The age of WMMAP's characters is something people often wonder about, as we don't have much information on the matter. In this post I'll try to give the most accurate approximation possible of Athy's age, using canon facts both from the novel and manhwa. Maybe I'll do the same for Lucas and Aeternitas in the future, since they are also... complicated.
We know for a fact that LP!Athy was killed at exactly 18 years old (on her birthday, December 3rd...).
On the other hand, It's not explicitly stated how old Lee Jihye (Athy's first or second life, depending on the canon) was when she died, but the novel does gives us some facts:
Athanasia recalling her first life. Who Made Me A Princess (novel), Plutus, Chapter 1. Source: woopread translations.
Both novel and manhwa have the following scene from chapter 34, in which we (or rather, Lucas) find out how Athy used to look like back in Korea, but the novel gives us some more insight to what Lucas was thinking at the moment.
Lucas looking at Athanasia's original body. Who Made Me A Princess (novel), Plutus. Source: Lithi.
Panels from chapter 34 of the manhwa.
So, we know that Lee Jihye left her orphanage when she was about 18, and died in winter some time after that. She most likely worked for a couple of years before dying, so Lucas' impression of her being 20 checks out.
And finally, we have to account for wmmap!Athy's age. The novel ends on her 18th birthday, so no questions there. But what about the manhwa?
Athy's birthday is on December 3rd and Claude's on February 28th. Her debutante probably happened just a little after her 14th birthday, and Claude mentioned Kiel's dance with her 6 months after the debutante on chapter 43, which means that chapter 50 had to happen when Athy was already 15.
Because there are at least 6 months between chapters 86 and 117, Athy is also at least 15 and a half, but most likely about to turn 16 as she spent "a while" running away during the amnesia arc.
(Then again, she could already be 16, since there wasn't any mention of her 15th birthday in the manhwa, it could be the same for her 16th birthday.)
So, to answer the question of how old is Athy, we have to take these facts into account and decide if we are talking about her novel self or her manhwa self. Novel!Athy is not LP!Athy, so we can only add her years living in Korea and in Obelia after her reincarnation, which gives us a total of (at least) 38 years. On the other hand, Manhwa!Athy is LP!Athy after reincarnating twice, so she's (at least) 56 years old.
We could get into semantics, saying that it's only her soul that's 56 and that she doesn't remember much of LP for it to affect her mental age, but if we count the years Athanasia is 100% aware of living, we still reach a total of 38 mental years.
Okay, but does Athy consider herself to be that old? Well... yes, kind of. Throughout both novel and manhwa she comments about how embarrassing it is to act as a child at her age, she thinks of the noble ladies as "average girls" (the novel mentions Athy feeling like a mother watching them at their tea parties), and of Jennette as "just a 14 year old girl" (when she had doubts about Jennette having some sort of secret agenda). And finally, Lucas -aware of her whole situation since the beginning-, also comments multiple times about how Athy should be mindful of her age. Her being mentally an older adult is pretty indisputable.
So, there you have it, Athy is a 56 years old granny.
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