Throughout the years I have struggled with the idea of letting my characters stay their age forever. I just recently realized that I, as a person, could never allow this. My characters will grow. They have birth years, though I've stopped trying to give them specific birthdays or even months. I just want to specify that one day, my characters may be a hundred, or a thousand, or a million years old, who knows? They aren't ageless, with the exception of the one who is literally a star.

I don't think I could just have them perpetually sit there at one age forever. Growing is a part of them, and I only get the characters drawn that I really care about. Which is all of them, at one point or another. I must have fifty or so characters, but my pockets aren't endless tunnels full of money. And my brain isn't ready to make them every day.

I make characters when the characters are ready. When they are born, I have them drawn. For now, I have a lot of abstract ideas in my head, that will one day take their first breath. Some earlier than others. A couple adoptables I just got wrote themselves in as buddies of my new sona. I'm not just making characters, I'm making a world.

And that is why I'd like an option to change Age to Birth Year in Character Submissions.

Thanks for reading,

-Halcyon

Random Fact of the Journal:
As a schoolboy, Roald Dahl (the writer of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) was a taste-tester for Cadbury chocolate.