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

[china_shop]

because their action plan of "uhh let's sod off into the wilderness" reads as really young to me

Doesn't that depend on what they're sodding off from? If they were leaving behind a safe and stable home/community, that's one thing, but they're orphans in hardship, and maybe there are rumours that opportunities are better elsewhere, in which case it could be a reasonable decision.

Ye Zun and Shen Wei, despite being identical twins later on, look like they have an age gap due to some reason, so idk.

Maybe Ye Zun's pillar is a cryo-stasis chamber!

[unrelaxing]

Yeah, and I mean - decision making when you're a kid, 10 or 12, is pretty similar, so we can only really go from physical.

A lot of the questions Yunlan asks in episode 39 makes him seem older but he looks the same to me as young Shen Wei and Ye Zun? Maybe just a year or so older.

[china_shop]

Or maybe just precocious. :-)

[extrapenguin]

See, a 12-year-old I'd expect to have at least a preliminary destination in the plan! Leaving a village as orphans in hardship/potentially the only survivors of the community is one thing, but IIRC they had no planned destination in mind, not even "let's check the next village over, where our second cousins live".

Shen Wei was in cryostasis; Ye Zun was just disembodied for 10 000 years and had to regrow a body to break out from the pillar.

In the baby scene, they look like they have an age gap, but even a few years later, in the time travel sequence, they look identical. Handwavey Dixing biology?

[china_shop]

See, a 12-year-old I'd expect to have at least a preliminary destination in the plan!

Well, Shen Wei could be eliding a lot of information. Maybe they'd heard about a healer who might be able to cure Ye Zun of his illness, but Shen Wei doesn't want to talk about it, for example.

[trobadora]

+1

I don't think we know what their plans were or weren't, so we can't conclude anything from that.