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OP - I actually picture Matt as being 30+ exactly because of the reasons you stated. I just wanted to post this here because, for some bizarre reason, I've seen Matt written as being anywhere from as young as twenty four (24!!!) to 27 in people's fics, which... no. XD

Oh, yeah, I've seen that too. XD I figure the authors are probably rather young, so they tend to see characters as young too.

And thanks for sharing the interview, anon! Charlie interviews are always a delight.

Yeah, I find that now that I'm "old" (28, lol) I've gotten better at judging ages relative to mine. So before I got into the fandom, I just pegged Matt, Karen and Foggy's ages somewhere between 30-35. But then I got into fandom and people were throwing around ages as young as 24 as a viable option and I was like: ???? But... but.... they all have crow's feet and forehead wrinkles and thinning hair. They're not in their twenties XD

da.

I'm still "young" I suppose (I mean, nineteen's not that young???) but I got pretty good at judging ages correctly because of loving characters in sitcoms like Frasier, where the youngest main character is in his late thirties when the series starts out, haha.

Anyway. I don't know where this rambling came from, what I'm trying to say was that I assumed Matt was 30+. I go with 32 for Matt (like Charlie), around 35 for Foggy (which would mean Elden's got a couple of years on him but meh), and 30 for Karen.

And somewhere in their late sixties for Ben (RIP) and Doris, somewhere in seventies-or-does-he-even-really-age-maybe-he-was-just-born-old-maybe-he-sprung-fully-formed-from-Athena's-forehead for Stick, 35 or 36 for Claire (she's an established nurse and honestly she does come off as older than Matt), and fifties for Fisk, forties for Vanessa, and thirties for Wesley. BAM, AGES. (Team Evil has a wider age range than Team Good, hmmm, I guess there's more space for intergenerational friendships when it comes to illicit work.)

We don't see many people under thirty in Daredevil, honestly, people should just let it be.

I'm turning 32 this year and now I want to go check for wrinkles. THANKS. :p

But seriously, there's no earthly way they are mid-twenties. I think it's a desire of younger writers to make them sound "older" but still relatable.

Hey I should do an "I'M OLD AS BALLS ASK ME ANYTHING" thread. We can spill the tea on mortgages and hemorrhoids and childbirth and how awesome it is to feel the slow yet inevitable press of mortality upon our once-nubile flesh.

yeah, twenty-eight sounded...young, to me? but I was desperately hoping for some kind of timeline that made sense. (or that i could SHOVE INTO SOME KIND OF SENSIBLE FRAMEWORK.) nevermind, i'll just keep guesstimating the boys as "very early thirties-ish" and karen as "slightly younger, depending"

(not even trying to be mean, just surprised, but: twenty-four? boggles but HOW would that even WORK. college. law school! SOME KIND OF NEBULOUS INTERNSHIP CRAMMED IN THERE?!?)

Yeah, like:

Undergrad: 18-22
law-school: 22-25?
one-year internship: 26?
Start of season one: 27?
End of season one: 28?

And that's assuming he didn't take some kind of gap year between high-school and undergrad, or between undergrad and law school. It also ignores the fact that he was 9 when he was blinded, and then there was presumably a few years that passed after in which Jack died and Stick trained him, and then 20 years pass between then and Stick comes back.

So yeah... he's at least 30 in season 1.

See the school timeline is exactly why I thought he was younger. 4 years undergrad, 3 years law school, and apparently this is different but commonly people have internships while in law school, then get a real job right after. (My family is almost entirely lawyers.)

So standard would be undergrad 18-21, law school 22-24. For him to be 30+, he would have had to take time in there somewhere to do something else.

It's also possible after being blinded he got behind in school a year or so, or that he took five years for undergrad, but we still have like six years to account for. Gap years aren't a Thing in the US, but it's common for people to work a couple years before going to law school.

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