Pinning Down Some Ages

[Mokole]

I'd say, being that this is all fiction:

Mac - 32 (I doubt he aged as a cyborg or when he was in space)
Walter - 30
Heather - 27
Puck - 90
Marrina - 21
Snowbird - doesn't count, but 35.
Shaman - 45
Northstar/Aurora - 27
Talisman - 22
Feedback - 21
Many others would still be teens

[Garry/Al-Fan]

I'd say, being that this is all fiction:

Mac - 32 (I doubt he aged as a cyborg or when he was in space)
Walter - 30
Heather - 27
Puck - 90
Marrina - 21
Snowbird - doesn't count, but 35.
Shaman - 45
Northstar/Aurora - 27
Talisman - 22
Feedback - 21
Many others would still be teens

I really agree with the Snowbird entry - her age is always going to be difficult to pin down and not very relevant, given who she is.

Since Shaman spent 10 years in solitude, and was a renowned physician prior to that, 45 years is a pretty good age for the good doctor.

While "Mac" may be younger than Shaman (and Heather definitely is), I would think that Mac is pushing 40 more than 30 [entertaining the "time in space"/cyborg stuff doesn't help IMO]; if Heather was 28 in vol. 1 # 13 - 14, and 7 years have elapsed from vol. 1 and vol. 4, I would think Heather is 35, at the most.

The twins should be youngest of original group; Walter around the same age as Mac (40ish).

I don't have a clue about Judd.

Drafting children/teenagers to be part of Dept. H is something a responsible party should take a look at.

[Le Messor]

Okay then, here is another question: How much time has passed (in comicbook land) since AF Vol 1 Issue 1 until the end (issue of Volume 4?

The official word from Marvel is that it's always seven years after the F4's rocket flight.

Drafting children/teenagers to be part of Dept. H is something a responsible party should take a look at.

The youngest would be Marrina, at eighteen - so old enough to be 'drafted'. (I'm not sure the draft is how Dept. H works; I imagine it's a choice if they're not actively criminal.)

Also, in-universe, it might make sense to examine these things, but out of universe it's the kind of story that bores me - that has to overthink the concept and drag it down to a pedantic and ultimately dull level (the kind that throws out the heroism with the bathwater). Personally, I'd rather just accept the fantasy side of the whole sitch and enjoy it as a story.

- Le Messor
Buffy: If this place is a trap, we give the signal, you guys come in, guns a-blazing.
Xander: So, what's the signal?
Buffy: I'm thinking lots and lots of yelling.

[Garry/Al-Fan]

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The youngest would be Marrina, at eighteen - so old enough to be 'drafted'. Ouch! I wasn't as clear as thought I was: the original 6 ["Mac", Aurora, Northstar, Sasquatch, Shaman, and Snowbird] Not to slight either Judd or Marrina, but how old they are is probably going to be as hard to pin down as Snowbird: Marrina, in the egg, is over 40,000 years old; it is my assumption that with the Plodex genetic imprinting still in effect as of the original run, her "hatching" was just part of how old she is. Puck has a lot of magical stuff connected to him, so really... G/A-F

(I'm not sure the draft is how Dept. H works; I imagine it's a choice if they're not actively criminal.)

Also, in-universe, it might make sense to examine these things, but out of universe it's the kind of story that bores me - that has to overthink the concept and drag it down to a pedantic and ultimately dull level (the kind that throws out the heroism with the bathwater). Personally, I'd rather just accept the fantasy side of the whole sitch and enjoy it as a story. Double-ouch! I'm just saying somebody should have (had) a reservation about the legacy children (at the least), and Goblyn and Laura's story could be interesting if told well [their own father nearly killed them in the womb].

- Le Messor
Buffy: If this place is a trap, we give the signal, you guys come in, guns a-blazing.
Xander: So, what's the signal?
Buffy: I'm thinking lots and lots of yelling.

BTW, I'm pretty sure the way the legacy children were treated (in vol. 2) constitutes "drafted." G/A-F