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

[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...