WretchedCat

If they hate fiction, then they shouldn't be watching cartoons where ponies have horns, fly, use magic and sing in unison without a script..

I am calm. This is just the way I talk, but okay? I dont know how to be all buddy-buddy wth people I don't know.. So sorry if I come off as rude or something, I don't intend to be. And I'm not saying that it's right to think of teenagers as young adults, it's just the way it is, considering our social definitions aren't going to change just because others feel they're wrong. Where I live, teenagers are, by our definition, young adults. It doesn't matter if they don't act like it; it's what they are. Adults can act like children, too, but it doesn't mean that they are 12. I don't think cartoons should be compared to real life.. Just because they're doing things we see adults in our society doing doesn't really make for a solid argument about their age. Besides, someone already got pretty good evidence from the show that they're teenagers, so unless we can say for certain theyre not - no speculation - there really isn't any logic in continuing to think they're 20+. I'm also not just saying this because I'd like to think of them as teenagers. If someone had good evidence they're adults (like actual evidence of their age, not just guessing because they seem like adults) then i'd be happy to agree with you guys. Well, I'd be shot down that they're not younger.. But id change my opinion. I don't want people to think I'm just unwilling to see any other opinions. I tend to side with what i think is good facts over my own and others opinions. But if people like thinking they're adults, go ahead. It doesn't matter to me what you guys think, I just feel we shouldn't draw comparisons between their society and ours to back our opinions, because it makes thigs less fun and magical thinking that its the same as us. I think it's a little silly considering it IS a cartoon. This got so long.. I'm also a narb and don't know how to do the whole "reply/quote" thing on mobile site. Sorry. ;;

If you're all going to INSIST on comparing their society to ours, then what about this: kids can get jobs when they're under 18. I think you need to be 14 to get a job, conveniently the same age you're legally allowed to quit school. So just because they have jobs doesn't mean they're old. Also.. They're ponies. Ponies, people. Come. On. Do you have any evidence that they've all gone through 13 years of schooling? That their education system mirrors ours? Like I said before, they don't NEED all the education we do because they already know their talent! Their cutie mark wouldn't come up unless they found the area which they shine in and have a passion for. Twilight is still studying under the princess by choice, not requirements. She's doing it because she wants to. You really think that the ponies that didn't know what a Zebra is went through 13 years of schooling like us? Twilight only knew because she had studied in her own time. Plus, other people have solid evidence that they're not in their 20's. So stop assuming theyre adults based on their society. Also, even if Fraust said they are "young adults", young adults doesn't necessarily mean 20's, it could be teens. It goes, young adult > adult > middle aged > elderly. Where I come from, young adult means you're not yet an adult. So not in their 20's. Maybe the meaning of young adult is different for everyone? That would mean that it isn't a solid argument for their age. Also, remember when the CMC got their new clubhouse from AJ, how Apple Bloom fixed it all up perfectly? And it's not like she went to carpenter school or whatever like we would need to. Age has nothing to do with it, see? She could easily drop what she's doing right now and make a living off of her trade.

What the person above said. Plus, I think it's unreasonable to assume that they're in their 20's. Judging from the episodes it's more likely that they're in their teens. And for everyone saying "they're not in school so they have to be over 17", that's not true. This is a magical land of ponies, not people. Who is to say that they're going to have the exact same schooling systems as us? Hell, not even everyone around our world has the same schooling systems! Here, you only need to go to school until year 10, and I was 14 then, so... And Twilight is Celestia's student, so she can't be TOO old. Plus Rainbow was in "Best YOUNG flyers" competition; and "young" is usually under adult age (teenager age). They also don't seem to have the need for education like us, as they make a living off what comes naturally to them (cutie marks) so a bunch of education like we get would be unnecessary. Also of you guys are saying the CMC are ~ 10 then does it make sense for Rarity to be 23? A 13 year age gap between her and her sister is plausible, but unlikely.. I don't think we should be basing their ages off of how our society acts here in reality (just because they have a job doesn't make them in their 20's). After all, this is a cartoon, and they are animals.. Animals mature faster than humans. Because theyre aging the same as us in the show (1 year older every year) a teenager in MLP could be the equivalent of an adult for us.