We have confirmation of Jing Yuan's age range during Quintent era?

[cashew]

According to this post, patch 2.5 confirmed Jing Yuan was <100 years old during Quintet era. tanithryudo, can you confirm or deny this claim? Is this a thing? Am I going to have to re-think my fanfic?!

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[cashew]

The numbers make sense. This would mean physically, Jing Yuan would spend a decent chunk of the Quintet era in adolescent/late adolescent form physically. It's questionable how much we can trust the PV, but taking that into account, then Jing Yuan would've shot up about a foot and a half over the course of 9 years...

The only other possibility is that the local years according to each calendar progressed at different rates and time dilation happens between interplanetary travel. But that's probably more math than the writers had in mind.

Basically, I guess I have to resign myself to shota!Jing Yuan...siiigh. Time to go re-consider thr fic timeline.

[tanithryudo]

I mean, growth spurts happen, and when they do, typically you increase height by a lot in a very short period of time. So I think it is plausible for Jing Yuan to go from his "teen" height to "full" height within the span of a single year. *shrug*

Also, if you equate his "teen" height as close to the current height that Dan Heng (who uses the male teen model in game) has right now, it's not that short/shota.

[cashew]

Also, if you equate his "teen" height as close to the current height that Dan Heng (who uses the male teen model in game) has right now, it's not that short/shota.

It looks around early teen-ish based on head-to-shoulder ratio (closer to Yanqing model than Dan Heng model). Given he was in the same role as Yanqing at the time, I suspect the intention was to have them at similar ages, then and now.

But even if I headcanon him to Dan Heng's comparative age, it still means for a good 50+ years of Quintet, Jing Yuan was basically a kid. So unless Dan Feng also was of a similar situation...the canon seems to be catering to the "Jing Yuan was the baby of the group" theory that fans unanimously agreed on somehow...

[tanithryudo]

Well, Dan Feng is shorter than the adult male model (compare to Yingxing/Blade). He's only a little taller than Dan Heng, and doesn't have an exact game model that he corresponds to.

Oh god... they're a tragic teen drama.

[cashew]

Oh god... they're a tragic teen drama.

😆 I think you're onto something. This is my headcanon now.