Nanaki..is he this or that?

[Kita]

So Nanaki is around 16 years old in human years..
In the book it says he is 45 years old.
But in the game he says "Grandpa, I'm 48"
Or "Please Grandpa, I'm 48" Something like that anyway, or at least I think so. Can anyone confirm? This little age gap is bugging me and I want to know if he said something other than 45..

[TheSpoonyBard]

Red XIII is 48 years old., i.e. it has been 48 (human) years since his birth. The 16 years Bugenhagen mentions is a reference to Red's maturity levels if his lifespan were similar to a human's.

[Kita]

Ahh, yes. What I'm getting at is he says in game (thats if I'm remembering correctly..which is what this is about) that he's 48 but in the book it says he's 45..
=)

[silentenigma]

what it says in the game > what the book says

[chrisfffan]

its a he!

[Sefie1999AD]

The line mentioned is this:

RED XIII: "Please stop, grandfather. I'm 48."

Bugenhagen's response to that is:

BUGENHAGEN: "Ho Ho Hoooo. Nanaki's tribe has incredible longevity. So you see his 48 years would only be equivalent to say that of a 15 or 16 year old in human reckoning."

So in other words, he was born 48 years prior to that conversation, but that doesn't mean he's old yet since his species live a lot longer. In fact, he's only around the "teenage" of his species.

[vorpal blade]

He's 45 in Earth years, 48 in their human years, and the equivalent to one of their 16ish year old humans. That is:
In the time it takes for our earth to circle our sun 45 times, their world revolved around their sun 48 times, making Nanaki the equivalent of a boy who has lived through about 16 of their revolutions.

[d£v!l'$ ph0£n!x]

that was way mor complicated than it needed to be

so that means theres human years for every 1 nanaki year. so that means he'll live to be around 300 (human years) so why then in the final screenplay does it say "300 years later" and nanaki appears as a rather healthy mature adult instead of an old man!?

[vorpal blade]

'Cause Nanakis can live for a very long time before their bodies wear out. That is to say, Nanakis have a longetivity equal to more than 3 times that of a normal human.

And you misunderstand my math. Their world revolves around the sun approximately 1.067 times faster than ours. That's about 0.937 earth years in one of their years. His 300 years later is about 281 earth years later.

[Kanshisha]

its like dog years! if i raised him from a little puppie and i had him since i'm 16 from 1 he would be 48! its just dog years!!!

[TheSpoonyBard]

why then in the final screenplay does it say "300 years later"

It doesn't. It says 500 years later.

[Lynx]

wait does he go bye dog years or whatever cat years would be?

what the heck is he? howls at the moon but looks more feline?

id say nanaki is 48 the book was probably a typo not that they didnt make mistakes in the game too.

aries,areith:rolleyes2

in other words its your call.

[Big D]

The 45 in the book is probably a typo; he's just 48 years old as it says in the game. As has been said, a 48-year-old of Nanaki's species (not a dog, not a cat, some higher organism with some feline and canine attributes and a bioluminescent tail) is about as mature as a 16-year-old human.

Edit: Aerith/Aeris wasn't a mistake, but a conscious choice. They changed her name deliberately for aesthetic reasons. Some other translations were made in error, though - 'Gelnika' and 'Allemagne', to name but two.