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

[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.