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Nah November 28th, 2013 8:27 AM

How old are the player characters suppossed to be in X/Y?
 
How old are they suppossed to be now? In Gens 1-4, they were about 10 or 11. In Gen 5, it was about 14. So how about Gen 6? I think they're about 16.

UnitedWashclothExpress November 28th, 2013 8:32 AM

The rivals all act rather touched in the head for that age range.

Probably around 12-13 for the lot of them.

Frokage November 28th, 2013 8:33 AM

I'd say the protagonists are about 15 y/o, whilst the others are probably around 13-14.

Superfox November 28th, 2013 8:45 AM

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Originally Posted by UnitedWashclothExpress (Post 7959000)
The rivals all act rather touched in the head for that age range.

Probably around 12-13 for the lot of them.

Serena and Calem act pretty maturely. I'd say they and the protagonist are around 15 or so.

Nah November 28th, 2013 9:07 AM

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Originally Posted by UnitedWashclothExpress (Post 7959000)
The rivals all act rather touched in the head for that age range.

Probably around 12-13 for the lot of them.

I'm pretty sure that Shauna, Tierno, and Trevor are all younger than the player and Calem/Serena. I was talking about the age of the person you plays as.

acatfrommars November 28th, 2013 10:33 PM

I think that the characters are supposed to be pre-teens. A little older than Ash in the anime, but still fairly young. They all seem to be close to the same age too. :)

Sleeping Eevee November 29th, 2013 5:21 AM

I think the player and Calem/Serena are about 14-15, while Tierno is probably around that age as well. Shauna and Trevor are probably 12-13. Dunno, though. I just imagine Calem to be the older brother if all the characters were siblings, he has that personality.

Pinkie-Dawn November 29th, 2013 6:52 AM

Due to having the option to give Calem a mustache, which something pre-teens do not have, I say he and Serena are in their mid to late teens.

Nah November 29th, 2013 7:13 AM

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Originally Posted by Pinkie-Dawn (Post 7960518)
Due to having the option to give Calem a mustache, which something pre-teens do not have, I say he and Serena are in their mid to late teens.

Wait, you can seriously give Calem a moustache? I had no idea, since I opted for Serena.

Pinkie-Dawn November 29th, 2013 7:45 AM

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Originally Posted by No Chance Without Zekrom (Post 7960541)
Wait, you can seriously give Calem a moustache? I had no idea, since I opted for Serena.

It was shown during the leaks from the Canadian games before the official release.

Batty November 29th, 2013 8:51 AM

I agree by default Serena and Calem are 15ish. But when it's the player character, they basically become whatever age you want which is why they never say their age specifically in game.
I'd say Trevor is about 15 too, he's just a small person. Could be a mature 13 year old though.

Toutebelle November 29th, 2013 10:39 AM

I'm guessing around 14 or 15. I made the player characters and the three rivals 14 years old in my fanfic based on X and Y.

Arrow November 29th, 2013 1:36 PM

I'm guessing at least 14-16. Them and Calem/Serena seem to act mature enough to be between those age. Perhaps Tierno too. Trevor is at least 13 in my opinion while Shauna is between 12 and 13.

Killjoy November 29th, 2013 5:04 PM

The fact that they don't specify the characters age is probably by design. I think they're leaving it up to the player. I prefer not to think about it, though compared to some anime character I've seen, it's not a stretch to assume they could be as old as 19 (especially with some of the girls fairly mature looks) or as young as 10 (with some of the boy's fairly immature looks lol)

Anime characters don't seem to have a lot of fluctuation in their facial features between these ages, and they often look much younger than they are. Their exact ages are always speculative until verbally expressed either in the plot of the show, or other means.

ilias_ November 29th, 2013 5:34 PM

My character is 19. Serena is the same with me and all the others are 16. :)

Atomic Pirate November 29th, 2013 5:37 PM

Eh.

Tierno - 15

Trevor - 11

Shauna - 13

Serena - 16

Player Character - 16

Shadeh November 29th, 2013 5:45 PM

from the looks of it, they both look around 13-16, probably because nintendo noticed the older age group coming to like pokemon maybe?

Hiatus November 29th, 2013 6:05 PM

Diantha must be somewhere at the age of eighteen, as she's an actress. Not all actors and actresses are eighteen, but most are. Everyone else (including Tierno, Trevor, Shauna, Calem, and Serena) could be between fifteen and sixteen.

isthatyoudan November 29th, 2013 6:13 PM

I think you can make your trainer be any age you want from about 11 to 18ish because you can change what they look like. The thing is, they look way more proportioned and mature in the PR videos and the dressing room compared to what they normally look like through the game. They look really different.

s0nido November 30th, 2013 4:45 AM

Gonna go with the majority and say that Serena and Calem are the oldest of the bunch~ The rest of them seem too immature to be as old as those two. Though I thought that all protagonists in the Pokemon games were 11 years old?

Nah November 30th, 2013 5:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Killjoy (Post 7961354)
The fact that they don't specify the characters age is probably by design. I think they're leaving it up to the player. I prefer not to think about it, though compared to some anime character I've seen, it's not a stretch to assume they could be as old as 19 (especially with some of the girls fairly mature looks) or as young as 10 (with some of the boy's fairly immature looks lol)

Anime characters don't seem to have a lot of fluctuation in their facial features between these ages, and they often look much younger than they are. Their exact ages are always speculative until verbally expressed either in the plot of the show, or other means.

Ya have a point there. I don't know how many times I've heard an anime character say " I'm XX years old" and I'm like "What? I thought you were YY years old!?".

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Originally Posted by Nymphadora (Post 7961445)
Diantha must be somewhere at the age of eighteen, as she's an actress. Not all actors and actresses are eighteen, but most are. Everyone else (including Tierno, Trevor, Shauna, Calem, and Serena) could be between fifteen and sixteen.

Not gonna lie, I thought Diantha was over 30. Is she really that young?

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Originally Posted by Route 18 (Post 7962346)
Gonna go with the majority and say that Serena and Calem are the oldest of the bunch~ The rest of them seem too immature to be as old as those two. Though I thought that all protagonists in the Pokemon games were 11 years old?

They used to be about 11. Then they brought the age up a bit (or at least appeared to) starting with Black/White. As someone else said, mayeb it was because a large part of the Pokemon fanbase was getting older.

Hyzenthlay November 30th, 2013 5:37 AM

Well the age isn’t exactly specified, so I think it's more up to the player to decide. For example, you could have Serena with a more child-like look (pigtails, pink dress etc.) and think of her as a 10 year old. Or you could have Calem with a moustache and more "mature" fashion, imagining him as eighteen or so.

I like to think of the two player characters in between 15 and 18, because Calem has the option of facial hair.

As for Trevor, Shauna and Tierno, I think they are much younger, with Trevor being the youngest of the three and Tierno being the oldest.

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Originally Posted by Nymphadora
Diantha must be somewhere at the age of eighteen, as she's an actress.
Oh, really? I thought of her to be about in her mid-twenties.


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