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?!)
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Date: 2005-04-27 04:38 am (UTC)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?!)