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I think this is a poll we've done before, but it's been QUITE SOME TIME SINCE THEN. This is something totally irrelevant that barely comes up in IC conversation, but all the same, I'm curious! The question of the day is:

How old are your characters?

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this one's difficult, stay with me on it

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Because Trowa's childhood is all mangled and nobody knows when he was born or where he came from for sure, his age is often put at the same one with the other pilots with parentheses and a question mark.

However, for that same reason, and because he just looks older than them, I mark him a year older.

SO. He was 16 when he first got here, which was in late December 08, having been pulled from way early in his year.

Because I tend to give him an early birthday, he technically if not physically turned 17 a little while after his arrival. Since then, the actual amount of time to make him physically 17 has passed.

So yes. Right now he's actually 17, and is technically counting that way too, but in a couple of months he'll be 17 and technically counted as 18. And then in the middle of 2010 or so he'll be physically and technically 18.

THE GLORY OF CANON WITH ACTUAL MONTH/DAY-SPECIFIED TIMELINES.