Line #54 AgeLift/FanWorks


1	[[AC:''Series/{{Angel}}'']]
2	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2212137/1/Tacos-And-Tea-Parties Tacos and Tea Parties]]'', Winifred "Fred" Burkle is changed from a college student in her mid-twenties who was sent to Pylea on purpose to a six-year-old girl who sent herself by mistake when she wandered around a library trying to find an interesting book. With her parents dead by the time she's rescued from Pylea, she is subsequently adopted by Angel.
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4	[[AC:''Franchise/AvatarTheLastAirbender'']]
5	* In ''Fanfic/AshAndPetals'', Aang dies over forty years too early, and Korra is born during the War; she'd be middle-aged by the time Mako and Asami, who are around the same age as her in canon, are born.
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7	[[AC:''Manga/{{Bleach}}'']]
8	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12458651/1/Irreversible-Punishment Irreversible Punishment]]'', Toshiro Hitsugaya is described as physically and mentally the equivalent of a 10-year-old boy, rather than a young teenager like in canon. Of course since he's a Soul Reaper, he still is OlderThanHeLooks.
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10	[[AC:Anime/CrossAnge]]
11	* ''Fanfic/CrossAngeTheKnightOfHilda'': Ersha and Zola have their canon ages (18 and 25 respectively) adjusted to 22, as they share a backstory as ChildhoodFriends.
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13	[[AC:{{Crossover}}]]
14	* ''Fanfic/AlmostPsychoChuckChicken''
15	** Chuck from ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChickensInSpace'' is stated to be a preteen and Zack from ''WesternAnimation/TheDayMyButtWentPsycho'' is stated to be twelve in the book series it was based on, but they were aged up to be in their early teens to make them hanging out with adults a little more reasonable and because the author found them to be more fitting as teenagers.
16	* In ''Fanfic/AYoungGirlsGuerrillaWar'', Naoto and Ohgi have been aged up to 28 from their canon 24.
17	* ''Fanfic/BelieveInTheWeirdAndWild'':
18	** Rather than being the age he was at the start of his series, twelve, Steven is nine when Star is sent to Earth.
19	** In canon, Connie is one-two years younger than Steven. Within the fanfic, she's one to two years ''older'', in part because Steven's changed age would make her seven or eight otherwise.
20	* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'':
21	** Characters like Ragna, Tsubaki, Noel, Makoto, Jin, Mai, and Kagura were all adults in their early to mid-twenties during the events of the series. Here, they're all in their late teens, with Ragna and Kagura being eighteen at the start of the story and the rest being seventeen.
22	** Platinum's fourteen years old here, making them a few years older.
23	** Tao in canon was shown to be younger than Ragna, as she was a child when Ragna was in his teenage years. Here, she's older than Ragna by about a year.
24	* ''Fanfic/ChildOfTheStorm'' and its sequels broadly keep the generations the same (i.e. those people who are contemporaries in canon broadly remain contemporaries), but play around with character's ages relative to main character Harry Potter/Thorson, who's 13-and-a-half when the story starts - for instance, Carol Danvers, eventual {{Deuteragonist}}, who first appears in the comics in her late 20s, makes her first appearance as a 15-year-old. By contrast, Wanda Maximoff, a.k.a. the Scarlet Witch, is Harry's godmother and thus is in her mid-40s (though thanks to the age-slowing effects of practising magic, [[OlderThanTheyLook she looks about 30]]).
25	* ''Webcomic/{{HSETAU}}'':
26	** Most of the trolls (6 sweeps in canon, roughly equivalent to 13 human years) are aged up to be adults. Kanaya becomes 16 years old, and Karkat becomes 8. Eridan and Aria's ages are unchanged.
27	** Jade is aged down like Karkat. Rose, Dave, and John's ages (13) remain unchanged.
28	* Since it's co-authored by the same author as ''Pokémon Reset Bloodlines'' below, ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainCrownOfThorns'' has the same age change by turning the 10-year-olds into teenagers, and the adults even older.
29	* ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainStarFinder'':
30	** Downplayed with Stella Zhau. She's 13 here, while in canon she's 12 (11 years old before Season 5).
31	** [[PlayingWithATrope Played With]] in relation to the Loud Children. All of them (except Lori, who is still 17 years old) are one year older than their canon selves -- which is their age after Season 4 -- but the AU is set during an alternative Season 1/2, making this an early age-up.
