#but anyways. ages!!! not that maximus or tritons matter currently. :(

[maximusboltaqon]

ok so. in lockjaw (2017), lockjaw is mentioned to be 30 years old

this same series ALSO says that lockjaw and his littermates were experimented on to ensure terrigen exposure prior to birth was safe.

as far as any if the comic seems to imply, black bolt is the oldest of his generation (or at least the second oldest, as gorgon's never really shown as a child and i cant find anything that references his age). since rynda is seemingly already pregnant with bb when lockjaw is born, bb is also likely 30 as of the lockjaw comic!

we also know that bb was allowed out of his prison room when he was 18 (or 19, according to some comics). royals lists maximus as being 16 around the time his parents died, giving him a 2-3 year age gap on bb.

we also know crystal is the youngest, though her gap between maximus has also been retconned a few times. in a women of marvel comic from 2010, she's described as being "too little" to play a game karnak's trying to teach her.

maximus is also explicitly said to be 14 in this, and karnak and medusa are both implied to be older than him here (or at the very least karnak is implied to be older), though their ages are not said. maximus is at least old enough to not be considered too young to play bak taga. im going to assume crystal is not yet a preteen in this, making her 2-5 years younger than maximus.

as mentioned above, there doesn't seem to be any clear indication of how old exactly gorgon is. he's older than crystal, and... that's about as specific as it gets. once and future kings has him working with the king while his cousins were missing, and he doesn't seem to be treated as a child during this though he is referred to as a "boy" several times (similar to how medusa is referred to as "the girl") so he's probably 17-18, likely a bit older than medusa but a bit younger than blackagar.

triton is also a bit difficult to track down, as his backstory has been altered a bit over the years. initial comics say he underwent terrigenesis at a year old, while once and future kings (the most recent comic i know of to reference his childhood), clearly shows him as much older than that. he and karnak seem to be close in age:

and there's nothing in this to retcon their mother azur died when triton was 14, which would clearly be after his terrigenesis. karnak could pass as somewhere between 9-12 here, and triton somewhere in the 12-14 range. the main problem is we don't really know *when* the child karnak and triton scenes happen in regards to everything else, other than it was before triton's terrigenesis and before agon and rynda died.

pairing with the wom comic, karnak is older than maximus, and pairing with general early comics lore that oafk references, triton is 18 during the main story, as that's when he started going out on scouting missions. since this comic takes place relatively recently after the death of rynda and agon (maybe a year after at the absolute most), blackagar has to still be 18/19, so triton can't be any older than 19 here, once again if we extend as much as possible. he's probably 18. karnak is subsequently younger than medusa (late teens), older than maximus (16, *maybe* 17), and so he's probably 16/17.

under the assumption time in 616 has been moving the same as in the real world since 2017 (which... obviously isnt true because comics but bear with me for a moment), lockjaw and bb are 36, triton is 35, gorgon is 34/35, medusa is somewhere between 33-35, karnak would be 33/34, maximus is 33/34, and crystal should be between 28-31.

the birth order seems to be blackagar, gorgon, triton, medusa, karnak, maximus, crystal!

though, once again, gorgon is almost completely shrouded in mystery when it comes to his age, and medusa/karnak/maximus are all potentially born the same year! really, the three of them could be only weeks apart for all we know. its very likely at least two of the three are born the same year (probably karnak and medusa, if i were to bet on it)

considering how comics time is always being adjusted, these are probably not totally accurate, but at least the general early 30s for most of the fam and late 20s for crystal is,,, probably correct for modern comics.

(on a side note: the kids/second gen's order is luna, ahura, alecto, petras, leer!) ((yeah, luna should be like 19 by now, ahura was 16 last we saw him (in 2018 iirc) and he's at *least* a year younger than her. giving the rest of the kids specific ages can be a different post bc oh boy))