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Fuck. Yes. Fine, good. @artifactrix pointed out that Poe was born within a few months either way of the Battle of Yavin, given his canonical age as 32-33 during The Force Awakens, and the year the film was set in being given as 33 ABY.
This means that despite his Wookiepedia page saying he was 2 during the Battle of Endor, he would really have been 4 at that time.
All of which, I think, means “do what you want” because nobody knows. But it also means I don’t have to either fuck canon, make Shara pregnant for two years, or kill a baby, because I feel like as an author you can only kill a baby like once in your career and I just wasn’t willing to do it for this.
But I mean. This is a fucking disaster. Every single date is relative– to other random dates. We’re counting from the Battle of Yavin, and then the Battle of Endor happens, so now we’re counting from the Battle of Endor, and what the fuck. What the fuck! There’s not one single absolute date on that entire thing.
A few of the dates they start counting from are never defined in the first place. Suddenly we’re counting years since the Empire was begun but we never got a Empire Begun This Date bullet point so it’s like, well, somewhere in there, so this is like, five-ish years later, maybe?
If I were not so horrifyingly inept at numbers (they just fall through holes in my brain, it’s unreal), maybe this wouldn’t be so bad? But Jesus fuck, that page gives me screaming horrors to even try to read it.
So you know what. I’m just. I just decided I don’t care anymore. Poe was born whenever we feel like he was born in our hearts, and that’s that. I don’t even remember now what I decided was probably the truth. Literally, fuck it.
Also, warning, Wookieepedia randomly has audio ads that blast you, so, like, entirely fuck it.
Fuck. Yes. Fine, good. @artifactrix pointed out that Poe was born within a few months either way of the Battle of Yavin, given his canonical age as 32-33 during The Force Awakens, and the year the film was set in being given as 33 ABY.
This means that despite his Wookiepedia page saying he was 2 during the Battle of Endor, he would really have been 4 at that time.
All of which, I think, means “do what you want” because nobody knows. But it also means I don’t have to either fuck canon, make Shara pregnant for two years, or kill a baby, because I feel like as an author you can only kill a baby like once in your career and I just wasn’t willing to do it for this.
But I mean. This is a fucking disaster. Every single date is relative– to other random dates. We’re counting from the Battle of Yavin, and then the Battle of Endor happens, so now we’re counting from the Battle of Endor, and what the fuck. What the fuck! There’s not one single absolute date on that entire thing.
A few of the dates they start counting from are never defined in the first place. Suddenly we’re counting years since the Empire was begun but we never got a Empire Begun This Date bullet point so it’s like, well, somewhere in there, so this is like, five-ish years later, maybe?
If I were not so horrifyingly inept at numbers (they just fall through holes in my brain, it’s unreal), maybe this wouldn’t be so bad? But Jesus fuck, that page gives me screaming horrors to even try to read it.
So you know what. I’m just. I just decided I don’t care anymore. Poe was born whenever we feel like he was born in our hearts, and that’s that. I don’t even remember now what I decided was probably the truth. Literally, fuck it.
Also, warning, Wookieepedia randomly has audio ads that blast you, so, like, entirely fuck it.
