Cantr II Discussion Forum

For my living characters:

194, male - hair: almost completely gone, face: 70, body: 60 but fit
181, female - face: 65, body: middle-aged
158, female - face: 75, body: 65
128, male - hair: 65, face: 55, body: 70
115, female - hair: 60, face: 50, body: 40 (spawned physically as a preteen)
83, male - hair and face: 55, body: 45
82, female - hair and face: 70, body: 50
77, female - face: 60, body: 55
75, male - face: 50, body: 40
52, male - 35
49, female - mid thirties
48, male - early thirties (spawned physically as a preteen)
43, female - mid twenties (spawned physically as a preteen)
42, female - face: 29, body: early 20s
32, male - about 28

All my characters appear to be in their thirties, regardless of age.

I'm usually impatient about age, so mine usually get old pretty fast compared to most. More saggy boobs please.

Even if I wanted to list mine I'd probably get it wrong, I'm horrible at telling what age a person looks like. Generally mine look older if I've role played them struggling with any kind of sickness, and otherwise I treat them all as the ageless immortals they are, not twenties I think (again, I'm horrible at telling that) but not crinkly old.

For mine, the characters physical age doesn't match the visual at all. Instead, mine age based on their experiences, and their visual appearance is based on environmental, emotional, and lifestyle influences.

Cdls wrote:For mine, the characters physical age doesn't match the visual at all. Instead, mine age based on their experiences, and their visual appearance is based on environmental, emotional, and lifestyle influences.

This is true for mine as well, I only didn't say it because if felt moving away from the topic. The title says age twice after all, so it didn't seem to be about the rest of the appearance.

Cdls wrote:For mine, the characters physical age doesn't match the visual at all. Instead, mine age based on their experiences, and their visual appearance is based on environmental, emotional, and lifestyle influences.

Yes.

Just to humor Seko, though:

Dead characters:
I don't remember 1 aging very much at all.
2 aged but she bore it well - her hair turned white (from platinum-blonde so not a huge change lol) and I guess her face started showing some age but other than that she was as fit as a 20yo as she was as a 90yo.
5 probably looked 30-something her whole life.
7 spawned as a near-prepubescent midget. By the time she died, she probably looked to be in her sixties, except for the face.
8 always looked like he was in his 30s. He never changed. Ever.
11 also spawned prepubescent-looking, but she didn't go through enough to really age.
12 I killed off young so he doesn't count.
If I had aged 13 physically along with her circumstances, she would've been a sullen wrinkly ugly old lady in her 40s. But alas, she didn't make it that far.

Live characters:
3. 99. If she were to lose weight she'd probably have saggy boobs. It's a good thing she hasn't lost weight.
4. 98. If I were to describe her properly, she'd probably be at least a little wrinkly and saggy-boobed (maybe her late 60s) but she also takes care of herself physically so maybe not.
6. 97. Looks like he's in his late 30s, maybe early 40s.
9. 93. She looks exactly as she did when she spawned, and that's only because she's my Spanish character. If I knew how to describe graying hair in Spanish, I would.
10. 89. Looks to be in her 30s or 40s.
14. 82. She looks almost adolescent except for the face (laugh lines and crow's feet) and the boobs (preadolescent women don't have boobs and this character has boobs). When she grins or pouts, it only adds to the kiddish look about her.
15. 37. Looks to be in her 30s.
16. 27. Looks 19.

Grey hair: canas. Tiene canas. Le salieron las canas.

Thanks, but it's not full gray, just graying. Like, salt and pepper. Random little gray hairs scattered throughout that aren't terribly noticeable from a distance.

Joshua said it well.
You could say: Tiene algunas canas dispersas. (that would be a lot more precise)
A lot of gray hairs is: Tiene el pelo canoso.
And full gray is just a direct translation: Todo su pelo es gris.

(sorry the off-topic)

A lot of my characters still look young because I just haven't bothered to change their appearance. My current characters are exclusively dark-haired even well into their nineties, but who says Cantr characters go grey as young as RL people do?

99 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is still dark brown. Probably looks fairly elderly as he is quite thin and pale.
99 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is still dark brown. Probably looks like he is in his fifties.
94 - Described as looking like someone in his mid-sixties, hair is still black.
63 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is still dark brown. Probably looks quite a bit younger than he is.
50 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is dark brown. Tends to be seen as much younger than he is both in appearance and personality.
45 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is still dark. Probably looks his age.
28 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is dark. Looks his age.
26 - No mention of how old she looks, hair is black. Looks her age.
23 - No mention of how old she looks, hair is black. Looks her age.
23 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is dark. Is quite a small person so probably looks younger than he is.
23 - No mention of how old he looks, hair is still brown. Looks his age.

Usually I start the aging process around 40. Interestingly enough I've never had a character to make it *to* forty yet so yeah, I almost have now so it'll be fun to play with it. :p

My most active ones have a description that includes aging.

Pfft… all my characters are in their thirties, so I haven't gotten around to changing their descriptions yet. XD I do plan on doing so, however… probably just start with crow's feet and laugh lines when they hit their forties, and move to graying hair and gnarled hands later. Since Cantr characters are pretty much immortal, I don't see much point in making them look really old… even if the automatic description says otherwise.

cutecuddlydirewolf wrote: Since Cantr characters are pretty much immortal, I don't see much point in making them look really old… even if the automatic description says otherwise.

The automatic description only says otherwise if you believe it does. If the custom description doesn't indicate otherwise, I always imagine older characters as looking more fit and able than younger characters, and a man or woman "who is very old" is at the pinnacle of physical strength and agility if their custom description doesn't say they're not.