Help Me Find Myself

by omgimwritingfanfics

With all the bitter feelings of rivalry and anger out of the way, it seems like everything is coming back to normal. Yet, both Haru and Rin seem to be troubled by something else, and it's becoming all too obvious to their friends. Gou feels some clever scheming to get the two alone wouldn't hurt, but she has no idea of the trouble she's about to unleash. (M for later chapters uh)

14. Concerning Rin and Haru's ages

Heya guys! I just got a review concerning why I keep calling Rin the younger one and I realised some of you may not have read the info on this topic, and wonder why when Rin's birthday is in Feb and Haru's in January. Well here's the answer:

(copy-pasted from potionwine dot tumblr dot com /post/67111190123)

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Rin is the youngest.

ladymarshmallow is correct, not zoe-chan. Rin is the youngest of the Mako-Haru-Rin triumvirate. Rin was born in the same year as Rei and Nagisa because his birthday is in February.

In Japan, children start elementary school the April after their sixth birthday. For example, this means that if your birthday falls during January — March 2013, you will join the students who were born in April — December 2012. That is the cohort.

The first day of the new school year is always in April. This means that within a year level, there will be students of two ages co-existing, and it is possible to be a 'senpai' to someone else despite being born in the same year.

Rin is DEFINITELY younger than Haruka. Haruka is the oldest of all the characters. Rin's February birthday means that if he was born in the same calendar year as Haruka and Makoto, he would have gone into the school year above them and been their senpai.

We are not yet given Gou's birthdate, and she is mostly likely one calendar year younger than Nagisa and Rei.

Look, it's hard explaining it in a vacuum so let's explain using actual years, using our current year 2013. Haruka is a second year high school student, so he is 17 years old now. Say he was born in 1996.

This is the ONLY age sequence that would put Haruka & Makoto & Rin in the same school year:

Haruka: 30 June 1996

Makoto: 17 November 1996

Rin: 2 February 1997

As you can see, they would have all turned 6 years old by April of the year all of them are meant to commence first grade. Neither Nagisa nor Rei would have attained 6 years old because their birthdays fall after April. So they go into elementary school in the year after, despite being the same calendar age as Rinrin.

Nagisa: 1 August 1997

Rei: 14 December 1997

And so, given that Matsuoka Mummy would have needed at least 9 months to have another kid, Gou's birthdate is probably 1998 in this scenario. Again I stress — within a school year level, there will be students of two ages co-existing!

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I hope that clears things up for you guys! ^^ Next update will be sometime next week c: