Age poll

[caiusbackup]

Since 11 of you said 'yes' and the other one said 'maybe', I present the AGE POLL! It's designed for DC fans and characters, but with a certain amount of interpretation could be applied to other fannish obsessions you might have...

[Poll #482774]

Comments

[tiamatschild.livejournal.com]

My two favorites are Ollie and J'onn. I mean, I love everyone else but those two are my favorites. I wonder if that's the same as being fannish about them?

*puzzles* It's too late for this.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

*g* Roughly. I mean being fannish in the sense of being inspired to talk obsessively about or read and write fic and essays, rather than just enjoying the comics and that being that. But it's a little semantic thing *I* didn't have the energy to discuss either. I'm glad you filled it out, anyway (and you have great taste in characters).

[slipstreamborne.livejournal.com]

Though I answered early to mid twenties, I am actually 19. I just feel closer to 20 than I do to say, 14. *shrugs*

I've always read the teen charactes I'm fannish about (especially Tim Drake and the YJ/TT crew) as being a few years older than they are in canon. In some sense I've let them age along with me, but now that I am only scant months away from my twenties and my favorite character has just gotten his driver's license in canon I've fixed their ages in my head to about 16/17. It's weird, though, to think of them at that age, because my brother will soon be turning 16 and that seems so *young* to me. So maybe aging them a little bit helps alieviate any of the guilt I feel when reading smut involving them, because I know I'm not comfortable with my brother doing any of those things (he's too young! I'm old! Gah, where hath my youth gone?!)

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

I get you on the teenage thing. I should perhaps have make the cutoff more like 18...

Interesting approach to the teenagers. Makes sense. Most of my favorite characters are substantially older (or more rarely, younger) than me, so such adjustments are less necessary. Though I find it kinda exciting to be finally old enough to be a Dirty Old Woman (at age 20) when I do fantasize about the Robins...

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

That's a hard one. I mean, how old is Ollie? He was about 45, but now he's younger and *ow*.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

...this is one of the Great Mysteries of DC continuity, I suspect.

I'd put him down as either "More than 35, but not MUCH MORE" or "Safely older than Batman"...I tried to structure the poll to cover these things but some people just escape all reason (or at least, all reason I'm able to apply at midnight).

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're all pretty mysterious. There's also Sand--actually, all the JSA with their world-hopping, they're a pickle.

At this point, I tend to think of all the character as non-age-bound, really. I mean--REALLY, in reality, Dick is OLDER THAN MY DAD. So, yeah. I don't know.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Sand's situation (and that of a lot of the other JSAers, for various reasons) was part of what I was trying to cover with "actual" vs "apparent" ages, though it may not have come through as clearly as I liked; i.e. Sand's actually old enough to have sidekicked during WWII, but he still appears 20-something.

And taking into account when the characters *appeared*, with anyone not JSA generation, yeah, whole 'nother ballpark--and then there are people like Ollie, who did *important things* that made sense in 1970 but make much less sense in 1995 or whenever current continuity has hauled them to (and this depends on who you ask).

And yet, it still does make a *difference* how old they are/are interpreted to be, even if your Ollie is not the same age as my Ollie (and neither of us can figure out just how many years Hal took off) and Dick Grayson started out fighting crime as a 7-year-old c. 1940...one of the things I like about the DCU is the sense of history and generations, even though the actual practice of it is so muddy and incoherent.

[some-stars.livejournal.com]

i do like that 'supernatural' is an option for MY age.

I AM AN ELF OF ETERNAL YOUTH.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

I do try to cover ALL contingencies. And Matching Catagories are good for stastistics. From what little I know about the subject.

[cereta.livejournal.com]

Once again, being exactly 35 sucks for polling purposes. It's almost enough to give a girl a complex. ;)

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

Oops. I *knew* I forgot something...

At least your age doesn't *converge* to 35 and eventually, you'll be 36 and it'll all be good!