renay: Well, that's a problem.

Renay (

renay) wrote,
@ 2010-08-03 12:48 pm UTC

Entry tags:

final fantasy, gaming, the ladies and the ladies

I like how I don't realize these things until someone points them out. ._.

Curious, I looked up all the humanoid main-party characters in the main-series games from Final Fantasy IV to Final Fantasy XII, disregarding characters such as Fran, who is more than fifty years old but looks much younger on account of not being human.

The ages of the male characters ranged from five to seventy.

The ages of the female characters ranged from five to twenty-two. Source.

ALSO, AHHHHHH

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cumuluscastle
2010-08-03 07:25 pm UTC (link)

I never actively thought about it either, although I was snickering to myself about the fact that I'm at the age (or close to it) in Final Fantasy where everyone calls you 'old' all the time. Cid Highwind is only 32 after all and apparently he's a "tough talking, warm-hearted old pilot who hasn't forgotten his dreams." I think the whole thing is weird.

The only fantasy game I can think of with a playable female character who could be considered elderly is Dragon Age Origins, and although Wynne looks like a healthy woman to me, she spends most of the game complaining about her aching joints and discussing her imminent death, when she's not arguing with a particular male party member about the state of his hygiene and mending his socks. She does all of this with a nice dose of sarcasm, however.

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	cumuluscastle 2010-08-03 10:42 pm UTC (link)
	P.S. I almost forgot that Wynne is also a healer. :P (Reply to this)

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