32	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11772125/1/Metroid-Kamen-Rider-Generations-Full-Series Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations]]'' has [[Series/KamenRiderGaim Micchy]] and [[Series/KamenRiderDrive Gou]] having their ages lifted up to match their respective Live-Action TV actors' ages - Mitsuzane becomes 20 years old just like his actor, Mahiro Takasugi, as opposed to 17/18, while Gou is 23 years old like his actor, Yuu Inaba as opposed to being 20.
33	* ''Fanfic/TheManyDatesOfDannyFenton'': [[DownplayedTrope A downplayed example]], but WesternAnimation/KimPossible never had her actual age clarified in the first season of the series, with many theorizing she was either 14 or 15 before season 3, where she was confirmed 16. She is revealed to be 14 on her date with potential boyfriend [[WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom Danny Fenton]].
34	* ''Fanfic/MarvelInfinites'': Franklin Richards has a VagueAge in the comics, often between five and eight. In this fic, he's around twelve years old.
35	%%* ''Fanfic/HarbingerFinmonster'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''): Gideon is in high school in this world, being roughly as old as Wendy.
36	* Apache Chief was a member of the WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} in the modern day. In ''Fanfic/HuntersOfJustice'', he lived in the era of the Wild West alongside Jonah Hex.
37	* ''Fanfic/AKnightsTaleAsInquisitor'': Arturia herself has stated she is thirty-five, a whole decade older than her canonical age...[[OlderThanTheyLook but still doesn't look a day older than fifteen.]]
38	* ''Fanfic/TheLastOfUsSeries'': Regina fulfills Ellie's role, but while Ellie was a teenager, Regina is a fully grown adult.
39	* ''VideoGame/MarioInAnimatronicHorror'': The spirits possessing the main four are in their teens, while in ''Franchise/FiveNightsAtFreddys'', they could not have been any older than twelve years old.
40	* ''Fanfic/MyHeroPlaythrough'' does this both ways. [[ComicBook/Batgirl2000 Cassandra Cain]] is traditionally somewhere between 17 and 20 years old. [[Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun Mikoto Misaka]] is 14 and in her second year of middle school. Both of them are introduced to the story at age 15, starting their first year of high school.
41	* ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'' has Izuku and the rest of the transplanted first-year ''My Hero Academia'' students aged up slightly to 17 to match the usual age of entry for [[WebAnimation/{{RWBY}} Beacon Academy]] students. Similarly, the transplanted third-year students are aged up to 19 from 18.
42	* In ''Fanfic/NeitherABirdNorAPlaneItsDeku'', Izuku Midoriya is the same age he is in the canon manga. But since he's also Kal-El, he's drastically younger than many of the heroes that are Superman's contemporaries in DC Comics, with characters like ComicBook/{{Starfire}} and Franchise/TheFlash being decades older than him.
43	* ''Fanfic/PokemonCrossing'': While most characters in ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'' only have vague ages, this series gives several of them canon ages:
44	** Frank and Apollo are both cranky villagers, who are implied to be in their 30s at the youngest. Here, both of them are 21 and 25, respectively.
45	** Benedict, Tank, and Kidd (a lazy, jock, and smug, respectively) were presumably adults in the original game. Here, they're all 14.
46	* In ''Fanfic/SpiderManTheYoungAvenger'', depicting a Marvel Universe that is essentially a blend of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse, the comic universe, and other Marvel media, Peter Parker becomes Spider-Man when the ComicBook/YoungAvengers make their debut after being friends with Cassie Lang since they were in school together, which leads to Peter and Cassie dating after they each join the Young Avengers.
47	* ''Fanfic/ToHellAndBackArrowverse'': The writer made a minor adjustment to the ages of the main protagonists; Oliver is now only two years older than Barry, who is two years older than Kara. The biggest change is Kal-El, who is several decades younger than he is in canon due to being in the same ship as Kara and thus stuck in the Phantom Zone with her.
48	* In ''Fanfic/YinYang'', [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse2002 Evil-Lyn]] is a child when Keldor attempts his coup and becomes Skeletor, which makes her much younger than she was in the 2002 series, where she was an adult at the time.
