#653: "It's a secret."

[Dasanudas]

What's scary is I've known people like Fighter, "I'm great at keeping secrets! I've never told anyone X or Y or then there's..." Makes me want some stabbity-doom to happen, and they're not even about me!

As for prepubescent BM, if you notice, he's the shortest on the team (his tall pointy hat barely reaches the tops of the heads of the others) - so he hasn't has a growth spurt yet. I'm interested in why "Barry" decides to be the first try and cheer him up; I'm thinking he's going for group moral bonuses more than any concern for BM - especially after the exchange before (and during) BM's last Hadoken.

As for aging and maturity, I would like to add that average life spans increasing does not mean that people are living longer. It sounds nice, but you are forgetting one part - average. That means taking into account the people that die when children or even at childbirth. It only takes a few data inputs of "zero years" to really screw up an average. Thus, a major factor of average life span increasing is not people living longer, but that less and less people are dying at such young ages. Comparing today to "days of yore," it is rather indisputable that more and more babies are living to maturity and consequently the average life span goes way up.

I'm not saying that people aren't living longer, but that statistics such as average life span don't work so well here. The best data to see is the average age of people in a nation - which has also been getting older in the US, thus more of the nation is at an elderly age than at a younger one and can be an indicator that old people aren't dying fast enough and are bleeding my taxes away (which I don't pay, but hey, why be silent when you can complain?). Ultimately, my point is more old people should be shoved out of airship doors.

Edit: As for the LWs ages, definately late teens, maybe early twenties for Thief. All FF games have the main chars be in their teens, cept for, like, one old fart like Auron or Cid from 7. Actually the only one that strays from that far as I can tell is my favorite - 4j - which has them all around 20-30, three old farts, one child, and only one youngun (the spoony bard, of course).