Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27324545-20160105135410/@comment-34151308-20180123011348

Well, I don't really have much canon evidence or anything but this is what I think:

Frisk seems around twelve, I have a twelve year old sister and she is has a bigger vocabulary than the rest of my family combined. Twelve year olds aren't dumb, and Frisk just seems around that age to me, to be able to interact and care so deeeply for everyone they meet. Although the reason I don't see them as older is because they ARE a child (Sans calls them 'kid', Toriel calls them 'my child', their general size, the whole Fallen Child thing, they call potato chips 'popato chisps').

Chara, I've always seen them as about the same age. Old enough to make their plan, young enough to not see how it would turn out. I feel like they were maybe ten or eleven when they fell, but I also think that the years they spent dead should kinda half-count because that's part of who they are: with childish cruelty and unnatural maturity.

Asriel: I think of him as a little younger than Chara. Maybe eleven or ten. Just because he's so sweet and small, and he just went along with Chara and didn't want to see the bad in them, the way most younger siblings siblings act.

Toriel and Asgore are kind of eh for me. I think of them as physically and mentally around forty, but in actuality they've lived for hundreds of years and just haven't aged. I don't know why, that just makes sense to me I guess. They've never come across as super old or wise, just like parental figures (although  they both lived through the war of humans and monsters, I think).

Sans and Papyrus are tricky. I personally think of Papyrus as the older sibling, just because he seems so much more...'mature' isn't the right word, but he's always just seemed like Sans' older brother despite the odds, so I'll stick to that. I mean, just about everyone sees Papyrus and Sans as immensely protective of each other either way in both the game and all the fanarts, fanfictions, etc, so it doesn't really matter. Their birth order isn't necessarily canon anyway. (I know about the tweet, it was deleted. 'Aniki' does not necessarily mean an older brother, just someone you refer to with respect. Yes, Sans is generally hinted and assumed to be the older brother but Papyrus is taller, takes care of Sans, makes their food, doesn't blow their money on a bar ;), tries his best to get a steady job and although he is childish, Papyrus is smart in ways Sans isn't and confident in himself. Also, Papyrus dates you in the game where Sans will only ever hang out with you. Of course, this could just mean that Sans is simply not interested, but I think of it as Papyrus being more comfortable with things like that {although he's never been on a date before, haha-Yes, I'm aware this is contradicting myself, it's my opinion okay}.

Now their actual ages instead of birth order arguments! Based on Papyrus' Undernet account, I think of him as twenty years old. I think that's a reasonable age for him, right? Most people think so. Papyrus isn't actually stupid after all, his stats are better than Undyne's.

I think it's been confirmed somewhere that Sans is around eighteen? He, Monster Kid, Frisk, Chara, and Asriel are all close to the same height, anyway, while the adults in the game are taller, so I figured he's in his teens. I see Sans as in that limbo teenager/adult zone (he's not really responsible but he has a job, he's lazy but he pays his and Papyrus' bills, I mean, there's a lot to Sans so I guess his age could be argued), so I think nineteen or eighteen, possibly seventeen or twenty, would be okay, right? Old enough to have jobs and be mature and stuff, young enough that his pranks, sleeping on the job, (non-action in the Genocide route, maybe due to fear/apathy recklessness in his battle) can be excused. And also, like someone said before, his interactions with his brother and the general public just kinda give me teenager vibes.

Using the same Undernet age logic as Papyrus' age, I see Undyne as about 24 or 25. That would be old enough to be in the Royal Guard, right? Plus Undyne says Asgore trained her since she was a kid, so she would be qualified enough.

Alphys would have to get her degree and stuff, but she was kind of a fraud anyway, right? After all, the reason she got her job was making a robot with a SOUL, and that was a lie. So she didn't necessarily have to finish her degree. And to make her and Undyne's romance work, I figure that they should be in the same age range, so maybe about 25-27?

I don't know why, but I've always seen Mettaton as in his late teens/early twenties. 17-21. Just because his dreams of show business, how sad he seems when Blooky talks to him, how he left without a thought, how he doesn't seem to know much better than to want to leave everything ehind but he changes his mind so quickly when people say they want him. He just gives off a teen-heartthrob vibe to me. Napstablook in around the same age range, but maybe a bit younger, just because, like someone said before, Blooky is more of younger nickname.

And there you are! I hope I explained this enough that people know what I'm talking about. And my reasons and things like that. Wow, this took like twenty minutes, haha.