[Text] - A Day of Little Importance - 013

[relinquishing]

Lunaday, Ifrit-Decan 41, ND 2018

[The date is circled in Guy's personal journal. But he hasn't bothered to tell anyone. With the curse going on and a murderer on the loose in the city, it doesn't really seem like a decent topic to bring up. Besides, he's never been one to draw attention to himself, especially at times where attention was needed somewhere else.

It's still bringing up an interesting topic to his head, though. Hmm.

Sticking to text this time around for as little confusion as possible - he doesn't need people thinking they're speaking with Zelda, after all.]

I understand different cultures have different ideas of when someone is considered an adult, right?

So hey... on your home worlds, what would people do for someone who had come of age? Celebrations, ceremonies... or maybe it's not exactly a right of passage as far as you're concerned?

I'm curious.

[And he'll just leave it at that. He's technically been an adult on Auldrant for long enough - exactly a year ago, to the day.

But he already learned a while ago to treat his birthday as just another day. Celebrate that he's stayed alive one more year, and that's it.

So that is exactly what he's going to do.]

[[ooc: Responses will come from trepidity!]]

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[ninthblaze]

Doubtful I'm a great example but when we were able to pull our own we were considered an adult where I grew up. Not much for celebration apart from getting drunk and singing like a loon.
Did ya just hit adulthood where you're from, bucko?

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[closedcircuit]

For me it wasn't a specific date that I could point to. It was a process, and proving it just meant that people started to trust my authority.

There are some people who will never seem to accept it, though.

[The woes of the fact that he's been trying to convince people that he's an adult for the better part of ten years now.]

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[radiantchosenone]

Knights would drag the one who reached out to one of the local bars, and proceed to buy as much as they could. Or until the one with the birthday could no longer see straight.

Nobles threw parties and if one was engaged, would not be merely engaged much longer.

Outside of those two groups? Unknown.

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[breaksthefontech]

We come of age at 16 on my world. Parties are typically small, and if you're of the noble class you generally get engaged on that day.

[She pokes her head onto the room he's in.]

What brings it to mind?

[Come on, Guy~ you've been here for almost an entire year now and there's been no mention of birthdays! It has to be sometime soon, right?]

[righthandedragon]

[ He can actually text at the moment, so he'll do that. ]

At the Two Rivers, it meant one could begin the year-long courtship of a girl who was also of age. Which wasn't that hard; men were of age at 20, women at 18. A girl would also braid her hair at that time.

not here

[ladybutt]

[There's very little Zelos has been doing since the body switch besides hounding Duke to make sure his own body remains unscathed and taking far better care of Duke's than the hermit had in seemingly ever. The club was closed on account of some of the staff having tits being women, so Zelos spends quite a bit of time lazing around, trawling the network, and styling Duke's hair in all sorts of strange ways. What? What would you do if yours was that long? Don't judge him!

In any case, he hadn't spoken to Guy in anything like a meaningful way since he'd hung up on him some time ago. Yes, they'd chatted, but there's a definite shift in how the two men deal with each other, mostly on Zelos' end. For all the progress he'd made in making friends, in actually caring about Guy (that hadn't changed), Zelos had backpedaled so fast it's a wonder he didn't trip over himself.

Even though there are things he could share with Guy concerning coming of age, things he might have been willing to share before. He'd been opening up to Guy, just a little, and he only realizes it now that he's hesitant to do it again.

With a blank stare at the screen, Zelos simply clicks the SFC off without saying a damn word.]

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[likehell]

There isn't really a specific time or a coming of age ceremony for people in my world. There's becoming a three star Meister or becoming a death scythe for Weapons, but we already live on our own and make our own income so...

I don't think there's ever a line between growing up and adulthood.

[Huh. It's kind of weird when she thinks about it.]

[aim_exorable]

D --> You are given an adult title to be referred as
D --> And it is often the time when a young troll would go acquire a proper occupation
D --> If they were not working already

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[innocentgear]

_{[have one confused Gear]}

I'm not sure I understand... Come of age? Become an adult? When does it happen? Is it so important to be considered an adult?

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[lostwanderer]

*He intended voice, of course. But the buttons are still new to him, and not being able to read just made it that much easier to press "video" instead.*

Among my people, it's different for men and women. Girls are considered women when they first bleed. Boys are not men until we are able to successfully carry out a hunt on our own.