to story but still rely on it for reference of flow of time interesting and confusing. I'd definitely argue that in-game events are more reliable a reference, since we've been told that at least a year has already passed according to them, and the only thing we've gotten from the MSQ is vagueness, but alas.

 

That's a viable point but I pretty much ignore the MSQ since it has yet to affect my personal RP. Otherwise, I'd have to acknowledge the Scions and a hero of Eorzea... and since there are so many different claims as to who is what and does what, I just don't want to involve myself in too much of that unnecessarily. Granted that leaves me a bit confused as to whether or not I should consider that the...

 

 

Garlean threat

...remains or not but I don't foresee that coming up in my RP any time soon.

[Aaron]

Crofte ages with the MSQ timeline.

This.