#i'd like to clarify that their age difference (canon) doesn't bother me. i just think it's more fun this way

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Manuela 6 years before the game when she came to Garreg Mach:

Hanneman: Ah, the new professor! I went to see your opera a few times when I lived in the capitol. Hello, I'm Hanneman. I study crests! I'm sure we'll get along! How old are you?

Manuela, who is 42 and is famous for her 25 year career as a headlining diva and uses healing magic on her face every day mostly because of hangovers but still: Oh, you should never ask a woman her age it's rude! But well I'm. 30? Never mind! It's a secret!

Hanneman who has been around Seteth and Rhea for like a decade and a half already and forgotten the concept of time: Ok.