49	* ''Fanfic/BoopTheSnootForCriticalDamage'': All the main characters from ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' are given a slight age increase.
50	** Ruby is now eighteen and about a year younger than Yang rather than two years younger, while the rest of her team and the members of JNPR are nineteen, making them all adults while in the original they were teenagers.
51	** Penny's age in canon is unknown, but she's at the very least implied to be YoungerThanTheyLook. Here, she's over fifty years old chronologically and 18 years old mentally.
52	* In ''Fanfic/TheLastSon'', Clark Kent begins his career as a superhero at age 19, while modern depictions of Superman have him do so in his late twenties to early thirties.
53	* ''Fanfic/AvengerGoddess'';
54	** Basically applies to Ben Parker; some adaptations of ComicBook/SpiderMan state that Ben Parker fought in the Second World War, but since this would make him too old to match the May Parker seen in the MCU, Private Peter Parker meets the Howling Commandos during D-Day and is confirmed by WordOfGod to be Ben and Richard's father.
55	** As a more developed example, Thor and his immediate family are described as being older than they were in the MCU to give him a more explicit heroic history, such as allowing him to have actively taken part in Odin's war with the Frost Giants.
56	* In the episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' titled "Wing it Like Witches", it was revealed that Lilith was Eda's older sister. In the ''ComicBook/{{Hellblazer}}'' crossover, ''Fanfic/RaisinSomeHell'', Eda is Lilith's older sister.
57	* ''Fanfic/EquestriaGirlsAFairlyOddFriendship'': The Human CMC are elementary school-age while Zephyr is a middle-schooler.
58	* ''Fanfic/ThereWasOnceAnAvengerFromKrypton'':
59	** Jameson is shown to be much older when he debuted in the MCU. Here, he's the same age as he was in the original trilogy.
60	** Peter Parker was a child when the Battle of New York happened. Here, he's fifteen and has been Spider-Man for the past six months.
61	** Gohan and Trunks are roughly similar in age while canonically there was a decade separating the two.
62	* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Joker is a second-year high school student. In ''Fanfic/ThievesCanBeHeroes'', Ren Amamiya is a first-year student at U.A. Academy.
63	* ''Fanfic/HoneyAndVinegar'':
64	** Seras is much older here than she was in ''Hellsing''. By the end of Hellsing, she was almost half a century old, while here she's already well over a century old by the time the story begins.
65	** Walter C. Dornez being [[CompositeCharacter composited]] with Walter Bernhard means that he pre-dates Dracula's existence, making him multiple centuries old, while canonically he was a human in his late 60s.
66	* ''Fanfic/AmazingFantasy'':
67	** Peter is 47 in this story, making him a decade older than his comics counterpart (who's in his late 20s/early 30s) and the [[WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse similarly disheveled Peter B. Parker.]]
68	** Martin Li is a grown man in the comics, but he's a teenager around Melissa's age [[AlternateUniverse in the universe where she becomes Spider-Woman.]]
69	* Shirou in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11905736/1/Fate-Gamer-Night-SE Fate: Gamer Night]]'' is five years younger than canon.
70	* ''Fanfic/ThePokemonSquad'': While many of the characters don't have their ages stated in the episodes, they ''do'' have them stated in the [[https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/poketown_2/pokemon-squad-character-profiles-t622.html character sheet]]. While most characters are the same age as they are in canon, some aren't.
71	** [[WesternAnimation/{{Daria}} Daria and Jane]] were high-schoolers in canon, but are 32 in this series, most likely because their respective positions as president and vice president would make more sense.
72	** Characters from series like ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' and ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' are OlderThanTheyLook, and are actually in their 20s-30s because they have aged since their shows ended.
73	* ''Fanfic/JoJoNewUniverse''
74	** This is generally the case for the characters from ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' due to the characters being spread across the decade-spanning parts of ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure''. For example, while the Mane 6 are generally around the same age, Twilight Sparkle is now the oldest being born in the late 19th century while Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and [[spoiler:Rainbow Dash]] are among the youngest, being born around the early to mid-1980s. The largest example of this change is Princess Luna, going from a thousand-years-old Alicorn to a teenager in 2017, being a generation younger than Pinkie Pie.
