Older Than They Look/Fan Works

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Examples of characters that are Older Than They Look in Fan Works include:

  • A fandom example: for a while, it was vaguely popular among Harry Potter fanfiction writers to claim that (a few hours per weekday for a year of) Time Travel had sufficiently aged Hermione that it is no longer squicky to have her paired with Snape. Which is silly on the face of it, since two or three extra hours every weekday for an entire year (without even considering summer vacation) adds up to less than thirty days of additional aging. Not to mention she was petrified in her second year for about the same length of time. That's right folks, she broke even.
  • Maoimi in Soulless shell is supposed to be seventeen, but her age isn't mentioned until the final chapter and thanks to the hilariously clumsy writing she comes across as being about seven. The MSTing does not let this go un-riffed.

Romsca: (as Maoimi) C'n I 'ave some candy, pwease, nice mister paedophile?

  • Zigzagged with in Kyon: Big Damn Hero, with Kyon, Mikuru, Kanae, and Yuki aging a year during training every night, but having Yuki de-age them afterwards with added Laser-Guided Amnesia. Then, Kyon time-travels all over the place, running errands for his future self, which makes things more complicated.
  • The Naruto fanfic Hakumei has a jounin-level villain in her late teens convincingly disguise herself as a 12-year old genin.
  • With Strings Attached takes place in 1980; when The Beatles are sent on their journey, they are physically (but not mentally) de-aged from the thirty-something men they are into the ages they were when Beatlemania was at its height.
  • Lady Venus in The Blue Blur of Termina. According to Tatl, despite appearing to be in the human equivalent of her late twenties, she is actually over five hundred years old.
  • Any of the Wedge Defenders of Undocumented Features at any point after the turn of the 21st century because of their Living Forever Is Awesome variety of immortality. Made even more extreme by their ability to change their apparent age at will.
  • Doug Sangnoir of Drunkard's Walk. He started out his journey looking younger than his actual age of 36 due to "mutant life-extension genes". Several years later, still looking no older than his thirties, the Norns temporarily suspended his aging. By the first chapter of Drunkard's Walk XIII, he is somewhere in excess of 180 years old, but still looks no older than 35 or so.
  • Edward "Legion" Becerra of Legion's Quest. Due to various factors related to his empowerment and journey between universes, he is effectively immortal and unaging, and except for some premature graying at the temples appears no older than his late 30s -- even centuries later.
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