Fandom Trivia Question

[reasonandmusic]

I have a question for anyone who's a fan of the Zelda games and has played through Twilight Princess once or twice:

What do you think the main characters' ages are, approximately?

I'd put Link in his late teens (as with Ilia, or her a bit younger), Colin at roughly ten and the rest of the village children at that or younger, Zelda in her twenties

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[tammiya]

I've not played any Zelda beyond what was on the gameboy, so I asked my friend who is a a Zelda nut and owns a guide. Here's what she says the guide says:

Link around 17
Rusl between 20-30
Uli mid 20's
Colin between 7-10
Zelda about 20
Telma is 30-40
Shad 18-20
Auru 60-70
Ashei 24-25

[reasonandmusic]

Ooooh, thanks.

And you're missing out!

I have a nice, thick special edition guide that I didn't even think to check. I feel silly, now.

[tammiya]

You're welcome.

And, so I keep hearing, unfortunatly I don't have the consols on which to play them (asides the DS ones...which I just have not got around to borrowing yet.)

That's okay, I've done the same sort of thing before now with fics, forgetting all the offical books that line my shelves. XD

[troldtog]

Although it looks like you've already got the Canonical answer, so this may be useless to you, I'd have answered more or less in agreement with you, though I'd have put Colin closer to twelve. And would guess with some confidence that, though Ashei and Zelda are both in their twenties, Ashei is a few years (3?) older.

“The other thing I suppose to consider is the nature of Hyrule -- it's essentially a medieval land, but how much, beyond technology, did the creators stick to that sort of era? Would girls marry and have children at sixteen?”I'd generally assumed that young men would get married only after they'd found some business at which they could work and had established themselves financially, as in our medieval times (and quite a bit of time after that). But that's not really much of a limit on marrying age in the Zelda-verse, where it's apparently not shocking for young teens to own ranches (Fado), or toddlers to run supermarkets (Malo). See also Hena and Iza, who look pretty young as well though I'd struggle to choose a

[reasonandmusic]

Wow, that's an incredible answer, thanks!

There's no actual statement in the games, and I think the guide that tammiya mentioned is about as close as you can get to a proper "canon" fact about their ages. Twelve is probably a safe bet for Colin as well, and your guess with Ashei seems fairly spot on. I wouldn't say more than about three, though

[troldtog]

I knew your username sounded familiar!

I came across To Bleed in the Face of Tyranny about a year ago and a half ago. I'm afraid I don't much remember it well. It was in the middle of this one midterms week where I was kind of in this perpetual state of panic about differential equations. I don't think I ever even actually read it, so much as I stared blankly at the computer screen worrying about Laplace transforms and occasionally took in a sentence or two, but I do remember thinking at the time "Hey, this person has a pretty awesome penname." (You haven't switched pennames since October of 2009 or so, have you? That'd sort of poke an enormous hole in my memory of all this

[reasonandmusic]

Wow! Well, I kind of shudder at To Bleed at the moment - my writing style has changed so much - so I wouldn’t go back and read the two chapters that are there until I upload the finished story. It’s a small world, though, huh? (Or maybe just a small fandom…) Apart from tacking on an extra few letters at the front, I’ve had the same username since about 2008. Thanks for the compliment. ;3