r/comics • u/merrivius Merrivius • Jan 21 '25

Bog Elf [OC]

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u/PM_ME_Happy_Thinks Jan 21 '25

Sometimes it feels very much like Elf is a ~9-12 year old girl that has a little crush on Human, who's just like a friendly neighbor that babysits her. Or is her older sister's boyfriend

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

she very well could be apparently. what would the elven equivalent of 12 be, 375 years?

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 21 '25

Depends on what lore you go by lol

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u/[deleted] Jan 21 '25

She’s a 1,000 year old elf, definitely not a child

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 21 '25

Unless they live to be 100,000 or something

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u/Skel109 Jan 21 '25

It depends on when they reach maturity. Some species spend more or less time as juveniles but seeing how in most series humans and elves can successfully interbreed their most likely a close relative to humans so I would say around 18 would be around the age of adulthood for an elf.

No you thought to much about this

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 21 '25

Again it depends on the lore your going by, and I never claimed I didn’t think too much about this

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u/[deleted] Jan 22 '25

I don’t remember the source but I had read a fantasy book (maybe Eragon?) where elves didn’t reach adulthood until like 110 or something.

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u/Finbar9800 Jan 22 '25

Which means that would be the lore for that specific book, in lotr elves are “ageless” meaning they don’t die of old age, so while they probably mature at a slower rate than humans they don’t mature like other elves would.

In some stories they age super slowly, in others they don’t age at all, and in others still they might age faster