It’s April 2020, so that’s why I included that in the post title. I’m here to list and briefly discuss the ages of my characters during certain events. To summarize what I’m about to say, my characters are young. Like, young-young. Yeah.
Reader discretion is advised.
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1. Fierdan
• Current age in the (main) story timeline (revealed secret: there’s more than one timeline. ooh ahh~): 22 or 23 years old.
• Age Fierdan kills Z (his father): Between the ages of 15 and 17. This could mean he commits patricide when he’s 15, 16, or 17 years old. Fierdan kills him while he’s a teenager.
• Z forces Fierdan to enter his project world and stay there when he’s between the ages of 7 and 8 years old.
• C (his mother) abandoned him when he was only a 1 year old.
• This means that Fierdan was without parental guidance and supervision for at least 7 years. I’m too lazy to check the math on that.
2. Duke
• Current age in the story: 17 years old. For the entire duration of story 1.
• Therefore, Duke first becomes a murderer at age 17 when he kills Risak (and Taurel too? hmm..).
• Duke dies when he’s 17, soon to turn 18 years old.
• Duke might not be like a typical 17 year old, but just think about his existence is the combination of Fierdan (who’s years older than Duke) and Soulless (a demonic creature that Ryen helped create). I guess you could say that he existed, with the Duke identity (“DUKE”) for 17 years. And so, Duke has been alive for that long.
3. Dawn
• Her age is more complicated because I keep overlapping and confusing myself with the different timelines. Is she a minor (under 18) or not? Well.. it depends.
• She is always the youngest out of C’s three children (Ryen, Fierdan, Dawn). Her exact age is complicated, however.
• When Dawn was born, Fierdan (then who I nicknamed “Kid Danny”) is a little under 2 years older than her. Following the current timeline going on for Fierdan where he’s 22 or 23, that’ll make Dawn be between the ages of 21 and 22. Or maybe she’s 20. Eh.. it’s around that age. I think. I can’t do math.
• So yes, Stella (aka Twinkle) is the youngest main character out of all the characters I listed so far. Duke is a few months older than Stella. They’re both 17 year olds.
• If Fierdan was 7 or 8 years old when he first entered the project world, Dawn would’ve only been 6 or 7 years old then.
• Dawn lives with C and her father until she’s 5 years old. Not immediately when she turns 5; it’s a few months later.
• Z “adopts” or “takes custody” of Dawn (idk how that happened lol that’s fucked up) when she’s 5. And so, Dawn stayed with Z being her “parental guardian” (they’re not biologically related btw) for at most 2 years. If I’m doing the math right.
• This is gonna be hard for me to say, but I’ll just say it now. [CSA warning ahead] Under Z’s parental “care” (lol there was no care, you know what I mean though.. I hope), Z sexually abused Dawn. And verbally and a little physically too. But the sexual abuse had to have been the worst for Dawn. That didn’t start right away though; he started abusing her when she was 6 years old.
• Because of this, Dawn has repressed memories (and she simply cannot remember) from her childhood. Mainly before entering the project world with Fierdan and for the beginning of the time they spent there. Add what Z did to her, what happened to her parents, and living alone with no adult guardians to are for Fierdan and herself when they’re young children, and yeah.. Dawn has a dissociative disorder and (C?)PTSD. So yes, Dawn and Fierdan have (C?)PTSD. Well, at least PTSD. They definitely have that.
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So.. I have to go now. I have to attend an online class, and my phone is at low battery.
Ages at certain events. Oh boy! :’}
*publishes post and runs to my computer*
All of the messed up children. Ah dear, they've been through so much...
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