
| Anonymous #631320 8 months ago |
OVER NINE THOUSAAAAAND
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| JP #631324 8 months ago |
Celestia does not age visibly. |
| PowerToole #631326 8 months ago |
About 28, I guess. |
| Alternating #631327 8 months ago |
at most.... 80 |
| Anonymous #631335 8 months ago |
Princess Celestia= Alicorn = non-coporeal (possibly immortal) being with the form of pony-like being.
Granny Smith = mortal earth pony Lauren Faust has inferred before that the ponies in the show live around the same length of time as ponies on earth, which is give or take a year or two, about 30 years. My guess Granny Smith is about 27-29 years old. |
| Cyanfunk #631337 8 months ago |
Granny Smith: Young ponies today with their fully evolved limbs, brains, and digestive systems! Back in my day we didn't have no fancy "lungs", we had gills! And we didn't have no legs, either, we had fins! You wanted an apple? Well there were no apples, but if there were, you'd have to fight a scorpion the size o' me uphill for twelve miles! And there was no fancy-shmancy "land"! There was just cooling lava that resembled the fires o' Pony Hell! |
| PowerToole #631338 8 months ago |
Horses rarely live more than 32 or 33 years, so I'm pretty sure she's not 80. |
| Clover_Patch #631344 8 months ago |
The same length of time as regular horses ;_; That's terrible. |
| Anonymous #631345 8 months ago |
@Cyanfunk, you have filled my day with lol's. |
| deadz74 #631349 8 months ago |
also taking into account that a pony years cycle is about 1/3 ratio so that mean celestia is in fact in human term just over 300 years old ,if we follow the logic |
| Anonymous #631351 8 months ago |
@deadz74, She had to be around at least as long as Discord's rule over Equestria, so she is likely a little bit older than that. Still 300+ years is impressive. |
| Cyanfunk #631357 8 months ago |
I just go with that the ponies are not like real-world horses, as they have the capacity to vomit. |
| Anonymous #631368 8 months ago |
@Cyanfunk, http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/1921?search=word_of_faust%20age
http://ponibooru.413chan.net/post/view/4861?search=word_of_faust%20age Ponies are inferred here to be similarly aged to real-world horses and ponies. |
| PowerToole #631378 8 months ago |
^But Cyanfunk is right. I never thought about it before, but they do vomit, which is something the horses from our reality cannot do; so who knows in how many other ways they differ from the horses we know.
Oh, also they can talk, build, create art, they've developed many industries and have an economic system. |
| Anonymous #631399 8 months ago |
^The discussion here refers to their age and lifetimes. I don't think anyone else will argue that they are different from irl ponies, I mean just look at their coats and manes for cripes' sake. :P |
| Anonymous #631406 8 months ago |
different dimension different rules |
| Velcro #631407 8 months ago |
I take it that ponies don't take 18 years to grow up, then! |
| Drasvin #631413 8 months ago |
The ponies might age at the same rate as real-life horses, but they also have advanced medicine and magic. Most real-life medical research goes towards treating human ailments and problems. In the MLP-verse, most medical research will go towards treating equine ailments and problems. So for the ponies, the 30-ish year mark would be like the 60-ish year mark for us. Or something like that. Number probably aren't correct, but the concept is there.
@deadz47 Where is it said that Equestria's year is shorter than ours? |
| Trombe #631415 8 months ago |
↑ Lauren did not explicitly say that they live as long as real-world horses, by the way. "They grow up fast, but mature slower". So she does not explicitly say that they can only live for some 30 human years. Really, in a world of magic that is Equestria, there is no reason that even an ordinary pony could live pretty damn long. |
| Drasvin #631449 8 months ago |
@Trombe True, though she said they grow up at the rate Horses do. So until we get information otherwise, it would be best to assume the rest of their physical aging is like that of horses. And as seen with Granny Smith (and the Mayor to an extent) the ponies do grow old and their bodies start to fail. It is a world of magic, so their lifespan are probably going to be rather long. So to question of how long a pony lives becomes how old can a pony be before magic is unable to adequately sustain them and fix the ravages of time. To figure that out, we first need to know when will a ponies body begin to break down due to old age. |
| Vree #631545 8 months ago |
Guys, two things:
- Lauren only made a comment about ponies maturing at horse rates possibly (non-official comment!) Check this: http://horses.about.com/od/understandinghorses/a/Comparing-Horse-To-Human-Age.htm For example, horses grow up fast (humans have way longer childhoods compared to total life span). So if a pony was a human, she'd probably be a teen already at say, age 10. Stuff like this. - Ponies and minis live much longer than regular horses. Look it up. Actually, it's wise to search for "pony" instead of "horse" for most topics, because there can be big differences. |
| Anonymous #631693 8 months ago |
"Ponies and minis live much longer than regular horses. Look it up. Actually, it's wise to search for "pony" instead of "horse" for most topics, because there can be big differences."
Namely, one of them tends to bring up cartoons instead of actual scholarly studies. |
| Anonymous #631752 8 months ago |
^ The honest truth |
| Anonymous #631981 8 months ago |
By the time you reach middle age, Twilight and the gang will be dead and buried, and their great-grandkids will be running around as young adults. |
| Ezhik #632132 8 months ago |
In my headcanon, ponies live as long as humans |
| YenaMuffin #632502 8 months ago |
Forgive me, but when I saw that image I mistook it for a single pic and thought that Celestia was looking at Granny Smith's flank. -.- |
| CrossoverManiac #978738 5 months ago |
Ezhik, mine as well. It breaks my heart to think that Fluttershy would grow old and die by the time she's 25. |
| Psychopomf #978754 5 months ago |
I'm gonna say 300 |
| Psychopomf #978758 5 months ago |
Ish |
| Psychopomf #978761 5 months ago |
Ya know. Since she founded Ponyville and Twilight stated something as Winter Wrap up being tradition for so long in Ponyville. |