on the subject of birthdays and ages

[glimmers]

It's been a really long time since we did this one:

How old is your character? When is their birthday? What is their zodiac sign? What about their Chinese zodiac? Is there a meaning behind their birth date/star sign/numerology/etc.? Answers can be canon, head-canon, whatever!  Even if you participated last time, share your birthday thoughts with us again!  \o/

For reference, the last couple times we did this not!meme are here & here.

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[glowsferatu]

Hank was born July 27, 1979. He's 33 years old and a Leo.

Kanaya's birthday was September 21st, but a canon update desynchronized her from the City's calendar by seven months. Now she'll be 16 in April, but still insists on being recognized as a Virgo.

[agentofshield]

Hank and I are birthday buddies! /o/

[bloodplay]

Michiko is... unclear! What we do know about her is that 12 years prior to the series, when she was arrested, she was almost certainly a teenager. But she was old enough to have a childhood friend, of approximately the same age, arrest her! As a new recruit to the police! So idk, I think it's a fair bet to say that Atsuko was 18 or 19 at the time and Michiko was 17 or 18, which would make her at the very least 29 years old when she showed up in the City. I seriously could not possibly be assed to give her a headcanon birthday, but cumulatively she's totally been here long enough to have passed it and aged a year. So she's 30! Or 31, or 32, somewhere around that.

LIKE I SAID I could not physically give less of a fuck about headcanoning any birthdays! But seasons or months I can do, so let's just pretend she was born in August and is a Leo. Michiko e Hatchin has no date system and the year in which it takes place is left completely up to the viewer, so for Chinese zodiac signs I cannot even pretend.

Brian is also unclear but for him at least the margin of error can't be greater than a year. He's like one, one and a half years older than Dexter? And Dexter is 36 in the first season, so he's either 37 or 38, although that was in 2006 so if he'd actually lived past one season he'd be like 43. I tend to lean towards 37 because it fits their age difference in the book series, where they're like a year or less apart or something. ANYWAY that means he was born in 1969 (uhuhuhuhuhuhuh) and is an ~earth rooster~

This Rooster is overtly organized. He is a little reserved and quite careful in his decision-making. These Roosters are hard workers as well, and can handle several tasks at once. They are detail-oriented who are quite efficient and self-sufficient. They take on responsibility without a cause and are motivated only in wanting to be successful. Sometimes they can be abrasive with colleagues if work is not up to their standards. This can cause resentment, so the Earth Rooster must be careful in his approach of his point of view, being sure to be honest and still kind.

I MEAN I GUESS IT WORKS A LITTLE, HE IS PRETTY DILIGENT AT CUTTING UP DEAD WOMEN

[hexappeal]

■ Turning 41 in-game this year (arrived at age 38)!
■ Birthday is May 20th.
■ Taurus.
■ One of her ancestors, Leonardo Da Vinci, was also a Taurus. :3a
■ Immortalish so forever hot, don't worry about that.

[lionphox]

Grandma

[boozebot]

Bender was "born" in Mexico around the year 2998. Including time travel, he's likely ridiculously old but it's also really confusing. Let's just say he was around 2 years old at the start of the series and leave it at that. What a scamp.

Ladd has no canon anything whatsoever! He was born somewhere around 1906, and likely doesn't care about his birthday at all. After all, what's a birthday compared to a deathday?? He's 25 in the anime, and 27/28 now! He's gettin' old.

Daria also has no canon birthday! Daria Wiki has articles about the boob sizes of characters (no really) (and a whole section about "debating them" yeah sure) but no birthday. Her starsign is Scorpio, not that she will ever care or pay attention to horoscopes, and born around 1983. She's most likely officially 18 now!

[boozebot]

the article is entitled boob war and i'm still not quite sure why it exists

ali's things

[puggle]

they will nest here

bobbi morse

[mocks]

Bobbi Morse
✧ 37 years old, 35 years old on arrival.
✧ April 19, 1975
✧ Aries/Taurus (on the cusp)
✧ Rabbit
✧ Lone Wolf
✧ Born on a Saturday (works hard for a living)
✧ All of this is headcanon because the recent-ish canon making her 30 makes no damn sense.

[shipper]

Nepeta is thirteen, born on August 12, and very obviously a Leo. She doesn't actually understand the human calendar system very well (and may never do so because she doesn't care too much) so it's likely when her birthday rolls around in the City she won't even notice.

[notadartboard]

Sanji is currently 22 years old, if he counts his canon age plus in-City birthdays. His birthday is March 2nd (3-2) because Oda loves giving his characters birth dates based on name puns or other hilarious associations and 3/2 is san + ji(ni) in Japanese. That makes him a Pisces. No idea whether that fits him or what his other zodiacal associations would be.

