realization that someone probably already had but just occurred to me at 4am
since the king and queen haven’t changed at all since their contact with trollmarket- which was at least two hundred or more years ago, maybe more since the timeline with TM is so messy- it’s safe to say akiridions... age super slow? maybe not at all? not in terms we would understand at a glance anyway. (we’ve yet to see an aged akiridion- just children, teens, and adults. plus, i vaguely recall, vervatos didn’t know what a senior citizen was, and didn’t really understand why an elderly person’s body gets weaker?? del toro pls explain why, do akiridions just not do that? do they die while young?? where do their young even come from??? del toro pls explain)
circling back to the original point of this post: it’s safe to assume akiridions are a long-lived species. who else is just as long-lived?
trolls, dude. the trolls.
jim might be only half-troll, but it’s a reasonable assumption he’ll live closer to the length of a full-troll’s lifespan versus a human’s, which is barely a hundred years (i highly doubt merlin would go through so much trouble to make the perfect warrior and then just let him die of old age). basically speaking, somewhere down the road here, unless some weird shit goes down in toa wizards, jim is eventually going to be a few hundred years old and the only one of his human friends and family left.... but with any luck, he’ll have some extraterrestrial companions to share that grief with.
((oofgh this is sad but weirdly cute i’m so conflicted ugh))