Hiiiiiii! How's the crowd doing? …OK, moving on. This is probably after the chapter that I brought up in Rule of Herons.
Flynn is normal. Veigue is bold. Luke is italicized. Pascal is underlined.
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"Hey, I wanted to ask this for a while but…how old are you guys?"
"I'm seventeen."
"I believe that I am eighteen."
"Twenty…one, I think?"
"No, no, no. I'm not talking about molecularly. I mean how many years have you been alive? I'm pretty sure replicas don't share the same age as their originals, right?"
"Oh, I see. In that regards, I think I'm ten, or eleven."
"You know something like that?"
"Of course. When you're living in a place that uses replicas for nothing more than vessels for Exspheres, they tend to compare our ages to how powerful the gem we wield is. I was two years away from being the most powerful one in the Factory."
"That's horrible, Veigue! Thank god that Kiryll got you out of there!"
"Yes…and thank goodness that Lloyd was more than willing to give me a Key Crest for this. Otherwise…"
"Otherwise…what?"
"That's nothing that we want to dabble into…OK, Luke. How old do you think you are?"
"What? Why me?"
"Because knowing how old your souls are will help me keep your bodies intact. Remember that replicas are created artificially, meaning that your body is breaking down faster than mine is. By knowing your age, I'll know when I can redabble in your fonon frequency and make sure that you don't just explode into fonons."
"Wh-wha…well, Asch was kidnapped seven years ago, so I guess that makes me…seven."
"All right. The both of you are just fine for now. Veigue, you're going to have to meet up with me next month or else you're going to break down."
"I'll take that warning as a consideration."
"You better. OK, Flynn?"
"H-huh? Well…I think I'm twenty-one…"
"Really? The only explanation for something like that is that you were created when Guy was born."
"That is possible. But replicas can't live to Flynn's age without periodic check-ups. And since Flynn had no idea that he was a replica, there was no way that would be possible. He should've been dead two years ago."
"I-I'm sorry, but my earliest memory is when I was four years old, the normal time for anyone to start remembering anything."
"Flynn's right. Perhaps you should check up with him now, Pascal."
"But I need an exact age so that I know how much mana I'm using…ah-hah! I got it!"
"Got what?"
"I know how to get Flynn's exact age!"
"Huh? H-how?"
*Shoves Flynn into her breasts*
*Flails out of them with a deep blush on his face*
"You're seventeen!"
"How in the world…?"
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…yeah, I don't know…