[ SECRET POST #5407 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5407 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

My rule of thumb is four of our years equal one of theirs, especially if they aren't closely connected to Franklin Richards. So 2015 was 4-5 years ago for them, so they're early 20s, so they're adults.

IDK OP, feels fine to me.

[(Anonymous)]

Comics, innit?

[(Anonymous)]

2005: characters are 16-17 in canon
2021: characters are older and married

can someone please explain to me how tf this is "too fast"? like i am legitimately baffled here. how slow are comic storylines normally? how tf can y'all even read comics if 16 years is considered "too fast" for two characters to grow from late teenagers into adults?

[(Anonymous)]

2005: 16-17 in canon
2021: 32-33 in canon

If that's too fast, I'm wondering that as well.

[(Anonymous)]

It's not that things don't happen, it's that those things don't happen in a way that lines up with the normal progressive timeline of human life. Things tend to set up a dramatic genre structure for telling stories, and then play out a long list of narratives within that same basic structure. When things change, the changes tend to be expressed within the idiom of superheroics, not in the idiom of natural human aging.

I don't know what you want me to say here.

[(Anonymous)]

so you're telling me they couldn't manage to work those narratives into the story over the course of sixteen years of serialization? sounds like shitty writing to me.

[kamino_neko]

Time doesn't move at the same rate in comic books as it does in the real world. It tends to be in an ever-floating now, where most characters never actually get older.

Except, sometimes, they do. Especially teenage and child characters.

It doesn't happen at any consistent rate, and doesn't necessarily relate to how time passes for other characters. Though time-travel shenanigans can confuse how different various characters personal timelines are. But generally, no major character who isn't middle-aged or elderly to begin with, ages past the mid-30s unless there is a significant timeskip, or they're irrevocably linked to a specific real historical event (mostly WWII) - and even then time travel or other science fiction elements are often invoked to keep them from moving out of middle age - while younger characters can go from infants to tweens, or teenagers to young adults, before they stop. (And might age up again, later.) Middle-aged and elderly characters tend to stay there, or be subject to aging down (either through science fiction nonsense or simple retcon).

[(Anonymous)]

I get comic book time-logic, but that’s why OP’s complaints make even less sense. Time skips are everywhere in comics, once certain writers want to finally experiment with older versions of characters. So it’s not out of the ordinary at all that these two characters were aged up appropriately.

[(Anonymous)]

Who are they?