75	** [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun Johnny Joestar and Gyro Zeppeli]] were active in the 19th century and born a few decades before 1890. In ''Spirit Tracks'', their counterparts George III and Gyro were born in 1959 and 1945 respectively, though their Hamon [[OlderThanTheyLook makes them look like their canon selves in appearance]] even in 2012.
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77	[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'']]
78	* In the ''Fanfic/DanganronpaGaidenSeries'' by [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/2423877/WiiFan2009 WiiFan2009]], the cast of ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'' have undergone this in the years after the events of ''Anime/Danganronpa3TheEndOfHopesPeakHighSchool''. For example, Gonta and Tsumugi are the same age as Kiki Naegi, [[OfficialCouple Makoto and Kyoko's]] daughter. While Kiki and her friends are 6-7 years old, Kaito and Maki (her babysitters) are young adults, and Korekiyo, Himiko, Tenko, Angie, and Kokichi are students at Hope Peak's Academy.
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80	[[AC: ''Franchise/TheDCU'']]
81	* The ''Our Own League'' series plays fast and loose with the ages of the ComicBook/TeenTitans due to {{Composite Character}}s and merging this team with a similar sidekick team-up, ComicBook/YoungJustice:
82	** Canon later additions to the team, Starfire and Cyborg, are founding members alongside Dick Grayson/Robin, Garth/Aqualad, and Roy Harper/Speedy.
83	** The current lineup includes Damian Wayne, Conner Kent, Donna Troy, Wally West, Jaime Reyes, and Jackson Hyde, later joined by M'gann M'orzz and Lian Harper, which is full of generational tweaks. In the comics, Donna and Wally were on the founding roster, the age gap between Conner and Damian is much more than ([[ReallyWasBornYesterday biologically]]) 2-3 years, and Lian is usually depicted as a preschool-age instead of twelve.
84	** Beast Boy and Raven, veteran Titans in the comics, are ten-year-old trainees still unfit for fieldwork.
85	* ''Fanfic/DaughterOfFireAndSteel'': In the comics, [[ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} Kara]] is usually in her mid-to-late teens by the time she leaves Krypton. In this story, she's well within adulthood, being an experienced commander in Zod's army by the time Clark was born.
86	* ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'':
87	** In ''ComicBook/TheKillingJoke'', Barbara Gordon is a young adult. In this story, Barbara is an ex-girlfriend of Robin, who has turned 18 at the story's beginning, implying that this version of Barbara was still in high school when the Joker crippled her.
88	** Kyle Rayner is (or was) a sidekick to the other Green Lanterns, thus also turning him from a young adult to a teenager.
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90	[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Disgaea}}'']]
91	* ''Fanfic/WolfInTheStreetsSardineInTheSheets'': Several characters have their ages tweaked in order to be included among Valvatorez's collection of children that he's taken under his wing.
92	** Kurtis is the most prominent example, going from twenty-nine years old to seventeen. Jennifer is similarly de-aged in order to keep the two-year age gap between them, becoming a fifteen-year-old.
93	** Killia also had his age knocked down from being in his early twenties (in demon years) to being a teenager closer in age to Seraphina.
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95	[[AC:''Franchise/DragonBall'']]
96	* In ''Fanfic/LegendOfTheMonkeyGod'', Goku is 14 at the start of the series rather than 12.
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98	[[AC: ''Manga/FairyTail'']]
99	* In the ''Fanfic/AlternateTailSeries'', Kagura Mikazuchi is 13 years old in the year X784, rather than 16 like her canon counterpart would be, since she was 23 when introduced in X791 in the manga.
100	** Rogue is 6 years old when introduced and 13 after the 7-year time skip, instead of around 19 [[spoiler:plus 400 years from traveling from the past]] as in canon.
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102	[[AC: ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'']]
103	* ''Fanfic/FateHaremAntics'': In her source series, Miyu was ten years old. Here she is about sixteen, one year younger than Shirou.
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105	[[AC: ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin'']]
106	* ''VideoGame/FridayNightFunkinB3Remixed'': While [[VideoGame/FridayNightFunkin Girlfriend]] is canonically 19~20, Shaya is [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld 100 years old]].
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108	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'']]
109	* Basically applies in "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9672481/1/Guardian-of-the-People Guardian of the People]]", where Elisa is a gargoyle rather than a human; in terms of her physical age, she appears the same as she did in canon, but due to gargoyles aging at a slower rate than humans, she was essentially adopted by Peter Maza's father after her gargoyle parents died while she was still in her egg, Peter subsequently taking her with him to New York.
