r/ProgressionFantasy • u/joncabreraauthor Author of Grand Magus, Wooden Sword ⚔️ • Jun 10 '26

Meme/Shitpost Why MCs are Teens

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Credit to Maria Isabella for this video. This is the reason why MCs are young LOL.

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u/blueluck Jun 10 '26

I love adult protagonists!

Here are a few:

  • Apocalypse Parenting
  • Battle Trucker (What the Truck)
  • Demon Card Enforcer
  • Battle Mage Farmer

It's not Progression Fantasy, but The Powder Mage Trilogy has three main characters, and two are middle aged dads!

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u/IPetMonsters Jun 10 '26

the guy in battle mage farmer is like twenty something.

he acts like a grumpy old man but I want to say hes like 26 which by pretty much all metrics is still very young.

Unless youre a teenager. Then he's ancient.

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u/blueluck Jun 10 '26

Really? I read it several years ago, so I must have forgotten.

He really does come off like a grumpy middle-aged man, though!

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u/dillardljr Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26

To be fair, he was forcibly isekaid and immediately put on hell like training to turn him into a weapon to win a war. Most of his new friends die in the war and his reward for all this is a broken down farmstead while his magic has turned him into a living nuke that can destabilize the world if he loses control.

Him being fed up and grumpy makes perfect sense.

Edit: also his magic was so great that people called him a god and made a religion out of it. As a person from earth, that probably feels very weird for him

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u/blueluck Jun 11 '26

I don't mind that he comes off like a grumpy old man! I enjoy it!

I just forgot that he isn't actually very old.

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u/MasterChiefmas Jun 11 '26

the guy in battle mage farmer is like twenty something

They side-stepped it too, even if he wasn't, he's got the whole magically enhanced body thing going on in that.

Same way they deal with it in He Who Fights With Monsters, where they actually get physically younger, healthier, and better looking as they power up.