FMC Age

Hey y’all, I’m writing a series in which the main character flees along with her mother to the Faerie-lands, where time moves faster. She left as a young child, and returns in her twenties.
Her character has received years of strict training for plot reasons, but eventuality through disillusionment and youthful naivety she escapes to her home world.

I generally have a problem with every FMC being 18-20, but I also feel like it wouldn’t make sense for my character to be closer to being 30 and only then leaving home with the mindset above?

  • 20-22
  • 24-26
  • 28-30
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Make her 22, and she’s received years of training beginning at age 16 or 18. That wouldn’t stretch my suspension of disbelief too far.

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