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⌈ Secret Post #3441 ⌋

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Comments

[otakugal15]

Eh, he's a hanyou. He will age more slowly than humans, but not as slowly as a full blooded Youkai.

So yes, he'll look 15 for a while, but he'll start to noticeably age eventually. In fact, when I read fic that's set in the future (usually Sesshoumaru/Kagome), if he actually DOES live to her time, he's middle aged or a bit older, by human standards anyway. Where as say, Sesshoumaru, just barely looks like a full grown adult. Their dad was hella old and barely looked like he was hitting his 40s. so...

Of course, fandom being fandom, they'll work out ways to extend his life, and Kagome's. I garantee they do it for SessKag ALL THE TIME.

[(Anonymous)]

What's the fic? Thanks!

[otakugal15]

Uh, many over the years. None too specific that I can remember right off. Except for Tales from the House of the Moon. A SessKag fic, to be sure.

But that one does not involve Inuyasha in her time, so.

[iggy]

Hanyou were essentially made up by Takahashi so there's actually no folkloric precedence for how they age.

[otakugal15]

Eh, but it's pretty much inferred that the Hanyou aged slower than humans. Look at Jinenji, the one who looked more monster than human who only wanted to pick flowers and make medicines for people. That whole little story screamed the fact that he would outlive his mother and possibly the people in the village, and then some. His mother was old and Jinenji was still rather young.

But people like Sesshoumaru and his father, were practically immortal with their aging process.

I mean, yeah, Takahashi was crap at confirming things, but there was enough going on in that series that you could infer that humans had a normal life span (i.e. short), that hanyou would live longer than humans, and that full blooded demons would outlive them all, unless cut down in battle or die due to disease that even they could not fight off with their healing abilities.

That's how most fanfic writers took it when I have searched out fanfic for this series. *shrug*

Besides, making hanyou age the way humans do, imo, just ends up ignoring the fact they ARE half demon and demons tend to live for a long time, regardless of if they are Daiyoukai status or just plain old bug demons.

[iggy]

How is outliving his mother evidence of anything though? That's normal. I always pegged Jinenji as thirty-ish, so not terribly young. But either way there's nothing in the story about him outliving the village.

I'm sorry I just don't see the evidence, and even when you do pull in Japanese folklore the closest comparison there are are the children of gods and humans in folklore and they do have normal human lifespans. Maybe that's why you didn't see this concern near as often in Japanese fandom as you did in western fandom.

[otakugal15]

Then you and I can agree to disagree. Jinenji came off as rather young for how old he was and I attribute that to slower aging due to his father being a full blooded demon.

Same for Inuyasha.