Alastair is also 22. I picked his birthdate of May 1st based on the compatibility of the sign (Taurus) with Kaiba's sign (Scorpio, which is canon). I tried to extrapolate his possible birth year based on when Yu-Gi-Oh first aired and how much time passed before his appearance in canon at age 17, but I might have gotten it a little off. By my calculations he would have likely been born in 1980 and was age 19 when he was ported in post-canon, from 1999.

Kotetsu is kind of a funny case. Canon puts him in his late 30's, but never gives him an exact age or birth date. Barnaby gets a birthday, but not Kotetsu. I'm comfortable with calling him 37 for now, but he got here in June last year so if he hasn't had a birthday yet, he will soon. I haven't headcanoned a date for it yet and I have no idea what it might be, because I'm not very well-versed in zodiac stuff. I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that he was born in the year of the Tiger, though. His canon also doesn't explain the alternate Earth year so I have no idea how to calculate anything.

Guess I'd better pick him a birth date before someone asks him!

[doubleoohbaby]

- 44 years old as of the end of Skyfall 2012. was 38 when he first arrived in cnc but did some bouncing back and forth thanks to port outs
- birthday is 13th April 1968
- zodiac is aries, the ram, which is surprisingly accurate
- chinese zodiac is monkey. i looked it up now. earth monkey. also mostly accurate
- his birthdate is only canon for craig bond, naturally, the day and month being when the casino royale book was first released and the year being craig's birth year

[oedipusrat]

such an old dog now :3

[out_of_time]

Jack Bauer- born February 18 1966. I believe this would make him a Pisces, born in the year of the horse. 50ish when first Imported in 2010. Turning 53 this February, his third birthday in the Cityverse. 24's timeline is a bit odd: a season lasts a day, the date is never given, and years can pass in-universe between seasons. Because of that, Jack looks younger than he really is; the character has aged more than the actor. By the time of the show's eighth and final season/day, fourteen and a half in-universe years have passed since the first season/day.

Calvin- eternally six years old. Calvin is six throughout his ten-year canon, was six when brought to C&C in 2009, and remains six to this day. It's kind of odd. His birthday is never given.

Mordin Solus- hatching day unknown. Mordin's species has a shorter lifespan than humans due to their rapid metabolisms: the upper age limit is around 40, and Mordin has confirmed he's closing in on his last years of life. He's probably in his late thirties. Earth zodiac signs are of course inapplicable to him.

[governorkang]

Birthdays, for those who celebrate them on Krynn, are called their Day of Life-Gift. Kang has no idea what day he hatched, just like all first generation males; all he knows is that it was somewhere around late spring/early summer of 342 AC. Krynn also has a slightly shorter year with only 336 days, soooo he's roughly 45 on Krynn and 41 on Earth.

That's just his chronological age. Draconians can live up to 1,000 years (though they don't know it yet), and the first generation (which he's a part of) were adults by about two years. Natural generations are adults by around 18-20 years. He's the equivalent of about 22 or 23, compared to humans.

[bests]

CAROL TURNED 38 YESTERDAY. she's trying not to think about it.

but yes. headcanon bday is january 16, 1975. she's a capricorn which is something i did on purpose. she's a tiger in the chinese zodiac and it... kind of sort of fits??

[mocks]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAROL OMG

[wisecracked]

Kenzi has no canon birthday (that's been stated) and as of season three she's known Bo for two years. Early on in season two it was said she's 22 so I'm going to assume one season = one year. So I was way off on how long she's known Bo, oops.

I've headcanoned her birthday for the same day as Ksenia's just because I felt like it. Dec 8th making her a Sagittarius. Maybe someday she'll be given an actual birthday...but Bo wasn't so I doubt it. They even threw Bo a party but never said what day it was.

[governorkang]

You know these two totally lived it up for her birthday.

[xxii_thefool]

Minako doesn't have a canon birthdate so I have completely arbitrarily assigned her one of June 11, 1992. Since it was the end of January 2010 in her world when she ported in, that makes her 17.

Her 1992 birth year puts her in the Year of the Monkey in the Chinese zodiac; a birthdate of June 11 makes her a Gemini in the Western zodiac. Both signs are characterized as being sociable, adaptable, quick-witted and energetic - although possibly also fickle and superficial. These respective signs are aligned with water in the Chinese zodiac and air in the Western one, both elements also traditionally associated with fluidity and adaptability; water is also associated with the moon, which is an important bit of symbolism in P3 that I think I forgot to mention when I tldr'ed about personal imagery in the last not-meme.

Edit to add that a June 11 birthday apparently makes her a Guru, which, okay.

[swordedpast]

Neither of my characters have canon birthdays or concrete ages.

Kyouko, however, can be pinned down pretty reasonably to a year. She's younger than Mami, but older than Sayaka, Madoka, and Homura--so she's fourteen. I have not bothered giving her a headcanon birthday, but based on some of the symbolism in her character, I'd put her down as a Scorpio if I had to.

