On Alagossia, people’s ages are FAR TOO DIFFERENT from their biological ages, since everyone has a different type of immortality.
For example, Aeris is physically in her late-thirties, but her biological age is over a thousand maybe more than that. Jorildyn is in her late-twenties, but is way over ten thousand maybe a hundred thousand years old. Isilynor is in her late teens, early twenties, but is younger than her mother, biologically.
So, their physical ages differ from their biological age. Aeris, physically, is the oldest character I’ve written to date.
Bonus Questions:
Do you have an idea on what your character looks like? I would accept drawings, faceclaims, and anything else to give me an idea of such a thing.
Which age groups do you normally write, in terms of characters? Which age groups did you use to write in the past and/or ones you don’t ever want to write?
Mine are different because they don’t age physically or mentally after death.
The main heroes are:
Crow is physically around 35 years old, but his real age is ~4,000.
Vale is 18, but is 54.
Webb is 19, but 30.
Skye is 18. She’s the “youngest” ghost (as of the first book), so she’s still 18.
And so on, and so on.
As for bonus questions, I’ve made way too much art of them all, so here’s a Crow (who’s face-claim is Riz Ahmed) and Skye. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
There’s no age I wouldn’t write, although I find it hard to picture writing from the pov of a baby or unborn fetus. (>‿◠)
Most of my characters are the same age they look, except in my steampunk novel awhile back where some of the characters looked young but were actually hundreds of years old.
In every other book they’re in their twenties or thirties since that’s old enough to have money and agency, but not so old as to have work or family obligations that would prevent them from doing things on a moment’s notice. ¯\_(ﭢ)_/¯
Freyja (a prototype hybrid clone) has only existed for four years, and has been a self-sustaining life form for two weeks. Unknown to everyone except Dr Lander and his project team, about 10% of Freyja’s DNA also came from Dov (24 at the time). Lander believed his clone would need Dov’s high pain tolerance, rapid healing, and immense strength to survive the trauma of accelerated growth. End result, Freyja looks like an over-developed teenager with the physical capabilities of a professional soldier (Aussie Commando).
Okay, so, I’m going to give the ones for books 1-2 since that’s my baseline. Everything else I add as necessary. Please note majority of my main cast is Immortal and that a Lyriumian/Terpolite lifespan is 20,000 years. Also important to mention I have a MAJOR main character cast so this is just books 1-2
Yes. I make artbreeders for all my characters because I can’t draw And before anyone goes “AHHHH AI IS EVIL” I also can’t afford to hire someone to draw even 1 of my characters so shush
^When I first created Karen, I envisioned her to look like a young Gemma Atkison (except with olive skin). Karen didn’t visibly age much over the stories / years either, apart from silvering hair. Yet another genetic freak.
More SDXL experiments…
Aleksei: 8, physically looks to be in his mid-20’s
Octavio: 30
I’m fine writing with just about any age range, though I’ve never written a main character over 45 yet (unless we count non-human characters with longer lifespans).
It’s always variable. Like with Until This World Ends, the character is 40ish-60ish years of age in the front half, and he’s going to be something like 19 on the end.
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