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For all intends and purposes age-wise, ponies=humans. Sunset simply traveled through the mirror before dimensional sycronization, that’s why ~2.5 years for her was ~10 years for everyone else…for all we know, the time connected to Earth 1000 years ago in Equestria could of been merely 30 years ago on Earth.
Age rate still seems to stay the same. Heck, the three abnormalities, Human Celestia, Human Luna, and a dog Spike that won’t live nearly as long as his dragon counterpart…are actually exceptions that PROVE the rule.
All 3 are blatantly and drastically different from their Equestria counterparts. Spike the dog is simply a dog, and Celestia and Luna have extremely different personalities then their alternates. They simply exist as completely different people due to a mirror effect of alternate dimensions, while the Mane 6 and many others are true alternates.
I’d go with the first two things for your guess. The ones that lead to the idea that they age basically the same way as humans.
At this point I think it would be too farfetched to say ponies age slower then humans. One or two comments about Ponyville being hundreds of years old, which in all likelihood was said simply because they wanted to change up from using the phrase ‘for generations’, is not a strong case.
Luna and Celestia are completely out of the equation. While the Journal of Two Sisters book was almost completely worthless, it did establish that they were both unnaturally long lived by nature, practically unaging. The reason? As unknown as their origins. We saw Celestia exactly the same age when she met AJ’s great-grandfather, and she was basically the same age when she initially fought Luna/Nightmare Moon.
They really ARE as old as they say.
Not only that, but it introduces the concept that the time between Cutie Mark Chronicles and Season 1 was not ~10 years but more like ~30-40 years. Its more then a little ridiculous.
And for your last point, what Fluttershy said to Pinkie about her age established that years were as significant in Equestria as they are in our world.
Furthermore, even if ponies aged slower or years were shorter in Equestria, that would no longer be considered due to the existence of Sunset Shimmer. Now that the two dimensions have aligned, Sunset on Earth will age the same speed as everyone else in Equestria. They will not bring up the issue of aging slower or faster as a pony or a human comparatively. Its an extremely unrealistic topic to bring up in the present for the Main 6 and Mane 6.
Second thing: Twilight said Ponyvile was hundreds of years old not Cheerilee. That was in S1 and from a Canterlot pony.
third thing: It wouldn’t be too farfetched that ponies aged slower than humans. It may Explain why Alicorns can live for what looks like a long time if not forever. It also explains how Manehattan looked like Manhattan in the early 1900’s to modern looking Manehattan so fast.
Lastly, We don’t know exactly how long a year is in their planet. It could be less than ours.
I’m not worried about an exact age, just that they’re young adults who still have a lot to learn. Whether they be 10 or 30, neither would match up with Granny being several hundred.
I’m not sure what the cakes are at this point in the show. Somewhere in season 4 they were definitely less than 1, but since an unknown time has gone by it’d just be a guess how old they are now.
From Lauren Faust’s FAQ in one of her deviantArt journal entries:
I agree that it’s silly to assume Granny Smith is several hundred years old (and you’ve given a few excellent arguments why that’s so), but it’s pretty much impossible to pin down anyone’s age to more than a vague range (except for the Cake twins, who are obviously still infants and so no more than a year old or so).
A random guess at what to google search and it was the first result, just as easy to find as googling the diameter of the earth.
Well she said maturity levels of 12-18 (though they seem near the upper end of that), by maturity she means they’re mentally that “old” compared to humans, but may be physically younger saying that horse to get physically fully mature quicker. While one could debate about that statement, that’s not what this discussion is about.
Also, it’s been just over a year since episode one (in canon time), so it’s now 13-19 (though actually older, because as she said they mentally mature quicker. I’d say if any of them are near the 13 year maturity, it’s probably RD, who just seems the least mature. What comes out of her mouth often sounds like a kid.
I believe it was Lauren Faust, sure when she wasn’t working on the show (i think) but it was originally her idea, so I think she took those things into consideration when working out their living situations and personalities so that they match their age. If you want to find it, you can do a google search, this isn’t some formal essay, and it’s not difficult to find info. If you think me not siting easy to find info negates my claim, you’ve got some weird ideas.
