Subject: Time's funky in HQ anyway.
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Posted on: 2012-12-11 06:11:00 UTC

That fifteen-year-old agent could be any age, subjectively.

Maybe they're a bit character rescued from badfic, and they're actually only a couple of weeks old.

Or maybe they've spent so long in various continua that they're actually, subjectively, a couple hundred years old.0

Maybe they really are fifteen, but their species matures at eight. Or their world's year is equivalent to two Earth years. Or they're fifteen and from a world where fifteen-year-olds have been adults for years. Or they're simply mature enough to deal with it for some other reason, like being from a continuum where you grow up fast or not at all. Maybe they're even from a continuum where time isn't linear, either due to rampant temporal distortions or because the continuum doesn't have time as we know it.

Age limits wouldn't make any sense in-world because age itself doesn't make much sense. World One agents tend to have ages at all, but theirs can be totally unrelated to how much time they have subjectively experienced. And a badfic recruit could have been written to be any age at all.

If you're not a Nursery kid, you're probably a potential agent as far as the Flowers are concerned.

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