Technology-Age Inverse Curve

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It has occurred to me that many of the main characters in this series are quite young. Much too young to be flinging around scythes and magical artillery cannons, or commuting through inter-dimentional space and time. Or, is it that in this reality that magic of this magnitude is rare, and must be nurtured carefully, which is why so many of the characters tend to be preadolescent?

I mean, I get that this is a Coming of Age story. Nanoha and Fate are both like nine years old when we're first introduced to them. Hayate is only eight I think. There's also the Knights, and Vita, who is also quite young, and here she is flinging around a sledgehammer of sorts! Oh, and let's not forget that Hayate has the magical equivalent of a nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile! And for the official organization of Justice, the Time and Space Administration Bureau, Chrono is what 12 or 14? And he's an officially recognized Enforcer, like an FBI agent or something! And Lindy Harlaown, commanding officer of the Arthra is an Admiral and she's only in 30s, right?

That kind of makes me think about the life expectancy of these people. Obviously mage work can be very dangerous. But my observations of the series seem to result in a very low number of elderly people, or at least middle aged adults! And to think that this is a highly developed society on a technological level. Maybe technology does bring about boredom at a young age?
 

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Why are the characters so young? Because, well why not? It's fiction. Just enjoy the show, maybe?
 

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The TSAB are indoctrinating children with high mage ranks and monopolizing Lost Logia under the pretense of containment! They occupy our worlds, taking away our autonomy and dominating the dimensional airspace, threatening to shoot down "unauthorized craft" with their superweapons! Why else would they have the Arc-en-ciel?! The TSAB is using child soldiers to advance their agenda of Midchildan supremacy! We must rise against their tyranny and reclaim what was ours!
 

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LMAO! This is good! So much in this fiction parallels the evils of the United States (nuclear weapons = Arc-en-ciel, dominant superpower disguising greed as justice....) This sounds like it could be an interesting counter-plot forming ;)
 
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