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<blockquote data-quote="Nambypamby" data-source="post: 9569844" data-attributes="member: 7049277">So, for my latest game, I've been thinking about playing a character who used to be a tattoo artist. I tried to find a picture for his wife, and I found one that I really like, but she's very clearly several decades older.At first I was somewhat hesitant of the idea, until I realized that my character is a half-elf and thus ages very differently from a normal human. So him actually having a visually much older wife wouldn't actually be all that weird.They started dating in their 20s, but now that they are somewhere around their late 50s to early 60s, his wife starting graying, but he still looks the same as he did when they first met.Now, this isn't really meant as me asking for a critique for or feedback on my character idea -I just wanted to explain how I got to this point-, but it did got me thinking about how these things would work and be seen in a world like Faerûn. How would people react to couples that are visually much older or younger than their partner, due to the different lifespans of different races? Would they have an issue with it, or would it just be an commonly accept fact of life?(And yes, I am somewhat aware of the ... questionable implications of such a topic from a real world perspective. But I figured it's an important enough question from a world-building point of view, that we can put aside the irl politics for some time. )</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Nambypamby, post: 9569844, member: 7049277"] So, for my latest game, I've been thinking about playing a character who used to be a tattoo artist. I tried to find a picture for his wife, and I found one that I really like, but she's very clearly several decades older. At first I was somewhat hesitant of the idea, until I realized that my character is a half-elf and thus ages very differently from a normal human. So him actually having a visually much older wife wouldn't actually be all that weird. They started dating in their 20s, but now that they are somewhere around their late 50s to early 60s, his wife starting graying, but he still looks the same as he did when they first met. Now, this isn't really meant as me asking for a critique for or feedback on my character idea -I just wanted to explain how I got to this point-, but it did got me thinking about how these things would work and be seen in a world like Faerûn. How would people react to couples that are visually much older or younger than their partner, due to the different lifespans of different races? Would they have an issue with it, or would it just be an commonly accept fact of life? (And yes, I am somewhat aware of the ... questionable implications of such a topic from a real world perspective. But I figured it's an important enough question from a world-building point of view, that we can put aside the irl politics for some time. ) [/QUOTE]

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