: Re: Do I have to mention my main character's age? I finished my novel and realised that I never mentioned my main character's age. In chapter two I said that she in in her twenties, but that's

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Almost every Animorphs book opens with the first person narrator explicitly saying that their only Personal Identifying Information they would give the reader was their first name and until the final book, they were identified vaguely as teenagers, but not yet of driving age (between 13-16) and were all in the same unidentified grade year. We only learn two character's ages in the course of the book: Jake and Ax. Jake only gives his age up in the final book as the story is almost over and the reason for the anonimity no longer serves a point. Ax is odder as he is an alien character and it is stated that his planet has a much longer revolution around its sun thus he technically is only 2 years old, but is of the same maturity as the core cast. At various points in the series, several characters try to explain this by saying that Ax is roughly 14 years old and that one of his years is about 7 of Earth's years, but that Ax uses his own years when he is giving his age. At no point is an direct conversion given and Ax is never explicitly said to be older or younger than the cast but is generally around their age. This may have stemmed for a running gag of Ax being ridiculously precise in exactly whose measurements he is giving and it comes to a certain point that it's clear Ax is doing this for his own amusement but the typical exchange is Ax giving a time limit as "2 of your [Earth] hours" to which one of the kid will point out they are all on Earth and making the distinction isn't needed. It didn't help that his species has a natural sense of time, and Ax is frequently used as an improve stop watch for not missing deadlines.

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