This is mostly pertaining to Marvel and DC (but I guess soap operas, too, but do we have any of those characters? Er...) But I was wondering if anyone was interested in discussing sliding timescales.
I know, I know, massive headache to even think about BUT it's important to our playing, right? Right.
This thread in particular was really fun and
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Floating time is hilariously crazy.
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... Then again these guys refuse to give the twins a friggen surname, when even the homeless orphans and one-shot adversaries get them, so ...
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That concept is way better jfc
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Because Marvel moved him up to the Gulf War for his Iron Man awakening, which is completely silly since that would put him in his 30s instead of his 40s, which I find more likely, so I tend to kind of, try and keep things a little vague because I hate making things complicated.
Also communists. No, I don't know how they fit but I pretend they're an offset of the KGB or something.
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The wars are what make it worst, IMO. Since way back in the day everyone and their brother is a war vet or an aspiring soldier, it makes a lot of the classic characters a timeline mess right now XD
But, yay, for unspecific. I like that and that's probably the easiest way to go about it
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Yeeeaaah, they tried to make Tony into going to the Gulf War for the heart blowout a while back, but they said he was 21, and that just...doesn't work logically even with the sliding timescale, since I think he was in his mid-to late 20s when he did so eventually, especially with how he's drawn.
And really he and Spidey shouldn't be the same age. :/
Yeah, I'm lazy, and hate thinking about stuff like that, so I wave it off and pretend it doesn't happen, or I just try and reconcile it as best I can!
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Figuring out how old she is still hurts my head. Especially when I try to compare her age to say the New Mutants.
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The New Mutants, in particular, are hard because they have that student syndrome. Young characters can age fast, but older ones cannot. We do know their ages when they debuted: Rictor 13, Tabby 14, Skids 16, Rusty 18, Sam Dani and Amara 16, Roberto 14, Rahne 13, Doug 14, and Illyana 7 and then 14. Karma was 19 though and she's the one that makes EVERYTHING CONFUSING. LMFAO. Rictor and Roberto have been shown drinking in bars though, so I just set everyone based on that. If Ric is 21, then everyone else is just a little older type deal.
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That's what I've been doing. Except Sally is behind everyone so she's younger than she would be if she was from where everyone else is. And I'm still not certain how many years behind she would be. I hate Marvel time.
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ARGH I know. I definitely get that. I doubt it would be that far behind if the above timeline is accurate. Maybe 2...3 years tops?
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