Archer is really vague about his age. Fortunately, he himself does not remember how old he is! That's thanks to spending an eternity in a hellish existence where time had no meaning. Official comments indicate that he was "in his late twenties or early thirties" when he made his contract with the world; he died some months (or possibly a year or so? It's not clear) after that. When people ask, he says he's about thirty. He didn't remember his birthday even when he was alive, as he lost all of his memory before age seven or eight after the fire that killed his family and nearly did him in as well.

That sure was informative!

[soulbonder]

Astral technically has no age, and he's essentially immortal. He will never grow or mature. The series suggests Astral World doesn't have a concept of time either, since the Gate states Astral is "protected" from it, so he doesn't have a birth date. But even if he did, he wouldn't remember.

It's debated how long ago he was created by his mother, though! I personally go with around Yuma was born, which means he was ~8 years old when Kazuma fell into the Astral World the first time. This puts him around 13 years old.

[olesia]

Neither of my characters have canon birthdays or even established years in which the canon is set, so there is absolutely no basis to go on for anything. 5D's itself actually has no concept of how time works and actually tried dropping the twins' ages a year in some of the character info after a six-month time skip into the future. wow guys thanks.

In any case.

When Ruka arrived in c&c, she was 11 years old. She is now 15. For the sake of not driving myself crazy, I slapped her birthday into mid-June, I think the 14th, because haha Gemini Twins, all twins in fiction are born under Gemini, obviously. She gives it absolutely no meaning.

Yuma was 13 when he arrived, and is 14 now. He also does not have a canon birthday, so instead I gave him the date ZEXAL made its anime debut, April 11th. This makes him an Aries.

[hellionated]

I gave Julian a headcanon birthday of 16 April, so that he would be an Aries. Aries signs are confident, energetic and courageous, while also being quick-tempered, impulsive and impatient. Also I wanted to associate him with Ares the god of war, so yeah. The star sign was the main reason for the date.

He was 17 when he first joined the game back in June 2011, so this coming April will be his 19th birthday.

As for year of birth, and everything that would be associated with that, I've never specified it due to Marvel's habit of sliding the timeline (they said he was 16 back in something like 2002. To be honest I think it's a stretch for him to have only aged one year since then given that the time period involved includes House of M, Decimation, Messiah Complex, Utopia, Second Coming, Schism, AVX and everything in between those events, but he's also still in school, so you can see my problem here). So yeah, uh, he's an Aries but basically that's all I have for you!

[ectoplasm]

x-men aging / timeline

pain in the ass tbh

[hastheedge]

spoiler alert: I astonishingly do not give a fuck about birthdays.

Xanatos is the only one of my guys with a canon age (thank you Greg Weisman for your inability to shut up about the shows you produce.) Let's see, he's 40 at the end of '95, and I've pulled him from the end of the first season, so he would be 39 now, at the moment, I think. I headcanoned him as a Virgo because I wanted him to have a ridiculously contrary star sign and I like the idea of star signs being the only thing Xanatos doesn't believe in. Also, having one of the two people on the kids show who is proved in show to not be a virgin as a Virgo fills me with mild sadistic pleasure (spoiler alert: Xanatos ends up helping to make a baby.)

Klarion's age fluctuates as badly as Beast's mutation. Some artists draw him like he's five, some artists draw him like he's ten, and some artists draw him like he's a young teenager. I headcanon him as twelve because he looks young teenagery in the art that I use for his icons. Eventually he will turn 13 and have a mild panic attack.

Connors is another who it is nearly impossible to pindown his age. Because if you follow comic backstory then he lost his arm in some war serving as a medical doctor, but then he's a geneticist so he possibly went to uni then went to war then went back to uni to learn about lizards and then got good enough to go to Oscorp and aaaaargh comic dating. (In case you can't tell, whenever someone ingame asks about Connors's backstory, I am hella vague.) I tend to use the 'actor minus five' rule for movie characters, so that would make him...40. Hmm. Okay, I can work with that. And I am deciding now that he's born in the year of the snake somehow (fuck dates, I don't care! 8D) because lol reptiles.

[hexappeal]

it's okay, you're just growing older like everyone else, honeybee

[jupiterson]

Jason has a canon birthday of 1 July, so he's a Cancer. Cancers are supposed to be shrewd, cautious and protective, while also being overemotional, moody and unable to let go. Had I been headcanoning this, I wouldn't have made him a Cancer since I don't think it completely fits him - one of his major character traits is keeping his emotions under control. He wouldn't be moody or overemotional. If it had been headcanon, I'd have made him a Virgo (practical and analytical, reliable but over-critical).

