QC Rerun Time 2025: Pee Joke

Think of the fun you’ll be spoiling if you figure out their exact ages, let alone tell us. There are Ph.Ds to be had in assessing the canonical ages of the characters and resolving possibly conflicting evidence. What you see as procrastination (figuring out their ages) is actually a public service. ;-)

Ooooh, Steve uses his boat to visit Martin periodically!

Have Steve visit Marten in Cubetown. Have him eat cereal on the ferry. Boat Cereal Steve.

"then by QC time scale standards" Wait, there are standards for this? *shock* ;)

Clearly the solution is that the singularity happening destroyed linear time, and people have experienced however many years they feel like currently. /jk

I'm fairly sure that someone has already made a timeline, although I understand that using fan made timelines might not be the best idea.

Jeph, (I can call you Jeph, right?) how much would it cost for me to be a background extra? Just waiting in line at COD or MC would be fine. I can send you a picture from one of my dating app profiles. I would pay extra to be at one of the fantastic parties you draw. I want to be in the QC universe SO BAD!

One of the last times she was older than me! (I turned 21 in 2008)

So, to all my QC peeps. Thank you SO MUCH for riffing SO HARD on what Jeph provides as fertilizer for our confabulations. This bizarre zip code, this small pocket universe, this shredded piece of sub-quantum reality, is SO precious to me. As are all my co-denizens of this Precious Place. And to you, Jeph: Thanks for whatever version of "Sanity" you are running on your meat processor. I look back and LOVE the threads you've left hanging for us, here, to pick up and run with. So much SHIPPING over the years, amirite? All I want, in this moment, is more pointy-nosed doggos. PuhLEEz?

There's some weird-ass shit going on in these comments. We'd better shut it down before Sven turns them into a song! Or songs. Hit songs. Ear-worms that we'll all hate ourselves for loving. Edit: Yes, I'm looking at YOU, BookBeard, Rouser of Rabbles.

Now I'm starting here and binge-reading. We know what happens this night in-universe.

67?

Questionable Aging

23 is the OG meme number, but that seems a bit too young, given all that happened, didn't she spend like a year rediscovering herself with yaks etc?

The main problem is Sam. Kids age very quickly, so any time passed needs to be reflected there. And for some reason, I feel there should be more Steve and Melon comics.

Steve has an eye patch now. it's never addressed because Marten feels embarrassed to ask

QC characters aren't immortals, but they do age very slowly. I'd say 25. They'll turn 26 around 2039 our time.

While it's not true most of the time, in this page, Hanners has cake.

Boat! Boat! Boat! (Also, Cosette needs to take him back.)

So, if there is a significant risk of one peeing on one's self, should one wear light or dark clothing? Asking for a friend.

Speaking of Hanners, whatever happened yo her drum set?

I write some science fiction (fantasy star drives) and actual fantasy. In my first non-humanoid based story I set out to document what the two syllable names meant, and the ages of another species. Some of which lived to be ~600y. It was a non-ending task, and it only provided any interest for myself. It wasn't funny, insightful, inspiring, or move any of the various stories forward. I don't do that anymore. just getting the stories written down is the important part. HINT: your story arcs are very important to us. Ages - eh

2026: Steve eats a bowl of cereal with Cleo while Hannelore drives the Tardis back to 1906 to Battle Creek, Michigan to convince a Doctor Kellogg to get out of the sanitarium business and start a cereal empire. Winslow and the invisible emu are playing the roles of Sherman and Mister or in this Miss Peabody since the emu is female.

Use the old sliding time scale and brand them somethingty-whatevers and call it done.

I know that at least one point someone made a spreadsheet calculating the bare minimum amount of time that must have passed in QC.

Steve playing with a toy boat floating in his cereal. Frosted flakes make good ice bergs.

Did Faye have drinking issues early on, also?

Best estimate from the almighty spreadsheet is that we're about 3 years on from this point, so around 25ish give or take a bit. No need to sit down and work things out when people are already keeping track. That's what nerds are for. ;)

weeeee!

For the serious answer, Sam and Emmet are the characters most likely to show aging, unless they are subject to Soap Opera Rapid Aging Syndrome or Not Allowed to Grow Up. (Tropes links omitted out of compassion.)

Canonically "fucked-up twentysomethings" is the demographic, isn't it? :) Faye and Bubbles have a turning thirty and settling down vibe :)

Wait. Hannelore first showed up in 2008? I’d been reading QC for a while when she arrived. I’ve been reading this comic for over 17 years?

Well, growing up in orbit she probably lost a few seconds to time dilation...

24 seems about right.

Late 20s as a guess for "QC time"

I like not nailing down the ages personally, because Marten and Faye read as mid-to-late 30s to me, and I don’t think that would make sense canonically anymore.

Ooohh I miss Steve. Put Steve eating cereal on a boat at the top of that pile please.

42?

22 and a half? 23?