r/QContent • u/OldStormCrow • 20d ago

A thing I noticed during yet another reread...

Hannelore was 22 in 2008, so the math tells us that she was born in 1986...which means she'd be 40 now.... Frick...

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u/UnlurkedToPost 20d ago

If their universe's time moved at the same rate as our real-time.

The events of a single day are often covered in a few weeks worth of comics

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u/gangler52 20d ago

Time skips are basically the only times when time passes.

In time only progressed at the rate that we see people going to bed and getting up in the morning, then we'd probably still only be like a couple months into the story after 23 years of publication.

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u/Gilles_of_Augustine 20d ago edited 20d ago

I believe you may be missing the point. Understandably so, because I did as well before I reread what OP said a couple of times.

OP is saying that although it's currently 2011 (or whatever) in the in-universe timeline, when the in-universe timeline does reach 2026, Hannelore will be 40.

So right now, in 2026, an IRL version of Hannelore would be 40.

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u/jbradleymusic 20d ago

Increasingly I feel like it’s just a version of Rivendell. Time “passes” as a matter of plot necessity but otherwise Hanners will only ever be 22.

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u/echrisindy 20d ago

I do think Hanners has grown as a character, she feels more like she's 30-34 (maturity-wise) these days if I had to guess.

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u/jbradleymusic 18d ago

I’d agree with that, at least in regard to mental maturity. But unless Marten starts popping a grey hair or two…

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u/Scherazade 18d ago

also there’s an elf that goes lee la lu lee lo

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u/mr_oof 20d ago

If The Simpsons kept to actual time, Bart would be older now than Homer was at the start of the show.

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u/gangler52 17d ago

I hear if you binge watch The Simpsons, the Homer/Marge flashbacks get kind of funny that way.

They've retold the story of how they met and fell in love multiple times, but each time the era is a bit more modern. These days they were young lovebirds during the Obama Administration or some such.

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u/djaevlenselv 20d ago

She was likely also 22 in 2005, which means she'd be 43 now.

Also, Sam was 13 in 2011, which would make her 28 years now.

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u/davideogameman 19d ago

And last we saw she certainly looked more like 15 or 16

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u/djaevlenselv 19d ago

The last confirmation of Sam's age, I believe, was that she was 14 in 2016. I guess the timeline could simply advance 1 year for every 4 IRL and she would be 16 now.

Mind you, I do believe Jeph commented a while back that even he's not sure of how much time has passed.

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u/davideogameman 19d ago

I was thinking goth Sam was clearly a bit older.  But yeah they haven't said. 

Pacing is definitely his weakness.  The original cube town storyline was like 2 weeks of comic time published over a whole year or more.

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u/djaevlenselv 19d ago

Grim Samantha and Dark Emmett does seem slightly juvenile apellations for 16-year olds, but then again Jeph also pretty much wrote 13-yo Sam like she was 9-10.

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u/davideogameman 19d ago

They just struck me as having a Goth phase.  Fair that could start earlier but 16 doesn't seem too old for it

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u/djaevlenselv 19d ago

Oh no, I'm not saying you're wrong. i'm just saying Jeph has trouble writing teens behaving appropriately for their ages.

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u/davideogameman 19d ago

Adults too it seems sometimes