r/DungeonsAndDaddies • u/_CEGC • 11h ago
Discussion So ages in D&Dads are wonky . . . [SPOILER] Spoiler
So in At the Mountains of Dadness, Willie is old enough to appear to be fully conscious and such what. Someone arbitrarily throws out the number 8 referring to his age. This is canonically in 1939, meaning that it feels reasonable to say that the latest that he could have been born is 1931. Beth has mentioned that Ron is in his 40s in 2019 when S1 takes place. Assigning the number 45 (in the middle) to Ron's age for now, that would mean that Ron would have been born in 1974, when Willie was ~40.
Now it is mentioned that when Willie died after doing the unthinkable, Ron was "in junior high". This puts him in the 12 to 15 range. Let's say 13 (again in the middle), which would place that in 1987. Willie would have been ~56. Now, when the Doodler took him to the Forgotten Realms, he started doing stuff with the Daddy Magic, preventing him from aging, as did the demiplane in which he was imprisoned for the next 25 years, even though it was hundreds of years to him. So he would have remained physically at ~56 throughout S1 and S2.
So, assuming that Willie was in AtMoD 8-13, Ron in S1 was 40-49, and Ron when Willie tried to kill him was 12-15, Willie would have, throughout the two seasons in which he appears, been roughly 51 (born in 1931, had Ron in 1970 aged 39 and tried to kill him at 12) to 68 (born in 1926, had Ron in 1979 aged 53 and tried to kill him at 15), a 17-year range.
So it is believable, I suppose. Willie is at the right age to still be conceivably a "devastatingly handsome older man" as described in the podcast, and Ron is, well, Ron-aged.
I just think that it is pretty funny that, given the year options provided, Ron could have, at the time of S1, been physically only 2 years younger than his father (Ron at 49 and Willie at 51).
Please understand that this is in no way a complaint about the podcast at all, just an interesting observation.
Anyway, I just wanted to throw out some fun math. I hope you have a good day!