#anon it isnt quite that bad in terms of Misreads so i do need to make you aware that its Not That Dire Out There

[lucabyte]

Where are people getting 8-12 for Siffrin from????? Like even without the timing of the Island, SASAP Siffrin canonically drinks wine and I’m pretty sure there’s a bathroom convo that implies he’s gone out drinking with the party before, like that rouge is a Grown Adult 100% (and also if Siffrin Was somehow 8-12 I don’t think they would’ve written their interactions with Isabeau like that since he’s also written to be at least mid 20s or so and has a job)

8-12 as in 8-12 when they left the island, not during game events. You misread the tags on this one.

(said tags were based on seeing poll results where the overwhelming, while not Majority, mode/most frequent answer was 8-12, with a not insubstantial number of people answering 5-9??)

(ive repeated my own thoughts on this matter a number of times, but mostly it comes down to disagreeing with 'refusing to eat vegetables is a childish reason to run away' since it's stated in text that they were Joking at the time (reads to me like a teenage 'ohh my god stop telling me what to doooo', which is also supported by adrienne's own word of god that they were a teen/that its based on their own teenage anecdote), and the logic that an unnacompanied child is likely to be taken in and taken care of, where a mid-teen or older is more likely to be assumed to be okay when Wandering Around On Their Own, Homeless. Which to me lines up far more with Siffrin's in-game behaviour of latching onto small kindnesses, etc. I know a lost child is a sad concept but extend that kind of empathy to teens too?? A lost teen ends up in such a tragic place of 'too old to be seen as needing protection' and 'still too young to be alone like that'. you dont need to make them younger to make it more tragic! if anything losing MORE of their adolesence is scarier... So I'm on team 15-18 myself. Because uh. Numbers. 30/25 minus 10/15 is still more likely to be on the higher side. And thats assuming that people would say 'about a decade' when referring to a variance as high as 5 extra years. (remember too that nille has to be able to be old enough to remember the island's disappearence and she's mira's age of early 20s. Mathsssss))

(although i have seen some WILD poll results with at least a few people pegging sif's in-game age as low as 19-23 which still boggles the mind given how frequently they're reiterated to be the second oldest in the party next to odile and the. literal wiki page that states their age to be mid-to-late 20s. I have No idea where people are getting that outside of 1. not paying attention 2. infantilisation 3. being on the younger end themselves and not really being able to visualise an older person (than them. 30 isnt old) having the kinds of mental struggles that siffrin has, and due to relating to them pulling the presumed age closer to their own)