Thursday DE

[needsmoreresearch]

It happens to all of us. Some of us, anyway. How does your character feel about growing old? Or...not?

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[have_no_mercy]

Tess is amazed she’s lasted this long.

Rose is 19. She hasn’t thought about it yet.

Kyle will never let himself look like Snoke, no matter how old he gets.

Sometimes, Creed wishes it would hurry up. Mostly, he’s at peace with it.

[configuration_birdwatcher]

Bastion might be the first of their kind (Bastion units, not omnics in general) to have the chance to die from simply wearing out to the point of unrepairability. They don't know when that's likely to become a concern; sapient AI is a new technology and the oldest omnics are, like, 40-year-old pre-Crisis models who managed to survive the war. In theory an omnic isn't permanently dead if their body fails so long as replacement parts can be found or made, even if they spend a long time powered down and unable to boot until they can get that transplant. But they're entirely capable of dying from head injuries, so there's nonreplaceable brain-hardware there (maybe minor damage can be repaired, but not a bullet to the hard disk or anything that causes comparable data loss, and transferring the intact data to new hardware raises ship-of-Theseus questions), and it's hard to say what its operational lifespan is.

Aradia's blood caste ages very swiftly after reaching adulthood, though it's not noticeable in childhood or adolescence; redbloods are wizened and elderly at 20 to 24 sweeps (43-52 human years). She herself attained conditional immortality from Sgrub, though, so she won't age past roughly 10 sweeps. She's pretty amazed by the reversal of fortune there, and doesn't think she'll get tired of being alive any time soon.

Thurlow is kind of disquieted by the fact that 'semi-dead mummy' seems to have interjected itself as the life stage after 'senior citizen' in Fallen London. It allows people to live longer if they don't just up and die of organ failure or a fatal disease before that, but they can also be fragile and infirm for a very long time indeed and Thurlow personally would rather die a violent final death - after a long life, but nevertheless - than be immobile and bedridden for centuries like some tomb-colonists.

Possible new pup: Cirava's also a troll and about the same age as Aradia, but yellowbloods have similar lifespans to humans except it's a lot rarer to live past 80 human years. ('Average yellowblood lives to be 100 sweeps old' factoid is incorrect. Average yellowblood lives to be 30-40 sweeps old. The Psiionic, who lives in a spaceship and has his life extended 50 sweeps every day by the Empress, is an outlier adn should not have been counted.) 20 sweeps in the future is an eternity to a teenager, and they're skeptical about whether they'll actually live long enough to grow old, so they find it hard to imagine themself in that position.

[exiled_heir_of_the_eighth]

Sahaal's not sure about it, because he's not sure he's going to grow old anytime soon. Whether an Astartes ages and by how much, and even their lifespan, depends on their Legion bloodline. The Night Lords are pretty long-lived, with few mutations, but most of them have been living in the time-dilating dimension of the Warp for ten thousand years. He doesn't know how he'll age naturally.

If he does, he'll probably just take it in his stride until it affects his combat abilities. Then he'll just complain incessantly about it. If he doesn't, he'll keep on doing what he's always done.

[sticktothemission]

Gabriel doesn't really expect to live that long at this point in his life. Humanity is under threat from the omnics and while he's being improved to bring the fight to them he has no expectations of making it through the Crisis alive. Hell, it's a miracle he's not dead from the SEP.

Reaper...I get the feeling he might be regretting a choice or two somewhere along his path. But he's using his circumstances to the best of his ability.

Khadgar was forced into the body of an 80 year old at the age of 18. He's had a few decades since then to get used to the idea and he refuses to let age slow him down. Mages tend to live longer than most humans anyway, so he has plenty of time ahead of him.