** The artists even designed Auron as looking like he's easily in his 50's, and Cid had the same problem in ''FinalFantasyVII'' (he was also supposed to be in his 30's). It really seems sometimes like aging in the Squeenix games goes from kids to teenagers to... late middle-aged, with nothing in between at all. In-universe, I'd chalk Auron's appearance up to his feeling world-weary and tired, and his Unsent form reflecting it, and the other characters' treatment of him to his being a legendary guardian who seemingly vanished for 10 years; they don't necessarily think of him as "old", just as a legendary warrior (Tidus jokes about him being old, but Tidus was partly raised by Auron, so it could just be a running joke with him). But still, Square-Enix seems to have a far too narrow CompetenceZone in their post-SNES games: while FinalFantasyVI had player characters ranging everywhere from 10 to 80, the more recent games all seem to hover around 15-18 years old, with anyone much above that either an NPC or, as you said, treated like a BadassGrandpa.

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** The artists even designed Auron as looking like he's easily in his 50's, and Cid had the same problem in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'' (he was also supposed to be in his 30's). It really seems sometimes like aging in the Squeenix games goes from kids to teenagers to... late middle-aged, with nothing in between at all. In-universe, I'd chalk Auron's appearance up to his feeling world-weary and tired, and his Unsent form reflecting it, and the other characters' treatment of him to his being a legendary guardian who seemingly vanished for 10 years; they don't necessarily think of him as "old", just as a legendary warrior (Tidus jokes about him being old, but Tidus was partly raised by Auron, so it could just be a running joke with him). But still, Square-Enix seems to have a far too narrow CompetenceZone in their post-SNES games: while ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' had player characters ranging everywhere from 10 to 80, the more recent games all seem to hover around 15-18 years old, with anyone much above that either an NPC or, as you said, treated like a BadassGrandpa.

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