i use 18 for like broader fandom analysis posts as jasonâs age during UtH since itâs easier to back up but i actually think ~4.5 years instead of ~5.5 makes more sense as the gap between ADITF and UtH. it doesnât stretch the 80s timeline as much as zero hour did but it also still allows for the entire lost days timeline without really compressing anything. it also makes jason 1 year older than tim instead of 2 which imo is a better fit because thereâs enough room within 80âs canon for their OG age difference to have been almost a year (they were both in 7th grade but jason didnât have a birthday back then so you can argue he was one of the older kids in his class), and then you still keep jason being a (slightly) older kid for 2000s comics
this would make him 17 in UtH which i know some ppl already use cause he was freshly 18, and then you subtract the 6 months dead, but i do think him just being 17, like chronologically, makes more sense. this fandom already frankensteins the timeline so much which like sure fine i agree 2 years between ADITF and ALPOD is stupid, but i still donât think you should butcher jasonâs entire continuity to fix that. his age was established multiple times throughout his robin run, even if youâre just counting his post-crisis run, and i feel like it should be a pretty concrete part of the timeline. so, ~4.5 years instead of ~3.5 (what i see most ppl use) or ~5.5 (what was canon at the time) avoids the 80s over-stretching we all hate (it still stretches it a bit but not as absurdly imo) while keeping jasonâs original 80âs ages, keeping room for lost days, and keeping jason older than tim since thatâsâŠsomewhat relevant i guess
anyway iâm not saying jason was canonically 17 in UtH, cause he wasnât, the canon at the time was ~5.5 years, ergo he was 18. all iâm saying is that, imo, if youâre going to frankenstein the timeline (which ppl usually do), ~4.5 years between ADITF and UtH, and 17 in UtH makes more sense to me and contradicts the least amount of canon material, to my knowledge at least. like please do not reply to this with TEC #790 or the deathstroke annual i am well aware this would contradict those, but unless youâre going to stick to just one continuity (which no one does), something has to give, and i think those are better pieces of canon to give up than jasonâs entire robin and lost days timeline đđ
use what you want ofc like room for personal interpretation but i see so many people that are like âwell if heâs 18 here then 14 when he died makes the most senseâ and itâs like. No please đ„. there are like 4 separate sources just from his post-crisis robin run that put him at 12-13 when he died, also ntm in the zero hour timeline, which iirc is what TEC #790 wouldâve been based on, jason was still 12-13 when he died. why would we take one comic based in a continuity weâre not using (post-zero hour or ~5.5 year gap) instead of 2 comics, 1 letters page response, and 1 piece of licensed material from his OG post-crisis robin run. like it just doesnât make sense to me why would 1 beat 4 đ youâre already splicing stuff together if youâre ignoring the 2 year gap between ADITF and ALPOD that was canon at the time so like. why splice it like That. why would 1 beat 4 đ
