Childhood flashback character ages

[rheasilvia]

A quick question for people who know about kids!

About how old is Zhao Yunlan when we see him as a kid?

I would say the various instances he appears in flashbacks all fall into a span of time that's about a year long (ideally, I would like to place the hospital scene with Zhao Xinci even later, but I doubt that's plausible). Given the rate at which children grow up, does this seem vaguely believable to you or would you say it has to be shorter for him to look more or less the same all the way through?

And while I'm asking: How old are Shen Wei and Ye Zun in their childhood flashback?

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[unrelaxing]

Shen Wei and Ye Zun looked juuust on the cusp of puberty (I remember this conversation on Guardian Discord) and we placed them at around 10-12. They seemed too big to be any younger - my experience with children have kids younger than nine tending to be a bit smaller and very very immature looking, especially the boys.

Childhood is weird BUT this is that kid on Fresh Off The Boat at age 12 https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c9/IanChenFoxLa_Screening2018.jpg/800px-IanChenFoxLa_Screening2018.jpg.

An 8 year old: https://www.worldofbuzz.com/8-year-old-can-listen-feel-colour-cards-using-brain/

So I put the twins more towards 12.

I place Yunlan at around the same age, too. Or an underdeveloped 13? We seem him talk and he seemed older just because of that...

[rheasilvia]

I am so bad at guessing childrens' ages it's ridiculous. Thank you for this, it really helps - 12 does seem to be a good age, particularly because Trobadora mentioned that one of the flashbacks mentions Zhao Yunlan just graduated.

12 it is, then, for everyone. :-)

Yunlan does seem very mature - when he talks with his Dad in the hospital, he is definitely unusually insightful for his age - but then, it's Zhao Yunlan. So yeah, I buy it at 12. ;-)