Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24270839-20131212055952/@comment-24252369-20131212065609

It doesn't really matter, but Sonic is actually supposed to be 15. This is also on his SNN page: http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog

A couple others and I recenty had a discussion about this on another thread, despite this not being the topic of the thread. We basically concluded that the characters don't age do that they can' eventually get "too old", although adding a year or two to the characters every several real years would barely make any difference.

I realized that the aging of the characters doesn't matter much (even though they progress through storylines that would logically take them years to complete). The real problem is some of the characters being given ages that don't match up with their behavior and personalites. One example is Tails, who is supposedly 8 years old. This doesn't seem to make any sense because he acts and looks more like he's around 12-14 years old, (In the Archie comics he is 11 years old, which is better.)

Hopefully at some point Sega might consider altering the ages of a few of their characters with this issue, while leaving the others how they are if their ages are that important.

The thread we discussed this on is here: http://sonic.wikia.com/wiki/Thread:284246

This is a better place to talk about it though.