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111	[[AC: ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'']]
112	* In ''Fanfic/GirlsUndPanzerHopeDies'', Miho is 18 at the time of the finals. In canon, she, a second-year in high school, would be 16 or 17- most likely the former, as her birthday is October 23, and the finals take place before summer vacation.
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114	[[AC:''Franchise/{{Godzilla}}'' / ''Franchise/KingKong'' / Franchise/MonsterVerse]]
115	* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonTitansAndOtherCreatures Manda]] is an infant during this story, with the only adult of his kind being his long-dead father.
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117	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'']]
118	* A somewhat popular Fan Verse among ''Gravity Falls'' fans is the ''Relativity Falls'' AU, in which the parents and children of Gravity Falls swap ages with Stanford and Stanley Pines now being twelve-year-olds off to spend the summer with their Great-Aunt Mabel.
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120	[[AC: ''Literature/HarryPotter'']]
121	* ''Fanfic/AndTheUnethicalBindingContract'': The champions from ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'' are around 2 to 3 years older than they would in 1991, making them 17 years old while Harry is a First Year and able to officially volunteer for the Triwizard Tournament.
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123	[[AC: ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'']]
124	* In canon, Kunou is a first-year middle school student (as of Volume 22) making her around 11 or 12 when first introduced. In ''Fanfic/DXDTheLastAmagiri'', she's 15 by the time the story catches up to [=DxD=] canon.
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126	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'']]
127	* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'' presents the main human characters as being roughly 11-12 years old, in keeping with the author's interpretation of the ill-defined ages of characters in canon. However, for the non-canon spinoff ''New Adventures: Mature Edition'', they're all aged up to at least 18, to allow the author to get over the awkwardness he felt regarding the more mature themes featured in the spinoff.
128	* ''Fanfic/WitchingHour'': Canonically, characters like Gaz, Dib, and Nick are in their late adolescent years at the oldest. Here, they're all in their 20s.
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130	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'']]
131	* ''Fanfic/TheAceSavvyExtendedUniverse'': In the original show, Ace Savvy and One-Eyed Jack are (fictional) adults. Here, they are preteens.
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133	[[AC: ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'']]
134	* Red Skull, at least in the comics, is in his 30s during World War II. In ''Fanfic/SixesAndSevens'', he is the same age Hugo Weaving was when playing him (51) and was therefore old enough to fight in the First World War and also served in the Freikorps.
135	* In ''Fanfic/ToTropeOrNotToTrope'': The Maximoff twins are still teenagers rather than in their mid-twenties like they were in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron''.
136	* In the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse series ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/series/1033283 What If]]'', the Maximoff twins are changed from their mid-twenties to fourteen.
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138	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
139	* By default, [[https://archiveofourown.org/users/Cornerverse/pseuds/Cornerverse Cornerverse]] ages up the students from fourteen to sixteen. In ''Fanfic/HeroChat'' this explains the mature polyamory negotiations that one group goes through, and in ''Fanfic/LadyLuckMiraculousLadybug'' it helps justify how Rose and Juleka are already in a sexual relationship (complete with a "freebie list"). The swearing is probably realistic for either fourteen-year-olds or sixteen-year-olds, though.
140	* ''Fanfic/StoneStreak'': The teenage characters (save for Adrien, Rose, Chloe, and Sabrina) are all around 25 years old, with [[BattleCouple Juleka and Marinette]] having been heroes for 8 years by the start of the story.
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142	[[AC: ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'']]
143	* ''Fanfic/AGreenDragonsHoard'':
144	** Mitsuki is Izuku's age rather than over twenty years his senior due to her and Katsuki [[AdaptationRelationshipOverhaul having switched places, with her as Katsuki's daughter]].
145	** Inko is eight years younger than canon, being 19 when Izuku was born rather than 27.
146	** Rumi Usagiyama is 11 years younger, being Izuku's age instead of 26.
147	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13470641/1/Ara-Ara Ara Ara]]'' goes both ways. U.A. is changed to a university so all the students are three years older. On the other hand, Moe [[RelatedInTheAdaptation Bakugou]] aka Burnin' is a third year student, making her five years younger than canon.
