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So! I wanted to talk about this and was going to post it to tumblr before I went. Well. I never post anything on this blog anymore.
And here we are!
I just updated the Timeline ((largely so that it had updated Nothing's Fair stuff, but also other cleanup)) and I had to tweak Aqua/Terra/Ven's ages while doing it because I'd changed them since last looking at the Timeline, like, a year ago?
And I got to thinking about this, and I wanted to do a post, etc.
In FtPverse, during the events of BBS (and, sort of, now) Aqua was 21, Terra was 19, and Ven was 17.
Most everyone reading this is probably like. "Yeah. Okay. I see that. Except Ven." And!! I get you. Ven is implied to be like 14/15 in BBS. Hear me out.
I personally see Aqua and Terra being not just "no older than, like, twenty-ish" but... even younger than that? They were the "youngest prospects in years" for the Mark of Mastery, and while that's not saying much, I also can easily see Terra as, like, somewhere around 18. (I personally see 17, but that's in part just so I can stick with my Aqua-is-older-than-Terra headcanon.) Aqua's probably around the same, probably around 19.
It's not much, but I feel like it adds an extra layer to the events of the game? They aren't young adults who should be Responsible and know how to Take Care of things. They're just-barely-old-enough-to-be-considered-adults, instead, and don't really have the experience to make.... good decisions...
Unfortunately in FtPverse I couldn't put them at my preferred ages (again: Terra at 17, Aqua at 19). I... forget why, but it just wasn't vibing. I made peace with it, though, knowing that FtPverse BBS technically happens three years later than it would in KH canon.
And... if I was bumping Terra and Aqua's ages, why not bump up Ven's while I was at it? I kept picturing him as 17 or so, but was like "no, he can't be". But yeah!! he can!!!
((I'm actually Really Mad all the FtPverse characters are younger than me now Riku's still 15 and it's Upsetting I don't want to be writing for baby teenagers anymore I wanna be writing for my age group I wanna be writing for slightly older characters but no!! no!!!!))
ANYWAY Ven being 17 also helps me on another front: When he connects with Sora's heart.
After having Vanitas split from him, Ven connects with Sora's heart, which is a "newborn" heart, implying that, well, Sora had only just been born. (Also implying that it was four years before BBS that the event happened.)
That always kept tripping me up because I felt like it was really important that Sora's heart was "newborn" but in FtPverse it wasn't working because for Sora's heart to have been newborn it would have to happen 7 years before BBS. 15 minus 7 is, well, 8. And while I wouldn't put it past Xehanort to be an absolute asshole and force an 8 year old to turn himself into a weapon, that, also.... seems unlikely.
Granted, bumping Ven up from 15 to 17 means that he was 10 when that happened, and, that's not much better, but that's also how old he's implied to be in KH canon (in that 10-12 range) so, like. If canon can get away with it, so can I.
SO YEAH THERE'S THAT I hope you enjoyed this little session of "rar blabs about minor facts" we haven't had one of these in forever.
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