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Strange thing I just noticed: How old is Marigold?

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alienatedduck:
Pocky is a food, so as people have pointed out it would be a little weird to transport some old food when she moved, unless there's a bizarre reason for it.

MrMonk:

--- Quote from: alienatedduck on 16 Sep 2009, 02:37 ---Pocky is a food, ...

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They call it a food so you'll know that you're expected to eat it.

Random832:
The obvious answer is that when she moved into the apartment she moved the pocky box from her previous residence. When she was first introduced people were talking about compulsive hoarding.

maddness:
You don't necessarily have to be emancipated to live away from your parents if no one's bothered. When I was 16 I started staying at friend's places. I once stayed with a friend for six months before one of my aunts came by to say that my mom was worried because she hadn't heard from me, my friend didn't have a phone, and I ended up back home for a while. If Marigold had a job and there is a multiple roommate situation going on, it might be possible. Or, the apartment might have originally belonged to an older sibling whom she lived/lives with. The more plausible scenario is that she's a young looking 28 and moved in to the apartment at 18. There were times, when I was 26, that I was mistaken for a high school senior. Genetics are weird like that. My mom is 52 and she looks like she's just hitting 40 and no one believes my grandmother is over 70.


Oh, I was wondering, didn't Angus say he had roommates? Plural? If so, how come Marigold is the only one we've seen at all. Wouldn't we randomly see them in the background or in passing if they existed?

Captfamous:

--- Quote from: IanClark on 15 Sep 2009, 21:41 ---Yet, of course, she looks like she couldn't be older than maybe, maybe 25, especially with the acne.

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Considering that there are real people who, at least into their early thirties, get legitimately (as in, not as a rule, but because people think they're under 21) at bars, and also considering that it's even harder to differentiate age in a comic, where it's almost impossible to simulate subtle skin aging, "looks young" really doesn't mean much. The most substantial changes to someone's appearance between the ages of 24 and 30 are just going to be weight and style/hair (assuming you don't go completely bald or grey). So if she doesn't gain a lot of weight, and never gets a different haircut, she probably looks about the same now as she did when she was whatever age you think she is.

Keep in mind, Sven is supposed to be about 5 years older than Marten. Does he really look it?

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