Subject: The passage of time in PPC HQ is pretty dubious.
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Posted on: 2009-07-29 11:05:00 UTC
If he ignored it sufficiently, and he strikes me as the type to not notice the passage of time under normal circumstances, he may not have aged at a normal rate.
So, I was looking through the PPC wiki when I noticed something weird on Makes-Things' profile page: It says he was born in 1954. TOS was first published in 2001. In his first appearance in TOS, as well as non-TOS missions I've seen, he has been described as a 'young man'. If he was born in '54, He would have been in his late forties to early fifties in these missions, and that's not exactly young. Am I missing something here?
The year you leave your home continuum doesn't necessarily correspond with the year you arrive in HQ. For example, Nume left the Real World in the late seventies and arrived in HQ approximately two decades later without living the intervening years. Something similar could have happened to Makes-Things, since he appeared shortly before the Cascade happened in the mid-eighties.
~Neshomeh
As Laburnum says, it's a passage of time thing. People do celebrate birthdays, but they never really seem to get that much older ... You're as old as you think you are, I suspect, which means that the scatterbrained or distracted people are much more likely to hang on to youth perpetual :)
If he ignored it sufficiently, and he strikes me as the type to not notice the passage of time under normal circumstances, he may not have aged at a normal rate.