60!

[chase02]

LOL. Oh dear.

anyway, let's not hijack this thread any more. Take it to PM/mirc.

[NaruShadow]

right, good idea...

[/stalk chase]

[*Wiro]

Yes, well, the 25-120 thing narrows it down, somewhat.

Mwhaha, Ima hijack it anyway. >:3

I have a char like that too. Except the difference's a bit less. 40 years.

95 years difference is quite a lot though. Imagine RPing sex with someone that old. o.O

[Sebas]

I think I've met a swedish char that is 130...or maybe it was 113...can't remember..

[Piscator]

95 years difference is quite a lot though. Imagine RPing sex with someone that old. o.O

The weirdness of that solely depends on how you imagine the ageing process of Cantrians. Old characters usually behave younger than they are so I imagine them mostly as more or less ageless.

[*Wiro]

95 years difference is quite a lot though. Imagine RPing sex with someone that old. o.O

The weirdness of that solely depends on how you imagine the ageing process of Cantrians. Old characters usually behave younger than they are so I imagine them mostly as more or less ageless.

I would RP some of my chars as old, sitting in a chair, knitting all the time.

[Tiamo]

Cantr characters do not age - they just add years.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

95 years difference is quite a lot though. Imagine RPing sex with someone that old. o.O

The weirdness of that solely depends on how you imagine the ageing process of Cantrians. Old characters usually behave younger than they are so I imagine them mostly as more or less ageless.

I would RP some of my chars as old, sitting in a chair, knitting all the time.

Sitting in a chair knitting all the time doesn't make your char seem old. Old and knitting just doesn't necessarily go together in Cantr (or real life, but they are real life perceptions that might lead one to correlate the two). It certainly doesn't go together often enough for most Cantrians, other than maybe those in the specific community, to draw those conclusions.

RP'ing that their face is growing wrinkled, their hair is turning gray and that they have more difficulty getting around or hearing would be more what would make them seem old (if you want to go by those standards of real life). More cantrealistically than knitting. Even then, I don't know if those things would. It might be more widely seen throughout Cantr.

Oh well... for all we know, Cantrians could be aging backwards in a sense. Wrinkles, gray hairs... might not exist because they don't have the same basic makeup that would cause those things.

I imagine the aging of my characters more subtly though. Their experiences altering their appearance in small ways.

[BarbaricAvatar]

I don't imagine my characters aging at all. Even the ones in their 70's still look like they're 30 in my mind. Mainly because there is no old-age death in Cantr, so therefore why should their bodies age and become less functional?
They are immortal so like Angel, Spike and Connor MacLeod they don't age much despite being over 100 years old.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

I don't imagine my characters aging at all. Even the ones in their 70's still look like they're 30 in my mind. Mainly because there is no old-age death in Cantr, so therefore why should their bodies age and become less functional?
They are immortal so like Angel, Spike and Connor MacLeod they don't age much despite being over 100 years old.

Yes, mine are the same way.. the subtle changes I think of are more like.. it's hard to describe. It's nothing because of age so much as experience and how their life has been. If I have one that's had an easy life, full of fun and whatever, then I don't see its appearance really changing much past the day they spawned... if they had a soft, innocent, round face, it's not going to change... but if they had led a harder life, saw many bad things, then it's different... that face may not appear so soft and round.. maybe the smile isn't quite the same.

And in other ways... it's just part of living a long life, not really growing older. Changes that would be natural due to mentality and personality changing.

[Bear]

I think I've met a swedish char that is 130...or maybe it was 113...can't remember..

Probably one of mine, I've got the oldest living swedish ones.

[Lyd]

One of my young ones had a crush on Dr. Petren! He was old then and that was many, many cantr moons ago.

[DylPickle]

Cantrians do age. They might not degrade physically, but they DO have some sort of visual representation of their age, generalized into decades.

"You see a man in his thirties." "You see a woman in her seventies."

At 90 plus, they hit a stage where their appearance becomes less exact, only "very old". Ancient. Exceedingly seasoned.

There HAS to be some sort of visual trait that puts these characters into their generalized age brackets. And it's not Cantrian telepathy.

SO! Whenever a young whipper snapper says "Excuse me old man, yadda yadda" and the old man (probably significantly older than the younger character) says "Hey, I'm not old!", be sure to mark "suffering from dementia" in the old man's description box, and put the old kook in his place.

[the_antisocial_hermit]

Cantrians do age. They might not degrade physically, but they DO have some sort of visual representation of their age, generalized into decades.

"You see a man in his thirties." "You see a woman in her seventies."

At 90 plus, they hit a stage where their appearance becomes less exact, only "very old". Ancient. Exceedingly seasoned.

There HAS to be some sort of visual trait that puts these characters into their generalized age brackets. And it's not Cantrian telepathy.

SO! Whenever a young whipper snapper says "Excuse me old man, yadda yadda" and the old man (probably significantly older than the younger character) says "Hey, I'm not old!", be sure to mark "suffering from dementia" in the old man's description box, and put the old kook in his place.

But it could be Cantrian telepathy (there are so many things that apparently fall under that). I mean, you can't tell if a person is 69 or 70 just by looking at them in reality. You can't even always tell between someone in their 20's and 30's, etc. Yet, Cantrians can tell if they are. And nothing is there to actually suggest that it is a huge physical trait that tips people off to age, even if it's not telepathic either.

What can "very old" (or even just old) mean in Cantr anyway? So many things... it doesn't have to be held to our concepts of "very old" such as ancient and seasoned. Most likely it will... because that's what players think of... but it doesn't have to.

It could simply mean a character has reached a place where age really levels off and ceases to matter so much.

[SekoETC]

Might as well make it so that everyone can wish for their character to be a pretty princess or a strong warrior and just scrap the visual age, let everyone rp what ever the heck they want. I personally find it unnatural that people wouldn't age, and many people tend to treat aging as if it was a bad thing and made people ugly. I don't think so, old people only get ugly when they're sick or malnourished. ...I miss my grandma.