The age-old question

[issala]

FORM: Sending Crystal
SENDER: Kas
RECIPIENT: Everyone
WHAT: More questions
WHEN: Today
WHERE: Skyhold
NOTES: Tiny teen qunari muses about not being tiny any more.

So at what age are you really an adult? I mean, not maturely but like... to other people. You say you 'come of age' and stuff like that but exactly what age is that in Ferelden? Here you can't join the army if you're under seventeen, which is fair. Does that mean you're an adult after seventeen?

I heard some rifter saying you can't drink unless you're eighteen or twenty-one or whatever. Rivain doesn't have a rule like that. I had wine when I was a kid, so I don't see the point of restricting it.

...but, like... at what age are you an adult? How old do you gotta be to marry someone without it being weird?

[Pause.]

Not that I'm marrying anyone!

Comments

[byblow]

Riiight, I'll hop on that.

I'm only thirty—

something.

Two.

[arlathvhen]

Wait, no, you were supposed to say 'Why don't you work on not being young' and then...I'd say 'I am'. It's a joke because I'm getting older just by standing around...So I would be getting less young but you wouldn't be getting less old...

[ She tried. ]

[byblow]

Well, I wouldn't say that. I don't think there's anything wrong with your age.

[ And he'd been a bit preoccupied with stopping himself from instead saying didn't you want to kiss me at some point? does that mean you like old men? ooooooh. A real struggle. ]

[arlathvhen]

I like my age, too. But I think that your reaction to people calling you old is amusing. Particularly Kas, since I wasn't trying to call you old, originally.

[ lbr beleth would be up for smooching dudes older than alistair ]

[issala]

Get a room already.

[arlathvhen]

[ Kas no. It's not his fault that he doesn't know the Situation, but that doesn't stop Beleth from snapping at him in far harsher voice than she's used with him before--or that she generally ever uses. ]

Why don't you mind your own business, and stop jumping to foolish conclusions? Or am I not allowed to speak without inane commentary?

[byblow]

[ Yeah, not touching this. You're on your own Kas. ]

[issala]

Hey! You two are the ones snapping at eachother like idiots! Don't hiss at me for trying to make you stop without calling you out on it.

...and inane commentary? This was my discussion in the first place!

[arlathvhen]

We were joking, as friends, surely you've heard of such a phenomena.

And I'll hiss at anyone who can't use their big boy words to say what they mean, instead of making crude accusations. I apologize if I'm not allowed to speak to my friends on a discussion that you started, perhaps you should have informed me that you alone are entitled to speak to others.

[issala]

If you were joking as friends, a comment of getting a room shouldn't get you so angry! There was nothing crude about it. It's another damn joke!

...and you're allowed to say whatever you want to eachother, but don't tell me I should mind my own business and that I can't reply to shit when I can hear it on the crystal. If you wanna talk in private, get a room.

[arlathvhen]

A comment of getting a room isn't appropriate for friends--and certainly not appropriate for you to make about a woman that you hardly know. Getting a room has connotations, and I understand that you are young, but you should at least know what kind of connotations you are making with your comments, and whether they are appropriate or not!

Neither, for the record, is describing me getting upset as hissing. That's condescending and rude.

I never said that you couldn't reply, you are perfectly welcome to reply to the things we discuss. What you can't do is make lewd suggestions to people and then protest when people get rightfully upset!

[issala]

[Insert a frustrated sound here.]

Fine. I'm sorry.

[arlathvhen]

[ The situation deescalated, Beleth now feels...kinda guilty. Not that she thinks she's wrong, but there were probably better ways to go about it. ]

...Thank you, Kas. And I'm sorry, too. For...being so snippy.

[issala]

Whatever. It's fine.