The Far Out There Staff Office Christmas Party – page 16
…aaaand, we’re back …even though it’s just been another day for all ya’ll. But hey, I wanna take a second out to brag that I actually managed to get ALL of the Far Out There Christmas finished by December 3rd this year. Yeah, it’s actually only been three days since I posted the last of that first batch. This really IS one of the better December schedules I’ve been able to do in a while!
Also, don’t question why Marshall has a Santa suit on like all the other nitpickers now, even though he seemed to still be in his street clothes last time we saw him. He was definitely too busy helping set up to change until after the party started, and it TOTALLY wasn’t that I forgot what I was going while drawing that earlier page (just like DEFINITELY didn’t have to go back and re-draw May at any point because I’d originally drawn her with her brown cap out of habit).
I know this isn’t the case, but I’m going to pretend that Aldo, Dekker and Stryke are actually the oldest people in the room, excluding Sophia.
I mean, in all honesty, it IS the sort of joke I’d pull 😀
Not while they’re still calling themselves “kids” and wanting to interact with “other kids their age”. You’re fine with someone being 90~150 years old and both looking and acting like a child as a joke, sure, just see Sophia as an example. But you don’t go so far as having them pretend they’re actually as young as they look.
Think about it this way. We have no idea how old Avatar actually is, but she’s eternally bound to her child-sized form. We know nothing about her actual age, but she’s simultaneously not going to quantify her age in any way, be it if she’s younger than Layla or older than Ichabod, and she’s as comfortable with either group.
These three, meanwhile, are outright stating dislike the fact that they’re surrounded by “old geezers” and are looking for “kids their age” to interact with. If they were actually old, that’s potentially perceived as predatory behaviour, and I can’t see you treating that as a joke, even if these three are officially agender asexual’s who are chemically castrated.
If they come from a planet where people live to 25,000 and they’re only 1,000, they likely still think of themselves as kids, and if not used to dealing with other cultures, just assume anyone who looks older them is some 20,000 year old geezer. Or maybe they just consider old-looking people genericaly “old” and don’t put much thought into it.