#i'm basing their ages off of my own college experience since im 21 (almost 22) and still going to college myself

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I refuse to believe that most of the characters are fresh HS graduates about to go to college for the first time, either because the way they behave is too college-ish or that their actors just look too old. The wiki gives the counselors the age range of 18-20, and so far (haven’t finished the game yet) there is no clear indication that they are all fresh HS graduates. I do have some headcanons about the characters ages, even if they might not completely make sense...

- Jacob and Kaitlyn are 20 and finished their sophomore year/second year of college before their summer camp job (so they would start their junior year/third year if they survive); i refuse to believe that a man that looks like jacob is anywhere below the age of 20 and since kaitlyn is played by brenda i also cannot imagine her being below that (watched her since I was a child, i love miss brenda, but girl i just cannot). also jacob is his college’s sunshine frat boy and is so excited to mentor his little :) (hopefully he’ll teach him how to accept a break up too..) 

- Ryan, Emma and Dylan are 19. Dylan finished his freshman year/first year of college and is moving into his sophomore year. He just doesn’t give off soon-to-be-freshman vibes. I just played the scene in which he expresses interest in pursuing quantum physics, which would make you think he’s about to start college, but many of my age mates when I started college went undecided, so I imagine that Dylan is doing the same thing.        I believe that Emma is an overachiever and finished HS a year early, so along with J and K, is going into her junior year.      Ryan obviously hasn’t gone to college yet and is taking a gap year so he has more time to decide what he should do about his sister, so he would be “behind” his age mates. He doesn’t want to fall further behind, so he used the summer camp job as a way to “practice” not being his sister’s caretaker and leaving her at their grandparents.

- Nick and Abi are 18 and the babies of the group (and treated as such, especially Abi). They both just graduated HS (or whatever the equivalent is to HS in Australia since Nick’s voice actor is Australian and therefore in my brain says that Nick is from Australia and is going to be a foreign student at his college in the states). Abi reminds me a lot of myself when I was in HS, so she is the one I can believe the most that she’s 18. Nick has that annoying little brother you can’t help but love behavior when he interacts with Dylan and Jacob at the beginning of the game, so 18 he is as well! 

Laura and Max are a little difficult to place. Laura is able to find Max's rejection letter to graduate school. Typically you finish your undergraduates between 3 to 5 years. On average, you're max 18 when you graduated HS, so this would place Max between 21 to 23 years old. I don't think it's made clear if there is a (notable) age difference between Laura and Max, but I would place her in the 19 to 20 age range.

*since I headcanon Jacob to be a uperclassmen frat boy, I like to imagine that he was practicing his mentor skills on Nick aka encouraging him to get with Abi lol

Pls give me your ideas about their ages because it’s driving me insane! I guess they would have to be in the teen range for the game to fall I to the 80s teen slasher it seems to want to categorize itself in, but I just can’t accept it lol

#the quarry #supermassive games the quarry #i like my headcanons but they probably dont make sense lol #i just refuse to believe that any of them besides nick and abi are 18 yrs old #supermassive games #theyre at least 19 or older #i'm basing their ages off of my own college experience since im 21 (almost 22) and still going to college myself #i also dont believe that you can be behind when it comes to college #do things at your own pace