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#ahhhh #that looks stunning #“come home lamkins”?? #i gotta know where thats coming from #im really invested about this au!! #take your time though <33

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why is carmen wearing that

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thank you @jackie-shitposts for sending me the post that inspired this. and both you and @emily-prentits for helping me see the light of making six different trauma shirts <3

more versions under the cut because i couldnt pick just one traumatic moment. tell me which one is your favorite

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Paperstar: Hey, wake up. Player: Wha- what?! Paperstar: I just murdered your entire family Player: ... my parents are out tonight? Paperstar: Then who are these people in your house!? Player: THERE'S PEOPLE IN MY HOUSE!?

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im getting you started.

Bro, the timeline in Carmen Sandiego is super finicky, and I'm pretty sure I've spent more time thinking about this than the creators intended us to, but WHATEVER. It haunts me.

Right, so the creators said Carmen is 20 at the start of the series, but as I said: that math don't math!

Season one takes place over the course of six months:

Season 2 picks up one week after season 1, in February. We know this because they're celebrating Carnival.

For the purpose of breaking down this theory, I'm going to place Carmen's birthday as March 1st, her WOEICs counterpart's official birthday.

So. At the end of season one, which would have been mid-February, Player says something about how Carmen was found on the side of the road twenty years ago, but if her birthday was in a mere matter of weeks, couldn't you theorize that he was rounding up? Maybe she's 19 turning 20.

Or, maybe, she's 20 turning 21? No!

At the end of season 2, Shadowsan says he found her twenty years ago. This is where we take a detour to discuss infant development.

In the flashbacks, we see that baby Carmen prefers crawling-- she can toddle a little bit, but not well. Children typically begin standing between 7 and 12 months, and walking between 10 and 18 months. We also see that she babbles and coos a lot, but no words. Children tend to say their first word at around 12 months. Based on this, I'd wager that baby Carmen was around seven or eight months old. We know she's a physical prodigy, so she could potentially be even younger-- the youngest recorded baby to walk was six months old.

Placing baby at 7 months when she was kidnapped, that makes Shadowsan's "I found you twenty years ago" accurate to the month. At this point, Carmen is 20 years and 7 months old.

Season three takes place in October/November. Presumably, season three picks up right after season two, putting the end of season two in October. It spans about the same length as season one.

While the word of the creators doesn't have much bearing here-- as this post is very much a "you guys are wrong and here's why" kind of post-- one of the creators did say that they imagined Carmen as being twenty by season three. That would make it impossible for her to have been twenty during season one. Too much time has passed for that to work.

Season 4 takes place sometime around February. We know this because Devineaux asks Gray what he was doing on the train to Poitiers 18 months ago. 12 months ago would have been February (start of season 2) and six months before that is August. That's eighteen months.

Going by this, I think Carmen was yoinked just after her twenty-first.

Interestingly, if my math is mathing-- and who knows, I turned a two year degree into a three year degree because I kept failing math classes, I could be talking actual nonsense right now-- this makes Player like 17/18 by season four, and that's hilarious to me because that means his parents (tried) to make him go to school for like the last semester of his senior year. Free my boy 😭

In conclusion, Carmen is 19 at the start of season one, she and Player are three years apart, and Player's parents are some cruel mfers. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

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i think evil!carmen should have kidnapped player. i think it would've been funny interesting ❤️

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missing footage from the fishy doubloon caper

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nobody is talking about younger VILE faculty and im insulted frankly

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this is the farthest I could get rip,,a good dad that we wish the media would share

it also looks blurry click,,

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Carmen Sandiego’s biofamily

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Just two half finished screenshot background studies since I have nothing else to offer art wise

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Player: Is the equipment secure?

Carmen: Check.

Player: Weapon in place?

Carmen: Check.

Player: Did you eat breakfast?

Carmen: What? That's not on the checklist!

Player: I added it because I care about you. Did you?

Carmen: ...No.

Player: Unacceptable! Check your pocket.

Carmen, holding a granola bar: How did you..?

Player: I have my ways <3

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Shadowsan: Of course she's my daughter. I stole her myself.

Hideo:

Shadowsan:

Hideo: That's not how adoption works.

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DAY 6: ABANDONMENT

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autism be damned i can make them CUNTY

nobody give my a hyperfixation and a dream