Overaged Trainers

Started by psyanic January 7th, 2012 2:23 PM
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I don't know there is a maximum age. I read the start of a journey fic where the main character was 21, and it seems like it would have worked. By the same token, you could leave on a Pokemon journey when you're fifty and it would be fine. All you really need to have is a good reason why they haven't gone before - which isn't really as hard as some would have you believe. Some people decide to commit themselves fully to school so they can study to become a lawyer, others are pressured into taking up the family business, others just plain decide they don't want to be Trainers before changing their mind several years down the track.
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Repeating what was already said, but hey!

That depends on what you are asking I suppose; to travel at all or start travelling. For the former I'd say there is no age limit; some veterans in the games still do battles after all so if there's a motivation for them to continue travelling and training their Pokemon. (As for a stronger canon case, Wes the protagonist in Colosseum is an established trainer already; older teens/young adult and with two Eeveelutions).

And I suppose there's the same deal with trainers starting out, although the reasoning for someone to start older than usual is still a factor in that. Just has to be backed up well really. (And BW is a canon case with the protagonists reportedly older than previous generation games. And the whole Belle/father relationship showing even some parents in the Pokemon world can be overprotective of kids going off to have adventures.)

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Well, i'd say when these symptoms pop up:
-Back begins to ache
-Your national pokedex is completed, with every pokemon caught
-you call squirtle a " Blue turtle that squirts water out of it's mouth "

But if your 90, and none of these have happened, I'd say there isn't an age limmit ._.
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Please don't bump threads over a month old since the last post.

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