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?

Comments

[trobadora]

IIRC in one of the young!ZYL flashback scenes it says he just graduated, and china_shop dug up this link a while back. I'd say he's probably 12.

A span of about a year seems plausible to me.

[rheasilvia]

Cool - 12 seems to be the right answer. Thank you, that clears it up! :-)

The only scene that seems a bit out of place in the "one year" timespan is the hospital scene, because it looks to be set after ZYL's mother's death, but ZYL seems very relaxed and open with his father. I don't know if 10 months or so and some health problems on Zhao Xinci's side would be enough to get him there.... and it seems odd to place that scene before his mother's death, too.

It's not that much of a problem for me, just a teensy snag. And maybe t is before, and ZYL's mom just popped out to find a vase for the flowers or something. ;-)

[trobadora]

What episode was the hospital scene in, do you remember?

[rheasilvia]

It's ep 39! (The wonders of detailed note-taking. ;-) )

[trobadora]

Hee! Thank you. :D

[trobadora]

I just rewatched the hospital scene, and I think I'd place it before his mother's death. Yeah, I don't think he'd talk to his father like that, afterwards.