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149	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'']]
150	* ''[[Fanfic/CastlingCozyGlow The Once and the Future Princess]]'' ages Flurry Heart from a baby to a school-aged filly, despite only a few months having passed since her last appearances in canon. So she's old enough to be a peer to Cozy and Rumble.
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152	[[AC: ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'']]
153	* In ''Webcomic/KonohaHighSchool'', the characters start as 15-year-olds rather than 12-year-olds.
154	* Instead of being a year older than Hinata, Neji in ''Fanfic/WhiteEyes'' is roughly five years older than her.
155	* ''Fanfic/TheLastPrayer'' goes both ways. Naruto's peers are all three years older, making them sixteen to seventeen (twenty in Temari's case). On the flip side, Mabui and Samui are twenty instead of twenty-six and Kurenai is twenty-four rather than twenty-eight. Similarly, Mei Terumi is approximately a decade younger than canon, being in her mid-twenties rather than mid-thirties.
156	* ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'': Haku in canon is three years older than Naruto and his peers, but in the story, he's treated as being the same age as them.
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158	[[AC: ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'']]
159	* ''Fanfic/AdviceAndTrust'': The writer bumped the main characters' age by a year (stretching the Angels' attacks timeline so that over one year has passed since Sachiel and Shinji came to town) so that he does not "feel quite as awkward having them going at it hammer-and-tongs nightly")
160	* ''Manga/Evangelion303'': Shinji, Asuka, Rei, Kaworu, and Mari are 18 or older as opposed to 14. This also affects their characterization too and is how the story differentiates from its source material. They drink, drive, have sex lives (or develop one), and are generally more worldly and independent than their teen counterparts.
161	* In the PornWithPlot fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/26361532/chapters/64205539 Science: Saving Humanity Without Regard to Morals or Ethics]]'' by Ero-Senin a.k.a The Sage of Toads (famed for ''Fanfic/TheKeyToASuccessfulInterview'' and ''Fanfic/BeautifulDestroyerSailorMoon'') plays it oddly as while the characters are aged up four years, it's implied that until Ritsuko uses a retrovirus to undo the damage done by Second Impact, the Eva pilots and their agemates all have their canonical [[NotGrowingUpSucks 14-year-old bodies]], despite their age.
162	* ''Fanfic/ShinjiTheCasanova'': The titular character is nearly sixteen, in contrast with his fourteen-year-old canon self.
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164	[[AC: ''WesternAnimation/TheOctonauts'']]
165	* ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'' ages Periwinkle up from a newborn pup to a toddler.
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167	[[AC: ''Manga/OnePiece'']]
168	* ''Fanfic/TheLogiaBrothers'': Vivi is 18 in this story instead of 16 as in canon. Presumably this was to avoid making her eventual sexual relationship with Luffy {{squick}}y.
169	* Luffy is canonically 17 years old at the start of the series. In ''WebVideo/NonePiece'', he's a 45-year-old man who looks 16 because, as he says, "''you'' try getting wrinkles being made of rubber".
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171	[[AC:''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'']]
172	* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11725053/1/The-Bald-and-The-Esper The Bald and the Esper]]'' makes Tatsumaki 22, a full six years younger than she is in canon. Though she's also just starting out as a hero rather than being an established one.
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174	[[AC: ''Franchise/{{Persona}}'']]
175	* ''Fanfic/HoursVerse'': In canon[[labelnote:*]]assumedly, by their being second-years by the time of their respective games[[/labelnote]] and the main ''Hours'' timelines, the protagonists of ''Persona 3'' and ''Persona 4'' were born in 1992 and 1994, respectively. On the Other Side, Makoto, Kotone, and Souji were all born in 2000, a gap of six to eight years. Several other characters on the Other Side also have discrepant ages, and it's eventually explained that they're reincarnations of the Wild Cards from the This Side.
176	* This is the main idea behind the ''Webcomic/Persona5AdultConfidantAU'', where all of the [[VideoGame/Persona5 original game]]'s child and teenage characters are now adults and the adult characters are now teenagers, with the once adult confidant characters now acting as the teenage Phantom Thieves.
177	* The cast of ''VideoGame/Persona5'' retain their canon ages in ''Fanfic/StealTheTruthReachOutForYourHeart'', but because the story now takes place in 2021 than an implied 2016, they are actually about five years younger than in canon. This also makes the casts of ''VideoGame/Persona3'' and ''VideoGame/Persona4'' older than they would be at this point, as their game years were not adjusted.