You’re not going to give a source for the comment that they’re 20 years old, are you?
Actually it’d be this.
(apple family reunion)
Filly AJ = 0
Granny = 200 (old adult because she’s a generation separated, meaning AJ’s grandma, no mother)
(current)
Granny = 300
AJ (young adult) = 100 (as I previously stated a young adult would be given your numbers) Still, AJ isn’t 100.
By 3x the schooling I mean Twi has been in school since a filly to close to current times. The there’s a 150 year age gap between foal and adult, then Twi would’ve been in school for a ridiculous amount of time.
foal = 0 (for simplicity)
young adult mare = 100
adult mare = 150
Granny/old fart = 300
(given events of apple family reunion)
Filly AJ = 0
Granny = (adult) 150
(current)
Granny = 300
So AJ must be 150 ….given that episode (assuming their age is at all indicated by how they look) and your numbers. If you think AJ is 150 you’re nuts.
Assuming how old they look has anything to do with how old they are…
First thing’s first, it’s obvious they made the show and characters quite similar to humans, yes? (big picture things that is) You can look at a person and generally have a good estimate of their age because people constantly change and look older as they age. If however the ponies go from looking like foals to adults in ~20 years (they’re young adults, that much is clear) and then take hundreds of years to look old, wouldn’t that defeat the purpose of trying to give human qualities?
Also, if we assume the current number of foals in Cheerilee’s class is an average year, then wouldn’t that mean that many new foals are born in ponyville every year/every couple years? (depending on if they’re spread over multiple grades) If they live to be 300+, should ponyville and equestria in general not have a much much higher population due to there being more generations per lifespan?
With lifespans of 300+ years, don’t you think NMM would have been remembered a bit? It took 300 years to go from a settlement to ponyville? Compared to progress in USA (easy example since it’s only ~500 years old) that’s an unreasonably small amount of progress.
Look at the apple family, they’re all roughly a generation apart. Apple Bloom -> AJ/Big Mac -> Their dead parents -> granny smith (granny as in grand mother). When AJ was a foal, granny smith looked roughly like a “standard” age mare. How can granny smith be 300 years old and yet be the difference in age between one of the mane 6 parents and a foal, without the mane 6 as they are being incredibly old. It just doesn’t add up, they don’t live to be 300 years old, plain and simple.
Well firstly, I dunno why you think they’d need 3x the amount of schooling. Secondly I’d like to know who confirmed they’re around 20 and how that has any bearings on how old they can live.
If it ain’t Friendship, I’d take it with a grain of salt.
[citation needed]
Also, it’s not like the people who dictate what is and is not canon have said the main 6 are roughly 20 years old.
If you want to believe they live to be 300 then go ahead. I guess that means Twilight spent ~30 years in school.
What gives that indication? We don’t even know how old the Mane 6 are. The only characters we have even a real idea of how old they are would be Celestia and Luna. They must be over 1,000 years old. Everything else is pure speculation and we only really have what Cheerilee said on how old Granny Smith possibly is.
It’s not that it’s unreasonable for them to live longer, all things considered, it’s just that given all info aside from Cheerilee’s story they seem to have a life expectancy similar to humans. Given such a thing would make the show more relatable in general, it’s not a bad assumption.
I’m just curious is all. Hell, part of me thinks it might be likely that Spike took his daughter when she was born and went on the run for fear of how she’d be viewed.
@CronoM
Them living 3x longer makes less sense than the fact that they’re magical, talking, technicolor ponies?
“Cheerilee said that Ponyville was founded hundreds of years ago”
Are people still on about that?
That was a exaggeration factoid that was retconned. As canon as Twilight’s flight at the end of MMC.
Seriously…how many things would they need to retcon and alter to make ponies 3x the age of humans. That would make the events of Cutie Mark Chronicles something that happened about 30 years ago.
Besides, Ponyville being founded 70~ years ago makes sense in the long run. Ponyville would be ENORMOUS if it was hundreds of years old.
I’d figure she would be from something by this point.
Though, I’m not putting it past this artist to have her in the present in some form.