However, his birthday isn't really about the starsign in canon. He's a Roman demigod, the son of Jupiter. The Romans call 1 July 'the Kalends of July'. Coming at the end of June, it is sacred to the goddess Juno, the wife of Jupiter. Jason's life was given to Juno as a gift, to placate her anger since she doesn't actually like it when her husband has children with mortal women. Jason's birth made her particularly angry, since Jupiter in his Greek form of Zeus, had already had a daughter with Jason's mother. When he was 2 years old, his mother left him at a place called the Wolf House, where he was literally given over to Juno who became his patron. He is also named after Juno's favourite human, the Jason who led the Argonauts. The Kalends of July is sacred to Juno, so Jason being born on that day is symbolic of the tie he would have to her. However, because he was given up at such a young age, he didn't actually know that this was his birthday until recently. I will stop tldring about this now >>

Yami's kids will nest as well.

[agentofshield]

Nick Fury

[agentofshield]

• 93 years old on arrival.
• May 27th, 1917
• Gemini
• Snake (specifically a "fire snake" which makes him more outspoken than is generally normal for that sign)
• Sage
• Born on a Sunday (fair and wise).
• Nick's birthdate is headcanon based on the fact that he would have to be a Gemini to fit into the Great Wheel. His year was chosen because his father would've had to have died prior to the end of WWI (as stated in canon), and he was the oldest of 3 siblings. There's also the fact that he would've had to have been slightly above average enlistment age as of 1941, just to account for his travels overseas. The timeline there is kind of a mess, and the only way I can make sense of it is that his mother must have been constantly pregnant from 1916-1919, and his father would've probably had a case of Spanish Influenza (to avoid shipping out). Alternately, lol comics.

[crab]

karkat is thirteen, or six sweeps in his culture. he is (obviously) a cancer and his birthday is canonically the 12th of june, but since he arrived in the city on the first of march, one month after his birthday, that pushes his birthday back to the first of february, making him an aquarius in the city... time shenanigans.

he doesn't care about or even really acknowledge his wriggling day beyond a day to "lament the faults of his existence", nor does he care about the human method of measuring age, so the day karkat vantas came into existence is a fairly inauspicious one.

[ex_engineers208]

◾ canonly, the only thing known is that he's a gemini, which was the basis to his role in the zodiac supervillain team.
◾ headcanon-wise, 56.
◾ rooster.
◾ based on his youth in vietnam, but vietnam was retconned into later individual conflicts; still, idek.
◾ i'm pretty sure mutants aging slow is still a thing so w/e, magic genes.

[ectoplasm]

✿ monkey.
✿ headcanon: flower child, born in spring. april.
✿ taurus.

[futurebatwoman]

spoilers max lies about her age

she came into the city as just barely 18 (i headcanon the last episode of batman beyond taking place just before graduation because of Reasons and i don't think she skipped any grades despite her intellect but honestly i have almost no canon basis for assigning any particular birthday/age because batman beyond is SO SKETCHY on details always). however she'd skipped about six months forward in time, from may to early november, and so when she just kept her old birthday as a marker of time she basically made herself six months older. which means that while she's currently a couple months older than 19 she's passing herself off as turning 20 in may

i forget what exact day i've set as her birthday, but she is a taurus

[erewhile]

i'll just nestle my two here

gil

[invoking]

• 24 (physically) upon arrival, now 25. 120 years old chronologically. he spent a long time in the abyss and the flow of time is different there.
• canon birthday is not mentioned. the mangaka did make a birthday chart for an AU called pandora academy (yes it's a high school AU... :V) in which gil's birthday is listed as february 2nd. for some reason on the wiki it's listed as the 5th. idk.
• anyway that makes him an aquarius. idk if i agree with everything listed?
• he doesn't even remember his own birthday so oz picked it to be the day they met. gil was implied to be found in the summer so he celebrates it on a headcanon birthday. august 20, making him a leo.
• basically we just don't know.
• humanitarian which fits him in some ways.

[viced]

Mitchell
➤ His canon birth year is 1968, headcanoned birthday of June 28th (After I found a summer issue where he mentioned it passed)
➤ Cancer
➤ Earth Monkey ("always the community activists")
➤ Between the time passed between here and home, even though his canon ends in 2009, he's lived through the right amount of years that he is still turning 45 this year, but when he arrived he was 35.
➤ Of all my characters, he has the most concrete birthday, thanks to BKV giving me hints everywhere

Tony
➤ Arrived at 45, he's 48 now, July 25th
➤ Leo
➤ Fuck calculating beyond that because fucking Marvel

Shade
➤ He's like 200 and something
➤ Fuck all y'all
➤ He doesn't really bother with birthdays these days

Ozzie
➤ July 26th, he came in at the age of 53, so he's 54 now
➤ Also a Leo
➤ COMICS

[hastheedge]

I love how half of the comics people are like 'analyzing intricate star signs and data here is all the headcanon' and the other half are just 'FUCKING COMICS.'