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179	[[AC:''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'']]
180	* In ''Fanfic/{{Anachronism}}'', instead of being ambiguously 11-17, Gloria and her friends are aged up to 18.
181	* ''Fanfic/BackToZero'':
182	** Mondo and Domino are younger than in canon. They're both teenagers.
183	** There's only a five/six year age difference between Ash and Jessie. Canon implies it's closer to fifteen.
184	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12643461/1/Caged-Wings Caged Wings]],'' Dawn, May, and Ash (originally 10 years old) are aged up into teenagers to fit the setting, a HighSchoolAU. Nando also becomes a teenager, but he's aged down instead of up since he was originally a young adult of VagueAge.
185	* In ''Fanfic/CeladonsNewBlossom'', Ash is eleven, not ten. He started his journey at ten but turned eleven by the time he met Giselle.
186	* In ''Fanfic/{{Essence}}'', Erika is described as being in her early teens, not her late teens or early twenties.
187	* ''Fanfic/KantoCalling'' doesn't use ComicBookTime, so Ash has aged throughout his journey. Instead of being eternally ten, he's almost seventeen. Everyone else has been aged up accordingly, except for Bonnie who is still a kid.
188	* ''Fanfic/PokemonNovaAndAntica'': The author has raised the ages of the canon characters. Much of the main cast are adolescents or full-blown teenagers. For example, instead of 10, Ash is 14. This retroactively means the others grew up during their travels as well. Sounds like the writer wants to ignore the first episode of the ''B&W'' seasons like the rest of us.
189	* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', Ash wakes up in the reset timeline to find that he's now 15 years old because things couldn't be reset perfectly. A number of other characters have also aged up or down to varying degrees.
190	* ''Fanfic/Darkfire1220sChallenger'':
191	** Pikachu starts the story as a Pichu here.
192	** Cynthia is younger than her fully grown-up self in the anime and games, being 18 years old.
193	* In ''Fanfic/AshAndSerenasAtomicOdyssey'', the notes at the start of Chapter 2 state that Ash, Serena, and Clemont are all 15 years old, while Bonnie is 9 (the fic starts out at the end of the Kalos saga).
194
195	[[AC:''Series/RedDwarf'']]
196	* ''Fanfic/TheFiftyShadesSeries'': Rather than starting off as 25 years old as in the main series, here, Lister starts off as a 20-year-old.
197
198	[[AC: ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]
199	* In ''WebVideo/FixingRWBY'', Cinder is more obviously older than most other characters. Instead of being disguised as a student when she infiltrates Beacon, she's disguised as a teacher.
200	* ''Fanfic/RubyAndNora'': Ruby is a few years older than in canon, and as a result, so are almost the entire cast.
201	* ''WebVideo/RWBYAlternate'':
202	** Ruby starts at sixteen, not fifteen.
203	** Blake is aged down from seventeen to sixteen.
204	* ''Webcomic/{{REMNANTS}}'':
205	** Ruby is 17, not 15.
206	** Adam is 10 years older than Blake, making him 28 in comparison to [[VagueAge his estimated 23]].
207	* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'':
208	** In the cartoon, it's implied that Ruby was a toddler at oldest when Summer died. ''Scars'' ups her to seven. Likewise, Yang has been aged up a few years in the flashbacks.
209	** Winter is changed from being in her early 20s to being 28.
210	** There's a 6 year age gap between Adam and Blake, which is larger than in canon.
211	* ''Fanfic/SilverRingsAndGoldenHearts'':
212	** Ruby and Penny are both aged down to five, while Yang is seven. Other similarly aged characters are aged down too.
213	** Oscar is under 12 months, instead of being 14.
214	* This happens with much frequency in ''Fanfic/ValesUnderground'', many times being a pragmatic change. Discounting any age-gap changes, these are some of the more concrete changes noted:
215	** Most of the students in the main cast of ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' aren't even in their twenties yet, but they are aged up since they are in positions that would require them to be much older such as police officers, teachers, and sex workers. The aversion to this is Team CFVY (sans Coco). They're students in college, but they'd be relatively the same age as they are in canon according to the author's notes.
216	** Raven Branwen [[UnrelatedInTheAdaptation isn't Yang's mom in this story]], so the writer decided to have her and her twin brother Qrow are aged down to their mid-30s. In canon, they'd be in their late 30s at least based on the fact that Yang is seventeen.
217	** Salem is noted to be [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld thousands of years old]] in canon. Since this takes place in a real-world AU, she is brought down to a more realistic age (in her 60s).
218	** Jaune Arc downplays this the most. He's seventeen in canon, but the fic ages him up to nineteen.
219	* In ''Fanfic/ReverseRWBY'', the ages of characters are shifted around. For example, Watts is a teenager, while Whitley is an adult and older than his sisters.
220
221	[[AC: ''Literature/TheScumVillainsSelfSavingSystemRenZhaFanpaiZijiuXitong'']]
222	* ''Fanfic/SVWishes'', while their ages were ambiguous in canon due to their immortality here Liu Qingge is explicitly ten years younger than Yue Qingyuan.
223
224	[[AC: ''VideoGame/SengokuBasara'']]
225	* In [[https://www.deviantart.com/slifofinadragon SlifofinaDragon]]'s fanfics regarding UsefulNotes/DateMasamune (father) and UsefulNotes/SanadaYukimura's (mother) children Yuki and Masa, Masa is the older sibling and Yuki is the younger sibling, however averted in [[https://www.deviantart.com/misakiyu misakiyu]]'s illustrations dubbed 'fanfic-depics', where Yuki is the older sibling and Masa is the younger sibling.
226
227	[[AC:''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']]
228	* ''Fanfic/TheYoungStag'' has several characters aged up or aged down for the purpose of the story. Arya Stark, for example, is introduced as 14, mainly because of her PerfectlyArrangedMarriage to Steffon, who is 15 at the start of the story.
229
230	[[AC: ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'']]
231	* In the oneshot ''Fanfic/{{Fallen Angel\|TylecAsroc}}'' it's mentioned that Amy is fourteen. In ''Sonic'' canon she's only twelve.
232	* ''Blog/SingleParentsNight'':
233	** Characters who are age-lifted: Sonic went from 15 to 21, Blaze went from 14 to 21, Knuckles went from 16 to 22, Shadow is (biologically?) 21, Amy went from 12 to 20, and Rouge went from 19 to 23.
234	** Characters who are decreased in age: Tails went from 8 to 2, Marine went from 7 to 2, Silver went from 14 to 5, and Cream went from 6 years old to 6 months old.
235	* Both Sonic and Elise are eighteen in ''Blog/{{Solarhood}}''; Sonic is fifteen in canon and Elise is implied to be around his age.
236
237	[[AC:''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons'']]
238	* ''Fanfic/FrostbittenFlower'':
239	** Celia's age is lowered from 26 to 18, which only makes her being a [[TeenPregnancy pregnant]] widow all the more tragic.
240	** It's implied that Muffy is older than her canon age of 30. She's already resigned herself to being unable to have kids of her own due to her OldMaid status, but it's still a sour topic nevertheless.
241
242	[[AC: ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'']]
243	* ''Fanfic/MyPainMyThrill'' has Peach's unmentioned birthday in ''New Super Mario Bros Wii'' be her 30th birthday. Peach has a VagueAge in canon, but signs point towards her being 21-24, going by Mario's canon age of 26ish and the developmental gap between the two as infants.
244
245	[[AC: ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'']]
246	* ''VideoGame/TSUnderswap'':
247	** Asgore and Toriel are a downplayed example. Since Asriel is still alive as part of the RoleSwapAU, they've continued to age. Asgore now wears a pair of glasses for his worsening eyesight.
248	** Asriel himself, since he missed the fate his ''Undertale'' counterpart met as a child. He is [[https://tsunderswapofficial.tumblr.com/post/183016474905/quick-question-for-the-team-how-will-asriel-be stated]] to now be a young adult.
249
250	[[AC: ''Literature/WarriorCats'']]
251	* In ''Fanfic/WarriorsKingdomsTheProphecyBegins'', Spottedleaf's age is tweaked so that she's closer to Firepaw's age. In canon, she was 4 years old at her death, making her roughly 25-40 in human years. In this fanfic, Spottalia starts at only 16 and is barely older than Fiyr.

Context AgeLift / FanWorks